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9th-century Gospel-book from Tours
Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 9th centuryThe copying and decoration of this Gospel-book from Tours represent a remarkable artistic achievement. As is characteris...
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Alcuin's letter collection
Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 9th centuryThis collection of the letters of the Englishman Alcuin of York (b. c. 735, d. 804), is datable to the early ninth centu...
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Cicero, De Oratore
Manuscript Created date: 2nd quarter of the 9th centuryThis volume contains De Oratore (On the Orator), a rhetorical treatise by the Roman philosopher and statesman Cicero (b....
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French copy of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History
Manuscript Created date: 3rd quarter of the 9th centuryThe Ecclesiastical History of the English People by the Venerable Bede (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk and scholar of Wearmout...
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Gospel-book produced in Northern France
Manuscript Created date: 3rd quarter of the 9th centuryThis Gospel-book, made in the third quarter of the ninth century, is an example of the Franco-Saxon style of decoration...
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Moutier-Grandval Bible
Manuscript Created date: c. 830–840A beautifully illustrated pandect, taking its name from the monastery of Moutier-Grandval in the diocese of Basel in Sw...
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Nonius Marcellus, De Compendiosa Doctrina
Manuscript Created date: 3rd quarter of the 9th centuryThe only surviving work of a grammarian working in the fourth century called Nonius Marcellus, the De compendiosa doctri...
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The story of Cædmon's Hymn
Manuscript Created date: 775–825The earliest named English poet was a cowherd named Cædmon who lived at the Abbey of Whitby. We know about this man beca...
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Tiberius Bede
Manuscript Created date: 1st half of the 9th centuryBede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People was completed in 731. The work tells the story of the conversion of ...
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Vespasian Psalter
Manuscript Created date: 2nd quarter of the 8th century–mid-9th centuryThe Vespasian Psalter is an early copy of a Latin revision of the Psalms (the Romanum or Roman version) associated with...
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Æthelstan Psalter
Manuscript Created date: 1st half of the 9th centuryAccording to an inscription on one of the manuscript’s pages, this small copy of the Psalms was once owned by Æthelstan,...
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