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13th century zonal world map
Map Created date: 13th centuryThis 13th-century world map, though only 8 centimetres across, is more than a simple diagram. The southern (upper) hemis...
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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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Circular plan of Jerusalem
Map Created date: 13th centuryMost medieval plans of Jerusalem give it circular walls (it was actually four-sided) and were probably of classical orig...
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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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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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Map of Britain by Matthew Paris, Royal MS 14 C. VI...
Map Created date: mid-13th centuryThis map 13th century map by Matthew Paris from the Royal manuscripts collection, is one of four early maps of Britain c...
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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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Plan of springs at Wormley in Hertfordshire
MapThis plan, from the Harley manuscripts collection, shows a plan of the springs at Wormley, Hertfordshire, from which Wal...
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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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