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Manuscript, Illustration Created date: 1200-99

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

Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 13th century

The 20 full-page illuminations at the beginning of this Psalter form one of the most outstanding prefatory cycles to sur...

Manuscript Created date: c. 1230

Bestiaries, or ‘Books of beasts’, provide an account of the characteristics and habits of a variety of animals, both rea...

Manuscript, Illustration Created date: 1200-99

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

Manuscript Created date: 1200-99

At the time of King John’s death, England had descended into civil war. Following the papal annulment of Magna Carta, th...

Manuscript, Charter Created date: 1200-99

Throughout the winter of 1214–15, means were sought to restrain the king and to preserve the peace. At some point, perha...

Manuscript Created date: 1200-99

One of the earliest accounts of the settlement reached at Runnymede is found in the Chronicle of Melrose Abbey. Melrose...

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