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Project / Collection Yates Thompson Collection Subject Hagiography Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Yates Thompson MS 26

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 26
Title:
Bede, Prose Life of St Cuthbert
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains: ff. 2v-4r: Letter of Bede to Bishop Eadfrith forming a prologue to his prose Life of St Cuthbert, incipit: 'Domino sancto ac beatissimo patri Eadfrido episcopo'. ff. 4r-4v: Letter of Bede to the priest John (the letter accompanying the metrical Life of St Cuthbert), ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

2. Yates Thompson MS 47

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 47
Title:
John Lydgate, Lives of St Edmund and St Fremund
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-108r : John Lydgate, Lives of St Edmund and St Fremund. f. ixr: Added English proverb in a 15th-century hand, 'A man without mercie of mercie shall misse / Out hee shall have mercie that mercifull is'. f. 108v: Added English rhyme (?), partially erased, in a 15th-century hand: '... in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
between 1461 and c 1475
Extent:

1 volume

3. Yates Thompson MS 49/1

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

4. 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