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9th-century collection of prayers and litanies
Manuscript Created date: Mid-9th centuryMade in the third quarter of the ninth century, this manuscript contains a collection of devotional texts such as prayer...
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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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Boethius, De institutione arithmetica with medical...
Manuscript Created date: Mid-9th century–1st half of the 10th centuryDuring the Middle Ages, the practice of gathering different texts from various periods in the same manuscript was common...
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Calculating time
Manuscript Created date: 1st third of the 9th century–Late 11th centuryThis manuscript consists of three books joined together in the medieval period at the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Germain...
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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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Dioscorides, Liber de virtutibus herbarium
Manuscript Created date: 1st half of the 9th centuryThe Greek physician, Dioscorides (b. c. 40, d. 90), wrote a treatise on the medical properties of plants, animal product...
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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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Illustrated Lives of Saints
Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 9th centuryThroughout the Middle Ages, stories of saints’ lives were extremely popular, as witnessed by the many copies that surviv...
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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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St Jerome, Commentaries on the Pauline Epistles
Manuscript Created date: 9th centuryCommentaries by St Jerome (d. 420) on the Bible could be found in the collections of many monastic libraries in England ...
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St Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah
Manuscript Created date: 1st half of the 9th centuryThis eighth-century copy of St Jerome’s (b. 347, d. 420) Commentary on the Old Testament book of Isaiah is an early vers...
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St Jerome's translation of the Hebrew Book of Psal...
Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 9th centurySt Jerome made several translations of the Psalms into Latin. One of these is known as the Hebraicum because it was made...
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