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31. Yates Thompson MS 29

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 29
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Hours of Bonaparte Ghislieri', or 'The Albani Hours')
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome, the 'Hours of Bonaparte Ghislieri'; formerly known as 'The Albani Hours'. The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar. ff. 13r-14r: Psalm 90. ff. 16r-73v: Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome. ff. 75r-100r: Hours of the Virgin for Advent and Christmas. ff. 101-10...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1500
Extent:

1 volume

32. Yates Thompson MS 29/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 29/1
Title:
Detached miniature from a Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Hours of Bonaparte Ghislieri', or 'The Albani Hours')
Scope & Content:
This leaf was formerly f. 132 of Yates Thompson MS 29 and is now kept separately. On the verso is a miniature of the martyrdom of St Sebastian in colours and gold. It is signed by Pietro de Cristoforo Vannucci 'PETRVS PRVSINVS PINXIT', known as Perugino (b. c. 1450, d. c. 1523).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1500
Extent:

1 leaf

33. 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

34. 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

35. Yates Thompson MS 31/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 31/1
Title:
Former box for Yates Thompson MS 31
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
1 box

36. Yates Thompson MS 32

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 32
Title:
Chroniques abrégées des Anciens Rois et Ducs de Bourgogne, attributed to Olivier de la Marche
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains the Chroniques abrégées des Anciens Rois et Ducs de Bourgogne, attributed to Olivier de la Marche. On the title page (f. 1v) is the following rubric: 'S'ensuivent aulcunes chroniques, extraittes d'aulcunes anciens registres et aultres enseignements d'anciens rois, prince...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c. 1485-1490
Extent:

1 volume

37. Yates Thompson MS 33

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 33
Title:
Grand Chronique de Normandie
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an illustrated copy of the Grande Chronique de Normandie, written in Middle French. Originally compiled around 1350, this anonymous work is based on a 13th-century chronicle of Normandy as well as the 12th-century Roman de Rou by the Norman poet Wace (b. c. 1110, d. after 11...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1460-1468
Extent:
1 volume

38. Yates Thompson MS 34

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 34
Title:
Epistolary of the Sainte-Chapelle, Use of Paris
Scope & Content:
A collection of readings for major feast days. Contents: ff. 1r-168v: Bible readings, often from the Epistles, for different feast days over the year. f. 168v: A reading for the dedication of a new church. ff. 169r-201r: Bible readings for different saints’ days, including St Louis (f. 191r)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 14th century-3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

39. 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

40. 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