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Bilingual Psalter
Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 12th centuryProduced in England during the last quarter of the 12th century, this manuscript is one of only a few bilingual Psalters...
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Canterbury or Anglo-Catalan Psalter
Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 12th centuryThe Canterbury Psalter is amongst the most lavishly illustrated of English manuscripts. The luxurious decoration is part...
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Chartres Bible (first of two volumes)
Manuscript Created date: Mid-12th centuryThe 12th century saw the production of large-format ‘giant’ Bibles. In part, their popularity was due to the needs of ne...
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Chartres Bible (second of two volumes)
Manuscript Created date: Mid-12th centuryNamed after its probable place of origin, The Chartres Bible is divided in two volumes. (The first is now BnF, Latin 55)...
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Flavius Josephus, Antiquities and The Jewish Wars
Manuscript Created date: 1171–1180Flavius Josephus (d. c. 100) was one of the most important historians of the Greco-Roman era. He was born in Jerusalem,...
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Foigny Abbey Bible
Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 12th centuryThis giant Bible includes the entire text of the Old and New Testaments. Each biblical book opens with a large initial l...
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Glossed Book of Ezekiel
Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 12th centuryThis 12th-century copy of the Old Testament book of Ezekiel may have been produced at the Cistercian monastery of Founta...
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Glossed Psalter
Manuscript Created date: 3rd quarter of the 12th centuryFrom an early date, Church Fathers and theologians wrote commentaries on the Bible, which survive in numerous copies. Th...
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Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Lives of the Canterbury...
Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 12th centuryGoscelin was a monk and writer from the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Bertin, in northern France, who wrote during the late...
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Homiliary produced at Corbie Abbey
Manuscript Created date: 1179Homiliaries are compilations of sermons or explanations of biblical texts, arranged according to significant days in the...
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Montpellier Bible (first of two volumes)
Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 12th centuryThe Montpellier Bible is a copy of the Bible in Latin, in two volumes. It is a monumental work, measuring 510 x 365 mm. ...
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Origen, Homilies on the Old Testament
Manuscript Created date: Mid-12th centuryOrigen of Alexandria (d. c. 253) is considered the father of biblical exegesis (the interpretation of the Bible). Origen...
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Passionale (Lives of Saints)
Manuscript Created date: 12th centuryThe initials beginning each saint’s life in this volume are historiated, containing visual synopses of the stories relat...
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Penitential works
Manuscript Created date: Mid-12th centuryA colourful, gilded image portraying a kneeling monk in a black robe offering a book to St Peter and St John the Evangel...
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Préaux Gospels
Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 12th centuryUnder the leadership of abbot Richard of Fourneaux (r. 1101–1131), a student of St Anselm (d. 1109) and author of numero...
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