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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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Manuscript Created date: 11th century

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

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 ...

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...

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