3873 entries. Last updated May 19, 2013.

500 CE to 600 Timeline Outline

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A page from Corpus Agrimensorum Romanorum, depicting a perspective of a house and the boundaries of the property on which it was built. (View Larger)
One of Few Surviving "Scientific" Manuscripts from Late Antiquity
(Circa 500 CE – 1554)

The theater at Bet She'an. (View Larger)
The Earliest, Most Significant Rabbinic Texts Are Preserved in Stone
(Circa 500 CE – 600)

The Format of the Book Evolved with the Transition to the Codex
(Circa 500 CE)

The manuscript before and after restoration and repagination. Image from June 2010 edition of The Arts Newspaper. (View Larger)
Possibly the Earliest Surviving Illuminated Christian Manuscripts
(Circa 500 CE – 650)

An illustration of illustration of the species 'Akoniton napellus,' folio 67v. (View Larger)
Probably the Most Beautiful of the Earliest Surviving Scientific Codices
(Circa 512)

A page from the Codex Argenteus. (View Larger)
The Codex Argenteus, The Primary Surviving Example of the Gothic Language
(Circa 520)

Boethius teaching his students. (View Larger)
Thedoric Executes the Philosopher Boethius: Beginning of the Middle Ages
(524 – 525)

How the Middle Ages Processed and Recycled Roman Culture
(Circa 524 – 1300)

Computus
(525)

Justinian. (Click to view larger.)
The Code of Justinian
(529 – 533)

St. Benedict. (Click to view larger.)
St. Benedict Founds the Abbey at Monte Cassino and Later Formulates his…
(529)

Littera Florentina. (Click to view larger.)
An Almost Unique Witness to the Original Justinian Digest
(533 – 555)

The Deterioration of Libraries, Publishing and Educational Institutions in Italy by the Sixth Century
(534)

The Vienna Genesis. (Click to view larger.)
Considered the Oldest, Well-Preserved Illustrated Biblical Codex
(Circa – 540)

The Plague of Justinian
(541 – 542)

Gundishapur, province of Khuzestan, Iran. (View Larger)
Most Important Medical Center During 6th and 7th Centuries
(550 – 650)

Canon tables from Codex Brixianus. (View Larger)
Codex Brixianus
(Circa 550)

Folios 23v and 24r of the Codex Petropolitanus Purpureus. (View Larger)
Written in the Imperial Scriptorum of Constantinople and Dismembered by…
(Circa 550)

The Anglo-Saxons Conquer England
(Circa 550)

The Dark Ages for Study of the Classics on the European Continent
(Circa 550 – 750)

The Antioch Chalice, with which the bookcovers were found.
The First Surviving Metal Bookcovers
(Circa 550)

Folios 33v-34r from MS. Ashmole 1431, an eleventh century copy of the Herbal of Pseudo-Apuleius. (View Larger)
The Herbal of Pseudo-Apuleius
(Circa 550 – 625)

Several pages from te Codex Climaci Rescriptus. (View Larger)
The Earliest Manuscript of the New Testament in Christian Palestinian Aramaic
(Circa 550)

Alaric II, as depicted on a Visigothic coin. (View Larger)
One of the Earliest Surviving Legal Codices
(Circa 550)

A color plate from Bordier's paleographic study comparing the two separated portions of one of hte earliest suriviving European papyrus codices.
Among the Earliest Surviving European Papyrus Codices
(Circa 550)

The Codex Sinopensis or Sinope Gospels
(Circa 550)

"A Public Popularity for Books Never Existed in Antiquity"
(Circa 550)

Perhaps the First Library in Japan
(Circa 550 – 645)

An illumination of Christ found in the Rossano Gospels. (Click to view larger.)
One of the Oldest Surviving Illuminated Manuscripts of the New Testament
(Circa 555)

An image from Codex Amiantinus. (Click to view larger.)
The Scriptorium and Library at the Vivarium
(Circa 560)

A page from the Cathach of St. Columba. (View Larger)
The Earliest Surviving Manuscript Written in Ireland, the Oldest Surviving…
(Circa 560 – 600)

Saint Columba (View Larger)
From the Monastery on the Small Island of Iona, the Conversion of Pagan…
(Circa 563)

The assassination of Alboin. (View Larger)
The Lombards Conquer Italy
(568)

Birth of the Prophet Muhammad
(570)

A canon table from Harley 1775, from the British Library. (View Larger)
"Source Z" for the Latin New Testament
(Circa 575 – 599)

A folio from the Ashburnham Pentateuch depicting Cane and Abel. (View larger)
The Ashburnham Pentateuch
(Circa 580 – 620)

Saint Columbanus.
The Monastery and Library at Luxeuil is Founded and Subsequently Sacked,…
(585 – 590)

Folio 46r from the Syriac Bible, depicting Job. (View Larger)
The Syriac Bible of Paris
(Circa 585)

The End of the Continuity of Late Latin Culture in Most of Italy
(Circa 585)

Folio 13v from the Rabula Gospels, depicting the ascension of Christ. (View larger)
Signed by the Scribe Rabbula in 586
(586)

The beginning of Regula pastoralis. The first three lines, in colored ink, have run or faded. (View Larger)
A Manuscript from Pope Gregory's Scriptorium
(590 – 604)

Sui emperor Wen-ti. (View Larger)
First Mention of Printing in China
(593)

St. Augustine of Canterbury. (View Larger)
Augustine of Canterbury Preaches to the Anglo-Saxons
(597)

Folio 129v of the St. Augustine Gospels, depicting Luke. (View Larger)
A Volume Brought by St. Augustine to England in 597
(597)