Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Trinity College Library: The Eadwine Psalter

The third manuscript to feature in our series taking a closer look at manuscripts lent by Trinity College to the British Library’s major exhibition, Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War is the Eadwine Psalter (R.17.1). This elaborate manuscript, almost half a metre tall, is included in Henry of Eastry’s catalogue of the library of Christ Church, …

Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Trinity College Library: De consolatione philosophiae

This is the second blog-post in a series taking a closer look at manuscripts lent by Trinity College to the British Library's major exhibition, Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War. This week, we focus on Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae (O.3.7). Boethius was an educated member of the Roman elite. De consolatione was written as a dialogue …

Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Trinity College Library: The Trinity Gospels

Trinity College Library has lent five manuscripts to the British Library’s major exhibition, Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War. In five blog-posts between now and Christmas we will take a closer look at each of these manuscripts, beginning with the ‘Trinity Gospels’, produced in the early eleventh century. Several grandly illuminated Gospel books survive from Anglo-Saxon …

‘This doomsday’: the Trevelyans in the First World War

On 27 October, 1918, Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson wrote a postcard to his friend, Robert Trevelyan, the poet, playwright, and classicist, wishing that the war could be resolved as easily as their latest postal game of chess; instead, it still seemed to ‘hang on a razor’s edge’. Trevelyan, whose papers in the Trinity archive are currently …