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A collection of astronomical-computistical and scientific texts

The Folchart Psalter is a masterpiece of late Carolingian illumination.

The Golden Psalter (Psalterium aureum) of St. Gall, written and illuminated with 17 miniatures, either in the West Franconian empire (Soissons?) or in the monastery of St. Gall with the participation of West Franconian scribes and illuminators. (smu)

A glossed psalter from the monastery of St. Gall, dating from the middle of the 9th century. (smu).

The Wolfcoz Psalter – one of St. Gallen's earliest examples of illuminated initials of the highest quality. (smu)

Psalterium Gallicanum with commentary.

Complete edition of the works of Virgil (Bucolics, Georgics, Aeneid) was given to the Benedictine Monastery of St. Martin in Tours by the Levite Berno (note and book curse on f. 1v). Virgil’s text is interspersed with numerous commentaries…

Virgil manuscript with glosses.

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…