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2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. Yates Thompson MS 35
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Yates Thompson MS 35
- Title:
- Jean Cuvelier, La Chanson de Bertrand du Guesclin
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains a copy of La Chanson de Bertrand du Guesclin, an epic poem in Middle French written by Jean Cuvelier, recounting the chivalric deeds of the French hero, Bertrand du Guesclin (b. 1320, d. 1380), Breton knight and military commander during the Hundred Years War. The manusc...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French, Middle
- Date Range:
- c 1380-1392
- Extent:
- 1 volume
6. Yates Thompson MS 37
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Yates Thompson MS 37
- Title:
- Book of Hours, Use of Bourges
- Scope & Content:
- Book of Hours, Use of Bourges, with a Parisian calendar (ff. 1r-12v). The text ends imperfectly, a rubric and a catchword have been erased on f. 198v. Note of S. C. Cockerell comparing use to BL Harley 2952 (erased); Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 1151; BL Add. 32454 [book of hours of the 1st hal...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1405-1410
- Extent:
- 1 volume
7. Yates Thompson MS 45
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Yates Thompson MS 45
- Title:
- Book of Hours, Use of Paris (The 'Hours of Nicolas Rolin')
- Scope & Content:
- Book of Hours, Use of Paris, missing calendar, with a sales catalogue cutting from Auguste Brölemann’s sale (f. iii), and early 20th century notes on the heraldry of the Rolin family, French (f. iv). (On the Rolin family see Abbé Boulemier, Nicolas Rolin, chancelier de Bourgogne: Notice histori...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 14th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
8. Yates Thompson MS 46
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Yates Thompson MS 46
- Title:
- Book of Hours, Use of Paris
- Scope & Content:
- Book of Hours, Use of Paris, with handwritten summary of contents (f. iii) and ownership inscriptions and descriptions of provenance (ff. iv-v), 17th and 18th century. f. 229v is blank. Horizontal catchwords. Decoration: 12 calendar roundels, in the top right-hand corner of each page (ff. 1r...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1410-c 1420
- Extent:
- 1 volume
9. Yates Thompson MS 49/1
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Yates Thompson MS 49/1
- Title:
- Jean de Vignay, La Légende Dorée, Volume I
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript is the first of two volumes containing Jean de Vignay's La Légende Dorée, a Middle French translation of a popular collection of saints' lives known as the Legenda Aurea (Golden Legend), originally compiled by Jacobus de Voragine (b. c. 1230, d. 1298). The second volume of the ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French, Middle
- Date Range:
- c 1470
- Extent:
- 1 volume
10. Yates Thompson MS 49/2
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Yates Thompson MS 49/2
- Title:
- Jean de Vignay, La Légende Dorée, Volume II
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript is the second of two volumes containing Jean de Vignay's La Légende Dorée, a Middle French translation of a popular collection of saints' lives known as the Legenda Aurea (Golden Legend), originally compiled by Jacobus de Voragine (b. c. 1230, d. 1298). The first volume of the ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French, Middle
- Date Range:
- c 1470
- Extent:
- 1 volume