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'Bohun Psalter' made in England in the late 14th-century for Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.5
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Calendar in black, blue and red (folio 3). Entries in red include Saints Edward (18 March) and Dunstan (19 May), `Depositio sancti Augustini` (26 May), ordination of St Gregory (3 September) and translations of Saints Hugh (6 October) and Edward (13 October).(ii) Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary for Advent (folio 9) and from Christmas to the Purification (folio 11 verso).(iii) Confession, attributed in the...
Dates:
Late 14th century.
Manuscripts from Blairs College Library.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.221
Dates:
1177, 15th century-1924.
Microfilm of Sermones de Tempore, a homiliary, early 12th century; and, medical manuscripts, 13th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.423
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Sermones de Tempore, a homiliary written in the early 12th century for Rochester Cathedral Priory (Adv.MS.18.2.4).
Two English medical manuscripts, each written by two scribes of the thirteenth century, bound together from an early date (Adv.MS.18.2.5).
Dates:
Early 12th century, 13th century.
Perth Psalter, containing calendar, psalter, canticles, and litany.
Item
Identifier: MS.652
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...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Two 13th-century English medical manuscripts, bound together from an early date, each in the hands of two scribes.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.2.5
Scope and Contents
(i) Serapion (ibn Sarābī). `Liber aggeratus in medicinis simplicibus`, translated by Simon of Genoa and Abraham Tortuosiensis, incipit `Postquam vidi librum Dyascoridis et librum Galeni in medicinis` (folio 1).(ii) Alī ibn al-`Abbās al-Mağūsī. `Pantegni`, translated by Constantinus Africanus (folio 123). The text is sometimes attributed to Isaac (Isḥāq ibn Sulaiman al-Isrāeli) and was printed in his ‘Opera’. This is the earliest version of Constantinus` translation; it contains...
Dates:
13th century.
Various manuscripts written or owned by Thomas Ruddiman.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20491-20496
Scope and Contents
The manuscripts are lettered RA-RK (RC missing) and some also have Roman numerals.
Dates:
4th quarter of 17th century-1st half of 18th century.