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Reference (shelfmark):: Yates Thompson MS 3
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Dunois Hours')
Scope & Content:: Book of Hours, use of Rome, known as the 'The Dunois Hours', including: ff. 1r-12r: Calendar, use of Paris. ff. 13r-22r: Excerpts from the Four Gospels. ff. 22v-32r: Two prayers to the Virgin, 'Obsecro te' (ff. 22v-27r) and 'O intemerata' (ff. 27r-32r). ff. 32v-35r: Prayer 'Deus propicius.'...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1439-c 1450
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Yates Thompson MS 11
Title:: Collection of moral tracts
Scope & Content:: This collection of moral tracts originally formed one volume with the Somme le Roy, Add. MS 28162. The manuscript includes: ff. 2r-7r: Traité de la sainte abbaye; incipit: 'La sainte abbaie e la religion doit estre fondee...' ff. 7r-28: Traité de l'amour de Dieu; incipit: 'Vous vouliez que je...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: c 1290-c 1300
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Yates Thompson MS 17
Title:: Peter Lombard, Sententiae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-142r: Peter Lombard (b. c. 1100, d. 1160), Sententiae (Sentences), preceded by the prologue (ff. 2r-4r): 'Cupientes aliquid de penuria ac tenuitate nostra'. ff. 1v; 142v-143v: A fragment from an anonymous treatise on the seven sins, several quires are lacking, beginning on f. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Yates Thompson MS 25
Title:: Leaf from a Dominican Antiphonal
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is a single detached leaf that once belonged to a large illuminated Antiphonal, containing the chants to be sung during the celebration of the Mass. The leaf carries part of the music for the feast of Easter. Other detached leaves from the same manuscript include Victoria &...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 leaf

Reference (shelfmark):: Yates Thompson MS 26
Title:: Bede, Prose Life of St Cuthbert
Scope & Content:: The manuscript contains: ff. 2v-4r: Letter of Bede to Bishop Eadfrith forming a prologue to his prose Life of St Cuthbert, incipit: 'Domino sancto ac beatissimo patri Eadfrido episcopo'. ff. 4r-4v: Letter of Bede to the priest John (the letter accompanying the metrical Life of St Cuthbert), ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Yates Thompson MS 30
Title:: Book of Hours ('The Hours of Laudomia de' Medici')
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar; ff. 14r-58v: Hours of the Virgin; ff. 61r-63r: Mass of the Virgin; ff. 67r-74r: Seven Penitential Psalms; ff. 74r-80v: Litany; ff. 83r-109v: Office of the Dead; ff. 112r-114v: Office of the Holy Cross; ff. 118r-121v: Gradual Psalms. There are blank folio...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1500-1510
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 58
Title:: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Three- and four-part canons for voices, ‘Difficile lectu mihi Mars’ (K559) and ‘O du eselhafter Peierl’ (K559a)
Scope & Content:: Autograph. Written in ink on either side of a single leaf. Each comprising a single vocal line in the soprano clef. Annotations include, in the right margin of the recto, ‘Originalhandschrift von Mozart’, in an unidentified hand. K559 is entered in Mozart’s own Verzeichnüss (Zweig MS 63) with ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German and Latin
Date Range:: [1788]
Extent:: 1 volume (1 folio)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 168
Title:
Scope & Content:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXVIII. John Locke; Latin epitaph on Descartes; n.d. Fair copy. Accompanied by an engraving of Descartes by J. B. Grateloup after F. Hals. ff. 4. 271 x 212mm. overall. Epitaph (f. 4) 94 x 75mm; engraving (f. 2 pasted down) 103 x 72mm. includes: f. 2 Jean Baptis...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 200
Title:
Scope & Content:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CC. Reformatoren-Gedenkbuch; 1542. German and Latin. Album with entries by Reformers and others, including Martin Luther, Johannes Bugenhagen, Philipp Melanchthon and Caspar Creutziger. The volume also includes a letter of 1554 from Philipp Melanchthon to Theodor Fa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, German, and Latin
Date Range:: 1542
Extent:: 1 item

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