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Yates Thompson MS 2

Record Id:

040-002354335

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002354332

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000772.0x0001a0

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

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 Reinfrid (who is depicted on f. 103r).

Decoration:

2 full-page miniatures framed by full borders, in colours and gold (ff. 1v, 25v).

25 large and smaller miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 21v, 27v, 30r, 31r, 34r, 37r, 38r, 48r, 57v, 62v, 79v, 89v, 91v, 99r, 101r, 103r, 107r, 110r, 112v, 118v, 119v, 120v, 122r, 123v, 124r).

Large and smaller foliate or zoomorphic initials in colours, gold, and silver. Smaller foliate or zoomorphic initials, in colours and gold. Smaller and small initials in plain red.

Decorative stitching of damaged parchment in colored silk thread (ff. 120, 127).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Yates Thompson Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002354332
040-002354335

Is part of:

Yates Thompson MS 1-59 : Yates Thompson Manuscripts

Yates Thompson MS 2 : Collectar ('The Ottobeuren Collectar')

Hierarchy:

032-002354332[0002]/040-002354335

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:

1175

End Date:

1199

Date Range:

4th quarter of the 12th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 290 x 205 mm (written space: 185 x 130 mm).

Foliation: ff. iv + 153 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves after f. ii + 7 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); medieval foliation in red ink, and three sets of modern foliation.

Script: Protogothic.

Binding: Post-1600. Dark green (described as 'purple' in the 1882 and 1889 sale catalogues) velvet with silver clasps; marbled endpapers; gilt edges.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Ottobeuren, Germany.

Provenance:

The Benedictine abbey of St. Alexander and Theodor, Ottobeuren, Germany: perhaps commissioned or written by 'Reinfrid', who is represented as a monk holding a scroll inscribed, 'Alexandre [sic] p(ater) bone suscipe q(uo)d tibi fidus Servus reinfr(idus) fert ...' (f. 103r); inscribed in a 17th-century hand, 'M(o)n(aste)rii Ottoburani (f. 2r, in the lower margin); Reinfrid signed a copy of the Moralia in Job that was similarly inscribed 'Monasterii Ottoburani' in the 17th century (see Brandis, Zimelien (1975), pp. 81-82).

General Claude-Josephe Lecourbe (b. 1759, d. 1815), Commander of the Right Wing of the French Rhine Army: given to him in September 1800, together with two other manuscripts, as recorded in a catalogue drawn up shortly before 1802 (see Schwarzmaier, 'Traditionsbildung und Geschichtsbewußtsein' (1964), pp. 9-10).

? French bookseller: inscribed in pencil '30 grandes miniatures' (f. iii verso).

Alexander Douglas-Hamilton (b. 1767, d. 1852), 10th Duke of Hamilton and 7th Duke of Brandon: inscribed in pencil with the characteristic HB monogram of the Hamilton Library, 'HB No 316' (f. iv recto); among the Hamilton manuscripts catalogued in November or December 1882 (as lot 120) for auction by Sotheby's, but instead sold en bloc to the Prussian Government in 1883; sold by the latter at Sotheby's, 23 May 1889, lot 6; bought by Quaritch for £205.

Henry Yates Thompson (b. 1838, d. 1928), collector of illuminated manuscripts and newspaper proprietor: with his book-plate inscribed '[MS] 6 / £aeee.e.e [i.e. £4000.0.0] / [bought from Bernard] Quaritch / 8 May / 1895' (f. i recto); in his sale, 22 June 1921, lot 88, but returned to the Thompson collection.

Bequeathed to the British Museum in 1941 by Mrs Henry Yates Thompson.

Information About Copies:

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Publications:

W. von Seidlitz, ‘Die illustrirten Handschriften der Hamilton-Sammlung zu Berlin', Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft, 6 (1883), 256-73 (no. 12 pp. 262-63).

Montague Rhodes James, A Descriptive Catalogue of Fifty Manuscripts from the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson (Cambridge: University Press, 1898), no. 6, pp. 20-29.

Illustrations from One Hundred Manuscripts in the Library of Henry Yates Thompson, 7 vols (London: Chiswick Press, 1907-18), VII: The Seventh and last Volume with Plates from the Remaining Twenty-Two MSS., p. 7, pls. I-III.

Hanns Swarzenski, The Berthold Missal: The Pierpont Morgan Library MS 710 and the Scriptorium of Weingarten Abbey (New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1943), p. 39 n. 32.

Hansmartin Schwarzmaier, ‘Mittelalterliche Handschriften des Klosters Ottobeuren: Versuch einer Bestandsaufnahme', Studien und Mitteilungen zur Geschichte des Benediktiner-Ordens und seiner Zweige, 73 (1962), 7-23 (no. 1 p. 11).

Hansmartin Schwarzmaier, 'Traditionsbildung und Geschichtsbewußtsein: Ottobeuren im zwölften Jahrhundert', in Ottobeuren: Festschrift zur 1200-Jahrfeier der Abtei, ed. by Aegidius Kolb and Hermann Tüchle (Augsburg: Winfried-Werk, 1964), 3-25 (pp. 23-25).

[Derek Howard Turner], Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series V: Fifty Plates (London: British Museum, 1965), no. VI p. 9, pl. VI.

[Derek Howard Turner], Illuminated Manuscripts exhibited in the Grenville Library (London, British Museum, 1967), pp. 52-53.

C. E. L. Smith, 'A Twelfth Century Lectionary from Ottobeuren', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relatives aux manuscrits, 27 (1973), 237-51, pls. 13-14 (pp. 248-51).

Tilo Brandis with Gerard Achten and others, Zimelien: abendländische Handschriften des Mittelalters aus den Sammlungen der Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz Berlin (Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1975), pp. 81-82.

Sotheby's catalogue, Western Illuminated Manuscripts, the Property of the John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island which will be sold by Auction by Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., 18th May 1981, pp. 55, 59-60.

Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (London: British Library, 1997), no. 34.

Margaret Scott, Medieval Dress & Fashion (London: British Library, 2007), p. 57, pl. 29.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Subjects:

Liturgy

Places:

Ottobeuren, Germany