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Yates Thompson MS 6

Record Id:

040-002354349

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002354332

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000772.0x0001ad

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Yates Thompson MS 6

Title:

Book of Hours, Use of Rome

Scope & Content:

Book of Hours, Use of Rome, including calendar (ff. 1r-12v).

Decoration:

The decoration of the opening page of the manuscript has been attributed to Niccola Rapicano, and the remaining decoration to Cristoforo Majorana (see Alexander and de la Mare, Italian Manuscripts (1969), p. 78 n. 1).

4 large historiated initials, accompanied by full foliate borders with putti and birds, for major texts (ff. 13r, 97r, 105r, 129r).

15 large historiated initials, accompanied by partial foliate borders, in colours and gold, for major text divisions (ff. 25r, 38r, 43r, 46v, 50v, 54v, 63r, 92r, 98v, 100r, 101r, 102r, 103r, 103v, 184r).

6 small miniatures incorporating the initial in the upper right corner, accompanied by partial foliate borders, in colours and gold (ff. 137r, 146v, 154r, 163r [without initial], 176v, 191r).

Smaller initials with white vine ornament, in colours and gold. Smaller initials in gold on coloured grounds.

12 KL initials in gold with colours (ff. 1r-12r). Small initials in gold with purple pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing.

Text on pages with miniatures and historiated initials in chrysography.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Yates Thompson Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002354332
040-002354349

Is part of:

Yates Thompson MS 1-59 : Yates Thompson Manuscripts

Yates Thompson MS 6 : Book of Hours, Use of Rome

Hierarchy:

032-002354332[0006]/040-002354349

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:

1477

End Date:

1477

Date Range:

1477

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 140 x 100 mm (text space: 90 x 55 mm).

Foliation: ff. 192 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end, and 1 blank leaf each before ff. 13, 25, 38, 43, 47, 51, 55, 63, 92, 97, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 129, 137, 147, 154, 163, 177, 185, 191).

Script: Humanistic.

Binding: Post-1600. Blue velvet; gilt and gauffered edges.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Naples, Italy.

The manuscript was written by Fra Alexander Antonio Simonis of Florence in 1477 for Gioacchino Guasconi (Joachinus Guasconus) of Florence: the inscribed colophon, 'Hoc opus scripsit frater Alexander de florentia ordinis fratrum hermitarum sancti Augustini et hoc dum esset Bachalarius in conventu et studio Neapolitano Regnante Serenissimo Rege Ferdinando. Anno nostre salutis 1477 Mo CCCCo LXXVII Die vero z XXIII S in vigilia Sancti Iohannis Baptiste hora 13 XIII Regnante Serenitate & Pace bona. Expliciunt officia. Deo gratias Amen. Finis.' (f. 175v)

The same scribe was also responsible for the production of Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 153, made for Lorenzo Strozzi in 1478.

Provenance:

Gioacchino Guasconi (Joachinus Guasconus) of Florence: named in prayers (ff. 181v, 188r, 188v, 190r), e.g., 'free me famulum tuum Ioachinum Guasconum de florentia de omni tribulation' (f. 190r); his arms, overpainted, but the sable of the Guasconi arms visible on the verso (f. 13r).

Perhaps given by him to his daughter, Nannina, who married Giovanni Covoni in 1497: the Covoni arms overpainted on the dexter, and the Guasconi arms moved to the sinister per paly.

Henry Gee Barnard (b. 1789, d. 1858): book-plate (inside upper cover [f. i] verso).

Henry Yates Thompson (b. 1838, d. 1928), collector of illuminated manuscripts and newspaper proprietor: with his book-plate inscribed '[MS] 24 / £ybs.e.e [i.e. £316.0.0] / [bought from] Ellis Elvey / Oct 29th / 1895' (f. [ii] recto).

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

Publications:

Montague Rhodes James, A Descriptive Catalogue of Fifty Manuscripts from the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson (Cambridge: University Press, 1898), no. 24 pp. 115-19.

[Derek Howard Turner], Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series V: Fifty Plates (London: British Museum, 1965), no. XL p. 22, pl. XL.

J. J. G. Alexander and A. C. de la Mare, The Italian Manuscripts in the Library of Major J. R. Abbey (London: Faber and Faber, 1969), p. 78 n. 1.

Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I, no. 949 p. 162, II, pl. 805.

Bonifacio G. Baroffio, 'Codici liturgici italiani datati o databili 1400-1550: inventario sommario', in Liturgia in Figura: Codici liturgici rinascimentali della Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, ed. by Giovanni Morello and Silvia Maddalo (Rome: De Luca, 1994), pp. 335-39 (p. 339).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Subjects:

Book of Hours

Places:

Naples, Italy