Collection items

Bilingual Psalter

Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 12th century

Produced in England during the last quarter of the 12th century, this manuscript is one of only a few bilingual Psalters...

Canterbury or Anglo-Catalan Psalter

Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 12th century

The Canterbury Psalter is amongst the most lavishly illustrated of English manuscripts. The luxurious decoration is part...

Chartres Bible (first of two volumes)

Manuscript Created date: Mid-12th century

The 12th century saw the production of large-format ‘giant’ Bibles. In part, their popularity was due to the needs of ne...

Chartres Bible (second of two volumes)

Manuscript Created date: Mid-12th century

Named after its probable place of origin, The Chartres Bible is divided in two volumes. (The first is now BnF, Latin 55)...

Flavius Josephus, Antiquities and The Jewish Wars

Manuscript Created date: 1171–1180

Flavius Josephus (d. c. 100) was one of the most important historians of the Greco-Roman era. He was born in Jerusalem,...

Foigny Abbey Bible

Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 12th century

This giant Bible includes the entire text of the Old and New Testaments. Each biblical book opens with a large initial l...

Homiliary produced at Corbie Abbey

Manuscript Created date: 1179

Homiliaries are compilations of sermons or explanations of biblical texts, arranged according to significant days in the...

Illuminated copy of St Augustine's De Trinitate

Manuscript Created date: 1121–1130

In the early fifth century the theologian, St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430) wrote a treatise on the Trinity (De Tr...

Illuminated volume of the New Testament

Manuscript Created date: 1171–1180

Dated to the second half of the 12th century because of its script and decoration, this large manuscript of the New Test...

Origen, Homilies on the Old Testament

Manuscript Created date: Mid-12th century

Origen of Alexandria (d. c. 253) is considered the father of biblical exegesis (the interpretation of the Bible). Origen...

Peter Lombard, Commentary on the Psalms

Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 12th century

Peter Lombard (d. 1160) was a scholar and theologian, who taught at the school of Notre Dame and was consecrated Bishop...

Richard of St Victor's theological works

Manuscript Created date: 1171–1190

Probably of Scottish origin, Richard of St Victor (d. 1173) was one of the most important theologians of the 12th centur...

St Corneille Gospels

Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 12th century

This remarkable Gospel-book was used at the royal foundation of St Corneille de Compiègne, in the north of Paris,...

St Gregory the Great, Epistles

Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 12th century

This imposing volume includes a collection of letters of Pope Gregory the Great (d. c. 604). It was made in the north of...

St Jerome, Commentary on Ecclesiastes and Translat...

Manuscript Created date: 2nd quarter of the 12th century

The abbey of Saint Peter, Corbie, in northern France was founded by the Merovingian queen, Bathilde, widow of King Clovi...