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France (Beauvais); Late 13th Century. Latin Text; Transitional Gothic Script.

This manuscript, a special gift to a church in the city of Beauvais, was written for Robert de Hangest, a canon, about 1285 A.D. At that time, Beauvais was one of the…

France; Late 13th Century. Latin Text; Angular Gothic Script

This copy of the Latin version by St. Jerome was made during the period when France stood at the height of her medieval glory. A decade or two before, Louis IX (Saint Louis), the…

England (Oxford); Middle 13th Century. Latin Text; Angular Gothic Script.

It is usually difficult to dinstinguish the miniature or portable Bibles made by the young Dominican friars in England from those written in France. At times the colophon…

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…