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1. Yates Thompson MS 11

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 11
Title:
Collection of moral tracts
Scope & Content:
This collection of moral tracts originally formed one volume with the Somme le Roy, Add. MS 28162. The manuscript includes: ff. 2r-7r: Traité de la sainte abbaye; incipit: 'La sainte abbaie e la religion doit estre fondee...' ff. 7r-28: Traité de l'amour de Dieu; incipit: 'Vous vouliez que je...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
c 1290-c 1300
Extent:

1 volume

2. Yates Thompson MS 17

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 17
Title:
Peter Lombard, Sententiae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-142r: Peter Lombard (b. c. 1100, d. 1160), Sententiae (Sentences), preceded by the prologue (ff. 2r-4r): 'Cupientes aliquid de penuria ac tenuitate nostra'. ff. 1v; 142v-143v: A fragment from an anonymous treatise on the seven sins, several quires are lacking, beginning on f. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

3. Yates Thompson MS 19

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 19
Title:
Brunetto Latini, Li Livres dou Trésor
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Li Livres dou Trésor (The Book of the Treasure), written by the Florentine philosopher, notary, and statesman Brunetto Latini (b. c. 1220, d. 1294) during his exile in France between 1260 and 1266. The Trésor is an encyclopaedic work, notable as one of the firs...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Yates Thompson MS 31

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 31
Title:
Matfre Ermengaud, Breviari d'Amor
Scope & Content:
Contents: Matfre Ermengaud, Breviari d'Amor (Catalan prose version). The text is adapted from a Provençal poem composed between 1288 and 1292. This manuscript is one of five known copies in Catalan. Decoration: 1 small miniature, accompanied by a large decorated initial and a full foliate b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Catalan
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

5. 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