Collection items
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Amalarius of Metz, De Ecclesiasticis officiis
Manuscript Created date: c. 1100Amalarius of Metz (d. c. 850) was one of the great writers of the Carolingian age. He participated actively in political...
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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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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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Illuminated copy of St Augustine's De Trinitate
Manuscript Created date: 1121–1130In the early fifth century the theologian, St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430) wrote a treatise on the Trinity (De Tr...
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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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Richard of St Victor's theological works
Manuscript Created date: 1171–1190Probably of Scottish origin, Richard of St Victor (d. 1173) was one of the most important theologians of the 12th centur...
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St Corneille Gospels
Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 12th centuryThis remarkable Gospel-book was used at the royal foundation of St Corneille de Compiègne, in the north of Paris,...
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St Gregory the Great, Epistles
Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 12th centuryThis imposing volume includes a collection of letters of Pope Gregory the Great (d. c. 604). It was made in the north of...
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St Jerome’s translation of Eusebius’ Chronicon
Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 12th centuryThe Greek scholar and historian Eusebius of Caesarea (d. c. 340) prepared a world chronicle of history from Abraham to t...
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