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Yates Thompson MS 40
- Record Id:
- 040-002355509
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002354332
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000827.0x000078
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165175678.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Yates Thompson MS 40
- Title:
- Psalter ('The Camaldoli Psalter'), with partial gloss
- Scope & Content:
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f. 1r: Prayers to Christ and Mary.
ff. 1v–7v: Calendar.
ff. 8r–9r: Prayers.
ff. 9v–134r: Psalter.
ff. 134r–148v: Canticles.
ff. 148v–150v: Litany.
ff. 151r–184v: Prayers (some of those on ff. 183r–184v later additions).
Decoration:
1 large full-page miniature of crucified Christ with Mary and John, in colours and gold (f. 178r). 1 full-page inhabited initial in colours and gold (f. 9v). Initials with foliate and geometric decoration in colours and white. Large initials in red. Capital letters at the beginning of each line in red, in-filled with yellow.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Yates Thompson Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002354332
040-002355509 - Is part of:
- Yates Thompson MS 1-59 : Yates Thompson Manuscripts
Yates Thompson MS 40 : Psalter ('The Camaldoli Psalter'), with partial gloss - Hierarchy:
- 032-002354332[0044]/040-002355509
- 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_100165175678.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1125
- End Date:
- 1149
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- User Conditions:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 270 × 190 mm (written area 185 × 105 mm).
Foliation: ff. 184 (+ 1 paper flyleaf at the beginning, and 1 at the end).
Collation: i–xxiii8 (ff. 1-184).
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600. Leather, Italian, probably 18th-century.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Central Italy (possibly Fontebuono).
Provenance:
The Camaldolese abbey of Fontebuono, 1286: added prayer for Frater Symon and inscribed 'In nomine Domini Amen. MCCLXXXVI. In Assumptione beate Marie Virginis Ego Petrus Peccator Monacus [..., erased]me in cella nova tempore [Dommpni(?) ..., erased]am Prioris [..., erased]' (f. 184r); listed in its catalogue no. Q. III (see Mittarelli and Costadoni, Annales Camaldulenses (1760), V, 195; Garrison Mediaeval Italian Painting, (1954) p. 102 n. 2).
Numerous additions and corrections from the 13th to the 15th century (ff. 1-9, 183r-184v).
Transcription of the inscription of 1286 followed by 'ita legi ego Ang. Mar. Bandinius I.V.D. Laun. Biblioth. Regius Protectus 1. Sept. 1787' (f. 184r).
Henry Yates Thompson (b. 1838, d. 1928), collector of illuminated manuscripts and newspaper proprietor: with his book-plate inscribed '£nrn.e.e [i.e. £525.0.0] / [bought from] Ellis / March 1925' (1st flyleaf [f. i]).
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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E. B. Garrison, Studies in the History of Mediaeval Italian Painting, 3 vols (Florence: L’impronta, 1953-58), I, 27, 90, 102-05, 112 n. 5, 114, 184 n. 18, figs. 152-53.
Hugo Buchthal and Francis Wormald, Miniature Painting in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1957), p. 30 n. 2.
D. H. Turner, 'A Twelfth-Century Psalter from Camaldoli', Revue Bénédictine, 72 (1962), 109-30.
Henri Barré, Prières Anciennes de l'Occident à la Mère du Sauveur: Des origines à saint Anselme (Paris: Lethielleux, 1963), pp. 222-24.
[D. H. Turner], Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series 5 (London: British Museum, 1965), p. 8, pl. IV.
[Derek Howard Turner], Illuminated Manuscripts Exhibited in the Grenville Library (London, British Museum, 1967), p. 52.
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Manuscript (Oxford: Phaidon, 1979), p. 22, fig. 12.
Pierluigi Licciardello, 'I Camaldolesi tra unità e pluralità (XI-XII sec.): Istituzioni, modelli, rappresentazioni', Atti del XXVIII Convegno del Centro Studi Avellaniti, Fonte Avellana (2007), pp. 29, 33, online at http://www.rmoa.unina.it/1543/1/RM-Licciardello-Camaldolesi.pdf [accessed 2.2.2017].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)