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Manuscript Created date: 10th century

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

Manuscript Created date: Late 10th century

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

Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 10th century

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

Manuscript Created date: Mid-10th century

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

Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 10th century

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

Manuscript Created date: 10th century

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

Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 10th century

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

Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 10th century

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

Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 10th century

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

Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 10th century–11th century

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

Manuscript Created date: Late 10th century–1st half of the 11th century

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

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