Collection items

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...

Peter Lombard, Commentary on the Psalms

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

Peter Lombard (d. 1160) was a scholar and theologian, who taught at the school of Notre Dame and was consecrated Bishop...

Peter Lombard's gloss on the Psalms

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

A marginal gloss, or commentary, on the Psalms by Peter Lombard (d. 1160) is included in this Psalter, probably made in...

Philippe de Thaon, Comput

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

The earliest named French author, Philippe de Thaon, was active in the first half of the 12th century. In this volume ar...

Portrait of St Dunstan as a bishop

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

Smaragdus (d. after 825), a Benedictine monk and later abbot of St Mihiel sur Meuse, near Verdun, wrote a commentary on...

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...

Psalter in Anglo-Norman verse

Manuscript Created date: Late 12th century

This early twelfth-century Psalter, or book of the Psalms, was copied in an English monastery, probably Canterbury. It c...

Psalter with a Latin gloss

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

An extensive commentary is included in this Psalter, or book of Psalms, probably made in Eastern France during the secon...

Psalter with an Anglo-Norman gloss

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

After William the Conqueror’s invasion of England in 1066, a dialect of French known as Anglo-Norman became one of the d...

Ralph de Diceto, Opuscula

Manuscript Created date: c. 1195

The Opuscula (little works) was a collection of material about history, compiled by Ralph de Diceto (d. c. 1200) at St P...

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...

Rochester copy of William of Malmesbury's Deeds of...

Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 12th century–1st quarter of the 13th century

The Deeds of the Kings of the English was written by the Anglo-Norman monk William of Malmesbury (b. c. 1095, d. c 1143)...

Rule of St Benedict

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

Educated in Rome, St Benedict of Nursia (b. c. 480, d. c. 550) abandoned city life and withdrew to the vicinity of Subia...

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...