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Books of hours.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Books containing the prescribed order of prayers, readings from the Scripture, and rites for the canonical hours.

Found in 64 Collections and/or Records:

Microfilm of ‘Roman de la Rose’, [circa 1230, circa 1270]; and, ‘The Talbot Hours’, 15th century.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.520
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Manuscript, late 14th or early 15th century, of ‘Roman de la Rose’, written in two stages by Guillaume de Lorris, circa 1230, and Jean de Meun, circa 1270 (Adv.MS.19.1.7);

‘The Talbot Hours’, Psalter and Hours, 15th century (Dep.221/1).

Dates: [Circa 1230]-15th century.

Microfilm of the Murthly Hours.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.811

Microfilm of the Regiam Maiestatem, [circa 1500], mid 16th century; and, Book of Hours, fifteenth- to sixteenth-century, according to the use of Sarum.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.512
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Manuscript, [circa 1500], mid 16th century, of the Regiam Maiestatem, Quoniam attachimenta, burgh and guild laws, forest laws, De judicibus, statutes, and other legal texts, one in Scots, written by David Baldovy, vicar of Guthrie (MS.16497);

Book of Hours, fifteenth-sixteenth century, according to the use of Sarum, in Latin; written and illuminated in the Netherlands (MS.16499).

Dates: 15th century-16th century.

Microfilm of two manuscripts from Blairs College Library: ‘The Talbot Hours’, 15th century; and, Andrew Lundy’s Primer, late 15th-early 16th century.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.315
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: ‘The Talbot Hours’, psalter and hours, 15th century (see ‘Catalogue of Scottish medieval liturgical books and fragments’ by David McRoberts, numbers 77 and 88 (Glasgow, 1953)) (Dep.221/1); Andrew Lundy’s Primer, late 15th-early 16th century (see ‘Catalogue of Scottish medieval liturgical books and fragments’ by David McRoberts, number 49. See also article by W J Anderson in the ‘Innes review’, xi, 1960, pages 39-51) (Dep.221/5).

Dates: 15th century-early 16th century.

Miniature from a book of hours painted in the style of Jean Bourdichon.

 Item
Identifier: MS.8999
Scope and Contents The miniature depicts St Luke writing in his study, the walls of which are enriched with coloured marble and Renaissance decoration. The bull, his symbol, appears in the lower right-hand corner. The miniature is in a gold frame, the outer edge of which has been trimmed. Written in red capitals across the bottom of the frame is the text '[I]n illo tempore missus est Angelus Gabri[el]'. The verso contains Luke 1, 26-34 in eighteen lines of littera bastarda. Its left-hand margin has a border...
Dates: [Circa 1500.]

Miscellany of medieval manuscripts, chiefly books of hours, which were part of a collection of manuscripts (as well as printed books and paintings) formed by William Finlay Watson, a book-seller in Edinburgh; together with a list of the full collection.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.7122-7150
Scope and Contents

In addition to the medieval manuscripts, there are some non-religious books of later date, and a few unrelated fragments.

Dates: 13th century-17th century; 1881-1882.

Papers from the library of St Benedict`s Abbey, Fort Augustus.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11218
Scope and Contents

Includes:

patristic texts, 1080, of Marianus at Regensburg

"Rule of St Benedict", 15th century

Book of Hours, late 15th century, with the signature of Mary of Guise

fragments of music, 15th century to 16th century, from the Inverness song-school

Dates: 11th century to early 18th century.

Photographs of five pages of MS. Lat. Q.v.1, 112 in the M E Saltuikov-Shchedrin Library in Saint Petersburg: Hours of Mary, Queen of Scots.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.5.8
Scope and Contents

The manuscript, written and illuminated circa 1430, contains verses in French in Mary`s hand, most of which are reproduced here.

Placed with the photographs is a letter concerning them from Ronald Munro Ferguson to Lord Rosebery, 1903.

Dates: Circa 1430.

Religious manuscripts from the library at Newbattle Abbey., 15th century-18th century.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.5765-5772
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The collection consists of manuscripts on a wide variety of subjects, many copied from manuscript or printed works, and chiefly dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are some account-books, diaries, and other manuscripts of family interest (including a few concerning the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, father of the 6th Marchioness of Lothian), but very few letters.

Dates: 15th century-18th century.

Three vellum fragments, two from a missal or breviary, one from a book of hours; with three paper fragments., ?15th century-?early 16th century.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.9
Scope and Contents The fragments were recovered from the binding of a copy (pressmark L.2.b) of ‘The Holye Byble: that is to saye, (etc.)’ (1539).(i-ii) Two discontiguous vellum fragments apparently from the same mediaeval religious manuscript, possibly a 15th-century missal or breviary, though not one recorded in ‘Patrologia Latina’. The notation and corresponding text is written in double columns: the notation is in black on a red four-line stave; the text in black below the stave. The rubrics...
Dates: ?15th century-?early 16th century.

Yule collection, chiefly of Scottish manuscripts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but including a Book of Hours and some Persian manuscripts.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.3134-3185
Scope and Contents

Many of the papers are accompanied by transcripts or summaries by Alexander Macdonald.

Dates: 1552-19th century