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John Cassian, Collationes
Manuscript Created date: 1st third of the 11th centuryThe main text of this 11th-century manuscript from the monastery of St Wandrille in Normandy is John Cassian’s Collation...
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Lectionary of St-Maur-des-Fossés
Manuscript Created date: Early 11th centurySt Maurus (d. 584) is one of the most famous disciples of St Benedict of Nursia (d. c. 550), the author of the Benedicti...
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Life and miracles of St Germain
Manuscript Created date: Mid-11th centuryTexts devoted to the lives and miracles of different saints were collected and widely read during the medieval period. C...
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Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae
Manuscript Created date: 11th centuryPriscian was a Latin grammarian and scholar, active in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) at the beginning of the six...
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St Augustine, Contra Faustum Manichaeum
Manuscript Created date: Mid-11th centurySt Augustine was born in Tagaste, now Souk-Ahras in Algeria, in 354. As a young man he was attracted to the ideas of Man...
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St Augustine, De civitate Dei
Manuscript Created date: c. 1060St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430) composed De civitate Dei (The City of God) in response to an attack on Rome by the Visigot...
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St Denis Missal
Manuscript Created date: Mid-11th centuryDuring the 11th and the 12th centuries, a new kind of text appeared for use in the liturgy – the Missal, which combined ...
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Sulpicius Severus, Lives of St Martin and St Bened...
Manuscript Created date: 1st half of the 11th centuryThe lives of two important early saints, Sts Martin and Benedict, have been copied together in this volume dating from t...
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The Life and Miracles of St Nicholas
Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 11th centuryFrom the early Middle Ages onwards many monasteries produced libelli (small books), each of which contained the life of...
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Virgil's collected works
Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 11th centuryThe writings of classical and late Antique authors such as Cicero (d. 44 BC), Ovid (d. c. 18) and Prudentius (d. after 4...
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Vitae sanctorum (Lives of saints)
Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 11th centurySaints’ Lives or Vitae sanctorum were a new and popular form of historical writing developed in Europe in the Middle Age...
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