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1629821. Yates Thompson MS 24

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 24
Title:
Pontifical, Use of Mende ('The Pontifical of Guilelmus Durandus')
Scope & Content:
A collection of ceremonies conducted by bishops and other senior priests, often with musical notation. Contents: f. 1v: Added notes by a bishop of Comminges, 16th century. ff. 2r-3v: Table of contents. ff. 4r-76r: Rituals for ordaining, consecrating, and baptising. ff. 76r-158r: Rituals for...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-1402
Extent:
1 volume

1629822. 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

1629823. 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

1629824. 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

1629825. 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

1629826. 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

1629827. 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

1629828. 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

1629829. 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

1629830. 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

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