Antiphoners.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Collections of psalms, anthems, or verses to be sung responsively.
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
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 containing the antiphons for Sundays and the major feast-days., 1761.
Item
Identifier: MS.8188
Scope and Contents
The antiphons on pages 278-280 (not originally paginated) appear to have been added in another hand; pages 281-292 have been ruled for plainchant but are otherwise blank; and pages vi-xiv are totally blank.
Dates:
1761.
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.]
Antiphoner, probably of the late sixteenth century with later additions., Late 16th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.1906
Scope and Contents
Square notation on a four-lined stave.
The manuscript has been badly mutilated: almost every initial has been cut out.
Dates:
Late 16th century.
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 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.
Fragments of an antiphoner, Italy, includes antiphons for Vespers on Sunday, and for the Office of the Dead.
File
Identifier: MS.25252
Dates:
?17th century.
Late 13th-century manuscript known as the 'Sprouston Breviary'.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.2.13B
Scope and Contents
This manuscript was produced in Scotland in the late 13th century, probably sometime between 1285 and 1300 according to Hair and Knott. Borland, Frere and McRoberts have suggested that it may be of the early 14th century, but most scholars agree that it was written sometime around 1300. The manuscript contains musical services as well as the text of Church services according to the Use of Sarum. The work is written in littera textualis in double columns of unequal length....
Dates:
Late 13th century.
Manuscript known as the 'Herdmanstoun Antiphonal', or 'Herdmanstoun Breviary'.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.2.13A
Scope and Contents
Manuscript known traditionally as the Herdmanstoun Breviary, but more correctly described as an Antiphonal. It was written in the north of England, possibly Northumberland, but later taken to Scotland and altered. It has been suggested by Höhler that the manuscript was possibly written for the college of canons founded at Chester-le-Street by Bishop Anthony Bek of Durham. Bannister speculates that the volume may have been brought to Scotland during the reign of David II (1329-1371). ...
Dates:
Circa 1300
Microfilm of Antiphoner of Benedictine use, Italy, probably Lombardy.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1571
Dates:
[Circa 1460.]
Microfilm of Carver choir book (The Scone Antiphonary).
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.58
Dates:
16th century.
Microfilm of late 13th century manuscript, known as the 'Sprouston Breviary
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.884
Dates:
Late 13th century.
Microfilm of the Carver Choirbook, a sixteenth-century manuscript also known as the Scone Antiphonary.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.5
Dates:
16th century.
Noted liturgical books compiled for two nuns at the Convent of St Martha, Genoa.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8188-8189
Scope and Contents
Both volumes are written in imitation of Roman type. The stave, the rubrics, and the initials are in red; the text and the plainchant notes are in black. There is no decoration (except an imitation of a printer's device on the title page of each volume).
Dates:
1761-1762.
Pocket-book of Sir John Gordon of Invergordon, containing a digest of ten pocket-books of memoranda.
Item
Identifier: MS.108
Scope and Contents
The subjects include a family pedigree with chart and blazonings, accounts of income and expenditure, estate accounts and other business, receipts from the Principality of Scotland, prices, journeys, from Edinburgh to London, politics and elections, household recipes, verses.
Dates:
1754-1759.