Collection items

12th-century miscellany of Latin texts

Manuscript Created date: Early 12th century

The oldest surviving copy of the History of the Britons (Historia Brittonum) is found in a miscellany of late Antique an...

Ado of Vienne, Chronicle of the Six Ages of the Wo...

Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 11th century

The Frankish scholar and archbishop Ado of Vienne (b. c. 800, d. c. 875) produced a universal chronicle, recording world...

Alcuin's letter collection

Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 9th century

This collection of the letters of the Englishman Alcuin of York (b. c. 735, d. 804), is datable to the early ninth centu...

Anselm of Canterbury's theological treatises

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

This composite volume, consisting of two originally separate booklets, contains seven of Anselm’s thirteen scholarly tre...

Antidotarium and medical recipes

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

This early collection of medical recipes includes prayers to God, the Creator of man, and of ‘all the trees, plants and ...

Baudri of Bourgueil, History of Jerusalem

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

The Historia Hierosolimitana (History of Jerusalem) is one of the most sophisticated accounts of the First Crusade (1095...

Boethius, De institutione arithmetica

Manuscript Created date: 3rd quarter of the 12th century

Written by the sixth-century Roman philosopher Boethius, De institutione arithmetica (On Arithmetic) was the principal m...

Bosworth Psalter

Manuscript Created date: 3rd quarter of the tenth century

Like the majority of biblical books in Western Christendom, the texts of this Psalter are in Latin. They comprise one of...

Cartulary of Reading Abbey

Manuscript Created date: 1190–1199

The 12th-century Cartulary of Reading Abbey gives a list of works held at the medieval libraries at Reading Abbey and Le...

Cicero, Aratea with scholia

Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 11th century–1st quarter of the 12th century

Cicero’s Aratea is an astronomical treatise describing the constellations, and this work is a Latin translation of the P...

Cicero, De Oratore

Manuscript Created date: 2nd quarter of the 9th century

This volume contains De Oratore (On the Orator), a rhetorical treatise by the Roman philosopher and statesman Cicero (b....

Collection of medieval chronicles

Manuscript Created date: 1197–1450

Ralph de Diceto, Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral from c. 1180 to c. 1199, wrote two historical chronicles, the Abbreviated C...

Collection of medieval historical works

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

This volume contains a variety of historical and legendary material, including the Trojan War, Alexander the Great and t...

Computus, astronomy and finger-counting

Manuscript Created date: 11th century–12th century

This manuscript is a compendium of texts on the closely related subjects of computus, the science of calculating times a...

Computus collection including Byrhtferth of Ramsey...

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

The Enchiridion (Handbook) by Byrhtferth of Ramsey Abbey (fl. c. 986–c. 1016) is a commentary on the computus, covering ...