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Yates Thompson MS 11
- Record Id:
- 040-002354401
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002354332
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000772.0x0001d2
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165174851.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Yates Thompson MS 11
- Title:
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Collection of moral tracts
- Scope & Content:
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This collection of moral tracts originally formed one volume with the Somme le Roy, Add. MS 28162. The manuscript includes:
ff. 2r-7r: Traité de la sainte abbaye; incipit: 'La sainte abbaie e la religion doit estre fondee...'
ff. 7r-28: Traité de l'amour de Dieu; incipit: 'Vous vouliez que je vous envoiaisse chose qui confortast vostre ame'.
ff. 28v-51v: Trois états de l'âme chrétienne; incipit: 'Trois estas de bones ames sunt...'
ff. 53r-82r: Livre des tribulations attributed to Pierre de Blois; rubric: 'Da nobis domine auxilium de tribulatione'; incipit: 'A toi ame livree aus temptacions'.
Decoration:
4 full-page miniatures, divided in several compartments, in colours and gold, mounted on guards and on separate leaves added to the quires (ff. 1v, 6v, 29r, 52v). Large and smaller decorated initials, many with foliate extensions into the margins, in colours and gold. Small initials in gold on red and blue grounds (f. 81v). Decorated line-fillers, in colours and gold (f. 81v). Paraph marks in red or blue.
The subjects of the miniatures are:
f. 1v: Miniature in two registers, representing the ideal state of the 'Sainte-Abbaye'; the upper register: the celestial church with God surrounded by angels, Evangelists' symbols, the Virgin and St Peter; the lower: an earthly nunnery with a Cistercian Abbess, nuns and novices.
f. 6v: Miniature in two registers; the upper register: a mass celebrated in a church and attended by members of a nunnery; the lower register: a procession of nuns led by a priest.
f. 29r: Miniature divided in four compartments: 1. a nun confessing to a monk; 2. the nun praying before an image of Christ crowning the Virgin; 3. the nun's vision of Christ; 4. the nun's vision of the Trinity.
f. 52v: Christ teaching the Pater Noster to his twelve apostles, with a group of eight Jews below. This miniature has been incorrectly bound in this volume in the 19th century; it was formerly a part of the Somme le Roy, now Add. MS 28162.
The style of the miniatures has been linked to the North-East of France, Lorraine (De Winter 1980 and Toubert 1995), but shows Parisian influences of Master Honoré.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Yates Thompson Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002354332
040-002354401 - Is part of:
- Yates Thompson MS 1-59 : Yates Thompson Manuscripts
Yates Thompson MS 11 : Collection of moral tracts - Hierarchy:
- 032-002354332[0012]/040-002354401
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Yates Thompson MS 1-59
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165174851.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- French, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1285
- End Date:
- 1305
- Date Range:
- c 1290-c 1300
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 245 x 180 mm (text space: 160 x 120 mm).
Foliation: ff. ii + 82 (+ 6 paper flyleaves at the beginning, and 5 at the end; f. i is an original flyleaf, f. ii is a note pasted to the 5th paper flyleaf).
Collation: i 8+2 (1st and 6th leaves inserted; ff. 1-10), ii-iii8 (ff. 11-26), iv8+1 (3rd leaf inserted; ff. 27-35), v-vi8 (ff. 36-51), vii12+1 (1st leaf inserted; ff. 52-64), viii12 (ff. 65-76), ix2 (ff. 77-78), x4 (ff. 79-82).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding; rebound in 1965.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Central France (Paris or Maubuisson?) or Northeastern France (Lorraine).
Provenance:
Erased inscription written in pencil in the lower margin of f. 42r, barely legible.
Probably commissioned for the Cistercian nunnery of Notre-Dame-la-Royale at Maubuisson: included in the inventory of books at Notre-Dame-la-Royale of Maubuisson of 1463, no. 210 (see Rouse and Rouse 2000).
Inscribed on the otherwise blank rectos of the miniatures, 15th century: 'Jacques' (ff. 1r, 6r, 52r, and Additional 28162, ff. 2*r, 3r, 4r, 5r, 6r, 7r, 8r, 9r, 10r).
P. Ponin, priest, 16th century: inscribed 'P. Ponin presbitere' (Add. MS 28162, f. 2r).
According to a former owner, the manuscript was mentioned in an inventory of the royal convent of Poissy (see Auguste comte de Bastard d'Estang, Etudes de symbolique chrétienne (Paris: Imprimérie Impériale, 1861), p. 185; Léopold Delisle, Notice de douze livres royaux du XIIIe et du XIVe siècles (Paris: Imprimérie Nationale, 1902), p. 122).
Guillaume du Peyrat (d. 1645?), counsellor and almoner of King Henry IV and Louis XIII, treasurer of the Sainte-Chapelle of Paris: inscribed 'Lan mil deux cens soixante et neuf. Peyrat' (Add. MS 28162, f. 1r), and 'Peyrat. Ce livre a ete commance et acheve par un frere de lordre de precheur a la requeste du Roy Philippe en lan mil deux cens soixante et neuf. Peyrat' (Add. MS 28162, f. 146r).
? Jean-Baptiste Joseph Barrois (b. 1784, d. 1855), French deputy and book collector (on whom see Hugh Collingham, 'Joseph Barrois: Portrait of a Bibliophile XXVI', Book Collector, 33 (1984), 431-48); the sale catalogue of Firmin Didot, noting that some inscriptions indicating this provenance were legible on the flyleaves of the former binding (see Catalogue illustré des livres précieux: manuscrits et imprimés faisant partie de la bibliothèque de M. Ambroise Firmin-Didot, 6 vols (Paris: Librairie Firmin-Didot, 1978-1984), II: Théologie - Jurisprudence - Sciences - Arts - Beaux-Arts (1879), no. 36 pp. 89-93).
Jean-François Auguste, comte de Bastard d'Estang (b. 1792, d. 1883), historian and collector: in his collection in 1846 (see Bibliotheca Lindesiana: Upon the Facsimile, Paintings and Publications of the Comte Auguste de Bastard d'Estang (London: Wyman and Sons, 1886), p. 39, and J.-F. Auguste Bastard d'Estang, Peintures et ornements des manuscrits… (Paris, 1832-1869), no. 251 ter).
Ambroise Firmin-Didot (b. 1790, d. 1876), publisher and book-collector: his sale, 1879, lot 36 (unsold).
Henry Yates Thompson (b. 1838, d. 1928), collector of illuminated manuscripts and newspaper proprietor: his MS 40, acquired from the Didot family in October 1895; his sale, 3 June 1919, lot 3, bought by the British Museum for Frs 13100; it became Add. MS 39843 and was re-numbered after the creation of the 'Yates Thompson' shelfmark, following Mrs Yates Thompson's bequest of other manuscripts in 1941.
- Former Internal References:
- Add MS 39843
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Digitised Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/. Modern paper blank flyleaves do not form part of the digital surrogate.
- Publications:
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Auguste comte de Bastard d'Estang, Peintures et ornements des manuscrits, classés dans un ordre chronologique, pour servir à l'histoire des arts du dessin, depuis le IVe siècle de l'ère chrétienne jusqu'à la fin du XVIe siècle (Paris, 1835-1846), pl. 251 ter (livraison IV).
Montague Rhodes James, A Descriptive Catalogue of Fifty Manuscripts from the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson (Cambridge: University Press, 1898), no. 40 pp. 225-32.
Exposition des Primitifs Français au Palais du Louvre et à la Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris: Palais du Louvre and Bibliothèque nationale, 1904), no. 14 p. 9.
Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts (London: Chiswick Press, 1908), no. 140 pp. 96-97.
Schools of Illumination: Reproductions from Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by J. A. Herbert, 6 vols (London: British Museum, 1914-30), V: Carolingian and French to Early 14th Century (1926), pl. 14.
F. Wormald, 'The Yates Thompson Manuscripts', The British Museum Quarterly, 16 (1952), 4-6 (p. 5).
Josiah Q. Bennett, 'Portman Square to New Bond Street, or, How to Make Money though Rich', The Book Collector (1967), 323-39 (p. 330).
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Manuscript (Oxford: Phaidon, 1979), p. 44, pl. 35.
Patrick M. de Winter, ‘Une réalisation exceptionnelle d’enlumineurs français et anglais: le bréviaire de Renaud de Bar, évêque de Metz’ in Actes du 103e Congrès national des Sociétés Savantes, Nancy-Metz, 1978 (Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1980), p. 49.
Judith H. Oliver, Gothic Manuscript Illumination in the Diocese of Liège (c. 1250 - c. 1330), Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts from the Low Countries, 2 vols (Leuven: Peeters, 1988), II, p. 186.
Hélène Toubert, 'Les enluminures du manuscrit fr. 12400', in Federico II: De arte venandi cum avibus: l'art de la chace des oisiaus, Facsimile edizione critica del manoscritto fr. 12400 della Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Naples: Electa, 1995), 387-416 (p. 402, figs. 18-21).
L'art au temps des rois maudits: Philippe le Bel et ses fils (1285-1328) (Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1998), no. 188(b) pp. 281-83 [mentioned as Additional 39843].
Richard A. Rouse and Mary A. Rouse, Manuscripts and their Makers: Commercial Book Producers in Medieval Paris 1200-1500, 2 vols (London: Harvey Miller, 2000), I, 155-156.
Justin Clegg, The Medieval Church in Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2003), pp. 30-32, pl. 25.
La Somme le Roy par frère Laurent, ed. by Édith Brayer and Anne-Françoise Leurquin-Labie (Paris: Société des Anciens Textes Français, 2008), pp. 491-92.
Aden Kumler, Translating Truth: Ambitious Images and Religious Knowledge in Late Medieval France and England (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011), pp. 160, 164-167, 206, 207 (fig. 73), 217, 218 (fig. 79), 219, 228, 229 (fig. 80), 232, 240, 260 (n. 10), 261 (n. 18), 261 (25), 262 (n. 12), 262 (nn. 30-31), 262 (n. 33).
Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Nigel F. Palmer, The Prayer Book of Ursula Begerin, 2 vols (Dietikon-Zurich: Urs Graf Verlag, 2015), I, pp. 371, 390, fig. 540. - Exhibitions:
- The Middle Ages, (online), 26 March 2015-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)