Prayer books.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Books containing prayers and other forms of worship.
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
13th-century prayer book from France, probably according to the Use of Paris
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.22
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Noted masses from the Nativity to Holy Innocents (folio 1). Leaves following the epistle for Holy Innocents are missing.(ii) Capitula for the Sanctorale and Common of Saints (folio 11). Leaves are missing at the beginning: the surviving text starts with the feast of Saints Peter and Paul.(iii) Collects for the Temporale, Sanctorale and Common of Saints (folio 16). There are lacunae between the Octave of...
Dates:
Late 13th century.
Bibles and a book of common prayer belonging to the Steuart family, with manuscript notes.
Series
Identifier: Acc.3642
Dates:
1726-[after 1849].
'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.
'Book of common prayer... according to the use of the Church of England...' (Oxford, 1784), with signature of Charles Steuart, Writer to the Signet (admitted 1786)., 1784.
Item
Identifier: Acc.3642/5
Book of prayers, undated, of Cecilia Combe., Early 19th century-mid 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.7462
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
MSS.7443-7445 are written in German, having been delivered on George Combe's tour in Germany in 1842.
The phrenological reports (MSS.7452-7455) comprise the phrenological measurements of many persons, both well-known and obscure, with reports and descriptions of their mental capabilities and weaknesses.
The papers of Cecilia Combe contain a selection of literary efforts, diaries of tours, and the usual memoranda and inventories kept by nineteenth-century housewives.
Dates:
Early 19th century-mid 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of George Combe (1788-1858), lawyer, phrenologist and educationist, and his household.
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Miscellaneous personal papers, lecture notes and phrenological reports of George Combe; and papers of Cecilia Combe.
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Journal, personal papers, and book of prayers of Cecilia Combe.
Dean Brown’s prayerbook, written and illuminated in the Netherlands.
Item
Identifier: MS.10270
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Rotae, dated 1499, for finding the Golden Number, Indiction and Dominical Letter. (Folio 1 verso.)(ii) Calendar in red and black. (Folio 4.) Entries in red include Saints Palladius (6 July) and Machar (12 November), 'Dedicacio ecciesie cathedralis aberdonensis' (3 November) and the obits of Elizabeth Lauder, 1494 (11 June) and Master Robert Brown, 1460 (23 December). A note in red concerns the mission to Rome in 1497 of Master James...
Dates:
[Circa 1498.]
“Een seer schoon ende deuoet boexken inhoudende vele schoon ghebekens vvaer mede een Christen mensche hem sal oeffenen om die eeuvvighe salicheyt te vervverue ... Anno 1575.”
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.5.2.12
Scope and Contents
A prayer book from the Low Countries written in 1575. The work contains various prayers in Dutch, as well as the seven penitential psalms and the litany.The work is written in cursive hands in black ink with rubrics and some initials in red. There appear to be four different hands present in the volume.The main body of the work is written in the same cursive hand, while two decorative elements are accompanied by a different bookhand. Folios 154v-158v are written in a...
Dates:
1575.
'Fitzalan Prayerbook', a 15th-century devotional manuscript written and illuminated in England, bearing the arms of the Fitzalan Earls of Arundel.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.53.3.14
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) The Roman series of psalter collects. See ‘The Psalter Collects’. Each collect is preceded by the incipit of its psalm. Folios containing the collects for psalms 1-8, 68-83, 91-97, 104-110 and 146-150 are missing. (Folio 1.)(ii) Psalter of Saint Jerome. (Folio 16.)(iii) Litany. (Folio 24.)(iv) The verses `In iiij poyntis my will or I hens departe`, in a 16th-century hand. They are published from...
Dates:
15th century.
“Heures roϊalles contenant l'office divin et plusieurs Oraisons tres-devotes”, a prayerbook written in Belgium.
Item
Identifier: MS.9154
Scope and Contents
The prayerbook contains the Mass (folio 20), preparation for confession and communion (folio 71), the Penitential Psalms (folio 136), litanies of the saints (folio 309 verso) and of the Virgin (folio 320 verso), Vespers for Sundays (folio 215), and the 'Ordo benedicti habitum [sic: 'benedictionis habitus' is meant] Confraternitatis S. Joannis decollate' (folio 330), as well as other liturgical material and numerous prayers intended for private use. There is a list of contents on folios...
Dates:
1734.
Journal, personal papers, and book of prayers of Cecilia Combe., 1825-1868, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.7460-7462
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
MSS.7443-7445 are written in German, having been delivered on George Combe's tour in Germany in 1842.
The phrenological reports (MSS.7452-7455) comprise the phrenological measurements of many persons, both well-known and obscure, with reports and descriptions of their mental capabilities and weaknesses.
The papers of Cecilia Combe contain a selection of literary efforts, diaries of tours, and the usual memoranda and inventories kept by nineteenth-century housewives.
Dates:
1825-1868, undated.
Microfilm of Blackadder prayer book, written probably in France.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.287
Dates:
2nd half of 15th century.
Microfilm of manuscript prayer book in Dutch, written in 1575.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.125
Dates:
1575.
Microfilm of ‘Neil MacBeath’s Psalter’, 15th century-16th century; and, Dean Brown’s prayer book, [circa 1498].
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.467
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript in Gaelic, 15th century-16th century, titled ‘Neil MacBeath’s Psalter’, containing medical notes and Psalm 118, the ‘Divine Office’ (Adv.MS.72.1.4);
Dean Brown’s prayer book, [circa 1498], written and illuminated in the Netherlands (MS.10270).
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Prayer book., Mid 19th century.
File
Identifier: Acc.13827/377
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates:
Mid 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis families.
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Forbes Family Papers.
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Forbes Family Notebooks.
'The Book of Common Prayer' (Oxford)., Undated.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6469/2
Scope and Contents
From the Record Group:
Printed items and photographs of and concerning the novelist and playwright, Annie S Swan (1859-1943). As some of the items are dated later than 1943 they evidently did not belong to Annie S Swan but have been left in the collection. With letter, 1942, of the Earl of Rosebery to V Rule, concerning a social engagement.
Dates:
Undated.