Collection items

14th-century Greek New Testament

Manuscript Created date: 14th century

Most Greek manuscripts of the Bible tend only to include a small sub-section of biblical books, for instance, the four G...

2,000-year-old homework book

Writing tablet Created date: 2nd century

These two wax tablets, once bound together with string, are pages of a Greek homework book from around 2,000 years ago. ...

Acts and Epistles

Manuscript Created date: 1108-1111

Copied by a certain Andreas Olenes between 1108-1111, this manuscript preserves the second part of the New Testament fro...

Aristotle in Latin

Manuscript Created date: 13th century

This 13th-century manuscript contains Gerard of Cremona's (c. 1114-87) translations of Aristotelian works on natural phi...

Ascetical works by Matthew of Ephesos

Manuscript Created date: 14th century

Matthew of Ephesus (also known as Manuel Gabalas) was a cleric and scholar in the turbulent world of 14th-century Byzant...

Askew Gospel Book

Manuscript Created date: 12th century

This 12th-century Gospel book (now divided into two volumes) was copied by the monk Gregory. A note at the end of the se...

Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae

Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 16th century

The 3rd-century CE author Athenaeus is known today for his long work, the Deipnosophistae (‘Dinner Sophists’). This work...

Carolingian Greek Grammar

Manuscript Created date: c 900

A range of different resources were used by Latin scholars in the 8th and 9th centuries to learn Greek. Examples of some...

Charred scroll fragments from Herculaneum

Manuscript Created date: 1st century

These seven fragments are what remain of a complete scroll of the 1st century BCE containing a portion of a work by the ...

Collected works of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

Manuscript Created date: 13th century

Collected works of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

Complimentary verses to Edward VI

Manuscript Created date: 1552

In 1552, the young king Edward VI was passing through Hampshire. The students of Winchester College wrote complimentary...

Complimentary verses to Elizabeth I

Manuscript Created date: 1573

Written around 1573, this volume of complimentary verses dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I was compiled by the boys and the...

Constitution of the Athenians

Papyrus Created date: 78-c. 100

The school of the philosopher Aristotle (384-322 BCE) researched and recorded the constitutions of 158 ancient Greek cit...

Cotton Genesis

Manuscript Created date: 5th century–6th century

The Cotton Genesis is one of the great treasures of the British Library. Created probably in Egypt in the 5th or 6th cen...

Dawes Illuminated Gospel-book

Manuscript Created date: 1314-15

Created in the early 14th century, probably on Cyprus, this manuscript of the Gospels contains illuminations of the four...