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Ado of Vienne, Chronicle of the Six Ages of the Wo...
Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 11th centuryThe Frankish scholar and archbishop Ado of Vienne (b. c. 800, d. c. 875) produced a universal chronicle, recording world...
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Anglo-Saxon calendar and computistical material
Manuscript Created date: 1st half of the 11th century–2nd half of the 12th centuryFarming was the basis of the early medieval economy and the occupation of the majority of the population, but agricultur...
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Antidotarium and medical recipes
Manuscript Created date: 2nd quarter of the 11th centuryThis early collection of medical recipes includes prayers to God, the Creator of man, and of ‘all the trees, plants and ...
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Caligula Troper
Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 11th centuryThis manuscript contains an incomplete book of chants (called tropes) for religious services, made in late 11th-century...
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Cicero, Aratea with scholia
Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 11th century–1st quarter of the 12th centuryCicero’s Aratea is an astronomical treatise describing the constellations, and this work is a Latin translation of the P...
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Computus, astronomy and finger-counting
Manuscript Created date: 11th century–12th centuryThis manuscript is a compendium of texts on the closely related subjects of computus, the science of calculating times a...
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Computus texts
Manuscript Created date: 11th centuryOne of the most important branches of medieval learning was computus, the science of calculating times and dates using a...
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Eadui Psalter
Manuscript Created date: 1st half of the 11th century–mid 12th centuryThe Eadui Psalter is named after its probable scribe and artist, Eadwig (Eadui) Basan. Eadwig was a monk at Christ Churc...
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Encomium Emmae reginae
Manuscript Created date: 11th centuryThis earliest surviving copy of the Encomium (‘Praise of Queen Emma’) was written in Latin by a monk of St-Bertin, in wh...
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English alphabet collection
Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 11th centuryAlphabet collections were compiled with varying degrees of accuracy in medieval England. This example composed in the la...
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Gradual, produced in Toulouse
Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 11th centuryA Gradual is a book of chants for singing in the Mass. This example was produced in the last quarter of the 11th century...
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Harley Psalter
Manuscript Created date: c. 1000The Harley Psalter is one of the great masterpieces of late Anglo-Saxon book art. It was written and decorated at Christ...
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Illuminated Psalter from Winchester
Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 11th centuryIn this copy of the Psalms, made in Winchester, the first and second text divisions are enhanced by full-page images in...
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Old English Hexateuch
Manuscript Created date: 1000–99The Old English Hexateuch provides invaluable evidence of an English person’s experience of the Bible in their own langu...
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Old English Illustrated Herbal
Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 11th centuryMedieval medicine often used plant- and animal-based remedies. This is the only illustrated collection of such remedies...
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