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Yates Thompson MS 39

Record Id:

040-002355507

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002354332

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000827.0x000077

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Yates Thompson MS 39

Title:

Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars; Ausonius, Caesars

Scope & Content:

Contents:

f. i: Bookplate of Henry Yates Thompson.

f. iii: Short catalogue of the volume’s contents.

ff. 1r-213v: Suetonius, De vita Caesarum (On the Lives of the Caesars).

ff. 214r-217v: Ausonius (b. c. 310, d. c. 122), Caesares (Caesars), verses on emperors from Caesar to Heliogabalus.

ff. ii, 217v are blank.

Decoration:

1 large white-vine initial, accompanied by a three-sided white-vine border, including heraldic arms in the lower margin, in colours and gold (f. 1). 11 smaller white-vine initials, in colours and gold (ff. 30v, 72r, 99r, 122r, 142r, 166v, 175v, 180v, 188r, 198r, 202v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Yates Thompson Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002354332
040-002355507

Is part of:

Yates Thompson MS 1-59 : Yates Thompson Manuscripts

Yates Thompson MS 39 : Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars; Ausonius, Caesars

Hierarchy:

032-002354332[0043]/040-002355507

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:

1469

End Date:

1469

Date Range:

1469

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 240 x 168 mm (text space: 140 x 83 mm).

Foliation: ff. iv + 217.

Script: Humanistic.

Binding: Pre-1600. Burgundy velvet over wooden boards. Metalwork bosses and new clasps; gilt fore-edge.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Italy, Northern.

Scribe:

Cassius of Parma. The same scribe copied another MS for Angelo Fasolo in 1470 (Turin, Bibliotheca Nazionale, 560 K VI 18), see Bénédictins du Bouveret Colophons de manuscrits occidentaux des origines au XVIe siècle, 6 vols (Fribourg: Éditions universitaires, 1965-82), I, no. 2509 p. 315.

Artist:

Attributed to Gioacchino de Gigantibus.

Provenance:

Angelo Fasolo (d. 1491), Bishop of Feltre, copied for him by Cassius of Parma in September, 1469: colophon 'Scripsit cassius parmensis pro An. fas. Ep(isc)o(pis) feltren(sis) die octava Septembris 1469' (f. 217), and Fasolo's overpainted arms (f. 1r).

Greek inscriptions, 15th/16th century (ff. 28v, 40r); a number of Fasolo's manuscripts were bought by Lodovico Podocataro (d. 1504).Gaspar de Haro y Guzman (b. 1645, d. 1687), marqués de Eliche y Carpio, Spain: inscribed with his shelfmark 'na 5. 6. no. 14.' (f. 1r, lower margin; ex info. Suzanne Reynolds), whose library was sold in 1690.

Friedrich Adolf Hansen ab Ehrencron, ambassador extraordinary of the King of Denmark; his sale by de Hondt, the Hague, 5 September 1718, lot 4 among the MSS in quarto (p. 510 of the sale catalogue).

Thomas Hobart (d. 1726), tutor on the Grand Tour of Edward Coke, future Earl of Leicester.

Sir Thomas Mostyn (b. 1704, d. 1758), who acquired the Hobart manuscripts c. 1728, and successive Lords Mostyn of Mostyn Hall: shelf-mark number 'H / 7 a' and 'Ms No 77'; sold 13 July 1920, lot 116 (cutting pasted to 1st flyleaf); bought by Yates Thompson.

Henry Yates Thompson (b. 1838, d. 1928), collector of illuminated manuscripts and newspaper proprietor: with his book-plate inscribed '[MS] CIX / £on.e.e [i.e. £85.0.0] / [bought from] Sotheby's / (Allen) / Jan 30th / 1920' (inside upper cover). This is apparently an error: the present manuscript does not correspond to the descriptions of either of the Suetonius manuscripts (lots 102-103) in the sale catalogue, but Yates Thompson 38 was lot 74 in the Allen sale, hence a possible source of confusion.

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

Publications:

John W. Bradley, A Dictionary of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers, and Copyists, with references to their works, and notices of their patrons, from the establishment of Christianity to the eighteenth century: Compiled from various sources, many hitherto inedited, 3 vols (London: Quaritch, 1887-89), I, 198.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Subjects:

Classical Literature

Places:

Northern Italy