Collection items

10th-century copy of Isidore of Seville’s Etymolog...

Manuscript

The Etymologies by Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636) became one of the most widely consulted encyclopaedic works in...

10th-century Gospel-book, produced in Metz

Manuscript

This opulent copy of the Gospels was perhaps made as a gift from the bishop, Thierry I (r. 965-984) to the cathedral of...

Decorated volume of St Augustine’s writings

Manuscript

This collection of three works by the leading theologian of the early Church, St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430), wa...

Ecgberht Pontifical

Manuscript

During the Middle Ages as now, there were a number of liturgical books that were designed to be used by specific ranks o...

Fécamp Gospels

Manuscript

The Fécamp Gospel-book was produced in the 10th century in Winchester, a royal centre in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom ...

Hrabanus Maurus, The Invention of Languages

Manuscript

The so-called De inventione linguarum (The Invention of Languages) presents the Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and runic alphabet...

Illustrated Rule of St Benedict

Manuscript

This decorative letter opens the Prologue to the Rule of St Benedict, a very influential book of instructions, which set...

Narratio Metrica de Sancti Swithuno

Manuscript

The Narratio Metrica de Sancti Swithuno by Wulfstan of Winchester is the longest surviving Latin poem written in England...

Noyon Sacramentary

Manuscript

Produced at Noyon Cathedral in the late 10th century, this manuscript is a Sacramentary—a collection of all the texts ne...

Prudentius, Psychomachia (War of the Soul)

Manuscript

The Psychomachia (War of the Soul) is a work of allegory in which seven Virtues and seven Vices battle for possession of...

Winchester Benedictional

Manuscript

Benedictionals (from the Latin benedicere, to bless) are books that contain lists of blessings given by bishops during t...