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The Bosworth Psalter
Ecthernach Gospels
Book of Hours
Books of Hours were personal devotion books meant to create a closer connection between the reader and God. They involved performing ordered rituals and often included the same high level concepts.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX, Apologia ad Guillelmum abbatem; monastic texts here attributed to Bernard by ARNULFUS DE BOERIIS, ALGER OF LIEGE, and unidentified authors; and BASIL OF CAESAREA, Admonitio ad filium spiritualem
A Cistercian manuscript containing the highly influential Apologia text along with some lesser known texts also Cistercian in nature.
Book of Kells
The Book of Kells is an illuminated manuscript created for missionary purposes with extravagant illustrations and illuminations.
Manuscript Leaf with the Martyrdom of Saint Peter Martyr in an Initial P, from a Gradual
A musical notation page that was written for a prolific Dominican monk, Peter Martyr.
The Aberdeen Bestiary
One of the most famous bestiaries in the world. Attempts to explain the natural world.
Johannes Cassianus , De institutis coenobiorum et de octo principalium vitiorum remediis, , lib. III-X, fragmenta; Collationes Patrum , Lib. I, 11-IV, 19.
John Cassian's influential writings that brought Eastern Monasticism to Western Europe
Speculum humanae salvationis MS M.140
Used by monks and clerics as a way to preach.
SAINT BENEDICT, Regula sancti Benedicti and SAINT AUGUSTINE, Regula sancti Augustini episcopi
This manuscript contains the rules of both St. Benedict and St. Augustine. It shows how without altering the text, one can create implicit bias.
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