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41. Yates Thompson MS 37

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 37
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Bourges
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours, Use of Bourges, with a Parisian calendar (ff. 1r-12v). The text ends imperfectly, a rubric and a catchword have been erased on f. 198v. Note of S. C. Cockerell comparing use to BL Harley 2952 (erased); Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 1151; BL Add. 32454 [book of hours of the 1st hal...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1405-1410
Extent:
1 volume

42. Yates Thompson MS 37/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 37/1
Title:
Former binding of Yates Thompson MS 37
Scope & Content:
Purple velvet, with two clasp fastenings.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Early 20th century
Extent:
1 detached binding

43. 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

44. Yates Thompson MS 39

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 39
Title:
Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars; Ausonius, Caesars
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. i: Bookplate of Henry Yates Thompson. f. iii: Short catalogue of the volume’s contents. ff. 1r-213v: Suetonius, De vita Caesarum (On the Lives of the Caesars). ff. 214r-217v: Ausonius (b. c. 310, d. c. 122), Caesares (Caesars), verses on emperors from Caesar to Heliogabalus. ff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1469
Extent:

1 volume

45. Yates Thompson MS 40

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 40
Title:
Psalter ('The Camaldoli Psalter'), with partial gloss
Scope & Content:
f. 1r: Prayers to Christ and Mary. ff. 1v–7v: Calendar. ff. 8r–9r: Prayers. ff. 9v–134r: Psalter. ff. 134r–148v: Canticles. ff. 148v–150v: Litany. ff. 151r–184v: Prayers (some of those on ff. 183r–184v later additions). Decoration: 1 large full-page miniature of crucified Christ with Mar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

46. Yates Thompson MS 41

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 41
Title:
Bible
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. iv: Extract from sales catalogue, pastedown. ff. 2r-6r: Jerome’s prologue to the Vulgate. ff. 6r-557r: Bible. f. 557v: Added verse, 13th century. ff. 1r-v are blank. Decoration: 5 large and smaller historiated initials, with partial borders or foliate extensions into the marg...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1240-1250
Extent:
1 volume

47. Yates Thompson MS 42

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 42
Title:
Psalter
Scope & Content:
Psalter. ff. i, iii are reused leaves from a 14th century liturgical manuscript. ff. 39v, 200v, 288v are blank. Decoration: 8 historiated initials, developing three-sided borders with grotesque and figural decoration, in colours and gold (ff. 1*r, 41r, 66r, 88v, 90r, 113r, 143r, 201r). Large...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1310-1340
Extent:
1 volume

48. Yates Thompson MS 43

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 43
Title:
Psalter and Hours, Use of Saint-Omer
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Added prayer, early 14th century. ff. 2r-185v: Psalter and Book of Hours, Use of Saint-Omer. ff. 186v-187v: Ownership inscriptions, some erased (ff. 187r-v). Decoration: 12 small calendar miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 2r-7v). 10 large historiated initials, accompanie...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1276
Extent:
1 volume

49. Yates Thompson MS 44

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 44
Title:
William of Auvergne, De moribus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of a Latin treatise known as De moribus (On customs), written by William of Auvergne (b. 1180/90, d. 1249), a French theologian and philosopher who served as Bishop of Paris from 1228 until his death. The text represents the second part of his De virtutibus et vit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1250-1260
Extent:
1 volume

50. Yates Thompson MS 45

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 45
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Paris (The 'Hours of Nicolas Rolin')
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours, Use of Paris, missing calendar, with a sales catalogue cutting from Auguste Brölemann’s sale (f. iii), and early 20th century notes on the heraldry of the Rolin family, French (f. iv). (On the Rolin family see Abbé Boulemier, Nicolas Rolin, chancelier de Bourgogne: Notice histori...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume