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Yates Thompson MS 53
- Record Id:
- 040-002360085
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002354332
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000926.0x0000b1
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Yates Thompson MS 53
- Title:
- Collection of papers removed from Yates Thompson MSS
- Scope & Content:
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A collection of modern papers removed from other Yates Thompson MSS.
Contents:
[ir-iir]: Table of contents.
ff. 1r-3r: A 1453 bond by Jean, Bastard of Orleans, count of Dunois and of Longueville, to Bertrand de Beauvais, for 200 crowns, with a 1469 and notarial certificate of receipt (ff. 1r-v), followed by a French transcription (f. 2r), and English translation and commentary (f. 3r). Originally in Yates Thompson MS 3.
ff. 4r-8r: List of the decorated initials in Yates Thompson MS 22, in the handwriting of John Ruskin.
ff. 9r-29v: Documents and letters relating to the purchase of Yates Thompson MS 29 by James Denistoun from the Albani family of Rome. Italian and English.
ff. 30r-32v: Letter from Thomas Boone, bookseller, to Bertram Ashburnham, 4th earl of Ashburnham, relating to Yates Thompson MS 30, Pierpont Morgan MS 1, and a third unidentified MS, 1846.
ff. 33r-40r: Letters to Henry Yates Thompson relating to the miniature on Yates Thompson MS 32, f. 7v, showing Vézelay Abbey in the background, 1922-23.
f. 41r: ‘Le Pèlerin de Vézelay’, Bulletin de Sainte Madeleine, p. 1.
ff. 42r-43v: Vézelay (Yonne) Érection d’un Monument a Sainte Marie-Madeleine.
ff. 44r-46v: Letters relating to Yates Thompson MS 36, from Pascual de Gayangos to Luis Mayans, Spanish, 1860, and from Edmund Moore, Principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, to Henry Yates Thompson, English, 1902.
ff. 47r-50r: Letters to Henry Yates Thompson from Percy Stafford Allen, President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1924, and Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, 1920, relating to Yates Thompson MS 39.
ff. 51r-60v: Letter to Henry Yates Thompson from Boris de Chroustchoff, enclosing a translation of the captions beneath the miniatures in yates Thompson MS 51, 1922, and a printed description of the MS from Davis and Orioli, A Catalogue of Rare Books, 35 (New Series), 1922, pp. 1-4.
ff. 61r-75r: Letters to Henry Yates Thompson and his widow, expressing thanks for copies of the catalogues of his MSS, from George Frederic Warner, Léopold Delisle, John Alexander Herbert, Pietro Toesca, Rev. William Ingham Brooke, Bernard Quaritch, Henri Omont, Henry Martin, and Camille Gaspar, 1905-28, arranged chronologically.
ff. 2v, 3v, 4v, 6v, 7v, 8v, 10v, 11v, 12v-13r, 14v, 30v, 34v, 36v, 37v, 38v, 40v, 41v, 50v, 52v, 53v, 54v, 55v, 56v, 57v, 58v, 64v, 67v, 72v, 75v are blank.
Other letters and papers relating to Yates Thompson MSS are in Yates Thompson MS 54.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Yates Thompson Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002354332
040-002360085 - Is part of:
- Yates Thompson MS 1-59 : Yates Thompson Manuscripts
Yates Thompson MS 53 : Collection of papers removed from Yates Thompson MSS - Hierarchy:
- 032-002354332[0058]/040-002360085
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Yates Thompson MS 1-59
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
French
Latin
Spanish - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1453
- End Date:
- 1928
- Date Range:
- 1453-1928
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper and parchment (ff. 1r-v).
Dimensions: 330 x 235 mm.
Foliation: ff. 75 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive (ff. 1r-v); Cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. 'Harleian' binding of gold-tooled red leather; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England; France (ff. 1r-v); Spain.
Provenance:
Bertrand de Beauvais (ff. 1r-v).
ff. 1r-v was sold at the Charaway sale, Paris, 7 March 1881.
Henry Yates Thompson (b. 1838, d. 1928), collector of illuminated manuscripts and newspaper proprietor. ff. 1r-v was bought by Henry Yates Thompson at the Mouson Sale November 1917.
Bequeathed to the British Museum in 1941 by Mrs Henry Yates Thompson.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)