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Detailed record for Yates Thompson 25
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| Title |
Leaf from a Dominican Antiphoner |
| Origin |
France, N. |
| Date |
1st quarter of the 14th century |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Gothic |
| Decoration |
1 large historiated initial, accompanied by a three-sided border with figural, foliate and grotesque decoration. Smaller initials in red with blue (and red) pen-flourishing or in blue with red (and blue) pen-flourishing. |
| Dimensions in mm |
485 x 325 (340 x 225) |
| Official foliation |
f. 1 |
| Form |
Parchment leaf |
| Binding |
N/A |
| Provenance |
Made for a Dominican house: 11 other leaves, once part of the same Antiphonal, some show Dominican saints (3 leaves, Yates Thompson MS LXXXIIIA with the Dominican saint Peter Martyr; 8 leaves, Victoria & Albert Museum MSS. 8997 A-H with Thomas Aquinas and Dominic).
Henry Willett, of Arnold House, Brighton: his sale, Christie's, 5 July 1905; bought by Quaritch (according to the Yates Thompson Catalogue 1907).
Henry Yates Thompson (b. 1838, d. 1928), collector of illuminated manuscripts and newspaper proprietor: bought from Quaritch, 21 July 1905 (according to the Yates Thompson Catalogue 1907).
Bequeathed to the British Museum by Mrs Henry Yates Thompson in 1941. |
| Notes |
Musical notation. |
| Select bibliography |
A Descriptive Catalogue of Twenty Illuminated Manuscripts, Nos. LXXV to XCIV (Replacing Twenty Discarded from the Original Hundred) in the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson (Cambridge: University Press, 1907), no. LXXXIIIa pp. 75-78.
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, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (London: British Library, 1997), no. 83.
Medieval Mastery: Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold 800-1475 (Leuven: Brepols, 2002), no. 48 [exhibition catalogue]. |
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f. 1
Resurrection |
f. 1
Resurrection |
f. 1
Border |
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f. 1v
Flourished initials |
f. 1v
Flourished initials |
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