Collection items

10th-century copy of Isidore of Seville’s Etymolog...

Manuscript Created date: 10th century

The Etymologies by Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636) became one of the most widely consulted encyclopaedic works in...

12th-century calendar and annals

Manuscript Created date: Late 12th century–Early 13th century

In the Middle Ages, as today, calendars served to organise time into days and months. This fragment collection contains...

Anglo-Saxon calendar and computistical material

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

Farming was the basis of the early medieval economy and the occupation of the majority of the population, but agricultur...

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 ...

Astronomical texts

Manuscript Created date: 12th century

Astronomy, the science of the stars, was an important part of the early medieval curriculum. This astronomical collectio...

Bestiary, with extracts from Gerald of Wales

Manuscript Created date: Late 12th-century–early 13th century

A bestiary contains Christian allegorical lessons based on the characteristics and habits of animals found in nature and...

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...

Boethius, De institutione arithmetica with medical...

Manuscript Created date: Mid-9th century–1st half of the 10th century

During the Middle Ages, the practice of gathering different texts from various periods in the same manuscript was common...

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...

Calculating time

Manuscript Created date: 1st third of the 9th century–Late 11th century

This manuscript consists of three books joined together in the medieval period at the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Germain...

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...

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....

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...