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1. Yates Thompson MS 1

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 1
Title:
Bible, with prologues and the Interpretation of Hebrew Names ('The Fécamp Bible')
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. ii recto: Partial index of readings, added in the 13th century. ff. 1r-4v: Jerome’s preface to the Vulgate. ff. 4v-524v: Bible. ff. 525r-572v: Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominum (Interpretations of Hebrew Names), an alphabetical list of Hebrew names found in the Bible, with a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Yates Thompson MS 1-59

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 1-59
Title:
Yates Thompson Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Illuminated manuscripts collected by Henry Yates Thompson (b. 1838, d. 1928).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, French, Old, Greek, Ancient, Italian, Latin, and Russian
Date Range:
12th century-17th century
Extent:
59 items

3. Yates Thompson MS 2

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Yates Thompson MS 2
Title:
Collectar ('The Ottobeuren Collectar')
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a collectar, a liturgical book containing the collects used in the Divine Offices. The volume is known as the 'Ottobeuren Collectar', after the Benedictine abbey of St Alexander and Theodor, in Ottobeuren, Germany, where it was probably commissioned or made by a monk called Re...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. 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

5. Yates Thompson MS 5

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 5
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Tilliot Hours')
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. [iii] recto: Notes on the purchase of the manuscript from Jean-Bénigne Lucotte, seigneur du Tilliot. ff. 1r-6v: Calendar. ff. 7r-v: Suffrage to the Trinity (using masculine forms). ff. 9r-12v: Gospel extracts. ff. 13r-19v: Passion narrative (John 18:1-19:42) and a prayer ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1500
Extent:
1 volume

6. Yates Thompson MS 6

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 6
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome, including calendar (ff. 1r-12v). Decoration: The decoration of the opening page of the manuscript has been attributed to Niccola Rapicano, and the remaining decoration to Cristoforo Majorana (see Alexander and de la Mare, Italian Manuscripts (1969), p. 78 n. 1). 4...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1477
Extent:
1 volume

7. Yates Thompson MS 6/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 6/1
Title:
Former box for Yates Thompson MS 6
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
1 box

8. 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

9. 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

10. Yates Thompson MS 15

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 15
Title:
Psalter and Hours, Use of Arras
Scope & Content:
Psalter and Book of Hours, Use of Arras, with prayers added in the mid-14th century (ff. 1v-3v). ff. 4r, 16v-17r, 196v, 329r-330v, 388v are blank. Decoration: The manuscript belongs to a wider group attributed to a workshop active in Arras at the end of the 13th century (see Randall , Medieva...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1300
Extent:
1 volume