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Detailed record for Yates Thompson 51
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| Title |
Skazanie o Mamaevom Poboishche (the Tale of the Rout of Mamai) |
| Origin |
Russia |
| Date |
17th century |
| Language |
Russian Church Slavonic |
| Script |
Russian bookhand |
| Artists |
For a comparable manuscript see the facsimile with the commentary of Tat'iana Vladimirovna Dianova, The Tale of the Rout of Mamai: Illuminated Manuscript of the 17th Century from the History Museum Collection (Moscow, 1980). |
| Decoration |
63 tinted drawings, in colours (ff. 2v, 4, 5, 6, 6v, 7v, 8v, 9, 10, 10v, 11v, 12, 13, 14, 14v, 15v, 16, 17, 17v, 18, 19, 19v, 20, 21, 21v, 22, 23, 23v, 24v, 25, 25v, 26v, 27, 27v, 28, 29, 29v, 30, 30v, 31v, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 36v, 37v, 38v, 39, 39v, 40v, 41, 42, 42v, 43, 44, 44v, 45v, 46, 46v, 47, 47v, 48). Display script.
Drawings coloured in after repairs were carried out in 18th century? (Cleminson 1988). |
| Dimensions in mm |
292 x 185 (220 x 140) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 48 (+ 1 paper flyleaf at the beginning, and 1 at the end) |
| Form |
Paper codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Original wooden upper board; lower board and leather spine more recent. |
| Provenance |
This manuscript is incomplete; another part of it is Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, MS W 151 which contains a copy of the Life of Alexander Nevskij (see Cleminson 1988 no. 26; it is not known how Chester Beatty acquired it). The texts are complementary, both dealing with Russian military heroes.
? Thomas Phillips, 18th century: Cyrillic inscription 'Philip' (f. 19, on the miniature).
Removed from Galicia by the Italian army during the First World War.
Davis and Orioli, booksellers: acquired in Florence.
Henry Yates Thompson (b. 1838, d. 1928), collector of illuminated manuscripts and newspaper proprietor: with his book-plate inscribed 'ae.e.e [i.e. £40.0.0] / [bought from] Davis and Orioli / Nov: 28 / 1922' (inside upper cover), and pencil note of Yates Thompson's Portman Square address and price of £60 (1st flyleaf [f. ii]).
Bequeathed to the British Museum in 1941 by Mrs Henry Yates Thompson. |
| Notes |
The Skazanie is a romance, composed in the 15th century, relating the struggle of the Muscovian Grand Prince, Dmitri Donskoj, against his Tartar opponent, Mamai. The central focus is the battle of Kulikovo (1380) at which Mamai was routed. The victory is presented in the context of a crusade and is couched in terms reminiscent of the contest between Gideon and the Midianites (Judges 7). |
| Select bibliography |
Elizabeth Hill, A British Museum Illuminated Manuscript of an Early Russian Literary Work: An Encomium to the Grand Prince Dimitri Ivanovich and to his Brother Prince Vladimir Andreyevich, the Tale of the Battle of the Don in the Year 6889, IV International Congress of Slavists, Moscow 1958 (Cambridge: University Press, 1958).
L. A. Dmitriev, 'Londonskij licevoj spisok Skanzanija o Mamaevom poboice', TODRL 28 (1974), 155-79.
Ralph Cleminson, A Union Catalogue of Cyrillic Manuscripts in British and Irish Collections, The Anne Pennington Catalogue (London: University of London, 1988), no. 118 pp. 176-78. |
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f. 2v
Oleg of Riazan |
f. 4
Olgerd of Lithuania |
f. 5
Tsar Mamai |
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f. 6
Grand Duke Dmitri |
f. 6v
Grand Duke Dmitri |
f. 7v
Grand Duke Dmitri |
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f. 8v
Grand Duke Dmitri |
f. 9
Grand Duke Dmitri |
f. 10
Grand Duke Dmitri |
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f. 10v
Grand Duke Dmitri |
ff. 11v-12
Grand Duke Dmitri |
f. 11v
Grand Duke Dmitri |
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f. 12
Sergius |
f. 13
Sergius |
f. 14
Grand Duke Dmitri |
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f. 14v
Grand Duke Dmitri |
f. 14v
Grand Duke Dmitri |
f. 15v
Grand Duke Dmitri |
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f. 16
Cyprian |
f. 17
Eudoxia and her ladies |
ff. 17v-18
Grand Duke Dmitri and Eudoxia |
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f. 17v
Grand Duke Dmitri |
f. 18
Eudoxia and her daughter-in-law |
f. 19
Vladimir Andrcevic |
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ff. 19v-20
Bishop of Kolomna and Grand Duke Dmitri |
f. 19v
Bishop of Kolomna |
f. 20
Grand Duke Dmitri |
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f. 21
Grand Duke Dmitri |
f. 21v
Grand Duke Dmitri |
f. 22
Olgerd |
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f. 23
Prince Andrej of Pelotzk |
f. 23v
Prince Dimitri of Briansk |
f. 24v
Prince Andrej and Prince Dimitri |
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f. 25
Cyprian |
f. 25v
Grand Duke Dmitri |
f. 26v
Grand Duke Dmitri |
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f. 27
Wolves |
f. 27v
Ravens and eagles |
f. 28
Melik and his company |
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f. 29
Grand Duke Dmitri |
f. 29v
Grand Duke Dmitri |
f. 29v
Grand Duke Dmitri |
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f. 30
Grand Duke Dmitri |
f. 30v
Grand Duke Dmitri |
f. 31v
Grand Duke Dmitri |
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f. 32
Grand Duke Dmitri |
f. 33
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f. 34
Fema the Brigand |
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f. 35
Armies |
f. 36
Sergius of Radonzeh |
f. 36v
Grand Duke Dmitri |
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f. 37v
Mikula Vasilievic |
f. 38v
Battle |
f. 39
Grand Duke Dmitri |
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f. 39v
Battle |
f. 40v
Vision |
f. 41
Vision |
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f. 42
Grand Duke Dmitri |
f. 42v
Grand Duke Dmitri |
f. 43
Grand Duke Dmitri |
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f. 44
Prince Vladimir's regiment |
f. 44v
Prince Vladimir's regiment |
f. 44v
Prince Vladimir's regiment |
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f. 45v
Battle |
f. 46
Grand Duke Dmitri |
f. 46v
Tsar Mamai |
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f. 47
Grand Duke Dmitri |
f. 47v
Grand Duchess |
f. 48
Grand Duke Dmitri |
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