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181. 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

182. 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

183. 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

184. 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

185. 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

186. 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

187. 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

188. 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