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Yates Thompson MS 24

Record Id:

040-002354545

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002354332

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000772.0x00021f

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Yates Thompson MS 24

Title:

Pontifical, Use of Mende ('The Pontifical of Guilelmus Durandus')

Scope & Content:

A collection of ceremonies conducted by bishops and other senior priests, often with musical notation.

Contents:

f. 1v: Added notes by a bishop of Comminges, 16th century.

ff. 2r-3v: Table of contents.

ff. 4r-76r: Rituals for ordaining, consecrating, and baptising.

ff. 76r-158r: Rituals for blessing objects, including weaponry, vestments, houses, ships, and the foundation stone of a church.

ff. 158r-205r: Guides to the duties and ceremonies conducted by senior clergy, including the ritual of excommunication, visitations, reconciling heretics, and holding a service for the recovery of the Holy Land.

ff. 205v-232r: Blessings for the year, for each Sunday, feast days, and special events.

ff. 232r-233r: The marriage ceremony.

ff. 233r-235r: Table of episcopal blessings.

ff. 1r and 235v are blank.

Horizontal catchwords.

Decoration:

3 small miniatures, accompanied by full foliate borders, in colours and gold (ff. 2r, 4v, 76r). Large decorated initials, developing full foliate borders, in red, blue and gold. Smaller decorated foliate initials with extensions into the margins, in red, blue and gold. Small initials and line-fillers in gold on red and blue grounds. Numerous initials in brown ink with yellow lavished penwork decoration, some with heads, in the musical parts.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Yates Thompson Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002354332
040-002354545

Is part of:

Yates Thompson MS 1-59 : Yates Thompson Manuscripts

Yates Thompson MS 24 : Pontifical, Use of Mende ('The Pontifical of Guilelmus Durandus')

Hierarchy:

032-002354332[0025]/040-002354545

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:

1385

End Date:

1402

Date Range:

c 1390-1402

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 410 x 290 mm (text space: 250 x 180 mm).

Foliation: ff. iv + 235 (1 parchment flyleaf numbered as f. 1, and 4 modern paper flyleaves).

Collation: i-xxviii8 (ff. 2-225), xxix10 (ff. 226-235).

Script: Gothic.

Binding: Post-1600. Brown diced leather, Russian?, 18th century; same binding as Yates Thompson MS 21.

Custodial History:

Origin:

France, Southern?

Provenance:

Guillaume Boisratier, 1409, when he became archbishop of Bourges: added arms showing the archbishop's cross (f. 2r).

A bishop of Comminges, 16th century: added note on flyleaf with reference to the diocese (f. 1v).

The Jesuit College of Paris, College of Clermont: inscribed 'Coll(egii) Paris(ii) Societatis Jesu', and 'Paraphé au desir de l’arret du cinq Juillet mil sept cens soixante trois. Mesnil' (f. 2r); this inscription was written in all the manuscripts belonging to this Library before they were sold in 1764 upon the expulsion of the Jesuits from France (see Léopold Delisle, Le Cabinet des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale, 3 vols (Paris: Imprimérie Nationale, 1868-81), I, p. 436); described in the sale catalogue of the Jesuits' Library manuscripts in 1764 (see Catalogus Manuscriptorum Codicum Collegii Claromontani, Paris: [n. pub.], 1764, no. 415 p. 137, where it is mentioned as having 233 folios).

Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham; his Appendix Ms. 47; bought from Pratt, March 1848, 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. XLVII 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] 81 / £ble.e.e [i.e. £190.0.0] / [bought from the] Earl of / Ashburnham / May 1897' (inside upper cover).

Bequeathed to the British Museum in 1941 by Mrs Henry Yates Thompson.

Publications:

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. 81 pp. 209-16.

[Derek Howard Turner], Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series V: Fifty Plates (London: British Museum, 1965), no. XXVII p. 17, pl. XXVII.

J. Brückmann, 'Latin Manuscript Pontificals and Benedictionals in England and Wales', Traditio, 29 (1973), 391-458 (p. 443).

Justin Clegg, The Medieval Church in Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2003), p. 33, fig. 27.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Subjects:

Liturgy

Places:

Southern France