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  • The opening page of a 10th-century manuscript of Felix's Life of St Guthlac.

    Felix's Life of Guthlac

    Manuscript

    This manuscript is a copy of the Life of Guthlac by the East Anglian monk, Felix. Falling within the genre of hagiograph...

  • The elaborate incipit page for the prefatory material of the Lindisfarne Gospels.

    Lindisfarne Gospels

    Manuscript

    The Lindisfarne Gospels has long been acclaimed as the most spectacular manuscript to survive from Anglo-Saxon England....

  • Psalter World Map, full-page illustration showing Christ holding the orb of the world, flanked by two angels. Jerusalem is marked in the centre, with Rome appearing slightly below it, and the rivers Ganges and the Danube drawn in blue

    Map Psalter

    Manuscript

    The Map Psalter takes its name from its full-page illustration of a map of the world (on f. 9r), whose design shares clo...

  • An opening from Peraldus' Theological Miscellany, featuring illustrations of bees, a perindeus tree, a slow-worm, and a red dragon.

    Peraldus' Theological Miscellany

    Manuscript

    Produced in England around 1255-1265, this theological miscellany contains a collection of textual materials for a preac...

  • 12th-century Beatus world map, showing Adam and Eve with the serpent against a dark green background representing the verdant Garden of Eden and the rest of the world centred round the Mediterranean Sea

    Silos Apocalypse

    Manuscript

    This world map comes from a beautifully illuminated copy of Beatus of Liébana's ‘Commentary on the Apocalypse of ...