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| Title |
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Taymouth Hours') |
| Origin |
England, S. E.? (London?) |
| Date |
2nd quarter of the 14th century |
| Language |
Latin and French |
| Script |
Gothic |
| Artists |
Sandler 1986 identifies the artist as that of Glasgow, University Library MS Hunter 231, made for Roger of Waltham (d. c. 1336), canon of St. Paul's, London. |
| Decoration |
24 calendar roundels, in colours and gold (ff. 1-6v). 24 large and smaller miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 7, 16v, 18, 33, 59v, 60, 71, 89 [historiated initial], 94v, 98v, 112v, 118, 118v, 119, 120v, 121v, 122v, 123v, 124v, 125v, 126, 139, 150v, 151). All pages with full foliate borders and bas-de-page scenes and grotesque decoration, in colours and gold. Large and smaller decorated foliate initials, in colours and gold. Small initials and line-fillers in gold on red and blue grounds. |
| Dimensions in mm |
170 x 115 (100 x 70) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 195 ( + 5 paper flyleaves at the beginning and 5 at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Red leather with gold tooling; marbled endpapers; gilt edges. |
| Provenance |
Several images of queens and kings suggest a royal connection, e.g., f. 18: it has been suggested that the manuscript was commissioned for Joan, daughter of Edward II, who married David II of Scotland in 1328, or for Philippa of Hainault, or for Isabelle of France (see discussion Stanton 2003).
Perhaps made in London: the calendar includes saints Ethelburga (abbess of Barking, near London) and Botulph (venerated at three London parishes).
Unidentified member of the Neville family: with their arms, gules a saltire argent (ff. 3 [painted over arms of St. George], f. 151).
Unidentified 16th-century Scottish owner: with his notes in Scots dialect (e.g. 'ane leife', f. 60; 'tua leife', f. 89).
An earl of Breadalbane of Taymouth Castle, Perthshire: his armorial book-plate with the title 'The Earl of Breadalbane' (inside upper cover); inscribed, 17th/18th century 'Shelf 29 number L' (f. 1) (cf. Egerton 2899, also from Taymouth Castle).
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham.
Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire Ashburnham Appendix in May 1897.
Henry Yates Thompson (b. 1838, d. 1928), collector of illuminated manuscripts and newspaper proprietor: with his book-plate inscribed '[MS] 57 / nee.e.e. [i.e. £500.0.0] / [bought from the] Earl of / Ashburnham / May 1897' (1st flyleaf); inscribed by him 'This volume one of the choicest of my English MSS I gave to my dear wife on her birthday Jan'y 10th 1917 to mitigate her grief at the news that I intended to sell my collection of 100 illuminated MSS. HYT' (2nd flyleaf).
Bequeathed to the British Museum in 1941 by Mrs Henry Yates Thompson. |
| Notes |
The style and subject, especially the many bas-de-page narratives ranging from romance and fabliau to biblical and hagiographic material, are closely connected to two important manuscripts thought to have been illuminated in London: Egerton 2781 (the 'Neville of Hornby Hours') and Royal 10 E IV (the 'Smithfield Decretals'). |
| 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. 57, pp. 50-74.
Henry Yates Thompson, A Lecture on Some English Illuminated Manuscripts (London: Chiswick Press, 1902), pp. 20-23, pls. XIV-XXX.
Eric. G. Millar, English Illuminated Manuscripts of the XIVth and XVth Century (Paris: Van Oest, 1928), pl. 50 [when in the collection of Mrs. Yates Thompson].
Otto Pächt, 'A Giottesque Episode in English Mediaeval Art', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 6 (1943), 51-70 (p. 53 n. 3).
F. Wormald, 'The Yates Thompson Manuscripts', The British Museum Quarterly, 16 (1952), 4-6 (p. 5).
Erwin Panofsky, Early Netherlandish Painting, 2 vols (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1953), I, 34, 373 n. 3.
Margaret Rickert, Painting in Britain: The Middle Ages, 2nd edn (London: Penguin Books, 1965), pp. 149, 163 n. 54.
[D. H. Turner], Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series 5 (London: British Museum, 1965), pl. 20.
Lilian M. C. Randall, Images in the Margins of Gothic Manuscripts (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966). p. 45.
[Derek Howard Turner], Illuminated Manuscripts Exhibited in the Grenville Library (London, British Museum, 1967), no. 22.
Josiah Q. Bennett, 'Portman Square to New Bond Street, or, How to Make Money though Rich', The Book Collector (1967), 323-39 (p. 325).
Millard Meiss, French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Late XIV Century and the Patronage of the Duke, 2 vols, National Gallery of Art Kress Foundation Studies in the History of European Art, 2 (London: Thames and Hudson, 1967), pp. 182, 377 n. 8, fig. 644.
Lucy Freeman Sandler, 'A Follower of Jean Pucelle in England', Art Bulletin, 52, 4 (1970), 363-372 (p. 364, fig. 4).
Francis Klingender, Animals in Art and Thought to the End of the Middle Ages, ed. by Evelyn Antal and John Harthan (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971), p. 408, 409, 411, 415, 416, 417, 466, 472, figs. 242, 247, 248.
F. O. Büttner, review of Millard Meiss. The De Lévis Hours and the Bedford Workshop. New Haven, 1972.', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relatives aux manuscrits, 30 (1976), 116-19 (p. 118).
John Harthan, Books of Hours and their Owners (London: Thames and Hudson, 1977), pp. 46-49, 177.
Lucy Freeman Sandler, 'An Early Fourteenth-Century English Psalter in the Escorial', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 42 (1979), 65-80 (pp. 72, 74, pls. 24-29).
C. W. Mark and M. A. Skey, 'Aspects of the Iconography of the Devil at the Crucifixion', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 42 (1979), 233-35.
C. W. Marx and M. A. Skey, 'Aspects of the Iconography of the Devil at the Crucifixion', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 42 (1979), 233-35.
Janet Backhouse, Books of Hours (London: British Library, 1985), p. 49, fig. 48.
Pierre Rézeau, Répertoire d'incipit des prières françaises à la fin du Moyen Âge: addenda et corrigenda aux répertoires de Sonet et Sinclair; Nouveaux incipit, Publications romanes et françaises, 174 (Geneva: Droz, 1986), p. 465.
Lucy Freeman Sandler, Gothic Manuscripts 1285-1385, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, ed. by J. J. G. Alexander (London: Harvey Miller, 1986), I: Text and Illustrations, p. 32, figs. 248-49, II: Catalogue, no. 98 pp. 107-09.
Age of Chivalry: Art in Plantagenet England 1200-1400 (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1987), pp. 201, 257, 277, 286, 459, p. 47 fig. 18.
M. A. Michael, 'Oxford, Cambridge and London: Towards a Theory for 'Grouping' Gothic Manuscripts', Burlington Magazine, 130, 1019 (1988), 107-15 (pp. 113-14) [mistakenly referring to it as Yates Thompson 14]
Linda Brownrigg, 'The Taymouth Hours and the Romance of Beves of Hampton', English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, 1 (1989), 222-41, pls. 1-8.
Claire Donovan, 'The Mise-en-page of Early Books of Hours in England', in Medieval Book Production, Assessing the Evidence: Proceedings of the Second Conference of The Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500, Oxford, July 1988, ed. by Linda L. Brownrigg (Los Altos Hills, CA and Oxford: Anderson Lovelace, 1990), pp. 147-61 (pp. 159-60, fig. 9).
M. A. Michael, 'Destruction, Reconstruction and Invention: The Hungerford Hours and English Manuscript Illumination of the Early Fourteenth Century', in English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, 2 vols (London: Blackwell, 1990), II, 33-108 (p. 41).
Michael Camille, Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art (London: Reaktion, 1992), pl. 57.
Lynda Dennison, 'Some Unlocated Leaves from an English Fourteenth-Century Book of Hours Now in Paris', in England in the Fourteenth Century: Proceedings of the 1991 Harlaxton Sympsoium, ed. by Nicholas Rogers, (Stamford: Paul Watkins, 1993), 15-33 (pp. 24-26).
Lucy Freeman Sandler, 'The Wilton Diptych and Images of Devotion in Illuminated Manuscripts', in The Regal Image of Richard II and the Wilton Diptych, ed. by. Dillian Gordon, Lisa Monnas, and Caroline Elam (London: Harvey Miller, 1997), 137-320 (p. 140, fig. 78).
James A. Rushing, 'Adventure in the Service of Love: Yvain on a Fourteenth-Century Ivory Panel', Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 61 (1998), 55-65 (p. 60).
Peter Kidd, Illuminated Manuscripts (London: Sam Fogg, 1999), p. 30 [sale catalogue].
John Higgitt, The Murthly Hours: Devotion, Literacy and Luxury in Paris, England and the Gaelic West (London: British Library, 2000), pp. 188 n. 23, 191 n. 78.
Alixe Bovey, Monsters and Grotesques in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2002), pp. 57-59, pl. 50.
Alixe Bovey, ‘A Pictorial Ex Libris in the Smithfield Decretals: John Batayle, Canon of St Bartholomew's, and his Illuminated Law Book’ in Decoration and Illustration in Medieval English Manuscripts, English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, 10 (London: British Library, 2002), pp. 60-81 (p. 73).
Jessica Brantley, 'Images of the Vernacular in the Taymouth Hours', in Decoration and Illustration in Medieval English Manuscripts, English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, 10 (London: British Library, 2002), pp. 83-113.
Chris Fletcher, Roger Evans, and Sally Brown, 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2003), p. 22.
C. M. Kauffmann, Biblical Imagery in Medieval England 700-1500 (London: Harvey Miller, 2003), pp. 211, 237.
Kathryn A. Smith, Art, Identity and Devotion in Fourteenth-Century England: Three Women and their Books of Hours, (London: British Library, 2003), pp. 82, 146 n. 94, 147 n. 105, 155, 165, 223, 228, 230, 239 n. 30, 244 n. 115, 248 n. 156, 248 n. 157, pl. 230.
Anne Rudloff Stanton, ‘Isabelle of France and her Manuscripts’, in Capetian Women, ed. by Kathleen Nolan (New York: Palgrave, 2003), pp. 225-52 (pp. 229, 242-45, pl. 10.7).
Janet Backhouse, Illumination from Books of Hours (London: British Library, 2004), pl. 126.
The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West, ed. by Paul Binski and Stella Panayotova (London: Harvey Miller, 2005), pp. 138, 195.
Michelle Brown, The Holkham Bible: A Facsimile (London, British Library, 2007), p. 15, pls 14-15.
Carlos Miranda Garcia-Tejedor, 'Los manuscritos con pincturas del Breviari d'Amor de Matfre Ermengaud de Béziers: Un estado de la cuestión', in La miniatura medieval en la Penísula Ibérica, ed. by Joaquín Yarza (Murcia: Nausícaä, 2007), pp. 313-73 (p. 333, as 'T').
Deirdre Jackson, Marvellous to Behold: Miracles in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2007), p. 84, pl. 71.
Margaret Scott, Medieval Dress & Fashion (London: British Library, 2007), p. 92, pl. 53. |
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