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The richly illustrated Prudentius manuscript, created around 900 in the region of Lake Constance, is counted among the outstanding examples of Carolingian book art. It contains all seven poems published by Prudentius in the year 405 as well as a…

In addition to Greek and Latin Psalms, written somewhere in continental Europe by Irish monks during the Carolingian period, this famous Basel codex also contains a brief series of devotions in Latin for private use, appended by the monks. The exact…

Isaiah with glosses

St. John's 17 is a compilation of texts, tables, maps and diagrams. It is organised around the central theme of time-reckoning and calendar construction - what in the Middle Ages was called computus.http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/ms-17/index.htm

Educational manuscript from the monastery of St. Gall.https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/csg/0270/52/0/Sequence-454

The Book of Cerne is a composite manuscript. The central section, part II (fols 2-99), is a ninth-century prayerbook written in principally in Latin with some glosses in Old English. It contains a selection of extracts from the gospels, prayers and…

Glossae in Bibliam et glossae variae (‘Enzyklopädisches Schulbuch’); Glosses on the Bible and various glosses (‘Encyclopaedic Schoolbook’)

MS 41 contains the Old English translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History.

This manuscript is known as the Samson Pontifical because it contains an added formula for professing obedience in the presence of Samson, bishop of Worcester 1096-1112.

Composite collection from the Abbey Library of St. Gall, including the oldest Vulgate version of the Gospels, fragments of Psalm manuscripts in Latin and in Greek from the 7th and the 10th centuries respectively, and a large number of Irish fragments…