Collection items
Themes
Creator
- Anselm of Canterbury (1)
- Baudri of Bourgueil (1)
- Bede (1)
- Boethius (1)
- Constantine the African (1)
- Geoffrey of Monmouth (1)
- Gilbert of Poitiers (1)
- Goscelin of Saint Bertin (1)
- Gratian (1)
- Gregory I (1)
- Osbern of Canterbury (1)
- Peter Lombard (1)
- Philippe de Thaon (1)
- Ralph de Diceto (2)
- St Augustine of Hippo (1)
- St Benedict of Nursia (1)
- St Jerome (1)
- Symeon of Durham (1)
- William of Jumièges (1)
- William of Malmesbury (1)
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12th-century miscellany of Latin texts
Manuscript Created date: Early 12th centuryThe oldest surviving copy of the History of the Britons (Historia Brittonum) is found in a miscellany of late Antique an...
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Anselm of Canterbury's theological treatises
Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 12th centuryThis composite volume, consisting of two originally separate booklets, contains seven of Anselm’s thirteen scholarly tre...
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Baudri of Bourgueil, History of Jerusalem
Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 12th centuryThe Historia Hierosolimitana (History of Jerusalem) is one of the most sophisticated accounts of the First Crusade (1095...
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Bestiary, with extracts from Gerald of Wales
Manuscript Created date: Late 12th-century–early 13th centuryA bestiary contains Christian allegorical lessons based on the characteristics and habits of animals found in nature and...
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Boethius, De institutione arithmetica
Manuscript Created date: 3rd quarter of the 12th centuryWritten by the sixth-century Roman philosopher Boethius, De institutione arithmetica (On Arithmetic) was the principal m...
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Cartulary of Reading Abbey
Manuscript Created date: 1190–1199The 12th-century Cartulary of Reading Abbey gives a list of works held at the medieval libraries at Reading Abbey and Le...
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Collection of medieval chronicles
Manuscript Created date: 1197–1450Ralph de Diceto, Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral from c. 1180 to c. 1199, wrote two historical chronicles, the Abbreviated C...
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Computus collection including Byrhtferth of Ramsey...
Manuscript Created date: 2nd quarter of the 12th centuryThe Enchiridion (Handbook) by Byrhtferth of Ramsey Abbey (fl. c. 986–c. 1016) is a commentary on the computus, covering ...
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Constantine the African, De Melancholia
Manuscript Created date: 3rd quarter of the 12th centuryA treatise on melancholy by Constantine the African (d. 1098) is inserted into a collection of popular historical and ph...
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Continental copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History...
Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 12th centuryThe History of the Kings of Britain presents a legendary account of the history of Britain composed by the 12th-century...
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Early illustrated bestiary
Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 12th centuryA bestiary is a book of descriptions and pictures of beasts that combines natural history, Christian allegorical lessons...
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English collection of medical treatises
Manuscript Created date: 1st half of the 12th centuryMedical compilations in the 12th century tended to be reference volumes, consisting of a variety of important medical tr...
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English copy of Bede's Commentary on the Gospel of...
Manuscript Created date: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th centuryThe Venerable Bede (b. c. 673, d. 735), whose greatest work was the Ecclesiastical History of the English People, also w...
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English copy of St Augustine’s De Trinitate from S...
Manuscript Created date: 2nd quarter of the 12th centurySt Augustine’s treatise on the Trinity was one of his most influential works. It concerns Christian theology and doctrin...
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French illustrated copy of Gratian’s Decretum
Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 12th centuryThe Decretum, meaning a series of decrees, was the first of six volumes of the laws of the Church, known as canon law. S...
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