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1. 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

2. 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

3. Yates Thompson MS 16

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 16
Title:
Bible
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3r: St Jerome’s preface to the Vulgate. ff. 3r-359r: Bible. ff. 359v-388r: Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominum (Explanations of Hebrew names), an alphabetical list of Hebrew names found in the Bible, with a short Latin explanation, attributed to Stephen Langton, archbishop o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1432
Extent:
1 volume

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Yates Thompson MS 18

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 18
Title:
Psalter and prayers
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-7v: Calendar. ff. 9r-201v: Psalter and litany (ff. 196v-201r). ff. 202v-229v: A set of prayers, added c 1480-1500. ff. 1r-v, 8r-v, 202r, 211v-212v are blank. Decoration: The decoration of the first part of the manuscript (ff. 2r-201v) has been attributed to the Ste.-Chapel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. 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

9. Yates Thompson MS 2

Reference (shelfmark):
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

10. 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