Collection items

11th-century Gospel-book, produced in Metz

Manuscript Created date: 1st half of the 11th century

In the Middle Ages, manuscripts necessary for the Mass formed part of a church’s most important treasures, together with...

Cassiodorus, Historia ecclesiastica tripartite

Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 11th century

Marcus Flavius Cassiodorus Senator (b. c. 485, d. c. 580), was a Roman statesman and scholar, who served under Theodoric...

Collection of works by St Ambrose

Manuscript Created date: 3rd quarter of the 11th century

St Ambrose (b. 340, d. 420), a bishop of Milan, was one of the greatest preachers of the early Church. Seven of his work...

French copy of Bede's Commentary on the Gospel of ...

Manuscript Created date: Early 11th century

The great Anglo-Saxon scholar, Bede (b. c. 673, d. 735), is often ranked alongside the Church Fathers for his widely-cop...

French copy of Isidore of Seville’s Etymologies

Manuscript Created date: Early 11th century

The Etymologies by Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636) was a vast reference work that functioned as an encyclopaedia....

French copy of St Augustine’s De Trinitate

Manuscript Created date: c. 1060

St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430) dedicated nearly 30 years of his life to complete his 15-book treatise De Trinitate (On th...

Gaignières Gospel Lectionary

Manuscript Created date: Early 11th century

François-Roger de Gaignières (b. 1642, d. 1715) was an art collector and scholar who bequeathed his manusc...

Gospel-book from Metz (first of two volumes)

Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 11th century

The scriptorium at Metz flourished under one of the illegitimate sons of Charlemagne, Drogo, who was bishop from 826 to...

Gospel-book from Metz (second of two volumes)

Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 11th century

The second volume of an illuminated Gospel-book produced in Metz (the first is now BnF Latin 11961), this manuscript ope...

Hrabanus Maurus, De Laudibus sanctae crucis

Manuscript Created date: Mid-11th century

The poem De Laudibus sancte crucis (In Praise of the Holy Cross) is the work of Hrabanus Maurus (b. 780/781, d. 856), on...

Illustrated scientific and historical works

Manuscript Created date: 1060–1063

The Benedictine abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés was a wealthy centre of royal patronage and intellectual life jus...

John Cassian, Collationes

Manuscript Created date: 1st third of the 11th century

The main text of this 11th-century manuscript from the monastery of St Wandrille in Normandy is John Cassian’s Collation...

Lectionary of St-Maur-des-Fossés

Manuscript Created date: Early 11th century

St Maurus (d. 584) is one of the most famous disciples of St Benedict of Nursia (d. c. 550), the author of the Benedicti...

Life and miracles of St Germain

Manuscript Created date: Mid-11th century

Texts devoted to the lives and miracles of different saints were collected and widely read during the medieval period. C...

Macrobius, Commentary on the Dream of Scipio

Manuscript Created date: 1st half of the 11th century

In around 430, the Latin grammarian and philosopher, Macrobius wrote Commentarii in somnium Scipionis, a commentary on t...