A descriptive catalogue of … manuscripts from the collection of Henry Yates Thompson.

Title

A descriptive catalogue of … manuscripts from the collection of Henry Yates Thompson.

Coverage

Cambridge

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Date

1898–1912

Description

4 volumes.

In the twenty years between 1898 and 1918, Henry Yates Thompson labored to assemble a collection of exactly one hundred splendid illuminated manuscripts. The evolution of the collection is described in this privately published catalogue, with descriptions by leading experts of the day, including Sydney Carlyle Cockerell. Yates Thompson’s decision in 1919 to sell his collection came as a particular blow to Cockerell, who had helped to build it, and he obsessively tracked the manuscripts until his death in 1962. This set of the Yates Thompson catalogues was heavily annotated by Cockerell throughout his life, recording additional, and sometimes confidential, information about the manuscript, as well as its movements following the Yates Thompson sales of 1919–1921.

Source

Purchased from the Harper Fund.