Collection items

Bilingual Psalter

Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 12th century

Produced in England during the last quarter of the 12th century, this manuscript is one of only a few bilingual Psalters...

Canterbury or Anglo-Catalan Psalter

Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 12th century

The Canterbury Psalter is amongst the most lavishly illustrated of English manuscripts. The luxurious decoration is part...

Chartres Bible (first of two volumes)

Manuscript Created date: Mid-12th century

The 12th century saw the production of large-format ‘giant’ Bibles. In part, their popularity was due to the needs of ne...

Chartres Bible (second of two volumes)

Manuscript Created date: Mid-12th century

Named after its probable place of origin, The Chartres Bible is divided in two volumes. (The first is now BnF, Latin 55)...

Flavius Josephus, Antiquities and The Jewish Wars

Manuscript Created date: 1171–1180

Flavius Josephus (d. c. 100) was one of the most important historians of the Greco-Roman era. He was born in Jerusalem,...

Foigny Abbey Bible

Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 12th century

This giant Bible includes the entire text of the Old and New Testaments. Each biblical book opens with a large initial l...

Glossed Book of Ezekiel

Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 12th century

This 12th-century copy of the Old Testament book of Ezekiel may have been produced at the Cistercian monastery of Founta...

Glossed Psalter

Manuscript Created date: 3rd quarter of the 12th century

From an early date, Church Fathers and theologians wrote commentaries on the Bible, which survive in numerous copies. Th...

Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Lives of the Canterbury...

Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 12th century

Goscelin was a monk and writer from the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Bertin, in northern France, who wrote during the late...

Homiliary produced at Corbie Abbey

Manuscript Created date: 1179

Homiliaries are compilations of sermons or explanations of biblical texts, arranged according to significant days in the...

Montpellier Bible (first of two volumes)

Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 12th century

The Montpellier Bible is a copy of the Bible in Latin, in two volumes. It is a monumental work, measuring 510 x 365 mm. ...

Origen, Homilies on the Old Testament

Manuscript Created date: Mid-12th century

Origen of Alexandria (d. c. 253) is considered the father of biblical exegesis (the interpretation of the Bible). Origen...

Passionale (Lives of Saints)

Manuscript Created date: 12th century

The initials beginning each saint’s life in this volume are historiated, containing visual synopses of the stories relat...

Penitential works

Manuscript Created date: Mid-12th century

A colourful, gilded image portraying a kneeling monk in a black robe offering a book to St Peter and St John the Evangel...

Préaux Gospels

Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 12th century

Under the leadership of abbot Richard of Fourneaux (r. 1101–1131), a student of St Anselm (d. 1109) and author of numero...