Collection items

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

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

Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 9th century

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

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....

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

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

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

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

Manuscript Created date: c. 830–840

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

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...

Manuscript Created date: 775–825

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

Manuscript Created date: 1st half of the 9th century

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

Manuscript Created date: 2nd quarter of the 8th century–mid-9th century

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

Manuscript Created date: 1st half of the 9th century

According 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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