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31. Yates Thompson MS 49/2

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

32. Yates Thompson MS 52

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

33. Yates Thompson MS 45

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 45
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Paris (The 'Hours of Nicolas Rolin')
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours, Use of Paris, missing calendar, with a sales catalogue cutting from Auguste Brölemann’s sale (f. iii), and early 20th century notes on the heraldry of the Rolin family, French (f. iv). (On the Rolin family see Abbé Boulemier, Nicolas Rolin, chancelier de Bourgogne: Notice histori...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

34. Yates Thompson MS 23

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 23
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Hours of Agostino Biliotti')
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Hours of Agostino Biliotti'). ff. 1r-v, 14r-v, 96r-v, 146v, 171v-174v, 188r-190v, 238v, 240v-241v are blank. Decoration: 14 large and smaller historiated initials, the first accompanied by a full historiated border with heraldic decoration and all'antica featu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1485
Extent:
1 volume

35. Yates Thompson MS 4

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 4
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Hours of Jacques de Brégilles')
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome, including a calendar (ff. 1r-12v), and with later notes on the family of Jacques de Brégilles, French (ff. 194r-v), an added prayer to the Virgin Mary in French, 16th c (ff. 204r-209v), and a 16th c French verse (f. 210r). ff. 41v, 178v, 186v-186*v are blank. Decora...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1460
Extent:
1 volume

36. Yates Thompson MS 7

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 7
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Hours of Dionora of Urbino')
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome. Known as the 'Hours of Dionora of Urbino', after its owner Eleanor (Dionora) Gonzaga della Rovere (b. 1493, d. 1550), wife of Francesco Maria I della Rovere, (b. 1490, d. 1538), Duke of Urbino . ff. 46, 51v, 104, 109v are 18th-century English replacements of missing ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1510-1515
Extent:
1 volume

37. Yates Thompson MS 12

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 12
Title:
William of Tyre, Histoire d'Outremer
Scope & Content:
The Histoire d'Outremer, a French translation of the Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum by William, archbishop of Tyre (d. 1185), with a continuation to 1232. The manuscript must have been written after 1232, and probably before c. 1261, when a further continuation of the Histoire ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1232-1261
Extent:

1 volume

38. Yates Thompson MS 28

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 28
Title:
Secreta secretorum, Il Tesoro and other texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-43r: Pseudo-Aristotle, Secreta secretorum. ff. 43v-130r: Brunetto Latini, translated by Bono Giamboni, Il Tesoro (translation of Li Livres dou Tresor). ff. 130v-143v: Miscellaneous texts. ff. 144r and 144v are blank. Decoration: The decoration of the manuscript has been...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1425
Extent:

1 volume

39. Yates Thompson MS 9

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 9
Title:
Bible (Proverbs-Revelation)
Scope & Content:
Contents: A copy of the Bible, containing Proverbs-Revelation. This manuscript was formerly known as Add MS 41751 and is the second of two volumes, the first being Harley MS 616, which contains Genesis-Psalms (incomplete). This two-volume Bible is one of the three extant manuscripts of the Fre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

40. Yates Thompson MS 8

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