Register of the Chapel Royal of Stirling, written, circa 1537, by John Lambert, prebendary of the Chapel.

Item

Identifier: Adv.MS.34.1.5

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The register contains copies of papal bulls and other documents concerning the Chapel, dated from 1501 to 1537.

The text is all in Lambert`s hand, except for folios 41-42, and there are large calligraphic initials. Each folio is signed by James Primrose, clerk to the Privy Council; this was probably done in 1621 when the Register and other documents of the Chapel Royal were put into his keeping for transfer to the Bishop of Dunblane (see ‘Register of the Privy Council of Scotland’, xii, pages 441-442, 444-447). A leaf is missing between folios 48 and 49. There is a list of contents in a 16th-century hand on folio 51, 16th-century inscriptions by Robert Hutsoun and Alexander Thomsone appear on folio i verso and one signed T H, `I.R.6.5` (?1571), on folio 51 verso.

Dates

Creation: 1501-1537.

Extent

1 Volumes (i + 51 folios.)

Language of Materials

Latin

Additional Description

Arrangement

Collation: 1⁸ (+1 before 1), 2-3⁸, 4⁶, 5¹⁰, 6⁶, 7⁶ (-3). Large catchwords at the end of gatherings 2-4; small catchwords on the rectos and versos of many leaves.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Vellum.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Presented, 1925, by the Faculty of Advocates to the nation on the foundation of the National Library of Scotland.

Existence and Location of Copies

Microfilm available: Mf.Sec.MSS.465.

Bibliography

The register has been published by Charles Rogers in his ‘History of the Chapel Royal of Scotland’ (Edinburgh: Grampian Club, 1882). See also ‘Inventory of the Chapel Royal at Stirling, 1505’ by F C Eeles, in ‘Transactions of the Scottish Ecclesiological Society’, iii (1912), pages 310-325.
‘Register of the Privy Council of Scotland’, xii (1619-1622).
The entries at folios 35-38 verso are printed in ‘Miscellaneous papers principally illustrative of the reigns of Queen Mary and King James VI’, edited by Andrew Macgeorge (Maitland Club, 1834), pages 135-138.