Collection items

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...

Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae

Manuscript Created date: 11th century

Priscian was a Latin grammarian and scholar, active in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) at the beginning of the six...

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, Confessiones

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

St Augustine’s (b. 354, d. 430) autobiographical work, the Confessions, was a key text that was widely read and studied ...

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...

St Bertin Gospels

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

From its foundation in the seventh century, the abbey of St Bertin in St Omer was one of the most powerful abbeys in the...

St Denis Missal

Manuscript Created date: Mid-11th century

During the 11th and the 12th centuries, a new kind of text appeared for use in the liturgy – the Missal, which combined ...

Sulpicius Severus, Lives of St Martin and St Bened...

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

The lives of two important early saints, Sts Martin and Benedict, have been copied together in this volume dating from t...

The Life and Miracles of St Nicholas

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

From the early Middle Ages onwards many monasteries produced libelli (small books), each of which contained the life of...

The Reckoning of Time

Manuscript Created date: 11th century–12th century

‘The Reckoning of Time’ was a very influential work composed by the monk Bede (d. 735) in 725. This manuscript is one of...

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...

Vitae sanctorum (Lives of saints)

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

Saints’ Lives or Vitae sanctorum were a new and popular form of historical writing developed in Europe in the Middle Age...

Ælfwine’s Prayerbook

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

Many manuscripts reveal a surprising amount about their makers and owners. One such is this small prayer book, which mea...