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13th-century English Book of Hours
Manuscript Created date: Late 13th centuryAn early Book of Hours from England. Popular in the late Middle Ages and the early Renaissance, Books of Hours were pra...
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Aristotle in Latin
Manuscript Created date: 13th centuryThis 13th-century manuscript contains Gerard of Cremona's (c. 1114-87) translations of Aristotelian works on natural phi...
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Chronicon Anglicanum
Manuscript Created date: 1200-99After Archbishop Hubert Walter’s death in 1205 and the rejection of other nominees to the see of Canterbury, the monks o...
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Collection of medieval historical works
Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 13th centuryThis volume contains a variety of historical and legendary material, including the Trojan War, Alexander the Great and t...
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Dialogue of the Exchequer
Manuscript Created date: 1200-99Richard fitz Nigel (1130-98), Bishop of Ely and author of The Dialogue of the Exchequer, has been described as a model c...
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English copy of William of Malmesbury’s Deeds of t...
Manuscript Created date: 1st half of the 13th century–c. 1291William of Malmesbury’s (b. c. 1095, d. c. 1143) Deeds of the Kings of the English focuses on political events and ruler...
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Gerald of Wales's The Conquest of Ireland
Manuscript Created date: c.1196 -1223John first experienced warfare in 1185 when, aged just 17, he was sent by his father, King Henry II (r. 1154–89) on an u...
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Images of the life of Christ
Manuscript Created date: 3rd quarter of the 12th centuryThe book of Psalms was at the heart of medieval spirituality. From a relatively early date, very grand copies included a...
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Laws of the Londoners
Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 13th centuryBy the end of the 12th century, French was commonly used as an administrative and legal language in England alongside La...
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Murder of Prince Arthur in Chronicle of Margam Abb...
Manuscript Created date: 1200-99The murder of King John’s nephew, Prince Arthur (1187–1203) had far-reaching consequences, since it led indirectly to th...
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Portrait of King John from Matthew Paris's Histori...
Manuscript, Illustration Created date: 1200-99One of the most significant works by Matthew Paris (1200–59), author, illuminator and monk of St Albans Abbey, is the Hi...
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Psalter with the Hours of the Virgin Mary
Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 13th centuryThe 20 full-page illuminations at the beginning of this Psalter form one of the most outstanding prefatory cycles to sur...
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Rochester Bestiary
Manuscript Created date: c. 1230Bestiaries, or ‘Books of beasts’, provide an account of the characteristics and habits of a variety of animals, both rea...
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The poisoning of King John and coronation of King...
Manuscript, Illustration Created date: 1200-99King John was taken ill in October 1216, having suffered an attack of dysentery, and he died at Newark, Nottinghamshire,...
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The siege of Lincoln Castle and battle of Sandwich
Manuscript Created date: 1200-99At the time of King John’s death, England had descended into civil war. Following the papal annulment of Magna Carta, th...
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