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Yates Thompson MS 28
- Record Id:
- 040-002354777
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002354332
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000772.0x0002c1
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165175241.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Yates Thompson MS 28
- Title:
- Secreta secretorum, Il Tesoro and other texts
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-43r: Pseudo-Aristotle, Secreta secretorum.
ff. 43v-130r: Brunetto Latini, translated by Bono Giamboni, Il Tesoro (translation of Li Livres dou Tresor).
ff. 130v-143v: Miscellaneous texts.
ff. 144r and 144v are blank.
Decoration:
The decoration of the manuscript has been attributed to the Italian painter and illuminator Bartolomeo di Fruosino (b. 1336/9, d. 1441).
50 small miniatures, in colours (ff. 43v, 44r, 46r, 47r, 49r, 49v, 50v, 51r (x2), 53r, 53v, 54r, 55r, 55v, 56r (x2), 57r (x2), 57v, 58r, 58v, 59v (x3), 60r, 60v, 61r (x3), 61v, 63r, 63v (x2), 64r, 64v, 65r (x2), 65v (x2), 66r (x3), 66v (x2), 68r, 68v, 69r, 69v, 70r (x2)).
2 large decorated initials, with foliate extensions into the margins, in colours and gold (ff. 1r, 114r).
Small initials in red with purple pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Yates Thompson Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002354332
040-002354777 - Is part of:
- Yates Thompson MS 1-59 : Yates Thompson Manuscripts
Yates Thompson MS 28 : Secreta secretorum, Il Tesoro and other texts - Hierarchy:
- 032-002354332[0029]/040-002354777
- 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_100165175241.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Italian
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1425
- End Date:
- 1425
- Date Range:
- 1425
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 245 x 110 (180 x 110) mm.
Layout: long lines.
Foliation: ff. 144 (+ 3 paper and 2 parchment flyleaves at the beginning, and 2 parchment and 3 paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Red tooled leather; Gruel (signed); gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Florence, Italy.
Provenance:
Written by Bartolomeo di Lorenzo of Fighine in 1425: colophon 'Questo libro e scripto dimano di fere bartolomeo di lorenco da fighine compvito adi xvj dimarco Mccccxxv.' (f. 143v).
Henry Yates Thompson (b. 1838, d. 1928), collector of illuminated manuscripts and newspaper proprietor: with his book-plate inscribed '[MS] LXXXIX / aee.e.e [i.e. £400.0.0] / [bought from] J. Rosenthal / 28th June / 1906' (inside upper cover); in his sale, 3 June 1919, lot 16, bought by the British Museum, the manuscript became Additional 39844 and was re-numbered after the creation of the 'Yates Thompson' shelfmark, following Mrs Yates Thompson's bequest of manuscripts in 1941.
- Former Internal References:
- Add MS 39844
- Information About Copies:
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Select digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm
Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digital Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/manuscripts/
- 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. LXXXIX pp. 119-26.
Illustration from One Hundred Manuscripts in the Library of Henry Yates Thompson, 7 vols (London: Chiswick Press, 1907-18), II (1908), pp. 13-14, pls. XXXIV-XXXVII.
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. 399 [as Add. 39844] pp. 82-83, II, pl. 376.
I Santi Patroni: Modelli di santità, culti e patronati in Occidente, ed. by Claudio Leonardi and Antonella Degl'Innocenti (Milan: Centro Tibaldi, 1999), p. 199 [exhibition catalogue].
Ada Labriola, 'Lorenzo Monaco miniatore tra il 1410 e gli ultimi anni di attivitá (e alcune proposte per la miniatura fiorentina del tempo', in Lorenzo Monaco: Dalla tradizione giottesca al Rinascimento a cura di Angelo Tartuferi, Daniela Parenti (Florence: Giunti 2006), p. 93 [exhibition catalogue].
Milvia Bollati, 'Intorno a Lorenzo Monaco: qualche considerazione sull'attivitá di Bartolomeo di Fruosino', in Nuovi studi sulla pittura tardogotica: Intorno a Lorenzo Monaco, ed. by Daniela Parenti and Angelo Tratuferi (Livorno: Sillabe, 2007), pp. 139, 141-42.
Brigitte Roux, 'L'iconographie du livre du tresor: diversite des cycles', in Tavola Rotonda III: Brunetto Latino, Li Livres dou Tresor e ilTesoro, Dante, La Commedia, The Gothic and Renaissance Manuscripts, Florence, 2002, Brunetto Latino, Florin website, http://florin.ms/beth5.html#stones[accessed 6 March 2012]. [referring to this manuscript as Additional 39844].
Ada Labriola, catalogue entry, in Bagliori dorati: Il Gotico Internazionale a Firenze 1375-1440 (Florence: Giunti, 2012), p. 77 (fig. 7), no. 81 [exhibition catalogue].
- Exhibitions:
- The Everlasting Flame: Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination, National Museum, New Delhi, 19 March 2016 - 29 May 2016
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- Zoroaster the founder of magic. Exhibited: The Everlasting Flame: Zoroastrianism in history and imagination, National Museum, New Delhi, 19 March - 29 May 2016.