Collection items

Cassiodorus, Historia ecclesiastica tripartite

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

Marcus Flavius Cassiodorus Senator (b. c. 485, d. c. 580), was a Roman statesman and scholar, who served under Theodoric...

Collection of works by St Ambrose

Manuscript Created date: 3rd quarter of the 11th century

St Ambrose (b. 340, d. 420), a bishop of Milan, was one of the greatest preachers of the early Church. Seven of his work...

French copy of Bede's Commentary on the Gospel of ...

Manuscript Created date: Early 11th century

The great Anglo-Saxon scholar, Bede (b. c. 673, d. 735), is often ranked alongside the Church Fathers for his widely-cop...

French copy of Isidore of Seville’s Etymologies

Manuscript Created date: Early 11th century

The Etymologies by Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636) was a vast reference work that functioned as an encyclopaedia....

French copy of St Augustine’s De Trinitate

Manuscript Created date: c. 1060

St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430) dedicated nearly 30 years of his life to complete his 15-book treatise De Trinitate (On th...

Hrabanus Maurus, De Laudibus sanctae crucis

Manuscript Created date: Mid-11th century

The poem De Laudibus sancte crucis (In Praise of the Holy Cross) is the work of Hrabanus Maurus (b. 780/781, d. 856), on...

Illustrated scientific and historical works

Manuscript Created date: 1060–1063

The Benedictine abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés was a wealthy centre of royal patronage and intellectual life jus...

Macrobius, Commentary on the Dream of Scipio

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

In around 430, the Latin grammarian and philosopher, Macrobius wrote Commentarii in somnium Scipionis, a commentary on t...

School texts

Manuscript Created date: 11th century–12th century

This manuscript contains a collection of fragments from England and France in the 11th and 12th centuries. It consists o...

St Augustine, Contra Faustum Manichaeum

Manuscript Created date: Mid-11th century

St Augustine was born in Tagaste, now Souk-Ahras in Algeria, in 354. As a young man he was attracted to the ideas of Man...

St Augustine, De civitate Dei

Manuscript Created date: c. 1060

St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430) composed De civitate Dei (The City of God) in response to an attack on Rome by the Visigot...

Virgil's collected works

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

The writings of classical and late Antique authors such as Cicero (d. 44 BC), Ovid (d. c. 18) and Prudentius (d. after 4...