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Bestiary, with extracts from Gerald of Wales
Manuscript Created date: Late 12th-century–early 13th centuryA bestiary contains Christian allegorical lessons based on the characteristics and habits of animals found in nature and...
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Chartres Bible (first of two volumes)
Manuscript Created date: Mid-12th centuryThe 12th century saw the production of large-format ‘giant’ Bibles. In part, their popularity was due to the needs of ne...
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Chartres Bible (second of two volumes)
Manuscript Created date: Mid-12th centuryNamed after its probable place of origin, The Chartres Bible is divided in two volumes. (The first is now BnF, Latin 55)...
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Origen, Homilies on the Old Testament
Manuscript Created date: Mid-12th centuryOrigen of Alexandria (d. c. 253) is considered the father of biblical exegesis (the interpretation of the Bible). Origen...
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Portrait of St Dunstan as a bishop
Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 12th centurySmaragdus (d. after 825), a Benedictine monk and later abbot of St Mihiel sur Meuse, near Verdun, wrote a commentary on...
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St Gregory the Great, Registrum Epistolarum Gregor...
Manuscript Created date: 3rd quarter of the 12th centuryThe Registrum Epistolarum Gregorii, or register of the letters of Pope Gregory the Great, is composed of 14 books, inclu...
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