Public Health

Diseases such as cholera, typhus, measles, whooping cough and tuberculosis were exacerbated by the environmental problems of the industrial city, and…

Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, MS 795

Sammelhandschrift; verschiedene; Arno, Salzburg, Erzbischof, 740-821 et al; Collection, various, Arno, Archbishop of Salzburg et…

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 173, fol.; Parker Chronicle

In CCCC MS 173 is found the Parker Chronicle, one of the most important manuscripts for our understanding of Anglo-Saxon history. The Anglo-Saxon…

Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.17.1; Tripartitum Psalterium (The Eadwine Psalter)

This magnificent manuscript was formerly known as the Canterbury Psalter. It is now named for the scribe, Eadwine, a monk of Christ Church Canterbury…