Collection items

Collection of works by St Ambrose

Manuscript Created date: 3rd quarter of the 11th century

St Ambrose (b. 340, d. 420), a bishop of Milan, was one of the greatest preachers of the early Church. Seven of his work...

Geoffrey of Ufford’s miscellaneous compilation of...

Manuscript Created date: c. 1154

A unique compilation of Latin moral, grammatical and historical treatises was collected by Geoffrey of Ufford in the 12t...

Gilbert of Poitiers, Commentary on the Psalms

Manuscript Created date: 1st half of the 12th century

Gilbert of Poitiers (d. 1154), or Gilbert de la Porrée, was a French scholar and theologian, who lectured at the ...

Hrabanus Maurus, The Invention of Languages

Manuscript Created date: 10th century

The so-called De inventione linguarum (The Invention of Languages) presents the Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and runic alphabet...

Nonius Marcellus, De Compendiosa Doctrina

Manuscript Created date: 3rd quarter of the 9th century

The only surviving work of a grammarian working in the fourth century called Nonius Marcellus, the De compendiosa doctri...

Old English Illustrated Herbal

Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 11th century

Medieval medicine often used plant- and animal-based remedies. This is the only illustrated collection of such remedies...