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Project / Collection Yates Thompson Collection Place Florence, Italy Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. Yates Thompson MS 30

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 30
Title:
Book of Hours ('The Hours of Laudomia de' Medici')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar; ff. 14r-58v: Hours of the Virgin; ff. 61r-63r: Mass of the Virgin; ff. 67r-74r: Seven Penitential Psalms; ff. 74r-80v: Litany; ff. 83r-109v: Office of the Dead; ff. 112r-114v: Office of the Holy Cross; ff. 118r-121v: Gradual Psalms. There are blank folio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1500-1510
Extent:

1 volume

5. 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