Collection items

9th-century collection of prayers and litanies

Manuscript Created date: Mid-9th century

Made in the third quarter of the ninth century, this manuscript contains a collection of devotional texts such as prayer...

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...

Illustrated Lives of Saints

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

Throughout the Middle Ages, stories of saints’ lives were extremely popular, as witnessed by the many copies that surviv...

St Jerome, Commentaries on the Pauline Epistles

Manuscript Created date: 9th century

Commentaries by St Jerome (d. 420) on the Bible could be found in the collections of many monastic libraries in England ...

St Jerome's translation of the Hebrew Book of Psal...

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

St Jerome made several translations of the Psalms into Latin. One of these is known as the Hebraicum because it was made...