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281. 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

282. 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

283. 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

284. 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

285. 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

286. 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

287. 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

288. 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

289. 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

290. Add MS 89789

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89789
Title:
The Red Book of Bath
Scope & Content:
The Red Book of Bath (Latin ‘Liber Rubeus Bathoniae’) is an administrative compilation made for the town’s officials. Its texts relate to the regulation of trade and commerce, to law and justice, and to the history of Bath. The manuscript is named after the colour of its medieval binding, which w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1412-1430
Extent:
1 volume

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