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Yates Thompson MS 16
- Record Id:
- 040-002354426
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002354332
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000772.0x0001d8
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Yates Thompson MS 16
- Title:
- Bible
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-3r: St Jerome’s preface to the Vulgate.
ff. 3r-359r: Bible.
ff. 359v-388r: Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominum (Explanations of Hebrew names), an alphabetical list of Hebrew names found in the Bible, with a short Latin explanation, attributed to Stephen Langton, archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1228).
Decoration:
The decoration of the manuscript has been attributed to the school of the Master of the Gold Scrolls (see Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting (1987), p. 31).
14 large historiated initials (ff. 1r, 28v, 156v, 168r, 169v, 171v, 173r, 175v, 242r, 262r, 265v, 267v, 275r, 291r).
2 full foliate borders, the second containing historiated roundels and the portrait of a monk in prayer (ff. 1r, 3r).
Large decorated initials, with partial foliate borders, in colours and gold.
Small initials in gold on red and blue grounds, developing bars with foliate endings or 'U' shaped hooks containing 305 marginal miniatures, in colours and gold; some cut out; repaired with parchment, initials, foliate borders, and script replaced, some perhaps contemporary? and others perhaps of the 19th century? (ff. 60v, 97r, 99v, 163v-164v, 165v, 177r, 179r, 211r, 222v, 243v, 257r, 259v, 291r, 298r, 299r, 303v, 304v-305v, 307v, 313v, 314v-315r, 320v, 342r, 357v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Yates Thompson Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002354332
040-002354426 - Is part of:
- Yates Thompson MS 1-59 : Yates Thompson Manuscripts
Yates Thompson MS 16 : Bible - Hierarchy:
- 032-002354332[0017]/040-002354426
- 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:
- 1432
- End Date:
- 1432
- Date Range:
- 1432
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 400 x 290 mm (text space: 280 x 190 x mm).
Foliation: ff. 388 ( + 9 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning, and 13 at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Pale green pierced velvet.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Southern Netherlands.
The manuscript was made in 1432: the inscribed Latin colophon, 'Expliciunt interpretationes Deo Gracias 1432' (f. 388r).
Provenance:
An unidentified owner or patron: their heraldic arms in the borders: I: argent, three eagles displayed azure, beaked and clawed gules, within a bordure engrailed sable, repeated on f. 3r in close proximity to the kneeling figure of an ecclesiastic; II: of a slightly later date, sable, a cross accompanied in each canton by five billets saltirewise or (ff. 1r, 3r).
The Hertogenbosch convent of the Second Order of St Francis: inscribed, 'Conventus Sancti ...(?)' (f. 1r).
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham, Appendix Ms. 3, aquired from T. and W. Boone (their price-code inside lower cover) in July 1850 for £63.
Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire Ashburnham Appendix: book-plate with an inscribed number 'From the Library of the Earl of Ashburnham Appendix no. III May 1897' (inside upper cover).
Henry Yates Thompson (b. 1838, d. 1928), collector of illuminated manuscripts and newspaper proprietor: with his book-plate inscribed '[MS] 63 / £ree.e.e [i.e. £200.0.0] / [bought from] the Earl of Ashburnham / May 1897' (inside upper cover).
Bequeathed to the British Museum in 1941 by Mrs Henry Yates Thompson.
- Publications:
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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Second Series of Fifty Manuscripts (Nos. 51 to 100) in the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson (Cambridge: University Press, 1902), no. 63 pp. 95-105.
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. 951 p. 163, II, pl. 416.
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th Centuries (Amsterdam: B. M. Israe¨l, 1987), p. 31.
Maurits Smeyers, Vlaamse miniaturen van de 8ste tot het midden van de 16de eeuw: de middeleeuwse wereld op perkament (Leuven: Trion, 1998), pp. 238-39, pl. 10 on p. 239.
Maurits Smeyers, Flemish Miniatures from the 8th to the mid-16th Century (Leuven: Brepols, 1999), p. 238, pl. 10 on p. 239.
Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, 'Gold Scrolls Group', in Colum Hourihane (ed.), The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture, Volume 2 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 42-43, at 43.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Bible
- Places:
- Southern Netherlands