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1. Yates Thompson MS 21

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 21
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, Roman de la Rose; Le Pèlerinage de mestre Jehan de Meung; le Testament
Scope & Content:
Content: Le pèlerinage de Jehan de Meun (ff. 1r-2v) is an addition in a later hand of the first quarter of the sixteenth century. This is likely an abridged and reworking version of Le pèlerinage de la vie humaine, a moralizing poem by Guillaume de Diguleville written in 1330. The Roman de la...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1380-1390
Extent:

1 volume

2. Yates Thompson MS 35

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 35
Title:
Jean Cuvelier, La Chanson de Bertrand du Guesclin
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of La Chanson de Bertrand du Guesclin, an epic poem in Middle French written by Jean Cuvelier, recounting the chivalric deeds of the French hero, Bertrand du Guesclin (b. 1320, d. 1380), Breton knight and military commander during the Hundred Years War. The manusc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1380-1392
Extent:
1 volume

3. Yates Thompson MS 36

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 36
Title:
Dante Alighieri, Divina commedia
Scope & Content:
Dante Alighieri, Divina commedia. Pope-Hennessy 1993 proposed a date for the manuscript of after 1444, partly depending on the representations of the dome and cupola of Florence Cathedral, under construction during these years. Contents: 1. (ff. 1r-63v): Inferno. Incipit (f. 1r): 'Nel mezo d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1444-c 1450
Extent:

1 volume

4. 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

5. Yates Thompson MS 51

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 51
Title:
Skazanie o Mamaevom Poboishche
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Skazanie o Mamaevom Poboishche (The Tale of the Rout of Mamai). The Skazanie is a romance in Russian Church Slavonic, composed in the 15th century, relating the struggle of the Muscovian Grand Prince, Dmitri Donskoi [Дмитрий Иванович Донской] (b. 1350, d. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Russian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

1 volume