The History of Western Script: A further selection from The Schøyen Collection

The name of Princess Nubhetepti-khered, sheet of gold foil with hieroglyphs, once adorning a funerary object in a tomb in the royal necropolis of ...

‡ An Orphic poem, inscription in iambic trimeters by one Agestratos, dedicating his traveller's staff to Apollo, most probably in Doric Greek, rev...

Ɵ Leaf from the Old Gelasian Sacramentary, containing a record of the earliest Merovingian and northern European forms of the liturgy, or an ordin...

Two cuttings from a bifolium of Smaragdus of St-Mihiel, Liber comitis, including his quotation of Bede, De octo quaestionibus, quaestio II, with o...

Ɵ Large cutting from a bifolium of a commentary on Matthew, drawing material from lost parts of Frigulus' commentary on the same, in a mixed Carol...

Ɵ Smaragdus of St-Mihiel, Commentary on the Rule of St. Benedict, in Latin, in Visigothic minuscule, decorated manuscript on parchment[northern Sp...

Ɵ Cutting from a leaf of Pseudo-Hegesippus, De Bello Judaico et excidio urbis Hierosolymitanae, a Latin adaptation of Josephus Flavius, The Jewish...

Ɵ Leaf from a sermon collection, with parts of a tractate and a sermon by Augustine and an anonymous sermon probably composed by a fifth-century A...

Ɵ Leaf from a Bible, with Proverbs 29:15-30:20, manuscript in fine Montecassino Beneventan minuscule, in Latin, on parchment[central Italy, c. 120...

Ɵ Small cuttings from a Homiliary, with parts of Ambrose of Milan, Expositio Evangelii Secundum Lucam, and Leo the Great, Tractatus 76, in Beneven...

Ɵ Fragments of a single leaf from Gregory the Great, Homiliae in Evangelia XL, in Beneventan minuscule, decorated manuscript in Latin on parchment...

Ɵ Substantial part of a leaf of Maximus of Turin, Sermones, in a fine Carolingian minuscule, decorated manuscript in Latin on parchment[France, fi...

Ɵ Leaf from a Lectionary, perhaps made for the individual worship of a Carolingian nobleman or ecclesiastic, in Latin, finely written Carolingian ...

Ɵ Substantial fragment of a Carolingian Homiliary, perhaps that of Paul the Deacon, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [probably western ...

Ɵ Two leaves from Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, in Latin, manuscript on parchment[France (Rhone valley, most probably Mirabel or vicinity, pe...

Ɵ Leaf from a large Passional, with an early white-vine initial, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment[Italy, first half of the eleventh cen...

Ɵ Leaf from a Homiliary, with a decorated initial, in Latin, manuscript on parchment[Italy, mid-eleventh century] Single leaf, with double column ...

Ɵ Leaf from a gargantuan Augustine, Tractatus in Iohannem, in Latin, decorated Romanesque manuscript on parchment[Italy (probably the Veneto, perh...

Ɵ Leaf from a Gregory the Great, Homiliae in Evangelia, in Latin, manuscript on parchment[Italy, mid-eleventh century] Large leaf, with single col...

Ɵ Leaf from a very large Romanesque English Bible, with parts of 1 Maccabees 1:1-39, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment[England, mid-twel...

Ɵ Haymo of Auxerre, Homily XI on St. John the Evangelist, in Latin, manuscript on parchment[England, second half of the twelfth century (before c....

Ɵ Bifolium from a Homiliary, with part of Bede's Homily 1:19, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment[Italy, late eleventh or early twelfth ce...

Ɵ Leaf from a Homiliary (probably that of Paul the Deacon), with parts of Bede's Homily, 1:7-8, and a fine white-vine initial, in Latin, decorated...

Ɵ Leaf with a homily by Bede, from a monumental codex of Bede's Homilies or Paul the Deacon, Homiliary, with a large and fine white-vine initial, ...

Ɵ Cutting from a gargantuan 'Atlantic' Bible, with parts of Ecclesiasticus 18-19, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment[Italy, c. 1100] Subs...

Ɵ Leaf from a monumental Martyrology, with parts of the passion of St. Blasius, with a large finely decorated initial, in Latin, manuscript on par...

Ɵ Leaf from a Lectionary, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment[southern Germany, c. 1100] Single leaf, with single column of 27 lines in a ...

Ɵ Bifolium from a Lectionary with Gospel and Epistle readings for the period after Easter, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment[southern Ge...

Ɵ Bifolium from a Homiliary, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment[Germany, late twelfth century] Bifolium, with double column of 28 lines i...

Isidore of Seville, Sententiae, III, 18-21, on monasticism, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment[England, early fourteenth century] Single ...

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Inferno, Canto XXV, in Italian, the underlayer of a manuscript palimpsest on parchment, the leaves later reuse...

Leaf from Johannes de Lana, Quaestiones de anima humana, a commentary on Aristotle, De anima, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Italy (...

Leaf from Alexander Bonini de Alexandria, In Duodecim Aristotelis Metaphysicae Expositio, a commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysica, in Latin, manus...

Ɵ A priest during Mass and a bell-ringer, large miniature on a leaf from a copy of Gregory IX, Decretals, opening of Book III, De Vita et Honestat...

Leaf from a Breviary, with parts of Feast of St. Mary Magdalene, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment[France, c. 1400] Single leaf, with ...

Ɵ Terence, Heauton Timorumenos, in the humanist script of Giuliano di Antonio of Prato, in Latin verse, fine manuscript on parchment [Italy (proba...

Augustine, Contra Faustum, cutting from a leaf copied by the fifteenth-century humanist scribe Theodericus Werken closely imitating late twelfth-c...

Forged charter concerning the transfer of land at Framsden, Suffolk, by Roger de Mohaut and his wife Isolde, to their heirs, in Latin, manuscript ...

Royal charter of King John, for Philip, son of Wastellion, and confirming the gift of an estate named "Dunwallesland" in Wales to him in exchange ...

Ɵ Leaf with extracts from the Testa de Nevill, a collection of original surveys of feudal landholdings, here with entries for Hereford and Glouces...

Inventory of gifts and legacies from mostly secular donors to the Abbey of St. Agnes of Gemona, Udine, received between 1290 and 1426, in Latin, m...

Quitclaim by Alan de Chipeden of lands in Holdsworth to Woodkirk Priory, in Latin, single-sheet document on parchment[northern England (West Yorks...

Confirmation of alms through a gift of land in "Osgotheby" (Osgodby, Selby), Yorkshire, by John de Spineto to Temple Church in the City of London ...

Grant of Land in Castley by Lady Yolande, daughter of Hugh de Lelay, to the Cistercian nunnery of Nun Appleton, Yorkshire, witnessed by an array o...

Grant of Land in Barthford and Gainford (both near Durham) and other smaller estates, by John Morel to the Chapel of St. Cuthbert in Forcett, York...

Confirmation by Henry de Leicester, prior of Coventry, of a grant by Walter Langton, bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, of the Church of Condover, ...

Writ from Master Firmin de Lavenham to the Court of Canterbury about their mandate of 23 March 1330, following a petition from named parishioners ...

Four charters of London interest, in Latin, manuscript documents on parchment [England, first half of thirteenth to sixteenth century] Four docume...

Collection of nine English medieval charters from the Phillipps collection, in Latin, manuscript documents on parchment[England, thirteenth and fo...

Three charters most probably from the archive of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds, in Latin, Middle English and Tudor English, manuscript documents on...

Part of the archive of the Augustinian Priory of Campsey Ash, Suffolk, all in Latin, twenty-three single-sheet documents on parchment[England (Eas...

Small collection of documents concerning the Dukes of Burgundy, in French and Dutch, manuscript documents on paper and parchment[England and The N...

The greater and final part of the Dring charter collection, in all 161 manuscript documents, predominantly medieval and English, and all except on...

'Monasteriarum totius Anglie', a list of English monasteries and their annual incomes, arranged by counties, in Latin, manuscript on paper[England...

"A terreal of all suche landes as Thom[a]s Yardley hathe in Beoley", a land terrier in Middle English, manuscript on a roll of parchment within it...

Four charters of Welsh interest, in Latin or Tudor English, manuscript documents on parchment[Wales and adjacent border regions of England, thirte...

The archive of the rectory of Llanegryn, Merionethshire, Wales, five manuscript documents in English on parchment[west Wales (Merionethshire) or E...

A small secular archive of charters from the Abbey of Inchaffray, Perth, Scotland, five manuscript documents in Latin on parchment [Scotland (Inch...

Small archive of Jersey charters, in French, single-sheet documents on parchment[Jersey, dated 1582, 1618 and 1635] Three charters: (i) judgement ...

Charter recording the sale of land from Thomasse, daughter of James le Mesurier and wife of Nicholas Le Feyure, to Pierre le Mesurier of the Paris...