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Yates Thompson MS 41

Record Id:
040-002355510
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002354332
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000000827.0x000079
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 41
Title:
Bible
Scope & Content:

Contents:

f. iv: Extract from sales catalogue, pastedown.

ff. 2r-6r: Jerome’s prologue to the Vulgate.

ff. 6r-557r: Bible.

f. 557v: Added verse, 13th century.

ff. 1r-v are blank.

Decoration:

5 large and smaller historiated initials, with partial borders or foliate extensions into the margins, in colours and gold (ff. 2r, 6r, 251r, 278v, 451v). Smaller initials with zoomorphic and foliate decoration, in colours and gold. Smaller puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in blue and red. Small initials in red with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Yates Thompson Collection
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002354332
040-002355510
Is part of:
Yates Thompson MS 1-59 : Yates Thompson Manuscripts

 

Yates Thompson MS 41 : Bible
Hierarchy:
032-002354332[0045]/040-002355510
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:
1235
End Date:
1250
Date Range:
c 1240-1250
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 151 x 114 mm (text space: 105 x 66 mm).

Foliation: ff. iv + 557 (+ 2 parchment flyleaves at the beginning, and 2 at the end).

Script: Gothic.

Binding: Post-1600. Modern morocco bound by F. Bedford (b. 1800, d. 1884) (see Ch. Ramsden, London Bookbinders, (Batsford: [n. pub.], 1956), p. 36), stamped on the upper board with binder's name; gilt and gauffered edges.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Paris.

Provenance:

William Paget (b. 1609, d. 1678), 5th Baron Paget, politician: inscribed 'William Paget, 1645' (f. 10r).

Michael Tomkinson (b. 1841, d. 1921), carpet manufacturer: his book-plate (inside upper cover), probably no. 15 in his collection (number in pencil above book-plate).

H. Y. Young and sons, Liverpool, bookseller: bought 3 July 1922, lot 1089, for £34; in Henry Young catalogue, no. 17, p. 11 (cutting pasted inside lower cover).

Henry Yates Thompson (b. 1838, d. 1928), collector of illuminated manuscripts and newspaper proprietor: with his book-plate inscribed 'nn.e.e [i.e. £55.0.0] / [bought from] HY Young / …(?) / Nov 20th / 1922' (1st flyleaf [f. ii]).

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

Publications:
Robert Branner, Manuscript Painting in Paris During the Reign of Saint Louis (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977), pp. 75-76, 214.
Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Subjects:
Bible
Places:
Paris, France