The thread of time
The timeline leads you through the centuries, offering a broader view that places the exhibited texts within their historical context. Tracing key moments in the Anglo-Italian religious and cultural journey, it reveals how sacred writing was read, translated, and transformed over time. This chronological path invites visitors to connect events, places, and figures, and to gain deeper insight into the evolution of spiritual and literary thought before and after the Reformation.
Cædmon's Hymn
Late 7th century
The Vespasian Psalter
8th century
The Paris Psalter
Late 9th century
The Dream of the Rood
9th-10th century
The Eadwine Psalter
12th century
Fourth Lateran Council
1215
1281 - Ignorantia Sacerdotum (John Pecham)
1281
The Auchinleck Manuscript
1330
St. Albans' Clock
1358
Birth of Margery Kempe
1373 ca.
Dialogue between a Lord and a Clerk (John Trevisa)
1380s
Liturgical Calendar
1386
Birth of Eleanor Hull
1394
Almanac and Calendar with Thunder Prognostications
1433
The Book of Margery Kempe (Margery Kempe)
1436-38
Birth of Antonia Pulci
1452
Book of Hours
1470-80
First edition of The Life of S. Catherine of Siena (printer: Wynkyn de Worde)
1492
The Orchard of Syon (printer: Wynkyn de Worde)
1519
The Cell of Self-knowledge (Henry Pepwell)
1521
Myles Coverdale Bible
1535
La Cantica di Salomo (Antonio Brucioli)
1536
Psalms or Prayers Taken out of Holy Scripture (attr. Katherine Parr)
1544
Prayers or Meditations (Katherine Parr)
1545
The Lamentation of a Sinner (Katherine Parr)
1547
The Canticles or Balades of Salomon (William Baldwin)
1549
A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner (Anne Lock)
1560
Geneva Bible
1560
Sermons of John Caluin
1560
Christian Prayers and Meditations
1569
Queen Elizabeth I’s Prayer Book
1579-1582
Testamenti veteris Biblia Sacra … Latini recens ex Hebraeo facti (Immanuel Tremellius and Franciscus Junius)
1580
The Monument of Matrones
1582
The Essayes of a Prentise, in the Diuine Art of Poesie (King James VI and I)
1584
Amoretti and Epithalamion (Edmund Spenser)
1595
The Life of S. Catherine of Siena (John Fenn)
1609
Douai-Rheims Bible
1610
Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (Aemilia Lanyer)
1611
King James Bible
1611