Collection items

Amalarius of Metz, De Ecclesiasticis officiis

Manuscript Created date: c. 1100

Amalarius of Metz (d. c. 850) was one of the great writers of the Carolingian age. He participated actively in political...

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...

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...

Illuminated copy of St Augustine's De Trinitate

Manuscript Created date: 1121–1130

In the early fifth century the theologian, St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430) wrote a treatise on the Trinity (De Tr...

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...

Richard of St Victor's theological works

Manuscript Created date: 1171–1190

Probably of Scottish origin, Richard of St Victor (d. 1173) was one of the most important theologians of the 12th centur...

St Corneille Gospels

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

This remarkable Gospel-book was used at the royal foundation of St Corneille de Compiègne, in the north of Paris,...

St Gregory the Great, Epistles

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

This imposing volume includes a collection of letters of Pope Gregory the Great (d. c. 604). It was made in the north of...

St Jerome’s translation of Eusebius’ Chronicon

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

The Greek scholar and historian Eusebius of Caesarea (d. c. 340) prepared a world chronicle of history from Abraham to t...