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1. Yates Thompson MS 4

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Yates Thompson MS 4
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Hours of Jacques de Brégilles')
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome, including a calendar (ff. 1r-12v), and with later notes on the family of Jacques de Brégilles, French (ff. 194r-v), an added prayer to the Virgin Mary in French, 16th c (ff. 204r-209v), and a 16th c French verse (f. 210r). ff. 41v, 178v, 186v-186*v are blank. Decora...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1460
Extent:
1 volume

2. Yates Thompson MS 8

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 8
Title:
Breviary, Use of Verdun, Winter portion ('The Breviary of Renaud de Bar' or 'The Breviary of Marguerite de Bar')
Scope & Content:
The first volume of a Breviary, of which the second is now in the Public Library at Verdun (Verdun, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 107). The manuscript appears to have been made for Renaud de Bar, canon of Verdun Cathedral, provost of the Church of St Mary Magdalene in Verdun (from 1302), and Bisho...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1302-1303
Extent:
1 volume

3. Yates Thompson MS 10

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 10
Title:
Apocalypse, in French
Scope & Content:
A manuscript of the Apocalypse (Book of Revelation) with commentary, in French (ff. 1r-139v), beginning "Saint Pol l'apostre dit que touz ceulz qui veulent piement vivre en Ihesucrist souffreront persecucion...", and ending "...Que nous puissions ovec lui en sa gloire en coprs et en ame sanz reg...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1370-c 1390
Extent:

1 volume

4. Yates Thompson MS 15

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 15
Title:
Psalter and Hours, Use of Arras
Scope & Content:
Psalter and Book of Hours, Use of Arras, with prayers added in the mid-14th century (ff. 1v-3v). ff. 4r, 16v-17r, 196v, 329r-330v, 388v are blank. Decoration: The manuscript belongs to a wider group attributed to a workshop active in Arras at the end of the 13th century (see Randall , Medieva...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1300
Extent:
1 volume

5. Yates Thompson MS 20

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 20
Title:
Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale (Genesis-Maccabees)
Scope & Content:
A translation of the Vulgate Bible into French, Genesis to Maccabees, with a table of contents at the beginning of each book, and a Psalter and litany at the end of the volume (ff. 381r-412v). Decoration: Two main artists were responsible for the manuscript's decoration. The first is identifie...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1320-1340
Extent:
1 volume

6. Yates Thompson MS 23

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 23
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Hours of Agostino Biliotti')
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Hours of Agostino Biliotti'). ff. 1r-v, 14r-v, 96r-v, 146v, 171v-174v, 188r-190v, 238v, 240v-241v are blank. Decoration: 14 large and smaller historiated initials, the first accompanied by a full historiated border with heraldic decoration and all'antica featu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1485
Extent:
1 volume

7. Yates Thompson MS 27

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 27
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Paris ('The Hours of Yolande of Flanders')
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours, use of Paris, known as the 'Hours of Yolande of Flanders', includes: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar. ff. 13v-107r: Hours of the Virgin. ff. 107v-124v: Seven Penitential Psalms. ff. 125r-128r: Litany. 13 leaves from this manuscript were given by John Ruskin to the Ruskin School of Fi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1353-1363
Extent:

1 volume

8. Yates Thompson MS 32

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 32
Title:
Chroniques abrégées des Anciens Rois et Ducs de Bourgogne, attributed to Olivier de la Marche
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains the Chroniques abrégées des Anciens Rois et Ducs de Bourgogne, attributed to Olivier de la Marche. On the title page (f. 1v) is the following rubric: 'S'ensuivent aulcunes chroniques, extraittes d'aulcunes anciens registres et aultres enseignements d'anciens rois, prince...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c. 1485-1490
Extent:

1 volume

9. Yates Thompson MS 33

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 33
Title:
Grand Chronique de Normandie
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an illustrated copy of the Grande Chronique de Normandie, written in Middle French. Originally compiled around 1350, this anonymous work is based on a 13th-century chronicle of Normandy as well as the 12th-century Roman de Rou by the Norman poet Wace (b. c. 1110, d. after 11...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1460-1468
Extent:
1 volume

10. Yates Thompson MS 34

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 34
Title:
Epistolary of the Sainte-Chapelle, Use of Paris
Scope & Content:
A collection of readings for major feast days. Contents: ff. 1r-168v: Bible readings, often from the Epistles, for different feast days over the year. f. 168v: A reading for the dedication of a new church. ff. 169r-201r: Bible readings for different saints’ days, including St Louis (f. 191r)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 14th century-3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume