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2. Yates Thompson MS 41
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Yates Thompson MS 41
- Title:
- Bible
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: f. iv: Extract from sales catalogue, pastedown. ff. 2r-6r: Jerome’s prologue to the Vulgate. ff. 6r-557r: Bible. f. 557v: Added verse, 13th century. ff. 1r-v are blank. Decoration: 5 large and smaller historiated initials, with partial borders or foliate extensions into the marg...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1240-1250
- Extent:
- 1 volume
3. Yates Thompson MS 16
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Yates Thompson MS 16
- Title:
- Bible
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-3r: St Jerome’s preface to the Vulgate. ff. 3r-359r: Bible. ff. 359v-388r: Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominum (Explanations of Hebrew names), an alphabetical list of Hebrew names found in the Bible, with a short Latin explanation, attributed to Stephen Langton, archbishop o...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1432
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4. Yates Thompson MS 42
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Yates Thompson MS 42
- Title:
- Psalter
- Scope & Content:
- Psalter. ff. i, iii are reused leaves from a 14th century liturgical manuscript. ff. 39v, 200v, 288v are blank. Decoration: 8 historiated initials, developing three-sided borders with grotesque and figural decoration, in colours and gold (ff. 1*r, 41r, 66r, 88v, 90r, 113r, 143r, 201r). Large...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1310-1340
- Extent:
- 1 volume
5. Yates Thompson MS 18
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Yates Thompson MS 18
- Title:
- Psalter and prayers
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 2r-7v: Calendar. ff. 9r-201v: Psalter and litany (ff. 196v-201r). ff. 202v-229v: A set of prayers, added c 1480-1500. ff. 1r-v, 8r-v, 202r, 211v-212v are blank. Decoration: The decoration of the first part of the manuscript (ff. 2r-201v) has been attributed to the Ste.-Chapel...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of 13th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
6. Yates Thompson MS 2
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Yates Thompson MS 2
- Title:
- Collectar ('The Ottobeuren Collectar')
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript is a collectar, a liturgical book containing the collects used in the Divine Offices. The volume is known as the 'Ottobeuren Collectar', after the Benedictine abbey of St Alexander and Theodor, in Ottobeuren, Germany, where it was probably commissioned or made by a monk called Re...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
7. Yates Thompson MS 22
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Yates Thompson MS 22
- Title:
- Bible ('The Brantwood Bible')
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: f. i: Book plate of Henry Yates Thompson, pastedown. ff. ii: Handwritten summary of the sale of the volume in 1836 and 1876. ff. 1r-3r: Jerome’s preface to the Vulgate. ff. 3r-374v: Bible. ff. 375r-412r: Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominum (Interpretations of Hebrew Names), an a...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1260
- Extent:
- 1 volume
8. Yates Thompson MS 39
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Yates Thompson MS 39
- Title:
- Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars; Ausonius, Caesars
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: f. i: Bookplate of Henry Yates Thompson. f. iii: Short catalogue of the volume’s contents. ff. 1r-213v: Suetonius, De vita Caesarum (On the Lives of the Caesars). ff. 214r-217v: Ausonius (b. c. 310, d. c. 122), Caesares (Caesars), verses on emperors from Caesar to Heliogabalus. ff...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1469
- Extent:
-
1 volume
9. Yates Thompson MS 44
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Yates Thompson MS 44
- Title:
- William of Auvergne, De moribus
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains a copy of a Latin treatise known as De moribus (On customs), written by William of Auvergne (b. 1180/90, d. 1249), a French theologian and philosopher who served as Bishop of Paris from 1228 until his death. The text represents the second part of his De virtutibus et vit...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1250-1260
- Extent:
- 1 volume
10. Yates Thompson MS 6
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Yates Thompson MS 6
- Title:
- Book of Hours, Use of Rome
- Scope & Content:
- Book of Hours, Use of Rome, including calendar (ff. 1r-12v). Decoration: The decoration of the opening page of the manuscript has been attributed to Niccola Rapicano, and the remaining decoration to Cristoforo Majorana (see Alexander and de la Mare, Italian Manuscripts (1969), p. 78 n. 1). 4...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1477
- Extent:
- 1 volume