In the Middle Ages, as today, calendars served to organise time into days and months. This fragment collection contains...
The oldest surviving copy of the History of the Britons (Historia Brittonum) is found in a miscellany of late Antique an...
Amalarius of Metz (d. c. 850) was one of the great writers of the Carolingian age. He participated actively in political...
This composite volume, consisting of two originally separate booklets, contains seven of Anselm’s thirteen scholarly tre...
Astronomy, the science of the stars, was an important part of the early medieval curriculum. This astronomical collectio...
The Historia Hierosolimitana (History of Jerusalem) is one of the most sophisticated accounts of the First Crusade (1095...
A bestiary contains Christian allegorical lessons based on the characteristics and habits of animals found in nature and...
Produced in England during the last quarter of the 12th century, this manuscript is one of only a few bilingual Psalters...
Written by the sixth-century Roman philosopher Boethius, De institutione arithmetica (On Arithmetic) was the principal m...
The Canterbury Psalter is amongst the most lavishly illustrated of English manuscripts. The luxurious decoration is part...
The 12th-century Cartulary of Reading Abbey gives a list of works held at the medieval libraries at Reading Abbey and Le...
The 12th century saw the production of large-format ‘giant’ Bibles. In part, their popularity was due to the needs of ne...
Named after its probable place of origin, The Chartres Bible is divided in two volumes. (The first is now BnF, Latin 55)...
Ralph de Diceto, Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral from c. 1180 to c. 1199, wrote two historical chronicles, the Abbreviated C...
The Enchiridion (Handbook) by Byrhtferth of Ramsey Abbey (fl. c. 986–c. 1016) is a commentary on the computus, covering ...
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