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Detailed record for Yates Thompson 2
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| Title |
Collectar ('The Ottobeuren Collectar') |
| Origin |
Germany, S. (Ottobeuren) |
| Date |
last quarter of the 12th century |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Protogothic |
| Scribe |
Reinfrid (?) |
| Decoration |
2 full-page miniatures framed by full borders, in colours and gold (ff. 1v, 25v). 25 large and smaller miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 21v, 27v, 30, 31, 34, 37, 38, 48, 57v, 62v, 79v, 89v, 91v, 99, 101, 103, 107, 110, 112v, 118v, 119v, 120v, 122, 123v, 124). Large and smaller foliate or zoomorphic initials in colours, gold, and silver. Smaller foliate or zoomorphic initials, in colours (and gold). Smaller and small initials in plain red. |
| Dimensions in mm |
290 x 205 (185 x 130) |
| Official foliation |
ff. iv + 153 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves after f. ii, and 7 at the end; there is medieval foliation in red ink, and three sets of modern foliation; the 1898 catalogue follows that in the lower right corner; the Library foliation is in the top right corner) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Dark green (described as 'purple' in the 1882 and 1889 sale catalogues) velvet with silver clasps; marbled endpapers; gilt edges. |
| Provenance |
The Benedictine abbey of St. Alexander and Theodor, Ottobeuren, Swabia: perhaps commissioned or written by Reinfrid, who is represented as a monk holding a scroll inscribed 'Alexandre [sic] p(ater) bone suscipe q(uo)d tibi fidus Servus reinfr(idus) fert ...' (f. 103).
Inscription, 17th century: 'M(o)n(aste)rii Ottoburani (f. 2, in the lower margin); Reinfrid signed a copy of a Moralia in Job that was also inscribed 'Monasterii Ottoburani' in the 17th century (see Brandis 1975).
General Claude-Josephe Lecourbe, Commander of the Right Wing of the French Rhine Army: given to him in September 1800, together with 2 other manuscripts, as recorded in a catalogue drawn up shortly before 1802 (see Schwarzmaier 1964 pp. 9-10).
? French bookseller: inscribed in pencil '30 grandes miniatures' (f. iii verso).
Alexander Douglas-Hamilton (b. 1767, d. 1852), 10th Duke of Hamilton and 7th duke of Brandon: inscribed in pencil with the characteristic HB monogram of the Hamilton Library: 'HB No 316' (f. iv recto); among the Hamilton manuscripts catalogued in November or December 1882 (as lot 120) for auction by Sotheby's, but instead sold en bloc to the Prussian Government in 1883; sold by the latter at Sotheby's, 23 May 1889, lot 6; bought by Quaritch for £205.
Henry Yates Thompson (b. 1838, d. 1928), collector of illuminated manuscripts and newspaper proprietor: with his book-plate inscribed '[MS] 6 / £aeee.e.e [i.e. £4000.0.0] / [bought from Bernard] Quaritch / 8 May / 1895' (f. i); in his sale, 22 June 1921, lot 88, but returned to the Thompson collection.
Bequeathed to the British Museum in 1941 by Mrs Henry Yates Thompson. |
| Notes |
1 bifolium (ff. 19-22) has been misbound: f. 19 should follow f. 17, and f. 22 follows f. 23.
ff. 146-147 and 151-153 contain added text.
Decorative stitching of damaged parchment in colored silk thread (ff. 120 and 127).
Evidence of curtains having covered some miniatures. |
| Select bibliography |
W. von Seidlitz, ‘Die illustrirten Handschriften der Hamilton-Sammlung zu Berlin', Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft, 6 (1883), 256-73 (no. 12 pp. 262-63).
Montague Rhodes James, A Descriptive Catalogue of Fifty Manuscripts from the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson (Cambridge: University Press, 1898), no. 6, pp. 20-29.
Illustrations from One Hundred Manuscripts in the Library of Henry Yates Thompson, 7 vols (London: Chiswick Press, 1907-18), VII: The Seventh and last Volume with Plates from the Remaining Twenty-Two MSS., p. 7, pls. I-III.
Hanns Swarzenski, The Berthold Missal: The Pierpont Morgan Library MS 710 and the Scriptorium of Weingarten Abbey (New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1943), p. 39 n. 32.
Hansmartin Schwarzmaier, ‘Mittelalterliche Handschriften des Klosters Ottobeuren: Versuch einer Bestandsaufnahme', Studien und Mitteilungen zur Geschichte des Benediktiner-Ordens und seiner Zweige, 73 (1962), 7-23 (no. 1 p. 11).
Hansmartin Schwarzmaier, 'Traditionsbildung und Geschichtsbewußtsein: Ottobeuren im zwölften Jahrhundert', in Ottobeuren: Festschrift zur 1200-Jahrfeier der Abtei, ed. by Aegidius Kolb and Hermann Tüchle (Augsburg: Winfried-Werk, 1964), 3-25 (pp. 23-25).
[Derek Howard Turner], Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series V: Fifty Plates (London: British Museum, 1965), no. VI p. 9, pl. VI.
[Derek Howard Turner], Illuminated Manuscripts exhibited in the Grenville Library (London, British Museum, 1967), pp. 52-53.
C. E. L. Smith, 'A Twelfth Century Lectionary from Ottobeuren', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relatives aux manuscrits, 27 (1973), 237-51, pls. 13-14 (pp. 248-51).
Tilo Brandis with Gerard Achten and others, Zimelien: abendländische Handschriften des Mittelalters aus den Sammlungen der Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz Berlin (Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1975), pp. 81-82.
Sotheby's catalogue, Western Illuminated Manuscripts, the Property of the John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island which will be sold by Auction by Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., 18th May 1981, pp. 55, 59-60.
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (London: British Library, 1997), no. 34.
Margaret Scott, Medieval Dress & Fashion (London: British Library, 2007), p. 57, pl. 29. |
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f. 1v
Christ in Majesty |
f. 2
Illuminated initial |
f. 5
Decorated initials |
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f. 7
Decorated initial |
f. 10
Decorated initials |
f. 12
Decorated initials |
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f. 19v
Decorated initial |
f. 21
Inhabited initial |
f. 21v
The Holy Women |
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f. 24
Decorated initials |
f. 25v
Ascension |
f. 26
Decorated initials |
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ff. 27v-28
Pentecost |
f. 27v
Pentecost |
f. 28
Decorated initials |
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f. 30
Zacharias and angel |
f. 31
Christ and Peter |
f. 31v
Decorated initial |
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f. 34
Assumption of the Virgin |
f. 37
Michael and the dragon |
f. 38
All Saints' day |
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f. 48
Angels in a city |
f. 57v
Nativity |
f. 60
Decorated initial |
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f. 62v
Adoration of the Magi |
f. 62v
Adoration of the Magi |
f. 65
Decorated initials |
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f. 70v
Decorated initial |
f. 79v
Easter |
f. 80
Decorated initials |
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f. 86
Decorated initials |
f. 89v
Christ in a mandorla |
f. 91
Decorated initial |
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f. 91v
Whit Sunday |
f. 93v
Decorated initials |
f. 95
Decorated initials |
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f. 99
John the Baptist |
f. 100
Inhabited initial |
f. 101
Martydom of Peter and Paul |
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f. 103
Seven brothers |
f. 103
Seven brothers |
f. 103
Monk |
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f. 106
Decorated initial |
f. 107
Tree of Jesse |
f. 109
Decorated initials |
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f. 110
Nativity of the Virgin |
f. 112v
Michael |
f. 114
Decorated initials |
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f. 118v
Apostles |
f. 119v
Martyrs |
f. 120v
Martyr |
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f. 122
Confessors |
f. 123v
Virgin Martyrs |
f. 124
Church |
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