Collection items

On the Laws and Customs of England

Manuscript, Illustration

The treatise known as Bracton, composed in the wake of Magna Carta, is the most ambitious legal work from medieval Engla...

Portrait of King John from Matthew Paris's Histori...

Manuscript, Illustration

One of the most significant works by Matthew Paris (1200–59), author, illuminator and monk of St Albans Abbey, is the Hi...

The poisoning of King John and coronation of King...

Manuscript, Illustration

King John was taken ill in October 1216, having suffered an attack of dysentery, and he died at Newark, Nottinghamshire,...