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Reference (shelfmark):: WOOG/347
Title:: Sketch of the Sudan-Eritrea Frontier South of Sabderat'. Signed by 'M.G. Talbot' and 'Giuseppe Colli di Felizzano
Scope & Content:: Sheets to accompany the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan / Eritrea frontier agreement of 16 April 1901. Covers the 240-mile border section from Sabderat to Todluk. Portrays hydrology, relief by form lines, roads and tracks, telegraph lines, boundary marks and the international boundary line. The maps are nu...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1901
Extent:: 2 map sheets

Reference (shelfmark):: WOOS/12
Title:: 'East Africa Geodetic Survey. Tanganyika Terry. Maj. Hotine R.E. 1931-1933' - War Office ledger
Scope & Content:: Covers an area along the eastern coast of Lake Tanganyika from Kate to Kigoma, extending approximately 75 miles inland. The maps depict the newly created triangulation stations and access routes to them. Relief is shown by contours, form lines and spot heights; hydrology, vegetation, settlements...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1931-1933
Extent:: 11 map sheets, 1 folio. (The folio has been left attached to sheet E3 for the purposes of collection management.)

Reference (shelfmark):: Yates Thompson MS 8
Title:: Breviary, Use of Verdun, Winter portion ('The Breviary of Renaud de Bar' or 'The Breviary of Marguerite de Bar')
Scope & Content:: The first volume of a Breviary, of which the second is now in the Public Library at Verdun (Verdun, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 107). The manuscript appears to have been made for Renaud de Bar, canon of Verdun Cathedral, provost of the Church of St Mary Magdalene in Verdun (from 1302), and Bisho...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1302-1303
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Yates Thompson MS 13
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Taymouth Hours')
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar, use of Sarum, with saints in blue, red, mauve and gold. Besides the usual Sarum saints are included the feasts of Dominic (30 May), Botolph (17 June), Mildred (13 July), Paulinus (10 October), Ethelburga of Barking (11 October), the Translation of Wilfred (12 Oct...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Yates Thompson MS 14
Title:: Psalter (The 'St Omer Psalter')
Scope & Content:: Psalter, known as the 'St Omer Psalter', begun in c. 1330-c. 1340 for a member of St Omer family of Mulbarton, Norfolk, but left unfinished. The calendar and large portions of the text are 15th-century additions (ff. 1r-6v, 95r-103v, 128r-153v, 168r-173r). This later work was probably completed ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1330-c 1440
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Yates Thompson MS 29
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Hours of Bonaparte Ghislieri', or 'The Albani Hours')
Scope & Content:: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, the 'Hours of Bonaparte Ghislieri'; formerly known as 'The Albani Hours'. The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar. ff. 13r-14r: Psalm 90. ff. 16r-73v: Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome. ff. 75r-100r: Hours of the Virgin for Advent and Christmas. ff. 101-10...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1500
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Yates Thompson MS 29/1
Title:: Detached miniature from a Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Hours of Bonaparte Ghislieri', or 'The Albani Hours')
Scope & Content:: This leaf was formerly f. 132 of Yates Thompson MS 29 and is now kept separately. On the verso is a miniature of the martyrdom of St Sebastian in colours and gold. It is signed by Pietro de Cristoforo Vannucci 'PETRVS PRVSINVS PINXIT', known as Perugino (b. c. 1450, d. c. 1523).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1500
Extent:: 1 leaf

Reference (shelfmark):: Yates Thompson MS 40
Title:: Psalter ('The Camaldoli Psalter'), with partial gloss
Scope & Content:: f. 1r: Prayers to Christ and Mary. ff. 1v–7v: Calendar. ff. 8r–9r: Prayers. ff. 9v–134r: Psalter. ff. 134r–148v: Canticles. ff. 148v–150v: Litany. ff. 151r–184v: Prayers (some of those on ff. 183r–184v later additions). Decoration: 1 large full-page miniature of crucified Christ with Mar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Yates Thompson MS 49/1
Title:: Jean de Vignay, La Légende Dorée, Volume I
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the first 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 second volume of the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: c 1470
Extent:: 1 volume

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

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