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Yates Thompson MS 31
- Record Id:
- 040-002354846
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002354332
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000772.0x0002ee
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165175455.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Yates Thompson MS 31
- Title:
- Matfre Ermengaud, Breviari d'Amor
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
Matfre Ermengaud, Breviari d'Amor (Catalan prose version). The text is adapted from a Provençal poem composed between 1288 and 1292. This manuscript is one of five known copies in Catalan.
Decoration:
1 small miniature, accompanied by a large decorated initial and a full foliate border, in colours and gold (f. 2). 14 full-page miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 8r, 40r, 40v, 43r, 45r, 48v, 49v, 55v, 66r, 67v, 70v, 72r, 77r, 135r). Numerous small, one-column miniatures in colours and gold (ff. 13v, 17r, 35r, 39v (x4), 46r, 46v (x3), 47r (x3), 47v (x2), 48r (x3), 51v (x2), 52r, 53r, 53v, 54r, 54v, 55r [in the margin], 56v, 63r, 64r, 73r (x2), 73v (x3), 74r (x3), 74v (x2), 75r (x2), 87r, 88r (x2), 88v, 89r, 99v, 100r, 110v (x8), 125r, 125v, 126r, 127v, 128r (x2), 128v, 131r (x3), 131v (x2), 132r (x3), 132v (x3), 133r (x4), 133v (x3), 134r (x3), 134v, 142v (x2), 167v, 168v, 169r, 169v, 170r (x2), 170v (x3), 171r (x3), 171v (x2), 174v (x3), 199v, 215v, 216r, 216v, 220r (x2), 220v (x2), 221r, 221v (x2), 222r, 222v (x2), 223r, 223v (x2), 224r, 224v, 225r (x3), 225v (x5), 226r (x3), 226v (x4), 227r, 227v, 228v, 229r (x2), 230r (x2), 231r, 232r (x2), 233v (x2), 234r, 234v, 235r, 236r (x2), 236v (x2), 237r, 238r (x2), 238v (x2), 239r (x3), 240r, 240v (x3), 250r (x4), 251r (x2), 252r, 252v (x2), 253r, 254r, 255r). 2 diagrams, in colours (ff. 65r, 70r). Large decorated initials with foliate extensions into the margins, in colours and gold.
For the subjects of the images, see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Yates Thompson Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002354332
040-002354846 - Is part of:
- Yates Thompson MS 1-59 : Yates Thompson Manuscripts
Yates Thompson MS 31 : Matfre Ermengaud, Breviari d'Amor - Hierarchy:
- 032-002354332[0033]/040-002354846
- 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_100165175455.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Catalan
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1375
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 365 x 250 mm (text space: 225 x 160 mm) written in two columns.
Foliation: ff. 260 (+ 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning, and 1 at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Pink silk embroidered with silver thread, 1st half of the 18th century, for J. de Valbelle, Bishop of St Omer.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Northeastern Spain (Catalonia, possibly Girona).
Provenance:
Joseph Alphonse de Valbelle, bishop of St Omer (1727-1754): appliqué embroidery on binding with letters 'JAVM'; bequeathed to his seminary whose possessions were dispersed at the Revolution (see Yates Thompson Catalogue, (1912), p. 1).
M. Paul Arbaud (b. 1831, d. 1911), collector, who founded the Musée Arbaud in Aix-en-Provence: an anonymous pamphlet descriptive of the book, 'Gratia Dei: de la gracia de nostra gloriosa virgine Madona Santa Maria etc. Etude critique archéologique et linguistique d'un MS. Appartenant aux collections de M. Paul Arbaud' (Marseilles, 1899).
Henry Yates Thompson (b. 1838, d. 1928), collector of illuminated manuscripts and newspaper proprietor, bought by him from Lucien Gougy (b. 1863, d.1931), bookseller of Paris: his book-plate inscribed '[MS] xcv / blos.e.e [i.e. £1986.0.0] / [bought from] Gougy / May 12 / 1906' (inside upper cover).
Bequeathed to the British Museum in 1941 by Mrs Henry Yates Thompson.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
Select digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm. - Publications:
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A Descriptive Catalogue of Fourteen Illuminated Manuscripts (Nos. XCV to CVII and 79A) Completing the Hundred in the Library of Henry Yates Thompson (Cambridge: University Press, 1912), no. XCV, pp. 1-22.
Millard Meiss, 'Italian style in Catalonia and a 14th Century Catalan Workshop', Journal of the Walters Art Gallery, 4 (1941), 45-87 (p. 78, fig. 35).
Francis Wormald, 'Afterthoughts on the Stockholm Exhibition', Konsthistorisk Tidskrift, 22 (1953), 75-84 (p. 81, fig. 4).
Pedro Bohigas, La Ilustración y la Decoratión del Libro Manuscrito en Cataluña: Período Gótico y Renacimiento, 2 vols (Barcelona: Asociación de Bibliófilos de Barcelona, 1965-1967), I, 82 n. 44, 150-55, 192-98 , figs 73, 99, 100, 102, 103.
[D. H. Turner], Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series 5 (London: British Museum, 1965), no. 29.
[Derek Howard Turner], Illuminated Manuscripts Exhibited in the Grenville Library (London, British Museum, 1967), pp. 53-54.
Katja Laske-Fix, Der Bildzyklus des Breviari d'amor (Munich and Zurich: Verlag Schnell & Steiner, 1973), p. 132.
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].
François Avril and others, Manuscrits enluminés de la péninsula ibérique (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1982), p. 101.
Francis Wormald, Collected Writings, ed. by J. J. G. Alexander, T. J. Brown, and Joan Gibbs, 2 vols (London: Harvey Miller, 1984-1988), II: Studies in English and Continental Art of the Later Middle Ages, p. 149, pl. 135.
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (London: British Library, 1997), no. 112, p. 134.
The Apocalypse and the Shape of Things to Come, ed. by Frances Carey (London: British Museum, 1999), pp. 89-90, no. 19 [exhibition catalogue].
Carlos M. Garcia-Tejedor, 'Los manuscritos con pinturas del Breviari d'Amor de Matfre Ermengaud de Beziers. Un estado de la cuestion' in La miniatura medieval en la Península Ibérica, ed. by Joaquín Yarza Luaces (Murcia: Nausícäa, 2007), pp. 313-73 (p. 323, n. 16).
Peter T. Ricketts, Connaissance de la littérature occitane: Matfre Ermengaud (1246-1322) et le Breviari d'amor (Perpignan, Presses Universitaires de Perpignan, 2012), p. 78.
Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Nigel F. Palmer, The Prayer Book of Ursula Begerin, 2 vols (Dietikon-Zurich: Urs Graf Verlag, 2015), I, pp. 148, 219.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)