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'Blackadder prayerbook', written probably in France.
Item
Identifier: MS.10271
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Calendar in red and black. A number of Scottish saints are included, such as Kentigern (13 January in red), Duthac (8 March), Kessog (10 March), Columba (9 June) and Ternan (12 June). 8 July has 'Dedicatio eccliesie glasguensis' in red, and 2 November 'Dedicatio ecciesie aberdonensis' in black. (Folio 2.)(ii) Sequences of the Gospels. (Folio 8.)(iii) 'Obsecro te' and other prayers and hymns, mostly to the Virgin. They...
Dates:
2nd half of 15th century.
'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.
Book of English and Scottish tunes; with a list of the contents, and remarks, by Davidson Cook, a previous owner of the manuscript.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2833-2834
Dates:
18th century.
Book of hours, according to the use of Amiens.
Item
Identifier: MS.8893
Scope and Contents
(i) Calendar in French in red and black. Entries in red include Saints Firmin (13 January, 1 and 25 September) and Fuscian (11 December). A table for determining the date of Easter is included in March. (Folio 1.)
(ii) St John's Gospel, I, volumes 1-14, and prayers. (Folio 13.)
(iii) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary. (Folio 17.)
(iv) Hours of the Cross. (Folio 76.)
(v) Hours of the Holy Ghost. (Folio 88.)
(vi) 'Deus propicius esto', 'Obsecro te' and Suffrages, including Saints Fiacre and...
Dates:
15th century.
Book of hours, according to the Use of Paris.
Item
Identifier: MS.10981
Scope and Contents
(i) Suffrage to St Anthony and a prayer to the Virgin, 'Veni vena venie'. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Sequences of the Gospels. (Folio 3.)
(iii) 'Obsecro te' and 'O intemerata'. (Folio 9.)
(iv) Hours of the Virgin. (Folio 17.)
(v) Penitential psalms, litany hymn 'Salve sancta caro Dei' (U. Chevatier, ‘Repertorium hymnologicum’ (Louvain, 1892-1921), number 18175) and prayers (Folio 80.)
(vi) Hours of the Cross. Matins and Lauds are missing. (Folio 106.)
(vii) Hours of the Holy Ghost. Matins and Lauds and...
Dates:
1st half of 15th century.
Book of hours, according to the Use of Rome, probably written in Padua.
File
Identifier: MS.9742
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Hours of the Virgin. (Folio 1 verso.)
(ii) Penitential Psalms and Litany. (Folio 97.)
(iii) Mass of the Virgin from the Common of Saints. The text up to the Gospel has been deleted with red paint. (Folio 129.)
(iv) Hours of the Cross. (Folio 133.)
(v) Hours of the Holy Ghost. (Folio 138.)
(vi) Office of the Dead. (Folio 145.)Written in littera semi-gothica textualis. Folio 9 appears to have been written after folio 10. Folios 94 verso-96, 128,...
Dates:
2nd half of 15th century.
Book of hours, according to the Use of Rome, written in Florence.
Item
Identifier: MS.9743
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Calendar in red and brown, KL monograms in blue. Entries include Saints Aquilinus (15 May, in red), Clare of Assisi (12 August), and Nicholas of Tolentino (10 September). Folios 13-14 are blank but ruled. (Folio 1.)(ii) Hours of the Virgin. (Folio 15.)(iii) Office of the Dead. (Folio 81.)(iv) Penitential Psalms and Litany. (Folio 119.)(v) Hours of the Cross. (Folio 140.)(vi) Hours of the...
Dates:
[Circa 1450-circa 1460.]
Book of hours, according to the Use of Rouen.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.12
Scope and Contents
(i) Calendar in French in red, blue and gold (folio 1). Entries in gold include Saints Martial (3 July), Stephen (3 August), Romain (23 October) and Thomas (29 December). A number of feasts of the Rouen diocese appear in red or blue, including the translation of St Ouen (5 May), and Notre-Dame des Neiges (5 August) instituted in 1454.(ii) Sequences of the Gospels (folio 7).(iii) Prayers (folio 9), including ‘Obsecro te`, `O intemerata’ (in the masculine form) and `Ave...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Book of Hours, according to the use of Sarum, written and illuminated in the Netherlands.
Item
Identifier: MS.16499
Scope and Contents
For further details see ‘Medieval manuscripts in British libraries’ by Neil R Ker, volume 2 (Oxford, 1977), pages 581-583.The contents are as follows:
(i) Calendar (folio 1). The only English saint, St Thomas Becket (29 December), has been erased.
(ii) Oes of St Bridget. (Folio 13.)
(iii) Prayers. (Folio 23.)
(iv) Memoriae of Saints John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Thomas Becket, Anne, Mary Magdalene, Katherine, Barbara, and Margaret. (Folio 27.)
Folio 37 verso blank.
(v)...
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Book of hours, according to the use of Utrecht, made in the second half of the 15th century in the western Netherlands, probably in the province of South Holland.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.11
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was made in the western Netherlands, probably in the province of South Holland.The contents are as follows:(i) Calendar in red and black (folio 1). Entries in red include Saints Ponciaen (14 January), Pancraes (12 May), Servaes (14 May), Odulf (13 June), Lebuin (25 June and 12 November), and Geroen (17 August).(ii) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary (folio 13).(iii) Hours of the Cross (folio 44).(iv) Hours of the Holy...
Dates:
2nd half of 15th century.
Book of hours, according to the Use of Utrecht, written in the western Netherlands, probably in the province of South Holland, in the second half of the 15th-century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.18
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was made in the western Netherlands, probably in the province of South Holland.The contents are as follows:(i) Calendar and table of Golden Numbers in red and black. Entries in red include Saints Servatius (13 May), Jero (17 August) and Lambert (17 September). June and November are missing. (Folio 1.)(ii) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a hymn `Ave rosa sine spinis’ (‘Repertorium hymnologicum’, number 2084), and `Obsecro te`. (Folio...
Dates:
2nd half of 15th century.
Book of sederunt of the administrators of the charitable Contributions for the relief of the indigent Episcopal clergy and their widows.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.2.1
Scope and Contents
The volume contains minutes of meetings, which were held at the Exchange Coffee House, Edinburgh, and the decisions of the administrators about requests for assistance, and lists (in three categories) the names of those to be assisted. The entries as far as 17 March 1758 (folio 16) are in the hand of William Gordon, bookseller, Edinburgh, who appears to have presented the volume to the Charity (folio 1).
Dates:
1754-1788.
Book on heraldry of Sir William Scott.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7363
Scope and Contents
Consisting of descriptions of the various elements of heraldry and the arms of families of Scotland.
Dates:
1692.
Books of music and a bibliography from the collection of Thomas Davidson Cook, bibliographer (died 1941).
Series
Identifier: MSS.3091-3104
Dates:
1759-circa 1922.
Borrower's book probably of the library of the Divinity Hall of the United Original Secession Church in Glasgow.
Item
Identifier: MS.14232
Scope and Contents
Most of the entries are for loans between 1874 and 1885.
Dates:
1854-1894.
Business and legal papers of James Gentleman, merchant, Edinburgh.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12184
Scope and Contents
Papers largely concern Gentleman`s Leith shipping interests; includes unrelated legal papers.
Dates:
1838-1893.
Business and personal papers of William Sim, colour manufacturer.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.103- is now Acc.4496.
Dates:
1837-1925.
Business books of Archibald Constable & Company, Robert Cadell & Company, and Robert Cadell.
Series
Identifier: MSS.789-802
Dates:
1814-1847.
Business papers of James Dickson and Co.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9500
Scope and Contents
Includes letter book, stock inventories, account books and price book.
Dates:
1818-1932.
Business records, 1694-1943, of J and G Cox, Ltd., glue manufacturers, Gorgie, Edinburgh; with miscellaneous papers, 16th century-19th century, of the Cox family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4944/1-54
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1550-1603, 1694-1943, undated.
Business records, 1869-1892, of Walter Duncan, tea merchant in India, with his school copybook, 1846, printed sermon, 1900, from his funeral oration, with typescript and manuscript notes concerning his life.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13232
Scope and Contents
Walter Duncan (1834 – 1900) began his career in the office of a Glasgow firm of merchants, Messrs. Playfair, Bryce and Co., possibly in 1855 or early 1856. After a short spell in Demerara working for Playfair, Allan and Co., a merchant company run by Patrick Playfair but not connected in a business way with Playfair, Bryce and Co., he returned to Glasgow in 1858. At this point Patrick Playfair offered him a prospective partnership to establish a business in Kolkata, India, under the name...
Dates:
1846-1900.
Business records of George Waterston and Sons, Ltd.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12235/1-522
Scope and Contents
The business records, 1768-2002, of George Waterston and Sons, Ltd, Edinburgh, specialist printers, manufacturing and retail stationers, and sealing wax manufacturers. The papers also include material relating more particularly to the Waterston family.In addition to business records, the collection includes papers relating to the Waterston family or to the history of the business collected by various family directors, series of family and business photographs, sample specimens of...
Dates:
1752-2002, undated.
Business records of R and R Clark Ltd, printers, including six boxes of George Bernard Shaw's letters to the firm, and related printed material by Shaw.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.229
Dates:
1900-1965.
Calligraphic album and commonplace book of Andrew Kippen, Edinburgh, entitled "Cabinet of Music, Poetry and Drawing."
File
Identifier: Acc.12170
Dates:
1850.