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851521. Yates Thompson MS 31/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 31/1
Title:
Former box for Yates Thompson MS 31
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
1 box

851522. 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

851523. 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

851524. 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

851525. 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

851526. Yates Thompson MS 36

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 36
Title:
Dante Alighieri, Divina commedia
Scope & Content:
Dante Alighieri, Divina commedia. Pope-Hennessy 1993 proposed a date for the manuscript of after 1444, partly depending on the representations of the dome and cupola of Florence Cathedral, under construction during these years. Contents: 1. (ff. 1r-63v): Inferno. Incipit (f. 1r): 'Nel mezo d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1444-c 1450
Extent:

1 volume

851527. 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

851528. Yates Thompson MS 37/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 37/1
Title:
Former binding of Yates Thompson MS 37
Scope & Content:
Purple velvet, with two clasp fastenings.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Early 20th century
Extent:
1 detached binding

851529. Yates Thompson MS 38

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 38
Title:
Livy, De Secundo Bello Punico
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of De Secundo Bello Punico (On the Second Punic War) by the Roman historian Titus Livius (b. 59 BC, d. 17), commonly known as Livy. The manuscript's scribe has been identified as the 'Scribe of the Ottoboni Livy' (see Reeve, 'The Third Decade of Livy in Italy' (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1470
Extent:
1 volume

851530. 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

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