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Yates Thompson MS 52
- Record Id:
- 040-002360084
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002354332
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000926.0x0000b0
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Yates Thompson MS 52
- Title:
- Wycliffite Psalter and Hours, Use of Sarum
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1r: Modern note on the removal of a leaf, pastedown.
f. 3r: Erased ownership inscription.
f. 3v: Ownership inscriptions and summary of the volume’s contents, 15th and 18th century, Latin and English.
ff. 4r-9v: Calendar, Latin.
ff. 10r-45v: Book of Hours.
ff. 46r-163r: Wycliffite Psalter.
ff. 163r-173r: Bible extracts and prayers.
ff. 173r-175r: Creed of Athanasius.
ff. 175r-v: Litany, ending imperfectly.
ff. 2r-v is blank.
Decoration:
1 large decorated foliate initial with a full foliate border, in colours and gold (f. 10r). Smaller decorated foliate initials with three-sided borders, in colours and gold (ff. 14r, 19r, 21v, 22v, 23v, 32v, 63r, 74v, 85v, 96v, 110r, 122v, 136r). 12 KL initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. Small initials in gold with blue or purple (foliate) pen-flourishing or in blue with red (foliate) pen-flourishing.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Yates Thompson Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002354332
040-002360084 - Is part of:
- Yates Thompson MS 1-59 : Yates Thompson Manuscripts
Yates Thompson MS 52 : Wycliffite Psalter and Hours, Use of Sarum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002354332[0057]/040-002360084
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Yates Thompson MS 1-59
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1424
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 190 x 130 mm (text space: 115 x 75 mm).
Foliation: ff. 175 (+ 2 paper flyleaves at the beginning, and 3 at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Pre-1600. Limp vellum.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Erased inscription: 'Mr Sainctpoll(?) booke' (f. 3r).
Ayscough family, also known as Askew: inscribed ‘A. Ayscoughe’ (f. 3v), and partially erased notes concerning the births of sons to Edward Ayscough, c. 1564, and the name Esther Aynscough (f. 45v).
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham; his Appendix Ms. 52; bought from Kerslake, 1852, for £175, according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix (London: Hodgson, 1853).
Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire Ashburnham Appendix: book-plate with an inscribed number 'From the Library of the Earl of Ashburnham Appendix no. LII May 1897' (f. 1v).
Henry Yates Thompson (b. 1838, d. 1928), collector of illuminated manuscripts and newspaper proprietor: his sale, 14 May 1902, lot 30, bought by the British Museum, it became Additional 36683 and was re-numbered after the creation of the 'Yates Thompson' shelfmark, following Mrs Yates Thompson's bequest of other manuscripts in 1941.
- Former Internal References:
- Add MS 36683
- Publications:
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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Second Series of Fifty Manuscripts (Nos. 51 to 100) in the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson (Cambridge: University Press, 1902), no. 61 pp. 90-91.
Lambeth Palace Library: Treasures from the Collection of the Archbishops of Canterbury, ed. by Richard Palmer and Michelle Brown (London: Scala, 2010), p. 58 (listed as Additional 36683).
Kathleen E. Kennedy, The Courtly and Commercial Art of the Wycliffite Bible, Medieval Church Studies 35 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014), pp. 103-107, 165 n 16.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Bible
Book of Hours - Places:
- England