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Yates Thompson MS 25
- Record Id:
- 040-002354546
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002354332
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000772.0x000220
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165175182.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Yates Thompson MS 25
- Title:
- Leaf from a Dominican Antiphonal
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript is a single detached leaf that once belonged to a large illuminated Antiphonal, containing the chants to be sung during the celebration of the Mass. The leaf carries part of the music for the feast of Easter.
Other detached leaves from the same manuscript include Victoria & Albert Museum MSS 8997 A-H and three leaves formerly Yates Thompson MS LXXXIIA (see Descriptive Catalogue (1907), pp. 75-78).
Decoration:
1 large historiated initial 'A'(lleluia) of the Resurrection, accompanied by a three sided border with figural, foliate, and grotesque decoration, including a hare blowing a horn and a monkey with a bow and arrow, a hybrid creature, and birds.
Smaller initials in red with blue (and red) pen-flourishing or in blue with red (and blue) pen-flourishing.
Musical notation.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Yates Thompson Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002354332
040-002354546 - Is part of:
- Yates Thompson MS 1-59 : Yates Thompson Manuscripts
Yates Thompson MS 25 : Leaf from a Dominican Antiphonal - Hierarchy:
- 032-002354332[0026]/040-002354546
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Yates Thompson MS 1-59
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 leaf
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165175182.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1324
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 14th century
- 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: 485 x 325 mm (written space: 340 x 225 mm).
Foliation: f. 1.
Script: Gothic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Northern France or Southern Netherlands.
Provenance:
Made for a Dominican house: 11 other leaves, once part of the same Antiphonal, show Dominican saints (3 leaves, Yates Thompson MS LXXXIIIA with the Dominican St Peter Martyr; 8 leaves, Victoria & Albert Museum MSS 8998 A-H with Sts Thomas Aquinas and Dominic).
Henry Willett (b. 1823, d. 1905), Brighton brewer and collector: his sale, Christie's, 5 July 1905; bought by Quaritch (according to the Yates Thompson Catalogue 1907).
Henry Yates Thompson (b. 1838, d. 1928), collector of illuminated manuscripts and newspaper proprietor: bought from Quaritch, 21 July 1905 (according to the Yates Thompson Catalogue 1907).
Bequeathed to the British Museum by Mrs Henry Yates Thompson in 1941.
- Information About Copies:
- Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts.
- 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. LXXXIIIa pp. 75-78.
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].
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (London: British Library, 1997), no. 83.
Medieval Mastery: Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold 800-1475 (Leuven: Brepols, 2002), no. 48 [exhibition catalogue].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)