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12th-century calendar and annals
Manuscript Created date: Late 12th century–Early 13th centuryIn the Middle Ages, as today, calendars served to organise time into days and months. This fragment collection contains...
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Amalarius of Metz, De Ecclesiasticis officiis
Manuscript Created date: c. 1100Amalarius of Metz (d. c. 850) was one of the great writers of the Carolingian age. He participated actively in political...
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Astronomical texts
Manuscript Created date: 12th centuryAstronomy, the science of the stars, was an important part of the early medieval curriculum. This astronomical collectio...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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)...
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Decorated copy of Gratian’s Decretum
Manuscript Created date: 1171–1180The Decretum, an encyclopedia of Church or canon law compiled by the Bolognese scholar, Gratian, in around 1140, became...
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English copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of ...
Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 12th centuryGeoffrey of Monmouth’s (b. c. 1100, d. 1154) History of the Kings of Britain was an influential medieval account of the ...
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English illustrated copy of Church law
Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 12th centuryThis illustrated copy of Church or canon law features the distinctive layout common to medieval legal manuscripts. The m...
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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,...
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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...
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French collection of historical works
Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 12th centuryProduced in Normandy in the 12th century, this manuscript contains a collection of works by the Venerable Bede (b. c. 67...
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Homiliary produced at Corbie Abbey
Manuscript Created date: 1179Homiliaries are compilations of sermons or explanations of biblical texts, arranged according to significant days in the...
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Illuminated copy of St Augustine's De Trinitate
Manuscript Created date: 1121–1130In the early fifth century the theologian, St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430) wrote a treatise on the Trinity (De Tr...
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