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Detailed record for Yates Thompson 3
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| Title |
Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Dunois Hours') |
| Origin |
France, Central (Paris) |
| Date |
c. 1440 - c. 1450 (after 1436) |
| Language |
Latin, with a French calendar |
| Script |
Gothic cursive |
| Artists |
This is the eponymous manuscript of the Dunois Master (known as the principal associate of the Bedford Master).
Some miniatures in the St Stephen Style |
| Decoration |
12 small miniatures with the labour of the month in the lower border, and 12 small scenes with the zodiacal signs in the outer margins, in colours and gold, at the beginning of each month in the calendar (ff. 1-12). 60 full-page miniatures, accompanied by large decorated initials and full foliate borders, partly including related scenes, in colours and gold (ff. 13, 15v, 18, 20v, 22v, 27v, 32v [full historiated border], 37 [border with several related roundels], 66v, 81v [related scene in the border], 87v [related scene in the border], 93v, 99, 104v [related scene in the border], 114, 120 [2 small related miniatures in the borders], 130, 133v, 136v, 139v, 142v [related scene in the border], 145v, 148v, 152v [related scene in the border], 157 [related scene in the border], 159, 162, 165v, 168v, 172v, 174, 184 [related scene in the border], 193v, 201v [related scene in the border], 211 [related scene in the border], 259, 260, 261, 262, 263v, 264v, 265v, 267v, 269v [related scene in the border], 270v, 271v, 272v [related scene in the border], 273v, 274v [related scene in the border], 275v, 278, 280, 281v, 282v, 283v, 284v, 286, 287, 288, 289v). All text pages with three-sided foliate borders. Smaller decorated initials with foliate extensions into the margins, in colours and gold. Small initials in gold with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Line-fillers decorated in gold and blue or in red and blue. |
| Dimensions in mm |
135 x 95 (70 x 45) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 291 (+ 2 parchment flyleaves at the beginning, and 2 at the end) |
| Collation |
i-ii6 (ff. 1-12), iii-xxxiii8 (ff. 13-260), xxxiv6-1 (1 leaf excised; ff. 261-265), xxxv8-1 (1 leaf excised; ff. 266-272), xxxxvi8-1 (7th leaf excised after f. 278; ff. 273-279), xxxvii8 (ff. 280-287), xxxviii4 (ff. 288-291). |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Pre-1600. Gold-tooled red leather, in the style of Le Gascon; gilt edges. |
| Provenance |
Jean (b. 1403, d. 1471) Comte de Dunois, Bastard of Orléans: with his arms (ff. 1, 13, 13v, 22v, 32v, 37, 93, 93v, 120, 121, 121v, 130, 138, 138v, 157, 157v, 172, 172v, 193v, 281v), and 'portrait' (ff. 1, 22v, 32v).
The manuscript was produced in Paris after its capture by Dunois in 1436 (James 1898 p. 51).
? Louis XII (b. 1462, d. 1515), succeeded his father as Duke of Orléans in 1465, king of France (1498-1515): inscribed in a 16th-century hand 'Heures de Louis XII. Lors'quil etoit Duc D'Orleans' (last flyleaf verso).
Abbé Fauvel, 17th century: with his book-plate, 'E. Bibliotheca D. D. Abbatis Fauvel', inscribed 'No. 112' (inside upper cover).
Louis Jean Gaignat (b. c. 1697, d. 1768): his sale, de Bure, Paris, 10 April 1769, lot 197, sold for 30 francs.
Mr Musgrave: 'The volume was sold to me (through Messrs Ellis and Elvey) by a Mr Musgrave, who says it has been in his family for several generations, having been brought to England from Paris about the end of the last century' (Yates Thompson, cited in James 1898 p. 51).
Henry Yates Thompson (b. 1838, d. 1928), collector of illuminated manuscripts and newspaper proprietor: with his book-plate inscribed '[MS]11 / £tre [i.e. £720] / [bought from] Ellis & Elvey / April 7th / 1894' (1st flyleaf); given to his wife on her birthday, 7 January 1917: inscribed 'This book was given to my dear wife on her birthday Jan. 7th 1917 as a companion to the Hours of a Scottish Princeps. I am proud to think that she is now the owner of two of the most precious prayer books in the world. With all my heart H.Y.T.' (1st flyleaf).
Bequeathed to the British Museum by Mrs Henry Yates Thompson in 1941. |
| Notes |
Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
A bond by Jean, Bastard d'Orléans, Comte de Dunois et de Longueville, to Bertrand de Beauvais, for 200 crowns, dated 25 February 1453, signed 'le bastard dorleans', apparently acquired by Yates Thompson in November 1917, and kept by him with the manuscript, is now Yates Thompson 53, f. 1. |
| Select bibliography |
Some Account of an Illuminated Manuscript of the Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary: executed for Jean, Comte de Dunois, about A. D. 1450, and enriched with Seventy-two Miniatures (London: Privately printed for Ellis & Elvey, 1894).
Montague Rhodes James, A Descriptive Catalogue of Fifty Manuscripts from the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson (Cambridge: University Press, 1898), no. 11 pp. 49-57.
J. A. Herbert, Illuminated Manuscripts (London: Methuen, 1911), p. 276.
F. Wormald, 'The Yates Thompson Manuscripts', The British Museum Quarterly, 16 (1952), 4-6 (p. 5).
Eleanor P. Spencer, 'L'Horloge de Sapience: Bruxelles, Bibliothèque Royale Ms. IV. 111', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relatives aux manuscrits, 17 (1963), 277-99 (p. 295 n. 44).
[D. H. Turner], Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series 5 (London: British Museum, 1965), pl. 37.
Liège et Bourgogne (Liège: Musée de l'Art Wallon, 1968), no. 206 pp. 188-89.
Millard Meiss, French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Limbourgs and their Contemporaries, 2 vols (London: Thames and Hudson, 1974), I, pp. 222, 472 n. 692, II, pl. 725.
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I, 168 [rejected].
Janet Backhouse, Books of Hours (London: British Library, 1985), pp. 5, fig. 3.
Charles Sterling, La peinture médiévale à Paris 1300-1500, 2 vols (Paris: Bibliothèque des Arts, 1987), I, 446, 460.
Peter Rolfe Monks, 'Two Parisian artists of the Dunois Hours and a Flemish motif', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 112 (1988), 61-68.
Christopher de Hamel, A History of Illuminated Manuscripts, 2nd edn (London: Phaidon, 1994), p. 194.
James H. Marrow, The Hours of Simon de Varie (London: Thames and Hudson, 1994), pp. 28, 34, 42, figs. 9, 12, 17.
Peter Rolfe Monks, 'Some Doubtful Attributions to the Master of Jean Rolin II' in Medieval Codicology, Iconography, Literature, and Translation: Studies for Keith Val Sinclair, ed. by Peter Rolfe Monks and D. D. R. Owen, (Leiden: Brill, 1994), pp. 143-56 (pp. 147-48, fig. 53).
François Avril and Nicole Reynaud, Les manuscrits à peintures en France 1440-1520 (Paris: Flammarion, 1993), pp. 23, 36, 37.
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (London: British Library, 1997), no. 153 p. 174.
Peter Rolfe Monks, 'An Unusual Epitome of a Stylistic Labyrinth', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relatives aux manuscrits, 52 (1998), 3-11 (p. 5 n. 8).
Janet Backhouse, Illumination from Books of Hours (London: British Library, 2004), pl. 123.
The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts at the New York Public Library, ed. by Jonathan J. G. Alexander, James H. Marrow, and Lucy Freeman Sandler (London: Harvey Miller, 2005), p. 249 n. 5 [exhibition catalogue].
Greg Buzwell, Saints in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2005), p. 12, p. 20, p. 24.
Catherine Reynolds, ‘The Workshop of the Master of the Duke of Bedford: Definitions and Identities’, ed. by G. Croenen and P. Ainsworth, Patrons, Authors and Workshops: Books and Book Production in Paris around 1400 (Leuven: Peeters, 2006), pp. 437-72 (p. 451 n. 30).
Catherine Reynolds, 'Netherlandish Patterns in Fifteenth-Century Paris - Campin, van der Weyden and the Bedford Workshop', in Von Kunst und Temperament, Festschrift zu Ehren Eberhard Königs 60. Geburtstag, ed. by Mara Hofmann and Caroline Zöhl (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), 217-26 (p. 224).
Gregory T. Clark, Art in a Time of War (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2016), pp. 8, 270, 273, Ill. 11. |
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f. 1
Jean Comte de Dunois feasting |
f. 1
Aquarius |
f. 1
January |
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f. 2
February |
f. 2
Men burning firewood |
f. 3
March |
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f. 3
Men working in a vineyard |
f. 4
April |
f. 4
April |
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ff. 4v-5
April and May |
f. 5
May |
f. 6
June |
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f. 7
July |
f. 8
August |
f. 8
August |
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f. 9
September |
f. 9
Men making wine |
f. 10
October |
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f. 11
November |
f. 12
December |
f. 13
John the Evangelist |
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f. 15v
Luke |
f. 15v
Luke |
f. 18
Matthew |
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f. 20v
Mark |
f. 22v
Virgin and Child and Jean Comte de Dunois |
f. 22v
Virgin and Child with Jean Comte de Dunois |
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f. 27
Virgin and Child |
f. 27v
Virgin and Child |
f. 32v
Last Judgement |
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f. 32v
Last Judgement |
f. 32v
Last Judgement |
f. 37
Annunciation |
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f. 37
Scenes from the life of the Virgin |
f. 37
Scenes from the life of the Virgin |
f. 37
Annunciation |
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f. 52v
Illuminated initials |
f. 66v
The Visitation |
f. 80
Illuminated initial |
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f. 81
Text and borders |
f. 81v
Nativity |
f. 81v
Nativity |
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f. 81v
Shepherds |
f. 87v
Annunciation to the Shepherds |
f. 93
Text and borders |
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f. 93v
Adoration of the Magi |
f. 93v
Adoration of the Magi |
f. 99
Presentation in the Temple |
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f. 104v
Flight into Egypt |
f. 104v
Flight into Egypt |
f. 114
Coronation of the Virgin |
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f. 114
Coronation of the Virgin |
f. 120
Betrayal of Christ |
f. 120
Betrayal of Christ |
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f. 120
Agony in the Garden |
f. 120
Arrest of Christ |
f. 126v
Text page with foliate border |
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f. 130
Christ before Pilate |
f. 133v
Flagellation of Christ |
f. 133v
Flagellation of Christ |
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f. 136v
Christ bearing the cross |
f. 139v
Christ nailed to the cross |
f. 142v
Crucifixion |
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f. 142v
Crucifixion |
f. 145v
Deposition of Christ |
f. 148v
Emtombment of Christ |
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f. 152v
Resurrection and Trinity |
f. 157
David in prayer |
f. 157
David in prayer |
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f. 159
Pride and Envy |
f. 159
Pride and Envy |
f. 162
Idleness |
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f. 162
Idleness |
f. 165v
Anger |
f. 165v
Anger |
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f. 168v
Gluttony |
f. 168v
Gluttony |
f. 172v
Lust |
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f. 172v
Lust |
f. 174
Avarice |
f. 174
Avarice |
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f. 184
Adoration of the True Cross |
f. 184
Adoration of the True Cross |
f. 184
Adoration of the True Cross |
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f. 193v
Pentecost |
f. 193v
Pentecost |
f. 201v
Office of the Dead |
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f. 201v
Office of the Dead |
f. 211
Burial of the dead |
f. 211
Priest administering last rites |
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f. 211
Burial of the dead |
f. 259
Peter |
f. 259
Peter |
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f. 260
Paul |
f. 260
Paul |
f. 261
Andrew |
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f. 261
Andrew |
f. 262
James the Great |
f. 263v
John the Evangelist |
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f. 263v
John the Evangelist |
f. 265v
Anthony |
f. 265v
Anthony |
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f. 267v
Christopher |
f. 267v
Christopher |
f. 269v
Leonard |
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f. 270v
Martin of Tours |
f. 270v
Martin of Tours |
f. 271v
Nicholas |
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f. 271v
Nicholas |
f. 272v
Eustace |
f. 273v
Laurence |
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f. 273v
Laurence |
f. 274v
George and the dragon |
f. 274v
George and the dragon |
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f. 274v
George and the dragon |
f. 275v
Bernard |
f. 278
Julian |
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f. 278
Julian |
f. 280
Mary Magdalene |
f. 281v
Katherine of Alexandria |
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f. 281v
Katherine of Alexandria |
f. 282v
Margaret |
f. 283v
Genevieve |
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f. 284v
Apollonia |
f. 284v
Apollonia |
f. 286
Elizabeth |
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f. 287
Mary of Egypt |
f. 287
Mary of Egypt |
f. 288
Francis receiving the stigmata |
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f. 289v
Barbara |
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