Collection items

Codex Bigotianus (first of two volumes)

Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 8th century

Gospel readings are a fundamental part of the Mass, and therefore Gospel-books were among the most essential possessions...

Echternach Gospels

Manuscript Created date: c. 700

The monastery of Echternach, now in Luxembourg, was founded by the Northumbrian monk, Willibrord (b. 658, d. 739), in 69...

Lindisfarne Gospels

Manuscript Created date: c. 700

The Lindisfarne Gospels has long been acclaimed as the most spectacular manuscript to survive from Anglo-Saxon England....

Merovingian copy of St Gregory the Great's Moralia...

Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 8th century

Pope Gregory the Great (d. 604) is one of the Latin Doctors of the Church. Amongst his many influential works is a comme...

St Gregory the Great's Commentaries

Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 8th century

Gregory the Great (b. c. 540, d. 604) was a reformer of the early Church, whose writings offered practical wisdom and mo...