The Bible in the Twelfth Century

In the late 1980s, Laura Light undertook the monumental task of bringing up to the standards of modern scholarship the catalogue descriptions of the Houghtons medieval manuscriptsmore than 1,300 in all. Among the fruits of that project was an exhibition in the Library of twelfth century Biblical manuscripts. Lights catalogue catches the culture of the medieval book at its height, not only in Bibles but in breviaries, lectionaries, commentaries, and works of the Doctors and Fathers of the Church.