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Detailed record for Yates Thompson 19
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| Author |
Brunetto Latini |
| Title |
Li Livres dou Tresor |
| Origin |
France, N. (Picardy) |
| Date |
1st quarter of the 14th century |
| Language |
French |
| Script |
Gothic |
| Artists |
Lancelot Group |
| Decoration |
Numerous miniatures, accompanied - except in the Bestiary portion (ff. 48-64v) - by large decorated initials and three-sided borders with grotesque and figural decoration, the first with a full border, in colours and gold (ff. 3, 5, 10, 18, 18v, 21v, 23, 26, 27, 28, 31v, 40, 48, 48v (x4), 49, 49v (x2), 50 (x2), 50v (x3), 51, 51v (x3), 52 (x3), 52v, 53, 53v, 54, 54v, 55 (x4), 56 (x3), 56v (x4), 57 (x2), 58 (x2), 58v, 59 (x2), 59v (x2), 60 (x2), 60v, 61, 61v, 62v, 63 (x2), 63v, 64 (x4), 64v (x2), 65, 87, 118v). Small initials in red with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. |
| Dimensions in mm |
310 x 225 (215 x 155) in two columns |
| Official foliation |
ff. v + 162 (+ 2 paper flyleaves at the end) |
| Collation |
i2 (ff. 1-2), ii-xx8 (ff. 3-162). |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Red morocco with gold tooling, 1st half of the 18th century; gilt edges. |
| Provenance |
Inscribed, 15th century: 'lan mil troy sens et cinquante et cinc/fut esique advint que li res de franse/perdet la batalha qui fut fact a quote/peytier pe tray[yogh]in et fut pris le res/de fransa et lemnemey' (f. 162v).
Louis César de la Baume-le-Blanc (b. 1708, d. 1780), duc de la Vallière, peer of France, governor of the Bourbonnais, and book collector: his sale, 1784, no 1468 (see Guillaume de Bure, Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque de feu M. le duc de la Vallière (1783))
Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878); his Appendix Ms. 177, see 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. CLXXVII May 1897' (inside upper cover).
Henry Yates Thompson (b. 1838, d. 1928), collector of illuminated manuscripts and newspaper proprietor: with his book-plate inscribed '[MS] 74 / £ree.e.e [i.e. £200.0.0] / [bought from the] Earl of / Ashburnham / 1897' (inside upper cover).
Bequeathed to the British Museum in 1941 by Mrs Henry Yates Thompson. |
| Notes |
This manuscript is related to two other Brunetto Latini manuscripts, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 567 and Leningrad, Russian Nations Library, fr. F. V. I. 4.
See also the Psalter from Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, Smith-Lesouëf 20, of which the calendar includes indications of a Thérouanne, Saint-Omer or Ypres provenance.
The manuscript is also related to Cambridge, Trinity College, B. 11.22 which Stones 1982 associated with the Lancelot Group manuscripts, probably made in Thérouanne, Saint-Omer or Ghent, between 1315 and 1325. |
| Select bibliography |
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Second Series of Fifty Manuscripts (Nos. 51 to 100) in the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson (Cambridge: University Press, 1902), no. 74 pp. 145-50.
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., pp. 18-19, pls. LXIII-LXIX.
Loren MacKinney, Medical Illustrations in Medieval Manuscripts, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 5 vols (London: Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1965), I, in 2 parts: Part II, Medical Miniatures in Extant Manuscripts: A Checklist, with Thomas Herndon, p. 143.
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].
Alison Stones, 'The Medieval Alexander and Romance Epic', in The Medieval Alexander Legend and Romance Epic: Essays in Honour of David J. A. Ross, ed. by Peter Noble and others (New York, London, Nendeln: Kraus, 1982), pp. 193-243 (pp. 196-97, 204-05 n. 23 and n. 29, pl. 12).
Judith H. Oliver, Gothic Manuscript Illumination in the Diocese of Liège (c. 1250 - c. 1330), Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts from the Low Countries, 2 vols (Leuven: Peeters, 1988), II, 188 n. 42.
D. J. A. Ross and M. A. Stones, 'The Roman d'Alexandre in French Prose: Another Illustrated Manuscript from Champagne or Flanders c.1300', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relatives aux manuscrits, 56, 2 (2002), 345-56 (p. 346).
Alison Stones, 'A Note on the North French Manuscripts of Brunetto Latini's Tresor' in Tributes to Lucy Freeman Sandler: Studies in Illuminated Manuscripts, ed. by Kathryn A. Smith and Carol H. Krinsky (London: Harvey Miller, 2007), pp. 67-89 (as 'YT').
Julia Bolton Holloway (Biblioteca e Bottega Fioretta Mazzei), Brunetto Latino
[http://www.florin.ms/BrunLatbibl1.html] [accessed 08.03.12] (BbI. Li Livres dou Tresor Manuscripts, 43). |
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f. 3
Teacher and students |
f. 3
Detail: Teacher and students |
f. 3
Detail: Border |
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f. 3
Detail: Border |
f. 3
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f. 5
Creation of the World |
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f. 10
Noah |
f. 12
Text page |
f. 18
Beginning of the New Testament |
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f. 18v
Elisabeth and Anne |
f. 21v
Trinity |
f. 23
Rome |
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f. 26
Men disputing |
f. 26
Men disputing |
f. 27
Men disputing |
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f. 28
Four elements |
f. 28
Four elements |
f. 28
Initial and border |
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f. 31v
Water |
f. 40
World |
f. 40
World |
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f. 48
Swordfish |
f. 48
Detail: Swordfish |
f. 49v
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f. 50v
Hippopotamus, mermaids, and dragons |
f. 54
Hawks |
f. 65
Teacher and students |
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f. 65
Detail: Teacher and students |
f. 65
Detail: Border |
f. 65
Detail: Border |
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f. 87
'Le livre' |
f. 118v
Man teaching |
f. 119v
Flourished initial |
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f. 119v
Detail: Flourished initial |
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