Collection items

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 ...

Glossed Book of Ezekiel

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

This 12th-century copy of the Old Testament book of Ezekiel may have been produced at the Cistercian monastery of Founta...

Glossed Psalter

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

From an early date, Church Fathers and theologians wrote commentaries on the Bible, which survive in numerous copies. Th...

Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Lives of the Canterbury...

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

Goscelin was a monk and writer from the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Bertin, in northern France, who wrote during the late...

Harley Trilingual Psalter

Manuscript Created date: 12th century, pre 1153

Containing the text of the psalms in parallel Greek, Latin, and Arabic versions, the Harley Trilingual Psalter bears elo...

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...

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. ...

Montpellier Bible (first of two volumes)

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

The Montpellier Bible is a copy of the Bible in Latin, in two volumes. It is a monumental work, measuring 510 x 365 mm. ...

Origen, Homilies on the Old Testament

Manuscript Created date: Mid-12th century

Origen of Alexandria (d. c. 253) is considered the father of biblical exegesis (the interpretation of the Bible). Origen...

Osbern of Canterbury, Life of St Dunstan

Manuscript Created date: c. 1090–Early 12th century

Osbern (b. c. 1050, d. c. 1090) was an English monk of Christ Church, Canterbury, known for writing a Life of Archbishop...

Passionale (Lives of Saints)

Manuscript Created date: 12th century

The initials beginning each saint’s life in this volume are historiated, containing visual synopses of the stories relat...