Collection items
Creator
- Amalarius of Metz (1)
- Anselm of Canterbury (1)
- Baudri of Bourgueil (1)
- Bede (1)
- Boethius (1)
- Constantine the African (1)
- Flavius Josephus (1)
- Geoffrey of Monmouth (3)
- Gilbert of Poitiers (1)
- Gratian (3)
- Gregory I (2)
- Justinian I (1)
- Peter Lombard (2)
- Philippe de Thaon (1)
- Ralph de Diceto (2)
- Richard of St Victor (1)
- St Augustine of Hippo (1)
- St Benedict of Nursia (1)
- St Jerome (3)
- Symeon of Durham (1)
- William of Jumièges (1)
- William of Malmesbury (2)
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12th-century calendar and annals
Manuscript Created date: Late 12th century–Early 13th centuryIn the Middle Ages, as today, calendars served to organise time into days and months. This fragment collection contains...
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12th-century miscellany of Latin texts
Manuscript Created date: Early 12th centuryThe oldest surviving copy of the History of the Britons (Historia Brittonum) is found in a miscellany of late Antique an...
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Amalarius of Metz, De Ecclesiasticis officiis
Manuscript Created date: c. 1100Amalarius of Metz (d. c. 850) was one of the great writers of the Carolingian age. He participated actively in political...
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Anselm of Canterbury's theological treatises
Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 12th centuryThis composite volume, consisting of two originally separate booklets, contains seven of Anselm’s thirteen scholarly tre...
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Astronomical texts
Manuscript Created date: 12th centuryAstronomy, the science of the stars, was an important part of the early medieval curriculum. This astronomical collectio...
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Baudri of Bourgueil, History of Jerusalem
Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 12th centuryThe Historia Hierosolimitana (History of Jerusalem) is one of the most sophisticated accounts of the First Crusade (1095...
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Bilingual Psalter
Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 12th centuryProduced in England during the last quarter of the 12th century, this manuscript is one of only a few bilingual Psalters...
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Boethius, De institutione arithmetica
Manuscript Created date: 3rd quarter of the 12th centuryWritten by the sixth-century Roman philosopher Boethius, De institutione arithmetica (On Arithmetic) was the principal m...
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Canterbury or Anglo-Catalan Psalter
Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 12th centuryThe Canterbury Psalter is amongst the most lavishly illustrated of English manuscripts. The luxurious decoration is part...
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Cartulary of Reading Abbey
Manuscript Created date: 1190–1199The 12th-century Cartulary of Reading Abbey gives a list of works held at the medieval libraries at Reading Abbey and Le...
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Collection of medieval chronicles
Manuscript Created date: 1197–1450Ralph de Diceto, Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral from c. 1180 to c. 1199, wrote two historical chronicles, the Abbreviated C...
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Computus collection including Byrhtferth of Ramsey...
Manuscript Created date: 2nd quarter of the 12th centuryThe Enchiridion (Handbook) by Byrhtferth of Ramsey Abbey (fl. c. 986–c. 1016) is a commentary on the computus, covering ...
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Constantine the African, De Melancholia
Manuscript Created date: 3rd quarter of the 12th centuryA treatise on melancholy by Constantine the African (d. 1098) is inserted into a collection of popular historical and ph...
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Continental copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History...
Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 12th centuryThe History of the Kings of Britain presents a legendary account of the history of Britain composed by the 12th-century...
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Decorated copy of Gratian’s Decretum
Manuscript Created date: 1171–1180The Decretum, an encyclopedia of Church or canon law compiled by the Bolognese scholar, Gratian, in around 1140, became...
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