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- Record Id:
- 032-002027587
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002027587
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000054.0x0003d6
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- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 17341
- Title:
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Gospel Lectionary, Use of Paris ('Quatrième Évangéliaire de la Sainte-Chapelle')
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
Gospel Lectionary, Use of Paris.
This manuscript is a direct copy of Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 17326 ('Troisième évangéliaire de la Sainte-Chapelle') produced around 20 years earlier (c. 1260-1270). Additional MS 17431 reproduces the colophon found in Paris, BnF, MS lat. 17326, which probably originated in turn, in its exemplar: 'explicit liber iste in quo contenentur omnia evangelia anni ad usum et consuetudinem ecclesie Parisensis' (f. 173r) (see Le Trésor de la Sainte-Chapelle (2001), pp. 159, 184-85).
Decoration:
262 historiated initials in gold and colours with partial borders, ranging from six-lines high to full-column height. Some depict only one scene and are contained within the bowl of a curved letter form. The majority are ‘ladder initials’ encompassing several separate scenes, arranged in sequence down a tall, often full-page, letter ‘I’ of 'In illo tempore' (in that time), the traditional opening of readings sung or said within the Mass.
Two large foliate initials in gold and colours (ff. 6v and 13r) and small gold initals on coloured grounds accompany the two sections of musical notation (ff. 6v-10r and 13r-16r).
The illumination is associated with Master Honoré and his workshop, who also worked on Additional MS 29923 and Additional MS 54180 (according to Stones, Gothic Manuscripts (2013), I.1, p. 56).
The manuscript's decoration also reflects the influence of Paris, BnF, MS lat. 17326, presenting its illustrations in almost identical positions. However, the artist of Additional MS 17341 displays greater naturalism and more interest in spatial illusionism, which looks forward to the fourteenth century and the innovations of such later Parisian illuminators as Jean Pucelle (fl. 1319-34).
For a description of the feasts and their illumination in both Additional MS 17341 and Paris, BnF, MS lat. 17326 see Stones, Gothic Manuscripts (2014), II.2, pp. 168-92.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- 032-002027587
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- Hierarchy:
- 032-002027587
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_17341 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1275
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 315 x 200 mm (text space: 210 x 125 mm).
Foliation: ff. 173 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning; and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf and 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).
Layout: 25 lines, written in two colums.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Red velvet boards and red leather spine.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France, Central (Paris).
Provenance:
The Sainte-Chapelle, Paris: included in its 1349, 1368-1377 and 1480 inventories (see Le Trésor de la Sainte-Chapelle (2001), p. 185). Probably made for Philip the Fair (r. 1285-1314) as a substitute for the earlier manuscript.
Thomas Rodd, the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), bookseller: a note 'Purchased of Thomas Rodd 10th June 1848' (f. [iv]); purchased by the British Museum from Rodd for the price of £115.
- Information About Copies:
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Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts, http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1848-1853 (London: British Museum, 1868), p. 7.
Walter De Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 9.
W. R. Tymms and M. D. Wyatt, The Art of Illuminating as Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (London: Day and Sons, 1860; repr. Studio Editions, 1987), pl. XIII.5.
Georg Graf Vitzthum, Die Pariser Miniaturmalerei von der Zeit des hl. Ludwig bis zu Philipp von Valois und ihr Verhältnis zur Malerei in Nordwesteuropa (Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer, 1907), pp. 32-39, figs 5, 6.
Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Museum, series 2 (London, 1910), p. 10, pl. XX.
[J. A. Herbert], British Museum: Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series 2, 3rd edn (London: British Museum, 1923), pl. 20.
[J. A. Herbert], Illuminated Manuscripts and Bindings of Manuscripts Exhibited in The Grenville Library, Guide to the Exhibited Manuscripts, 3 (Oxford: British Museum, 1923), no. 46.
Schools of Illumination: Reproductions from Manuscripts in the British Museum, 6 vols (London: British Museum, 1914-1930), V: Carolingian and French to early 14th century (1926), pl. 10.
Theodor Klauser, Das römische capitulare evangeliorum: Texte und Untersuchungen zu seiner ältesten Geschichte, Liturgiegeschichtliche Quellen und Forschungen, 28 (Munster: Aschendorffschen, 1935), p. C, no. 151.
Hanns Swarzenski, Die Lateinischen Illuminierten Handschriften des XIII. Jahrhunderts in den Ländern an Rhein, Main und Donau, 2 vols (Berlin: Deutscher Verin fur Kunstwissenschaft, 1936), I, p. 26 n. 5; p. 102 ns 9, 15.
Günther Haseloff, Die Psalterillustration im 13. Jahrhundert: Studien zur Geschichte der Buchmalerei in England, Frankreich und den Niederlanden ([n.p.]:[n.pub.], 1938), p. 91.
Florens Deuchler, Der Ingeborgpsalter (Berlin: de Gruyter & Co., 1967), p. 36.
Peter Brieger, ‘England’, in Art and the Courts: France and England from 1259 to 1328, The National Gallery of Canada, 1972 (Ottowa: National Gallery, 1972), pp. 28-49 (p. 33, no. 3, pl. 27).
Jaroslav Folda, Crusader Manuscript Illumination at Saint-Jean d'Acre, 1275-1291 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976), p. 68, n. 119.
Robert Branner, Manuscript Painting in Paris During the Reign of Saint Louis: A Study of Styles (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1977), pp. 137, 236, 239, fig. 409.
Eleanor Simmons, Les Heures de Nuremberg: Reproduction intégrale du calendrier et des images du manuscrit Solger 4.40 de la Stadtbibliothek de Nuremberg, trans. by Charles Scheel (Paris, 1994), pp. 25-26.
L'Art au temps des rois maudits: Philippe le Bel et ses fils 1285-1328 (Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1998), p. 261 [exhibition catalogue].
John Higgitt, The Murthly Hours: Devotion, Literacy and Luxury in Paris, England and the Gaelic West (London: British Library, 2000), pp. 136, 142, 163, fig. 142.
Richard H. Rouse and Mary A. Rouse, Manuscripts and Their Makers: Commercial Book Producers in Medieval Paris 1200-1500, 2 vols (Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2000), I, pp. 127, 359 n. 3.
Le Trésor de la Sainte-Chapelle (Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2001), no. 42, pp. 184-85 [exhibition catalogue].
Michaela Braesel, ‘The Influence of Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts on the Pre-Raphaelites and the Early Poetry of William Morris’, Journal of William Morris Studies, 15.4 (2004), 41-54 (p. 52 n. 19).
Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle, Bible Manuscripts: 1400 Years of Scribes and Scripture (London: British Library, 2007), pp. 120-21, figs 107-08.
Alison Stones, Gothic Manuscripts: 1260-1320, 4 vols (London: Harvey Miller, 2013), I.1, p. 56; I.2, pp. 5, 50, 68; II.2, pp. 52 n. 9, 166-92, ills 325, 327, 330, 332, pl. 47.
D'Or et d'ivoire: Paris, Pise, Florence, Sienne 1250-1320 (Lens: Musée du Louvre-Lens, 2015), no. 58, p. 181 [exhibition catalogue].
Jeffrey Hamburger and Nigel Palmer, The Prayer Book of Ursula Begerin, 2 vols (Zurich: Urs Graf Verlag, 2015), I, pp. 59, 72, 186.
- Exhibitions:
- Gold and Ivory: Paris, Pisa, Florence, Siena, 1250-1320, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 27 May 2015 - 28 September 2015
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)