Collection items
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Gaignières Gospel Lectionary
Manuscript Created date: Early 11th centuryFrançois-Roger de Gaignières (b. 1642, d. 1715) was an art collector and scholar who bequeathed his manusc...
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Gospel-book from Metz (first of two volumes)
Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 11th centuryThe scriptorium at Metz flourished under one of the illegitimate sons of Charlemagne, Drogo, who was bishop from 826 to...
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Gospel-book from Metz (second of two volumes)
Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 11th centuryThe second volume of an illuminated Gospel-book produced in Metz (the first is now BnF Latin 11961), this manuscript ope...
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Hrabanus Maurus, De Laudibus sanctae crucis
Manuscript Created date: Mid-11th centuryThe poem De Laudibus sancte crucis (In Praise of the Holy Cross) is the work of Hrabanus Maurus (b. 780/781, d. 856), on...
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Illuminated Psalter from Winchester
Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 11th centuryIn this copy of the Psalms, made in Winchester, the first and second text divisions are enhanced by full-page images in...
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Illustrated scientific and historical works
Manuscript Created date: 1060–1063The Benedictine abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés was a wealthy centre of royal patronage and intellectual life jus...
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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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St Bertin Gospels
Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 11th centuryFrom its foundation in the seventh century, the abbey of St Bertin in St Omer was one of the most powerful abbeys in the...
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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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