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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

Reference (shelfmark):: Yates Thompson MS 50
Title:: Aristophanes, with hypotheses, marginal scholia and interlinear glosses
Scope & Content:: Aristophanes, Plutus (TLG 0019.029), ff 2r-76v, with interlinear glosses partly in Latin, followed by Nubes (TLG 0019.021), ff 77r-171r, and preceded by Vita Thomana 1 (TLG 4158.009), ff 1r-v.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Yates Thompson MS 51
Title:: Skazanie o Mamaevom Poboishche
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of the Skazanie o Mamaevom Poboishche (The Tale of the Rout of Mamai). The Skazanie is a romance in Russian Church Slavonic, composed in the 15th century, relating the struggle of the Muscovian Grand Prince, Dmitri Donskoi [Дмитрий Иванович Донской] (b. 1350, d. 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Russian
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Yates Thompson MS 52
Title:: Wycliffite Psalter and Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: Modern note on the removal of a leaf, pastedown. f. 3r: Erased ownership inscription. f. 3v: Ownership inscriptions and summary of the volume’s contents, 15th and 18th century, Latin and English. ff. 4r-9v: Calendar, Latin. ff. 10r-45v: Book of Hours. ff. 46r-163r: Wycliff...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Yates Thompson MS 53
Title:: Collection of papers removed from Yates Thompson MSS
Scope & Content:: A collection of modern papers removed from other Yates Thompson MSS. Contents: [ir-iir]: Table of contents. ff. 1r-3r: A 1453 bond by Jean, Bastard of Orleans, count of Dunois and of Longueville, to Bertrand de Beauvais, for 200 crowns, with a 1469 and notarial certificate of receipt (ff. 1r-...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1453-1928
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Yates Thompson MS 54
Title:: Collection of papers removed from Yates Thompson MSS
Scope & Content:: A collection of over 100 papers and letters to Henry Yates Thompson removed from other Yates Thompson MSS, mostly from museums and libraries in England and abroad offering provenance information, translations, and commentaries on his manuscript collection. Includes letters from M. R. James (15r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 1
Title:: Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata for the 19th Sunday after Trinity, `Wo soll ich fliehen hin?' (words after Johann Heermann), for four voices and instruments (BWV 5)
Scope & Content:: Autograph full score. Written in brown ink on systems of two to ten staves. Headed (f. 3r) `J[esu]. J[uva]. Do[m]i[ni]ca 19 post Trinit. Wo soll ich fliehen hin? Concerto'. With revisions throughout also in Bach's hand (listed in detail in Johann Sebastian Bach. Neue Ausgabe Sämtlicher Werke (Ka...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: [1724]
Extent:: 1 volume (12 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 2
Title:: Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata ‘Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir’ (BWV 130): viola part
Scope & Content:: In the hand of Christian Gottlob Meissner, with corrections and reference to a supplementary leaf (see ‘Related manuscripts’) added by the composer. Written in brown ink on single staves, on both sides of a single leaf. With cantata title and ‘Viola’ in upper margin of recto. Contains three of t...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: [1724]
Extent:: 1 volume (1 folio)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 3
Title:: Johann Sebastian Bach: Chorale preludes ‘Komm, Gott Schöpfer, heiliger Geist’ (BWV 631a) and ‘Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend’ (BWV 632), for organ, both from the ‘Orgel-Büchlein’
Scope & Content:: Copy in the hand of Christian Gottlob Meissner. Written in brown ink on systems of two staves, using soprano and bass clefs. On a single leaf, with BWV 631a on the recto and BWV 632 on the verso; the titles are given in the upper margins, that of BWV 632 followed by ‘Canon:’ perhaps in another h...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: [c 1730]
Extent:: 1 volume (1 folio)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 4
Title:: Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: Flute part, in D, to an unidentified concerto in three movements
Scope & Content:: Apparently not autograph; in an unidentified hand. Written in ink on single staves on either side of a single leaf. Headed ‘Concerto:’, and ‘Flaut Traversiere’. The first movement, in 2/4 time but with no tempo direction, is of 147 bars; movement II, ‘adagio’, 3/4, 40 bars; movement III (occupyi...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: [c 1740?]
Extent:: 1 volume (1 folio)

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