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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Yates Thompson MS 1-59 Name Thompson, Elizabeth, widow of Henry Yates Thompson, c 1854-1941 Digitised Content Platform BL Digitised Manuscripts (2024-)

1. Yates Thompson MS 3

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 3
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Dunois Hours')
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours, use of Rome, known as the 'The Dunois Hours', including: ff. 1r-12r: Calendar, use of Paris. ff. 13r-22r: Excerpts from the Four Gospels. ff. 22v-32r: Two prayers to the Virgin, 'Obsecro te' (ff. 22v-27r) and 'O intemerata' (ff. 27r-32r). ff. 32v-35r: Prayer 'Deus propicius.'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1439-c 1450
Extent:

1 volume

2. Yates Thompson MS 27

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 27
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Paris ('The Hours of Yolande of Flanders')
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours, use of Paris, known as the 'Hours of Yolande of Flanders', includes: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar. ff. 13v-107r: Hours of the Virgin. ff. 107v-124v: Seven Penitential Psalms. ff. 125r-128r: Litany. 13 leaves from this manuscript were given by John Ruskin to the Ruskin School of Fi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1353-1363
Extent:

1 volume

3. 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

4. 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