Collection items

Ado of Vienne, Chronicle of the Six Ages of the Wo...

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

The Frankish scholar and archbishop Ado of Vienne (b. c. 800, d. c. 875) produced a universal chronicle, recording world...

Anglo-Saxon calendar and computistical material

Manuscript Created date: 1st half of the 11th century–2nd half of the 12th century

Farming was the basis of the early medieval economy and the occupation of the majority of the population, but agricultur...

Antidotarium and medical recipes

Manuscript Created date: 2nd quarter of the 11th century

This early collection of medical recipes includes prayers to God, the Creator of man, and of ‘all the trees, plants and ...

Caligula Troper

Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 11th century

This manuscript contains an incomplete book of chants (called tropes) for religious services, made in late 11th-century...

Cicero, Aratea with scholia

Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 11th century–1st quarter of the 12th century

Cicero’s Aratea is an astronomical treatise describing the constellations, and this work is a Latin translation of the P...

Computus, astronomy and finger-counting

Manuscript Created date: 11th century–12th century

This manuscript is a compendium of texts on the closely related subjects of computus, the science of calculating times a...

Computus texts

Manuscript Created date: 11th century

One of the most important branches of medieval learning was computus, the science of calculating times and dates using a...

Eadui Psalter

Manuscript Created date: 1st half of the 11th century–mid 12th century

The Eadui Psalter is named after its probable scribe and artist, Eadwig (Eadui) Basan. Eadwig was a monk at Christ Churc...

Encomium Emmae reginae

Manuscript Created date: 11th century

This earliest surviving copy of the Encomium (‘Praise of Queen Emma’) was written in Latin by a monk of St-Bertin, in wh...

English alphabet collection

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

Alphabet collections were compiled with varying degrees of accuracy in medieval England. This example composed in the la...

Gradual, produced in Toulouse

Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 11th century

A Gradual is a book of chants for singing in the Mass. This example was produced in the last quarter of the 11th century...

Harley Psalter

Manuscript Created date: c. 1000

The Harley Psalter is one of the great masterpieces of late Anglo-Saxon book art. It was written and decorated at Christ...

Illuminated Psalter from Winchester

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

In this copy of the Psalms, made in Winchester, the first and second text divisions are enhanced by full-page images in...

Old English Hexateuch

Manuscript Created date: 1000–99

The Old English Hexateuch provides invaluable evidence of an English person’s experience of the Bible in their own langu...

Old English Illustrated Herbal

Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 11th century

Medieval medicine often used plant- and animal-based remedies. This is the only illustrated collection of such remedies...