Perth Psalter, containing calendar, psalter, canticles, and litany.
Scope and Contents
Referred to as the Perth Psalter from the entry in the calendar on 3rd September, ‘Dedicacio ecclesie de Perth’.
The calendar and the litany are based on the use of Sarum, with additional entries for Scottish Saints. There are several illuminated capitals, four of the larger of these are accompanied by full-page borders of conventional foliage. Accompanying the manuscript is a list of additions to the calendar in a later cursive hand which were brought out by chemical action by F C Eeles in 1915. These entries were then and still are otherwise invisible.
Dates
- Creation: Late 15th century.
Conditions Governing Access
Normal access conditions apply.
Conditions Governing Use
Normal reproduction conditions apply, subject to any copyright restrictions.
Extent
232 Leaves ; 4¾ inches x 2½ inches.
Language of Materials
Latin
Arrangement
v (modern) + 227 folios.
Custodial History
The manuscript was bought by the National Library of Scotland with the aid of the Reid Fund. On folio ii, a modern vellum fly-leaf, are pasted an inscription, ‘Donum R.M.Jo. Adams V.D.M. apud Falaum fanum [John Adams, Minister of Falkirk], 1749’, and the signature of Sir Alexander Boswell of Auchinleck (died 1822), both probably cut from a former fly-leaf.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Bought, 1930, from the representatives of the late John Ferguson of Duns.
Bibliography
Physical Description
Vellum. Modern leather binding, lettered ‘Liber Psalmorum et Precum’.
- Title
- National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
- Author
- National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
- Description rules
- International Standard for Archival Description - General
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division Repository
Archives and Manuscript Division
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