Medieval manuscripts

ninth-century illuminated psalter

A tonary is a liturgical book in the Western Christian Church which lists by incipit various items of Gregorian chant according to the Gregorian mode (tonus) of their melodies within the eight-mode system. Tonaries often include Office antiphons, the mode of which determines the recitation formula for the accompanying text (the psalm tone if the antiphon is sung with a psalm, or canticle tone if the antiphon is sung with a canticle), but a tonary may also or instead list responsories or Mass chants not associated with formulaic recitation. Although some tonaries are stand-alone works, they wer

document granting rights to certain people, written in 1217

14th century compilation of aggadic midrashim on the Torah taken from the two Talmuds and earlier Midrashim of Yemenite provenance.

illuminated manuscript

type of large-format Bible produced in central Italy and Tuscany from around 1060 to the middle of the 12th century

oldest surviving dated Arabic papyrus (643)

medieval compilation of recipes for metal, glass, mosaic and stain work

study of manuscript fragments