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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.

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A Cistercian manuscript containing the highly influential Apologia text along with some lesser known texts also Cistercian in nature.

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The Book of Kells is an illuminated manuscript created for missionary purposes with extravagant illustrations and illuminations.

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A musical notation page that was written for a prolific Dominican monk, Peter Martyr.

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One of the most famous bestiaries in the world. Attempts to explain the natural world.

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John Cassian's influential writings that brought Eastern Monasticism to Western Europe

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Used by monks and clerics as a way to preach.

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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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