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Canticles. Documents.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents containing prayers or songs used in Christian worship that come from the Bible (other than Psalms) and other certain texts. Examples of these scriptural hymn texts are the Song of Moses from the Old Testament, the Benedictus from the New Testament, and the Lord's Prayer.

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

'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.

Metrical version of the Psalms, divided according to the Psalter of the Church of England.

 Item
Identifier: MS.655
Scope and Contents

There are metrical versions of the canticles (Te Deum, Magnificat, etc.) at the beginning. At the end (folio 127 verso) some of the Psalms are repeated, some of them in alternative versions.

Dates: 18th 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.