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Yates Thompson MS 29/1
- Record Id:
- 040-003441187
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002354332
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100075564822.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100167858578.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Yates Thompson MS 29/1
- Title:
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Detached miniature from a Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Hours of Bonaparte Ghislieri', or 'The Albani Hours')
- Scope & Content:
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This leaf was formerly f. 132 of Yates Thompson MS 29 and is now kept separately. On the verso is a miniature of the martyrdom of St Sebastian in colours and gold. It is signed by Pietro de Cristoforo Vannucci 'PETRVS PRVSINVS PINXIT', known as Perugino (b. c. 1450, d. c. 1523).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Yates Thompson Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002354332
040-003441187 - Is part of:
- Yates Thompson MS 1-59 : Yates Thompson Manuscripts
Yates Thompson MS 29/1 : Detached miniature from a Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Hours of Bonaparte Ghislieri', or 'The Albani… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002354332[0031]/040-003441187
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Yates Thompson MS 1-59
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 leaf
- Digitised Content:
- https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100167858578.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1495
- End Date:
- 1505
- Date Range:
- c 1500
- Era:
- CE
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 185 x 135 mm.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Bologna, Italy.
Provenance:
A member of the Bolognese Ghislieri family, probably Bonaparte Ghislieri (d. 1541), a senator of Bologna, c. 1500: Ghislieri arms, with initials ‘BP’ and ‘GI’ (Yates Thompson MS 29, f. 16r), and arms (Yates Thompson MS 29, f. 74v); portrait medallion (Yates Thompson MS 29, f. 7r) could be Virgilio, Bonaparte’s father (d. 1523); for a discussion of patronage see Alexander, The Painted Page, 1994 p. 222.
Giuseppe (Andrea) Albani (b. 1750, d. 1834), Cardinal: see below.
James Dennistoun of Dennistoun (b. 1803, d. 1855), antiquary and art collector, bought by him in Rome, in 1838 from the heirs of Cardinal Albani (see Yates Thompson Catalogue, 1907, p. 146).
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th Earl of Ashburnham, 1847: his Appendix Ms. 63; bought from James Dennistoun, for £735, 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. LXIII May 1897' (pasted on f. [i] verso).
Henry Yates Thompson (b. 1838, d. 1928), collector of illuminated manuscripts and newspaper proprietor: with his book-plate inscribed '[MS] XCIII / reee.e.e [i.e. £2000.0.0] / [bought from the] Earl of / Ashburnham / 8 May 1897' (pasted on f. [i] verso); in his sale, 1 May 1899, lot 70, bought by Quaritch (London bookseller) on behalf of Rahir (Paris bookseller) for £467, but returned to the Thompson collection.
Bequeathed to the British Museum by Mrs Henry Yates Thompson in 1941.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)