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10th-century copy of Isidore of Seville’s Etymolog...
Manuscript Created date: 10th centuryThe Etymologies by Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636) became one of the most widely consulted encyclopaedic works in...
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10th-century Gospel-book, produced in Metz
Manuscript Created date: Late 10th centuryThis opulent copy of the Gospels was perhaps made as a gift from the bishop, Thierry I (r. 965-984) to the cathedral of...
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Decorated volume of St Augustine’s writings
Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 10th centuryThis collection of three works by the leading theologian of the early Church, St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430), wa...
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Ecgberht Pontifical
Manuscript Created date: Mid-10th centuryDuring the Middle Ages as now, there were a number of liturgical books that were designed to be used by specific ranks o...
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Fécamp Gospels
Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 10th centuryThe Fécamp Gospel-book was produced in the 10th century in Winchester, a royal centre in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom ...
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Hrabanus Maurus, The Invention of Languages
Manuscript Created date: 10th centuryThe so-called De inventione linguarum (The Invention of Languages) presents the Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and runic alphabet...
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Illustrated Rule of St Benedict
Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 10th centuryThis decorative letter opens the Prologue to the Rule of St Benedict, a very influential book of instructions, which set...
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Narratio Metrica de Sancti Swithuno
Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 10th centuryThe Narratio Metrica de Sancti Swithuno by Wulfstan of Winchester is the longest surviving Latin poem written in England...
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Noyon Sacramentary
Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 10th centuryProduced at Noyon Cathedral in the late 10th century, this manuscript is a Sacramentary—a collection of all the texts ne...
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Prudentius, Psychomachia (War of the Soul)
Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 10th century–11th centuryThe Psychomachia (War of the Soul) is a work of allegory in which seven Virtues and seven Vices battle for possession of...
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Winchester Benedictional
Manuscript Created date: Late 10th century–1st half of the 11th centuryBenedictionals (from the Latin benedicere, to bless) are books that contain lists of blessings given by bishops during t...
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