Illuminated manuscripts.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Handwritten manuscripts that have been decorated with gold or silver, brilliant colors, designs, or miniature pictures. Although prevalent in Islamic and Asian societies, the longest tradition of illuminating manuscripts was in Christian medieval Europe, from the 6th-16th centuries, when the art was superseded by printed illustrations. Generally, the manuscripts were both 'historiated', or decorated with relevant paintings, and 'illuminated' in its original sense, meaning decorated with calligraphic initial capital letters using gold leaf. Over time, the term 'illuminated' came to refer to any illustration or decoration in a manuscript. Illuminated manuscripts played a major role in the development of art, partly because of the manuscript's portability in carrying artistic developments from one region to another.
Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:
'Akbar-nāmah' of Abu'l Faẓl ibn Mubārak al-'Allāmī., 1655.
Item
Identifier: MS.3183
Scope and Contents
Manuscript, apparently of the eighteenth century, containing Book I only (composed AD 1655). Illumination at beginning of Part I (folio 2 verso) and Part II (folio 418 verso). Miniatures on folios 27, 58, 94, 123, 130, 145, 158, 194, 197, 221, 238 verso, 254 verso, 265 verso, 307 verso, 365, 399. In Part II there are no miniatures, but several pages have been left blank, evidently for receiving them.
Dates:
1655.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Yule collection, chiefly of Scottish manuscripts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but including a Book of Hours and some Persian manuscripts.
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Persian manuscripts, most of which are undated, but seem to be chiefly of the eighteenth century, and to have been acquired in India.
Antiphoner., Late 16th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.1905
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Proper chants for Maundy Thursday (folio i verso), Good Friday (folio 25), Holy Saturday (folio 48 verso), Easter Sunday (folio 69).(ii) Antiphons at the Benedictus and Magnificat for Easter Monday (folio 77 verso), and Tuesday (folio 79 verso).(iii) Three proses. 'In die resurrectionis et per octava aditur prosa: Victime paschali laudes'; the sixth strophe is lacking (folio 80 verso). 'In die sancto penthecostes: Veni...
Dates:
Late 16th century.
Antiphoner of Benedictine use, Italy, probably Lombardy., [Circa 1460.]
Item
Identifier: MS.25241
Scope and Contents
A large choirbook containing antiphons of the Sanctorale and the Commune Sanctorum.
(i) Sanctorale from the Visitation (2 July) to St Clement (23 November)-front pastedown. It includes 'In festo sanctorum monachorum' (folio 71) and the Presentation of the Virgin (folio 75 verso). There is a lacuna between folios 78 and 79.
(ii) Commune Sanctorum (folio 83 verso), including the dedication of a church. It ends with the rubric 'Commemorationes communes seu suffragia sanctorum' and the antiphon...
Dates:
[Circa 1460.]
Book of devotions., 15th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.7131
Scope and Contents
The volume contains the Hours of the Cross in Latin at folio 2 and in Dutch at folio 75 verso, the Penitential Psalms in Latin at folio 106, the Litany in Latin at folio 117 verso, psalms and prayers with indulgences, a variety of prayers to Christ, the Virgin, and some of the saints, and other devotional exercises.There are large miniatures of the Crucifixion (folio 1 verso), St Anthony (folio 28 verso), the Annunciation (folio 80 verso), the Deposition from the Cross (folio 90...
Dates:
15th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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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.
Book of hours., 15th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.5765
Scope and Contents
Contains the following:(i) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary and of the Cross, according to the Use of Sarum (folio 1);
(ii) Prayers, part of the Office of the Dead (apparently not of Sarum Use), psalms and suffrages of saints (folio 50);
(iii) Penitential Psalms (folio 89);
(iv) Psalms 132-134 (folio 99);
(v) The Litany, which does not include any English saints (folio 102);
(vi) 'Ave Maria' and the Creed (folio 111 verso);
(vii) Fragment of a fourteenth-century glossed text of...
Dates:
15th century.
Book of hours according to the Use of Rome, written in France., [Circa 1500.]
Item
Identifier: MS.1903
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary (folio 1);(ii) Hours of the Holy Cross (folio 51);(iii) Hours of the Holy Ghost (folio 54);(iv) Penitential Psalms (folio 57); Litany (folio 67);(v) Office of the Dead (folio 73); Sequences of the Gospels (folio 98); Eight Verses of St Bernard (folio 102);(vi) Prayers, 'Obsecro te' (folio 104) and 'O intemerata' (folio 108); 'Les sept ioies principales de...
Dates:
[Circa 1500.]
Book of hours, according to the Use of Rome, written in northern France., Late 15th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.6130
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Calendar in French in red and black; added in black in a later hand at the end of March are Saints Dennis [sic], Patrick and Grizel, in English (folio 6);(ii) Hours of the Cross (folio 18);(iii) Hours of the Holy Ghost (folio 26);(iv) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary (folio 31);(v) Office of the Dead (folio 92);(vi) Penitential Psalms and Litany (folio 132);(vii) 'Obsecro te'...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Book of hours according to the Use of Rouen., 15th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.7126
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Calendar in gold, blue, and red; entries in gold include Saints Gervais (19 June), Eloi (25 June), Romain (23 October), and Thomas Becket (29 December) (folio 1);
(ii) Sequentiae of the Gospels (folio 12);
(iii) Hours of the Virgin (folio 18);
(iv) Penitential Psalms (folio 62);
(v) Litany and Supplications (folio 73);
(vi) Hours of the Cross (folio 78);
(vii) Hours of the Holy Ghost (folio 80);
(viii) 'Obsecro te' and 'O intemerata' (folio...
Dates:
15th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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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.
Book of hours according to the Use of Rouen., 2nd half of 15th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.7127
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Calendar in gold, red and blue. Entries in gold include St Mor (15 January), la feste des neiges (5 August), St Romain (23 October), and St Thomas Becket (29 December) (folio 1);
(ii) Sequentiae of the Gospels (folio 13);
(iii) 'Obsecro te' and 'O intemerata' (folio 16);
(iv) Hours of the Virgin (folio 21);
(v) Penitential Psalms (folio 46);
(vi) Litany and Supplications (folio 53 verso);
(vii) Hours of the Cross (folio 58);
(viii) Hours of the...
Dates:
2nd half of 15th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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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.
Book of hours, according to the Use of Rouen., Late 15th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.6129
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Calendar in French in gold, red and blue; entries in gold include Saints Eloi (25 June), Martial (3 July) and Romain (23 October) (folio 1);(ii) Sequences of the Gospels (folio 13);(iii) 'Obsecro te' and 'O intemerata' (folio 18);(iv) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The office of Nones is incorrectly described as Vespers (folio 25);(v) Penitential Psalms and Litany (folio 72);(vi) Hours...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Book of hours, according to the Use of Rouen., Late 15th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.6131
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Calendar in French in red and black. Entries in red include Saints Nicholas (9 May and 6 December) and Martial (3 July). (Folio 1.)(ii) Sequences of the Gospels. (Folio 10.)(iii) Passion according to St John. (Folio 13 verso.)(iv) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The whole of Sext, Nones, and Vespers, and much of the other offices is missing. It is probable that Lauds was followed by Matins and Lauds of the...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Book of hours, according to the Use of Sarum., 15th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.3178
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Calendar; later entries have been made as follows: Hyginus (12 January), Hilarius (13 January), Marcellinus (16 January), Anastasius (27 April), Felix (30 May), Stephanus (3 August), Calixtus (14 October), Linus (26 November) (folio 1);(ii) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary (folio 13);(iii) Penitential Psalms (folio 65); Fifteen Gradual Psalms (cues only for the first twelve) (folio 77 verso);(iv) Litany, followed...
Dates:
15th century.
Book of hours according to the Use of Tournai., 15th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.7128
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Prayers in Latin and Dutch in the female form (folio 1);
(ii) Calendar, containing in red several saints from the Ghent area, such as Veerelt (4 January), Macharis (9 May), Amelberga (10 July), Bave (1 October) and Lievin (12 November) (folio 4);
(iii) Hours of the Virgin (folio 16);
(iv) Mass of the Virgin (folio 56);
(v) Prayers to the Blessed Sacrament and to the Virgin (folio 61 verso);
(vi) Penitential Psalms (folio 65);
(vii) Litany and...
Dates:
15th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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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.
Book of hours according to the Use of Utrecht., 15th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.7129
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Hours of the Virgin, with collects and antiphons for different classes of feast days (folio 1);
(ii) Penitential Psalms (folio 71);
(iii) Office of the Dead, with additional collects (folio 79).Lacking leaves before folio 1 and after folios 70, 76, 78, and 115. The lower margins of folios 1 and 81 have been cut away, without loss of text. Decorated penwork initials in red, blue, gold, and green at folios 1, 19 verso, 30 verso, 35 verso,...
Dates:
15th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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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.
Book of hours according to the Use of Utrecht., 1473.
Item
Identifier: MS.7130
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Calendar and tables for finding Easter. The Calendar includes many Utrecht saints in red. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Hours of the Cross. (Folio 15.)
(iii) Hours of the Virgin. (Folio 17.)
(iv) Penitential Psalms. (Folio 39.)
(v) Litany and Supplications. (Folio 44.)
(vi) Office of the Dead. (Folio 49.)
(vii) Prayers at Communion. Four of these occur in Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, MS.11171, folios 75, 81-82, 98 verso. See M Meertens, ‘De Godsvrucht in de...
Dates:
1473.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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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.
Book of hours and devotions., 15th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.7135
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Hours of the Holy Ghost (folio 1);
(ii) Prayers and devotional exercises (folio 33);
(iii) Suffrages of the saints (folio 55);
(iv) Hours of the Cross (folio 65 verso).The volume would appear to be no more than a fragment, as there are leaves missing after folio 32, containing the conclusion of (i), and folios 1 and 62-65 are replacements in another hand for missing originals. (The leaves missing after folios 48, 49, and 64 do not...
Dates:
15th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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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.
Book of hours, apparently according to the Use of Utrecht., 15th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.7132
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Calendar, including several Utrecht saints in red (folio 1);
(ii) Hours of the Virgin (folio 13);
(iii) Hours of the Cross (folio 48);
(iv) Hours of the Eternal Wisdom (folio 59);
(v) Penitential Psalms (folio 78);
(vi) Litany and prayers (folio 88 verso);
(vii) Various prayers including suffrages of the saints (folio 97);
(viii) Mass of the Virgin and various prayers (folio 139);
(ix) Office of the Dead (folio 152);
(x) Hours of the Passion (folio...
Dates:
15th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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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.
Book of hours, possibly according to the Use of Utrecht., 15th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.7133
Scope and Contents
The volume may be incomplete or may consist of fragments of two separate books (folios 110-141 are in a different hand from the rest of the volume); it is in any case in some confusion, having been incorrectly rebound.The contents are as follows:(i) Hours of the Cross (folio 2);
(ii) Hours of the Eternal Wisdom (folio 28);
(iii) Hours of the Holy Ghost (folios 53-68 as far as Sext; the remainder is at folios 143-150);
(iv) Vigils of the Nine Lessons (folios 92-107, as...
Dates:
15th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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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.
Book of hours, possibly according to the Use of Utrecht., 15th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.7134
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Calendar, including several Utrecht saints in red (folio 2);
(ii) Hours of the Virgin (folio 14);
(iii) Hours of the Cross (folio 59);
(iv) Hours of the Holy Ghost (folio 85);
(v) Hours of the Eternal Wisdom (folio 106);
(vi) Penitential Psalms and Litany (folio 129);
(vii) Office of the Dead (folio 153).Lacking the first leaves of sections (ii)-(vii) (i.e. after folios 13, 58, 84, 105, 128, 152), and leaves after folios 39, 65, 82,...
Dates:
15th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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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.
Book of hours, probably according to the Use of Lyons., 15th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.7125
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Calendar, including Saints Photin (2 June) and (in red) Nisier (2 April) and Annemont (28 September), all bishops of Lyons, and Claude, archbishop of Besançon (6 June) (folio 1);
(ii) Gospel of St John, I, 1-14 (folio 13);
(iii) Hours of the Virgin (folio 15);
(iv) Hours of the Cross (folio 63);
(v) Hours of the Holy Ghost (folio 66 verso);
(vi) Penitential Psalms (folio 71);
(vii) Litany (including Saints Annemont twice, Nisier and Just) and...
Dates:
15th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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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.
Book of hours, probably according to the Use of Rome., 2nd half of 15th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.7124
Scope and Contents
The book in its present state can be regarded as little more than a fragment, since it lacks leaves at the beginning and after folios 10, 19, 33, 41, 44, 46, 48, 50, 55, 58, 64, 67, 70, 72, 76, 82, 88, 105, and 106 (after which at least one gathering seems to be missing). Many of the remaining leaves have had the lower corners supplied with new vellum, and folios 107-110, which are in a different hand, appear to be part of a later insertion. The front pastedown and folio 11, its conjugate,...
Dates:
2nd half of 15th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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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.
Brigittine psalter and hours, apparently written for an Italian convent., 1535.
Item
Identifier: MS.1904
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Calendar, with entries for the Translation of St Bridget, 28 May, her Deposition, 23 July, and Canonization, 7 October. (Folio 1.)(ii) Rules for finding the date of Easter; in Italian as well as Latin. The date of the volume is given by the following: 'Nel presente anno del mille cinquecento trentacinque corrte laureo numero, xvi'. (Folio 7.)(iii) Psalter (folio 9); the seven canticles from Lauds for the week, Magnificat,...
Dates:
1535.
Collotype prints of an illuminated manuscript by Phoebe Anna Traquair of ‘In Memoriam’ by Alfred Tennyson., 1890-1892.
File
Identifier: MS.8128
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was bound by Phoebe Anna Traquair.
Dates:
1890-1892.
Copy of the statutes of the Order of the Garter presented to James V of Scotland when he was invested with the order in 1535., 1535.
Item
Identifier: MS.7143
Scope and Contents
The text is preceded by a large drawing in colour (most of the silver in which is oxidized) of the royal arms of England (impaled with those of St George) and of Scotland (folio ii verso). The preface and the first of the statutes are introduced by large illuminated initials and the remainder by small gold initials within alternate red and blue squares. Lacking the seal formerly attached to the cords visible at folios 1 and 18 verso.
Dates:
1535.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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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.
Devotional and instructional work compiled for the training of novices in the Franciscan order., 15th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.7137
Scope and Contents
The volume contains the Rule of the Franciscans (folio 1), the Mirror of Perfection (folio 11), collections of prayers and devotional exercises (folio 56), various elementary religious and theological instructions (folio 80), and St Bonaventure on the training of novices (folio 128).The volume is in a defective condition, lacking an entire gathering before folio 1, leaves after folio 33, 51, 55, 74, and 88 and all except the pastedown after folio 162. There is a pen drawing of...
Dates:
15th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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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.