Collection items

9th-century collection of prayers and litanies

Manuscript Created date: Mid-9th century

Made in the third quarter of the ninth century, this manuscript contains a collection of devotional texts such as prayer...

9th-century Gospel-book from Tours

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...

Alcuin's letter collection

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...

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....

Gospel-book produced in Northern France

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...

St Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah

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

This eighth-century copy of St Jerome’s (b. 347, d. 420) Commentary on the Old Testament book of Isaiah is an early vers...

Tiberius Bede

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 ...