On this page, you can learn more about the various manuscripts in our western medieval collection that contain letters. You may also be interested in the Letters section of our western post-1500 manuscripts collection.
MS 15
MS 15 is an epistle collection including letters by Augustine, Ambrose, and Becket. This manuscript was produced in England during the fifteenth century. Manuscript material relating to medicine and geography is preserved in the pastedowns.
MS 63
MS 63 is a copy of Gregory the Great’s Epistles. Gregory the Great was the Pope responsible for sending a Christian mission to convert England in 596. This manuscript was produced in England at the turn of the thirteenth century. A number of scribes worked together on MS 63, perhaps as many as twelve.
MS 126
MS 126 contains letters by Arnulf of Lisieux, John of Salisbury, and Peter of Cella. This manuscript was produced in England, variously at the end of the twelfth century and the beginning of the thirteenth.