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Yates Thompson MS 23
- Record Id:
- 040-002354544
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002354332
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000772.0x00021e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Yates Thompson MS 23
- Title:
- Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Hours of Agostino Biliotti')
- Scope & Content:
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Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Hours of Agostino Biliotti').
ff. 1r-v, 14r-v, 96r-v, 146v, 171v-174v, 188r-190v, 238v, 240v-241v are blank.
Decoration:
14 large and smaller historiated initials, the first accompanied by a full historiated border with heraldic decoration and all'antica features, including gemstones, putti, and candelabrae, the others accompanied by partial foliate borders, in colours and gold (ff. 15r, 97r, 147r, 175r, 191r, 191v, 207r, 210r, 213v, 216v, 219v, 224r, 231r, 235v). 9 large decorated initials, with foliate extensions into the margins, in colours and gold (ff. 39v, 45r, 50v, 55v, 61r, 70r, 75v, 81r, 202v). 12 KL initials in gold and blue (ff. 2r-13r). Small initials in plain gold or blue.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Yates Thompson Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002354332
040-002354544 - Is part of:
- Yates Thompson MS 1-59 : Yates Thompson Manuscripts
Yates Thompson MS 23 : Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Hours of Agostino Biliotti') - Hierarchy:
- 032-002354332[0024]/040-002354544
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Yates Thompson MS 1-59
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- French, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1485
- End Date:
- 1485
- Date Range:
- 1485
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 150 x 100 mm (text space: 75 x 45 mm).
Foliation: ff. 248 (+ 2 modern parchment flyleaves at the beginning, and 1 original and 2 modern parchment flyleaves at the end).
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600. Blue velvet; gilt and gauffered edges.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin:
Florence.
Provenance:
Written by Antonio Sinibaldi for Agostino Biliotti (d. 1490), Gonfalonier of Justice in Florence: his arms (f. 15r); colophon: 'Scripto per Agostino Biliotti da Antonio Sinibaldi gratis et amore Anno Domini MCCCCLXXXV' (f. 240r).
Abbate Canonici of Venice: his sale, 25 June 1836, lot 141.
Walter Sneyd: his sale, December 1903, lot 556; bought by Yates Thompson.
Henry Yates Thompson (b. 1838, d. 1928), collector of illuminated manuscripts and newspaper proprietor: with his book-plate inscribed '[MS] lxxviii / sae.e.e [i.e. £640.0.0] / [bought from] Sneyd Sale / Sotheby's / Dec / 1903' (inside upper cover).
Bequeathed to the British Museum in 1941 by Mrs Henry Yates Thompson.
- Publications:
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A Descriptive Catalogue of Twenty Illuminated Manuscripts, Nos. LXXV to XCIV (Replacing Twenty Discarded from the Original Hundred) in the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson (Cambridge: University Press, 1907), no. LXXVIII pp. 29-32.
P. D'Ancona, La Miniatura Fiorentina: Secoli XI-XVI, 2 vols (Florence: Olschki, 1914), no. 1379.
[Derek Howard Turner], Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series V: Fifty Plates (London: British Museum, 1965), no. XLII p. 22, pl. XLII.
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. 952 p. 163, II, pl. 843.
Annarosa Garzelli, 'Mariano del Buono di Jacopo' , in Miniatura fiorentina del Rinascimento, 1440-1525: un primo censimento, 2 vols, ed. by Annarosa Garzelli ([Florence]: Giunta regionale toscana, 1985), I, 189-215 (p. 214, fig. 752).
Albinia de la Mare, 'New Research on Humanistic Scribes in Florence', in Miniatura fiorentina del Rinascimento, 1440-1525: un primo censimento, 2 vols, ed. by Annarosa Garzelli ([Florence]: Giunta regionale toscana, 1985), I, 395-600 (pp. 460, 485).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Book of Hours
- Places:
- Florence, Italy