Collection items
Selected
Themes
Format
-
11th-century Gospel-book, produced in Metz
Manuscript Created date: 1st half of the 11th centuryIn the Middle Ages, manuscripts necessary for the Mass formed part of a church’s most important treasures, together with...
-
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...
-
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...
-
Anglo-Saxon miscellany
Manuscript Created date: c.1025–50The world beyond England was a source of continuing curiosity for the Anglo-Saxons, as is particularly evident in this m...
-
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 ...
-
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...
-
Cassiodorus, Historia ecclesiastica tripartite
Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 11th centuryMarcus Flavius Cassiodorus Senator (b. c. 485, d. c. 580), was a Roman statesman and scholar, who served under Theodoric...
-
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...
-
Collection of works by St Ambrose
Manuscript Created date: 3rd quarter of the 11th centurySt Ambrose (b. 340, d. 420), a bishop of Milan, was one of the greatest preachers of the early Church. Seven of his work...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
French copy of Bede's Commentary on the Gospel of ...
Manuscript Created date: Early 11th centuryThe great Anglo-Saxon scholar, Bede (b. c. 673, d. 735), is often ranked alongside the Church Fathers for his widely-cop...
Share this page
Please consider the environment before printing