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Yates Thompson MS 45
- Record Id:
- 040-002355515
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002354332
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000827.0x00007d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Yates Thompson MS 45
- Title:
- Book of Hours, Use of Paris (The 'Hours of Nicolas Rolin')
- Scope & Content:
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Book of Hours, Use of Paris, missing calendar, with a sales catalogue cutting from Auguste Brölemann’s sale (f. iii), and early 20th century notes on the heraldry of the Rolin family, French (f. iv).
(On the Rolin family see Abbé Boulemier, Nicolas Rolin, chancelier de Bourgogne: Notice historique sur sa famille (Paris: Dumoulin, 1865), pp. 28-29; Marie-Thérèse Berthier and John-Thomas Sweeney, Le chancelier Rolin (1376-1462): ambition, pouvoir et fortune en Bourgogne (Paris: Armançon, 1998), pp. 395-96).
f. 82v is blank.
Decoration:
The decoration of the manuscript has been attributed to the Master of Death (Pierre Remiet?).
38 miniatures in semi-grisaille, in quadrilobed compartments within rectangular frames, accompanied by full foliate borders with dragons, in colours and gold (ff. 33r, 46v, 53v, 58v, 63r, 68r, 76r, 83r, 106r, 115v, 122v, 129v, 134r, 201r, 202v, 203v, 204v, 205v, 206v, 207v, 208v, 209v, 210v, 211v, 212v, 213v, 214v, 215v, 216v, 217v, 222r, 223r, 226v, 227v, 228v, 229v, 232r, 234v). 1 miniature missing after f. 6 at the beginning of the Hours of the Virgin.
Large decorated initials, accompanied by bars with foliate decoration and dragons, in colours and gold.
Small initials in red with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing.
Line-fillers in red and blue.
The subjects of the miniatures are as follows:
f. 33r: The Visitation.
f. 46v:
f. 53v: The Annunciation to the Shepherds.
f. 58v:
f. 63r:
f. 68r: The Massacre of the Innocents.
f. 76r:
f. 83r:
f. 106r: The Crucifixion.
f. 115v: The Throne of Mercy.
f. 122v:
f. 129v: The Last Judgement.
f. 134r: The Burial of the Dead.
f. 201r:
f. 202v:
f. 203v:
f. 204v:
f. 205v:
f. 206v:
f. 207v:
f. 208v:
f. 209v:
f. 210v:
f. 211v:
f. 212v:
f. 213v:
f. 214v:
f. 215v:
f. 216v:
f. 217v:
f. 222r:
f. 223r:
f. 226v:
f. 227v:
f. 228v: The Assumption of Mary.
f. 229v:
f. 232r:
f. 234v:
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Yates Thompson Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002354332
040-002355515 - Is part of:
- Yates Thompson MS 1-59 : Yates Thompson Manuscripts
Yates Thompson MS 45 : Book of Hours, Use of Paris (The 'Hours of Nicolas Rolin') - Hierarchy:
- 032-002354332[0049]/040-002355515
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Yates Thompson MS 1-59
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- French, Middle
Latin - 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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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 180 x 120 mm (text space: 80 x 55 mm).
Foliation: ff. iv + 246 (+ 3 paper flyleaves at the beginning, and 1 at the end).
Collation: i6 (ff. 1-6), ii8-2 (1st and 8th leaves missing; ff. 7-12), iii-x8 (ff. 13-76), xi6 (ff. 77-82), xii-xxviii8 (ff. 83-218), xxix10 (ff. 219-228), xxx8-1 (8th leaf excised, probably blank; ff. 229-235), xxxi8+3 (9th to 11th leaves inserted, ff. 244-246; ff. 236-246).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Red Burgundy velvet.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Paris, France.
Provenance:
Nicolas Rolin (b. 1376, d. 1462), Chancellor of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy: his added arms impaling those of his second wife, Marie des Landes (ff. 106r, 122v).
Guillaume Rolin (b. 1411, d. 1488), son of Nicolas Rolin and Marie des Landes, married to Marie de Lévis-Couzan (d. 1476) in 1442: the added arms of Rolin impaling those of de Lévis (ff. 83r, 115v, 129v, 134r).
Motto, 15th century: 'Tout mest ung //.Bretaigne.//' (f. 32v).
Inscriptions, 17th century: 'Madame je penssois quen fol ... ' (f. 244r), and 'Monsieur...' (ff. 85r, 246r).
Henri Auguste Brölemann (b. 1775, d. 1854), manuscript collector: his armorial book-plate (inside upper cover); sold in his sale by his great-grand-daughter Madame Etienne Maillet, 4 May 1926, lot 37 (cutting from the sale catalogue pasted to 1st flyleaf); bought by Maggs for £490.
Henry Yates Thompson (b. 1838, d. 1928), collector of illuminated manuscripts and newspaper proprietor.
Bequeathed to the British Museum in 1941 by Mrs Henry Yates Thompson.
- Publications:
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[Derek Howard Turner], Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series V: Fifty Plates (London: British Museum, 1965), no. XXX p. 18, pl. XXX.
Michael Camille, The Master of Death: The Lifeless Art of Pierre Remiet, Illuminator (New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 1996), pp. 183, 229, 237, figs. 128, 174, 182.
Janet Backhouse, Illumination from Books of Hours (London: British Library, 2004), pl. 130.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Book of Hours
- Places:
- Paris, France