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Yates Thompson MS 17
- Record Id:
- 040-002354427
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002354332
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000772.0x0001d9
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056069576.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Yates Thompson MS 17
- Title:
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Peter Lombard, Sententiae
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-142r: Peter Lombard (b. c. 1100, d. 1160), Sententiae (Sentences), preceded by the prologue (ff. 2r-4r): 'Cupientes aliquid de penuria ac tenuitate nostra'.
ff. 1v; 142v-143v: A fragment from an anonymous treatise on the seven sins, several quires are lacking, beginning on f. 142v: 'Si vis confiteri debes primo radices peccatorum inquirere'; ending on f. 1v: 'et quod de eius penitentia eis leticiam non prebuilt. Explicit de septem viciis capitalibus. Amen. Explicit Amen'. This text is written by a contemporary hand.
The manuscript contains an addition:
f. 1: A fragment from a 12th-century manuscript of the Decretum Gratiani (Decree of Gratian).
Decoration:
Eight large and smaller decorated initials, in colours and gold (ff. 2r, 4v, 42v, 75r, 76r (x2), 102r, 103r).
Small initials in red with blue or green pen-flourishing, in blue with red pen-flourishing, in green with red pen-flourishing, or in brown with red pen-flourishing, some with reserved designs.
Seventeen marginal coloured drawings of animals, often inside or juxtaposed with medallions or interlace patterns, at the end or beginning of quires (ff. 8v, 16v, 24v, 32v, 40v, 48v, 56v, 64v, 72v, 80v, 88v, 96v, 104v, 111v, 120v, 128v, 136v).
Holes in the parchment encircled in red and green.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Yates Thompson Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002354332
040-002354427 - Is part of:
- Yates Thompson MS 1-59 : Yates Thompson Manuscripts
Yates Thompson MS 17 : Peter Lombard, Sententiae - Hierarchy:
- 032-002354332[0018]/040-002354427
- 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_100056069576.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1175
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 400 x 275 mm (text space 290 x 180 mm, in two columns).
Foliation: ff. 143; f. 1 is a fragment from a 12th-century manuscript.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Pre-1600. Probably original, parchment over oak boards, clasp and bosses missing; fore-edge painting.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Neuvelle-lès-la-Charité, Eastern France.
Provenance:
The Cistercian abbey of Notre-Dame de La Charité, Neuvelle-lès-la-Charité (diocese of Besancon), founded in 1133: copied by Renaudus (fl. 1161), its prior in 1161, according to a partially erased colophon on f. 142r ('Hec tibi, summe Deus, tuus offert scripta Renaudus; Si placet oblatum, pius ejus solve reatum. Qui servare libris pretiosis nescit honorem, Illius a manibus sit procul iste liber [Marie de Caritate, erased]') [see Turcan-Verkerk, Les manuscrits de La Charité (2000)]; an early-modern shelf mark, inscribed '113' (f. 1r), similar to the inscription '116' in Add MS 15603 from La Charité in a similar binding (see also Harley MS 2895 from La Charité); added, 15th-century versified enigma in Latin and Middle French, 'Annus millenus centenus dum numerator / Et ter annus millenus septenus dum numerator / Et ter centenus Domini qui diis dominator / Octobris feria VI qua crux venerator / temple milicia crucis emula capta ligature / Extremum nimia pinguedine reampli (sic) / Ad Lilium duo C consociando doce. Prenez lateste de hun Menton / de hun Chat et de hun Chien et de hun Chapon. En fin porrez trover lou tamps / que li templer furent mis enz' (f. 1r), with the dates 1307 and 1312 (see Turcan-Verkerk, Les manuscrits de la Charité (2000); cited in the inventory of the library of 1757 (see Turcan, 'Inventaire' (2012)).
Thomas and William Boone (fl. 1815-1870), antiquarian booksellers, London: perhaps purchased from Sotheby's (see the Sotheby's catalogue entry for 1852, lot 937, affixed to the inside upper cover) and sold to Bertram Ashburnham.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham; his Appendix Ms. 85; bought from Boone, 1852, for £15, according to the handwritten annotations in the British Library Manuscript Department's copy of the Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix (London: Hodgson, 1853).
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. LXXXV 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] 70 / £le.e.e [i.e. £90.0.0] / [bought from the] Earl of / Ashburnham / May 1897' (inside upper cover). Bequeathed to the British Museum by Mrs Henry Yates Thompson, 1941.
- Information About Copies:
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- Publications:
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Jules Gauthier, 'Catalogue des manuscrits de l'abbaye cistercienne de La Charité au diocèse de Besançon', Bibliothèque de l'école des Chartes, 42 (1881), 19-29 (pp. 20-21).
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Second Series of Fifty Manuscripts (Nos. 51 to 100) in the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1902), pp. 130-33 (no. 70).
Illustrations from One Hundred Manuscripts in the Library of Henry Yates Thompson, 7 vols. (London: Chiswick Press, 1907-1918), 7 (1918), p. 2, pl. 7.
S. de Ricci, 'Les manuscrits de la collection Henry Yates Thompson', Bulletin de la Société française de reproduction des manuscrits à peintures, 10 (1926), 42-72 (p. 59).
Anne-Marie Turcan-Verkerk, Les manuscrits de La Charité, Cheminon et Montier-en-Argonne: Collections cisterciennes et voies de transmission des textes (IXe-XIXe siècles), Documents, études et répertoires, 59, Histoire des bibliothèques médiévales, 10 (Paris: CNRS, 2000), pp. 54-61; 125-26.
Anne-Marie Turcan-Verkerk, 'Inventaire-Charité (La), Notre-Dame, O. Cist. (H)-1757', in Libraria: Pour l'histoire des bibliothèques anciennes (Paris: Institut de Recherches et d'Histoire des Textes, 2012) »http://www.libraria.fr/en/editions/inventaire-—-charite-la-notre-dame-o-cist-h-6« [accessed 13 February 2017].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.