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51. Yates Thompson MS 46

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 46
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Paris
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours, Use of Paris, with handwritten summary of contents (f. iii) and ownership inscriptions and descriptions of provenance (ff. iv-v), 17th and 18th century. f. 229v is blank. Horizontal catchwords. Decoration: 12 calendar roundels, in the top right-hand corner of each page (ff. 1r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1410-c 1420
Extent:
1 volume

52. 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

53. Yates Thompson MS 48

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 48
Title:
Nova Statuta (Edward III-Henry VI)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-40v: Index of statutes. ff. 41r-103v: Statutes of Edward III. ff. 104r-146v: Statutes of Richard II. ff. 147r-172r: Statutes of Henry IV. ff. 172v-190v: Statutes of Henry V. ff. 191r-253v: Statutes of Henry VI, ending imperfectly with the November 1450 parliament, followed...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
1451-c 1480
Extent:
1 volume

54. 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

55. 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

56. Yates Thompson MS 50

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 50
Title:
Aristophanes, with hypotheses, marginal scholia and interlinear glosses
Scope & Content:
Aristophanes, Plutus (TLG 0019.029), ff 2r-76v, with interlinear glosses partly in Latin, followed by Nubes (TLG 0019.021), ff 77r-171r, and preceded by Vita Thomana 1 (TLG 4158.009), ff 1r-v.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

57. 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

58. Yates Thompson MS 52

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 52
Title:
Wycliffite Psalter and Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Modern note on the removal of a leaf, pastedown. f. 3r: Erased ownership inscription. f. 3v: Ownership inscriptions and summary of the volume’s contents, 15th and 18th century, Latin and English. ff. 4r-9v: Calendar, Latin. ff. 10r-45v: Book of Hours. ff. 46r-163r: Wycliff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

59. Yates Thompson MS 53

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 53
Title:
Collection of papers removed from Yates Thompson MSS
Scope & Content:
A collection of modern papers removed from other Yates Thompson MSS. Contents: [ir-iir]: Table of contents. ff. 1r-3r: A 1453 bond by Jean, Bastard of Orleans, count of Dunois and of Longueville, to Bertrand de Beauvais, for 200 crowns, with a 1469 and notarial certificate of receipt (ff. 1r-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1453-1928
Extent:
1 volume

60. Yates Thompson MS 54

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 54
Title:
Collection of papers removed from Yates Thompson MSS
Scope & Content:
A collection of over 100 papers and letters to Henry Yates Thompson removed from other Yates Thompson MSS, mostly from museums and libraries in England and abroad offering provenance information, translations, and commentaries on his manuscript collection. Includes letters from M. R. James (15r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
1 volume