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  • An Incipit page from a 9th-century Gospel-book, showing an elaborately decorated frame.

    9th-century Gospel-book from Tours

    Manuscript

    The copying and decoration of this Gospel-book from Tours represent a remarkable artistic achievement. As is characteris...

  • A text page from a 9th-century collection of the letters of Alcuin of York.

    Alcuin's letter collection

    Manuscript

    This collection of the letters of the Englishman Alcuin of York (b. c. 735, d. 804), is datable to the early ninth centu...

  • The opening page of a 9th-century copy of Cicero's De Oratore.

    Cicero, De Oratore

    Manuscript

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

  • A text page from a 9th-century copy of Bede's Ecclesiastical History.

    French copy of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History

    Manuscript

    The Ecclesiastical History of the English People by the Venerable Bede (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk and scholar of Wearmout...

  • A full-page framed initial marking the beginning of the Gospel of St John, from a 9th-century Gospel-book.

    Gospel-book produced in Northern France

    Manuscript

    This Gospel-book, made in the third quarter of the ninth century, is an example of the Franco-Saxon style of decoration...

  • Harley Golden Gospels, Harley MS 2788, folio 12 verso

    Harley Golden Gospels

    Manuscript, Illuminated manuscript

    The Harley Golden Gospels is a magnificent copy of the Four Gospels written entirely in gold and decorated on every page...

  • From the Moutier Grandval Bible,A full-page illustration of the Creation of Adam and Eve and the Fall, preceding the Book of Genesis

    Moutier-Grandval Bible

    Manuscript

    A beautifully illustrated pandect, taking its name from the monastery of Moutier-Grandval in the diocese of Basel in Sw...

  • A text page from a 9th-century dictionary of Latin usage.

    Nonius Marcellus, De Compendiosa Doctrina

    Manuscript

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

  • A fire-damaged page from an 8th-century manuscript of Bede's Ecclesiastical History.

    The story of Cædmon's Hymn

    Manuscript

    The earliest named English poet was a cowherd named Cædmon who lived at the Abbey of Whitby. We know about this man beca...

  • A page from the Tiberius Bede, featuring an elaborate decorated initial in red, green, and yellow, with interlace and beasts' heads.

    Tiberius Bede

    Manuscript

    Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People was completed in 731. The work tells the story of the conversion of ...

  • A page from the Vespasian Psalter, featuring decorated initials and glosses in Old English.

    Vespasian Psalter

    Manuscript

    The Vespasian Psalter is an early copy of a Latin revision of the Psalms (the Romanum or Roman version) associated with...

  • A full-page illustration of Christ in Majesty, with saints, nuns, martyrs, and confessors, from the Æthelstan Psalter.

    Æthelstan Psalter

    Manuscript

    According to an inscription on one of the manuscript’s pages, this small copy of the Psalms was once owned by Æthelstan,...