Sammelhandschrift (Vatican, BAV, Pal. lat. 927)

Adam, Seth and Enos, f. 18r.

Colloquial name(s): Sammelhandschrift

Official name(s): Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Palatini latini 927

Date: 12th Century (source)

Origin: Verona, Italy (source)

Online facsimile available via: Heidelberger historische bestände - digital and via HeidICON

Lectionarium epistolarum missae ex Vetere et Novo Testamento, per anni circulum (Vatican, BAV, Pal. lat. 497)

Jesus enters Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, f. 31r.

Colloquial name(s): Lectionarium epistolarum missae ex Vetere et Novo Testamento, per anni circulum

Official name(s): Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Palatini latini 497

Date: 12th Century (source)

Origin: unknown (source)

Online facsimile available via: Heidelberger historische bestände - digital and via HeidICON

The Tiberius Psalter (BL Cotton MS Tiberius C VI)

Goliath, with Philistines fleeing behind him, f. 9r.

Colloquial name(s): the Tiberius Psalter

Official name(s): British Library, Cotton MS Tiberius C VI

Date: between the 3rd quarter of 11th Century and the 2nd half of the 12th Century (source)

Origin: possibly Old Minster, Winchester, England (source)

Online facsimile available via: British Library Digitised Manuscripts

The Shaftesbury Psalter (BL Lansdowne MS 383)

Mowing (June), f. 5v.

Colloquial name(s): the Shaftesbury Psalter

Official name(s): British Library, Lansdowne MS 383

Date: 2nd quarter of the 12th Century (source)

Origin: England (source)

Online facsimile available via: British Library Digitised Manuscripts

Worms Bible (BL Harley MS 2803 & 2804)

King David playing a harp, Harley MS 2804, f. 3v.

Colloquial name(s): Worms Bible

Official name(s): British Library, Harley MS 2803 & 2804

Date: 3rd quarter of the 12th Century (source) or 2nd-3rd quarter of the 12th Century (source) probably c. 1148 (source and source)

Origin: Middle Rhineland, Central Germany (source), Frankenthal, nr. Worms, Middle Rhineland, Germany (source)

Online facsimile available via: Harley MS 2803 is at British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts and British Library Digitised Manuscripts, Harley MS 2804 is at British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts and British Library Digitised Manuscripts

The Beowulf Manuscript (BL Cotton MS Vitellius A XV)

Two men talking with a lertix between them (fire damaged), f. 102r.

Colloquial name(s): The Beowulf Manuscript

Official name(s): British Library Cotton MS Vitellius A XV

Date: various, from 4th quarter of 10th C to 2nd half 16th C (source)

Origin: various, all England (source)

Online facsimile available via: British Library Digitised Manuscripts

St Albans Psalter

The fall (Genesis 3:1-6), p. 12

Colloquial name(s): St Albans Psalter, Albani Psalter, Psalter of Christina of Markyate

Official name(s): the majority of it has no official name as it is owned by St Godehard's Church, Hildesheim, Germany rather than a library; one leaf is kept in the Rheinisches Bildarchiv, Köln and a further leaf and cutting are now missing (source)

Date: possibly 1124-1129 (source)

Origin: St Albans Abbey, Hertfordshire, England (source)

Online facsimile available via: The St Albans Psalter Project - full facsimile (including the Köln leaf) with transcription and translation into modern English and modern German