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Flanders; Middle 13th Century. Latin Text; Angular Gothic Script.

This small Psalter leaf illustrates the fact that, although skilled scribes were available in many monasteries in the 13th century, some of the monks who attempted to apply and…

Italy; Middle 13th Century. Latin Text; Rotunda Gothic Script.

In 1217, St. Dominic, the founder of the order which bears his name, withdrew from France and settled in Italy. Here, in the next four and last years of his life, he founded sixty…

Germany; Middle 13th Century. Latin Text; Angular Gothic Script.

The line ending of a fish, elongated or shortened as the space required, and the grinning expression of the fish emblem have in some book circles given these German Psalters the…

France (Paris); Middle 13th Century. Latin Text; Minuscule Angular Gothic Script.

These miniature or portable manuscript copies of the Jerome version of the Bible were nearly all written by the young wandering friars of the newly founded order of…

England; Early 13th Century. Latin Text; Early Angular Gothic Script, Square Gregorian Notation.

Graduals are the books containing the chants for the celebration of the mass. English manuscripts of this early date and small size are rare. This…

The Aurora is unfamiliar to most of us today. As Ege suggests, it is essentially a series of long Latin poems which re-narrate (and often clarify) the content of several books of the Bible. Its author, Petrus Riga, was probably born in about 1140,…

England (Cambridge); Early 13th Century. Latin Text; Early Angular Gothic Script.

The only Bible known to Western Europe for the thousand years from 400 to 1400 was this version by St. Jerome. In the early part of the 13th century it is almost…

France, Early 13th Century. Latin Text; Early Angular Gothic Script.

This translation of the Bible was made by Jerome at the request of Pope Damasus. It was begun in the year 382 A.D. and finished 16 years later. For his great scholarship more…

France; Late 12th Century. Latin Text; Carolingian Minuscule.

This text is from a special arrangment of the Psalms. Several Church Fathers made their own groupings for the Scriptures. Of these so-called "chains" the most famous is that of St.…

Italy; Middle 12th Century. Latin Text; Revived Carolingian Script.

A Lectionary contains selected readings from the Epistles and Gospels as well as the Acts of the Saints and the Lives of the Martyrs. These were read by the sub-deacon from a…