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Beowulf
The only known manuscript of Beowulf, dating from c.1000 and housed at the British Library.
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Beowulf is the longest epic poem in Old English, the language spoken in England before the Norman Conquest.
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Medieval parchment roll - A genealogy of the Kings of England
An image from a chronicle roll in French, produced in England in the fifteenth century (probably before 1413). The full roll consists of
12 membranes (skins) of parchment (animal skin) and includes three large roundels and other illustrations. The roundel in this image shows a Wheel of Fortune with eight figures representing the 'Ages of Man' in the outer border. (Manuscript Dd.3.57)
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Horae beatae Mariae Virginis - A Book of Hours
A miniature from a book of hours, a Prayer Book widely used by the laity containing an abbreviated form of the Hours of prayer (Matins, Lauds, Prime, Tierce, Sext, None, Vespers and Compline), and other sets of psalms and prayers which were in use in their full form amongst clergy and members of religious orders.
This is a Book of Hours of the Use of Sarum , that is, Salisbury, which was in wide use throughout much of southern England.
The image shows the Annunciation. (Manuscript Ii.6.7)
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Horae beatae Mariae Virginis - A Book of Hours
Another miniature from a book of hours of the Use of Sarum.
The Illumination showing the Mass of St Gregory, in which Christ appears over the altar accompanied by objects related to the crucifixion (Manuscript Ii.6.7)
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