Collection items
Format
-
Bestiary, with extracts from Gerald of Wales
Manuscript Created date: Late 12th-century–early 13th centuryA bestiary contains Christian allegorical lessons based on the characteristics and habits of animals found in nature and...
-
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...
-
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...
-
Cartulary of Reading Abbey
Manuscript Created date: 1190–1199The 12th-century Cartulary of Reading Abbey gives a list of works held at the medieval libraries at Reading Abbey and Le...
-
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...
-
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)...
-
Computus collection including Byrhtferth of Ramsey...
Manuscript Created date: 2nd quarter of the 12th centuryThe Enchiridion (Handbook) by Byrhtferth of Ramsey Abbey (fl. c. 986–c. 1016) is a commentary on the computus, covering ...
-
Early illustrated bestiary
Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 12th centuryA bestiary is a book of descriptions and pictures of beasts that combines natural history, Christian allegorical lessons...
-
English copy of Bede's Commentary on the Gospel of...
Manuscript Created date: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th centuryThe Venerable Bede (b. c. 673, d. 735), whose greatest work was the Ecclesiastical History of the English People, also w...
-
English copy of St Augustine’s De Trinitate from S...
Manuscript Created date: 2nd quarter of the 12th centurySt Augustine’s treatise on the Trinity was one of his most influential works. It concerns Christian theology and doctrin...
-
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,...
-
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...
-
Geoffrey of Ufford’s miscellaneous compilation of...
Manuscript Created date: c. 1154A unique compilation of Latin moral, grammatical and historical treatises was collected by Geoffrey of Ufford in the 12t...
-
Gilbert of Poitiers, Commentary on the Psalms
Manuscript Created date: 1st half of the 12th centuryGilbert of Poitiers (d. 1154), or Gilbert de la Porrée, was a French scholar and theologian, who lectured at the ...
-
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...
Share this page
Please consider the environment before printing