Collection items

Canterbury or Anglo-Catalan Psalter

Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 12th century

The Canterbury Psalter is amongst the most lavishly illustrated of English manuscripts. The luxurious decoration is part...

Cartulary of Reading Abbey

Manuscript Created date: 1190–1199

The 12th-century Cartulary of Reading Abbey gives a list of works held at the medieval libraries at Reading Abbey and Le...

Cassiodorus, Historia ecclesiastica tripartite

Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 11th century

Marcus Flavius Cassiodorus Senator (b. c. 485, d. c. 580), was a Roman statesman and scholar, who served under Theodoric...

Cicero, Aratea with scholia

Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 11th century–1st quarter of the 12th century

Cicero’s Aratea is an astronomical treatise describing the constellations, and this work is a Latin translation of the P...

Cicero, De Oratore

Manuscript Created date: 2nd quarter of the 9th century

This volume contains De Oratore (On the Orator), a rhetorical treatise by the Roman philosopher and statesman Cicero (b....

Collection of medieval chronicles

Manuscript Created date: 1197–1450

Ralph de Diceto, Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral from c. 1180 to c. 1199, wrote two historical chronicles, the Abbreviated C...

Collection of medieval historical works

Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 13th century

This volume contains a variety of historical and legendary material, including the Trojan War, Alexander the Great and t...

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...

Computus, astronomy and finger-counting

Manuscript Created date: 11th century–12th century

This manuscript is a compendium of texts on the closely related subjects of computus, the science of calculating times a...

Computus collection including Byrhtferth of Ramsey...

Manuscript Created date: 2nd quarter of the 12th century

The Enchiridion (Handbook) by Byrhtferth of Ramsey Abbey (fl. c. 986–c. 1016) is a commentary on the computus, covering ...

Computus texts

Manuscript Created date: 11th century

One of the most important branches of medieval learning was computus, the science of calculating times and dates using a...

Constantine the African, De Melancholia

Manuscript Created date: 3rd quarter of the 12th century

A treatise on melancholy by Constantine the African (d. 1098) is inserted into a collection of popular historical and ph...

Continental copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History...

Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 12th century

The History of the Kings of Britain presents a legendary account of the history of Britain composed by the 12th-century...

Decorated copy of Gratian’s Decretum

Manuscript Created date: 1171–1180

The Decretum, an encyclopedia of Church or canon law compiled by the Bolognese scholar, Gratian, in around 1140, became...

Decorated volume of St Augustine’s writings

Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 10th century

This collection of three works by the leading theologian of the early Church, St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430), wa...