Collection items

English collection of medical treatises

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

Medical compilations in the 12th century tended to be reference volumes, consisting of a variety of important medical tr...

English copy of Bede's Commentary on the Gospel of...

Manuscript Created date: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century

The Venerable Bede (b. c. 673, d. 735), whose greatest work was the Ecclesiastical History of the English People, also w...

English copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of ...

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

Geoffrey of Monmouth’s (b. c. 1100, d. 1154) History of the Kings of Britain was an influential medieval account of the ...

English copy of St Augustine’s De Trinitate from S...

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

St Augustine’s treatise on the Trinity was one of his most influential works. It concerns Christian theology and doctrin...

English illustrated copy of Church law

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

This illustrated copy of Church or canon law features the distinctive layout common to medieval legal manuscripts. The m...

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,...

French collection of historical works

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

Produced in Normandy in the 12th century, this manuscript contains a collection of works by the Venerable Bede (b. c. 67...

French illustrated copy of Gratian’s Decretum

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

The Decretum, meaning a series of decrees, was the first of six volumes of the laws of the Church, known as canon law. S...

French Psalter composed in verse

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

The Book of Psalms was translated into French in the first half of the twelfth century. It became one of the most popula...

Geoffrey of Ufford’s miscellaneous compilation of...

Manuscript Created date: c. 1154

A 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 century

Gilbert of Poitiers (d. 1154), or Gilbert de la Porrée, was a French scholar and theologian, who lectured at the ...

Illuminated copy of William of Malmesbury’s Deeds ...

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

The Deeds of the Kings of the English is an early 12th-century account of the kings of England. Composed by the Anglo-No...

Illustrated account on cautery points and medical...

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

Large, clear drawings in this medical textbook show the application of cautery, or the drawing from the body of sick or ...

Illustrated copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History...

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

The History of the Kings of Britain by the Anglo-Norman cleric, Geoffrey of Monmouth (b. c. 1100, d. 1154) was an enormo...

Justinian’s Digest

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

The Digest consists of a summary of classical legal texts compiled during Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I’s reign (r. ...