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Yates Thompson MS 18
- Record Id:
- 040-002354428
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002354332
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000772.0x0001da
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Yates Thompson MS 18
- Title:
- Psalter and prayers
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 2r-7v: Calendar.
ff. 9r-201v: Psalter and litany (ff. 196v-201r).
ff. 202v-229v: A set of prayers, added c 1480-1500.
ff. 1r-v, 8r-v, 202r, 211v-212v are blank.
Decoration:
The decoration of the first part of the manuscript (ff. 2r-201v) has been attributed to the Ste.-Chapelle group and the Guines atelier (for the line-fillers and marginalia), according to Branner, Manuscript Painting (1977). Branner also includes the Psalter in a group of Psalters called the 'Henry VIII group', including Montpellier, Faculté de Médecine, H. 196; Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 8892; Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, ms. 9; and Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Bibl. fol. 14.
The miniatures accompanying the added set of prayers (ff. 202v-229) were illuminated in the style of the Master of the Prayer Books, datable to c. 1500 (ff. 202v-229v).
1 large miniature, accompanied by a full foliate border, in colours and gold (f. 213r).
8 large historiated initials with partial borders, in colours and gold at the major divisions of the Psalms (ff. 9r, 35v, 52r, 68v, 84r, 104r, 121v, 140r).
12 large historiated initials or small miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 220v, 221r, 221v (x2), 222r, 222v, 223r (x2), 224r, 225r, 231r, 233v, 234r, 234v, 238v, 241v).
1 smaller historiated initial in colours and gold at the beginning of Psalm 51 (f. 67v).
24 calendar roundels, in colours and gold (ff. 1-7v).
Decorated initials with zoomorphic figures, in colours and gold.
Small initials in gold on red and blue grounds. Line-fillers with zoomorphic figures, in colours and gold.
Hybrids or animals in the lower margin.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Yates Thompson Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002354332
040-002354428 - Is part of:
- Yates Thompson MS 1-59 : Yates Thompson Manuscripts
Yates Thompson MS 18 : Psalter and prayers - Hierarchy:
- 032-002354332[0019]/040-002354428
- 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:
- 1275
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 215 x 145 mm (text space: 130 x 75 mm).
Foliation: ff. 244 (+ 1 unfoliated medieval flyleaf at the beginning, and 2 at the end).
Collation: i-xxiii8 (ff. 1-184), xxiv-xxv6 (ff. 185-196), xxvi8-2 (7th and 8th leaves excised after f. 202, probably blank; ff. 197-202), xxvii10 (ff. 203-212), xxviii-xxix8 (ff. 213-228), xxx8-1 (7th leaf excised after f. 234, probably blank; ff. 229-235), xxxi8+1 (9th leaf inserted, f. 244; ff. 236-244).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Tooled and stamped calf over boards, with the motto and name of Henry VIII (between 1509 and 1547); gilt and gauffered edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Paris, France; Southern Netherlands (ff. 202v-229v).
Provenance:
The calendar is Parisian, but the manuscript was probably made for use in Brittany: the litany includes the Breton saints Melanius II, Corentinus and Maclovius (f. 198r).
Inscription in English, late 15th or early 16th century, beside the prayer to St Bridget (f. 234r), and St Bridget's name in litany (f. 205v).
? Henry VII (b. 1457, d. 1509): he resided in Brittany between 1471 and 1484, and might have acquired the manuscript then.
Henry VIII (b. 1491, d.1547): the binding by King Henry's Bindery, c. 1530-1535 featuring his motto (see Nixon, 'Early English Gold-Tooled Bookbindings' (1964), p. 289.
Thomas Thomas: his sale, 29 November 1843, lot 374, bought by Pickering for £31.10: note (inside upper cover).
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham; his Appendix Ms. 30; bought from Joseph Lilly, 18 March 1844, for £40, according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of 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. XXX 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] 73 / £rbe.e.e [i.e. £210.0.0] / [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. 73 pp. 141-45.
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. 5, pls. XIII-XV.
Howard M. Nixon, ‘Early English Gold-Tooled Bookbindings’, in Studi di Bibliografia e di Storia in Onore de Tammaro de Marinis, 4 vols (Verona: Biblioteca Apostolica Stamperia Valdonega, 1964), III, pp. 283-308 (p. 289, pl. 1).
[Derek Howard Turner], Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series V: Fifty Plates (London: British Museum, 1965), no. XV p. 12, pl. XV.
Robert Branner, Manuscript Painting in Paris During the Reign of Saint Louis: A Study of Styles (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977), pp. 11, 70, 129, 130, 132, 211, 237, fig. 381.
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, 168 [rejected].
John Higgitt, The Murthly Hours: Devotion, Literacy and Luxury in Paris, England and the Gaelic West (London: British Library, 2000), pp. 61-62.
Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle, Bible Manuscripts: 1400 Years of Scribes and Scripture (London: British Library, 2007), p. 123, fig. 110.
Sacred: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and their Sacred Texts (London: British Library, 2007), p. 148. [exhibition catalogue].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Bible
- Places:
- Paris, France
Southern Netherlands