Collection items

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 Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job

Manuscript Created date: 12th century–13th century

The second of a two-volume set, this book contains the Old Testament Book of Job. It also includes part of St Gregory th...

St Jerome, Commentaries on Jeremiah and Ezekiel

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

Saint Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 420), whose greatest work was the translation of the Bible into Latin, also wrote biblical c...

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...

St Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah

Manuscript Created date: 12th century

In the Old Testament Book of Jeremiah, the prophet warns King Zedekiah of the destruction of Jerusalem.  This copy of St...

St Jerome’s translation of Eusebius’ Chronicon

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

The Greek scholar and historian Eusebius of Caesarea (d. c. 340) prepared a world chronicle of history from Abraham to t...