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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...

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...

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 ...

Manuscript Created date: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century

The Venerable Bede (b. c. 673, d. 735), whose greatest work was the Ecclesiastical History of the English People, also w...

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

This 12th-century copy of the Old Testament book of Ezekiel may have been produced at the Cistercian monastery of Founta...

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

From an early date, Church Fathers and theologians wrote commentaries on the Bible, which survive in numerous copies. Th...

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

The Montpellier Bible is a copy of the Bible in Latin, in two volumes. It is a monumental work, measuring 510 x 365 mm. ...

Manuscript Created date: 12th century

The initials beginning each saint’s life in this volume are historiated, containing visual synopses of the stories relat...

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

Under the leadership of abbot Richard of Fourneaux (r. 1101–1131), a student of St Anselm (d. 1109) and author of numero...

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

Educated in Rome, St Benedict of Nursia (b. c. 480, d. c. 550) abandoned city life and withdrew to the vicinity of Subia...

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...

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

Symeon of Durham (active c. 1090–c. 1128) was an English monk and historian, known for writing a number of chronicles, i...

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