Collection items

11th-century Gospel-book, produced in Metz

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

In the Middle Ages, manuscripts necessary for the Mass formed part of a church’s most important treasures, together with...

French copy of St Augustine’s De Trinitate

Manuscript Created date: c. 1060

St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430) dedicated nearly 30 years of his life to complete his 15-book treatise De Trinitate (On th...

Gaignières Gospel Lectionary

Manuscript Created date: Early 11th century

François-Roger de Gaignières (b. 1642, d. 1715) was an art collector and scholar who bequeathed his manusc...

Gospel-book from Metz (first of two volumes)

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

The scriptorium at Metz flourished under one of the illegitimate sons of Charlemagne, Drogo, who was bishop from 826 to...

Gospel-book from Metz (second of two volumes)

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

The second volume of an illuminated Gospel-book produced in Metz (the first is now BnF Latin 11961), this manuscript ope...

Hrabanus Maurus, De Laudibus sanctae crucis

Manuscript Created date: Mid-11th century

The poem De Laudibus sancte crucis (In Praise of the Holy Cross) is the work of Hrabanus Maurus (b. 780/781, d. 856), on...

Illustrated scientific and historical works

Manuscript Created date: 1060–1063

The Benedictine abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés was a wealthy centre of royal patronage and intellectual life jus...

Lectionary of St-Maur-des-Fossés

Manuscript Created date: Early 11th century

St Maurus (d. 584) is one of the most famous disciples of St Benedict of Nursia (d. c. 550), the author of the Benedicti...

Life and miracles of St Germain

Manuscript Created date: Mid-11th century

Texts devoted to the lives and miracles of different saints were collected and widely read during the medieval period. C...

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...