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1. Yates Thompson MS 1-59

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 1-59
Title:
Yates Thompson Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Illuminated manuscripts collected by Henry Yates Thompson (b. 1838, d. 1928).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, French, Old, Greek, Ancient, Italian, Latin, and Russian
Date Range:
12th century-17th century
Extent:
59 items

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