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Yates Thompson MS 1
- Record Id:
- 040-002354333
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002354332
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000772.0x00019e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Yates Thompson MS 1
- Title:
- Bible, with prologues and the Interpretation of Hebrew Names ('The Fécamp Bible')
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. ii recto: Partial index of readings, added in the 13th century.
ff. 1r-4v: Jerome’s preface to the Vulgate.
ff. 4v-524v: Bible.
ff. 525r-572v: Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominum (Interpretations of Hebrew Names), an alphabetical list of Hebrew names found in the Bible, with a short Latin explanation.
ff. 573r-576v: Table of Epistle and Gospel readings, added in the 13th century.
ff. 576v-577r: Litany, added in the 13th century.
ff. 577v-578r: Jerome’s prologue to Paul’s Epistles, added in the 13th century.
f. ii verso is blank.
Decoration:
Branner (1977), p. 220, attributes the illumination to four artists:
A: responsible for the Genesis initial (f. 4v) (painted also the John initial in Vatican, Vat. lat. 120, f. 274).
B: related to the Pierre le Bar atelier, responsible for the initials from Exodus to Isaiah (ff. 15v-321).
C: responsible for the initials from Jeremiah to II Maccabees (ff. 321-419v) (painted also Vatican, Reg. lat. 16 and Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 16082).
D: related to the Mathurin atelier, responsible for the initials in the New Testament (ff. 419v-572v).
79 large historiated initials (individually described by James, A Descriptive Catalogue (1898, pp. 5-9), in colours and gold, at the beginning of each biblical book and at the major divisions of the Psalms, except Deuteronomy and Isaiah (ff. 71r, 301r, replaced by 15th-century leaves, the latter with large decorated initials) and Haggai, which begins with a flourished initial (f. 391v).
Large initials with zoomorphic and foliate decoration, in colours, at the beginning of prologues.
Small initials in red with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing, at the beginning of chapters.
Chapter numbers and running titles in alternate red and blue characters.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Yates Thompson Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002354332
040-002354333 - Is part of:
- Yates Thompson MS 1-59 : Yates Thompson Manuscripts
Yates Thompson MS 1 : Bible, with prologues and the Interpretation of Hebrew Names ('The Fécamp Bible') - Hierarchy:
- 032-002354332[0001]/040-002354333
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Yates Thompson MS 1-59
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1250
- End Date:
- 1274
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 140 x 90 mm (text space: 95 x 60 mm).
Foliation: ff. ii + 578 (f. i is the upper pastedown, f. ii is a medieval flyleaf, f. 578 is the lower pastedown).
Collation: i-ii24 (ff. 1-48), iii24-1+1 ( 23rd leaf excised, replaced by f. 71; ff. 49-72), iv-xii24 (ff. 73-288), xiii24-6+6 (2nd, and 11th to 15th leaves excised, replaced by ff. 290 and 299-303; ff. 289-313), xiv-xxi24 (ff. 314-505), xxii20 (ff. 506-525), xxiii24 (ff. 526-549) xxiv24-1 (6th leaf excised?; ff. 550-572), xxv4 (ff. 573-576), xxvi2 (ff. 577-578).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. The previous binding had 'original wooden boards, with fragment of blue silk cover: formerly had two clasps'; re-covered in purple velvet, with two strap-and-pin fastenings, by Gruel for Yates Thompson (according to the handwritten annotations in the British Library Manuscript Department's copy of James, A Descriptive Catalogue (1898), p. 5); gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Paris, France.
Provenance:
The final verso of some quires marked 'cor(rectus)' (e.g. ff. 313v, 409v).
Unidentified 13th-century owner associated with either the Benedictine abbey of St Taurinus, Evreux, or the abbey of Fécamp, Normandy: following the main texts are an added table of Epistle and Gospel readings (ff. 573r-576v), and a litany (ff. 576v-577r); the latter includes Benedict with a double invocation; Taurinus of Evreux is first among the confessors and has a double invocation; there are numerous other Norman saints, including Aquilinus (bishop of Evreux); Cuthman and Frodomont (Fécamp); Mellonius, Romanus and Audoenus (Rouen); Laudus (Coutances); and Sidonius (Saint-Saens).
Unidentified French 15th-century owner(s): responsible for the replacement of missing leaves (ff. 71, 290, 299-303), and for neat marginal annotations.
Henry Yates Thompson (b. 1838, d. 1928), collector of illuminated manuscripts and newspaper proprietor: with his book-plate inscribed '[MS] 2 / ye [i.e. £30] / [bought from Bernard] Quaritch / March / 1893.' (inside upper cover).
Bequeathed to the British Museum in 1941 by Mrs Henry Yates Thompson.
- Publications:
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Montague Rhodes James, A Descriptive Catalogue of Fifty Manuscripts from the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson (Cambridge: University Press, 1898), no. 2, pp. 5-9.
Illustrations from One Hundred Manuscripts in the Library of Henry Yates Thompson, 7 vols (London: Chiswick Press, 1907-18), VI: Consisting of Ninety Plates Illustrating Seventeen MSS. with Dates Ranging from the XIIIth to the XVIth Century (1916), pp. 3-4, pl. XI.
Seymour de Ricci, Les Manuscrits de la Collection Henry Yates Thompson, Extrait du Bulletin de la Socie´te´ Franc¸aise de Reproductions de Manuscrits a` Peintures (Paris: [n. pub.], 1926), no. 2, p. 12.
Robert Branner, Manuscript Painting in Paris During the Reign of Saint Louis: A Study of Styles, California Studies in the History of Art, 18 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977), pp. 81-82, 212, 215, 220, pl. XIV, fig. 202.
Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle, Bible Manuscripts: 1400 Years of Scribes and Scripture (London: British Library, 2007), pp. 10 and 110, fig. 97.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Bible
- Places:
- Paris, France