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'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.
'Culross psalter', made for Richard Marshall, Cistercian abbot of Culross.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.11
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Calendar in red and black (folio 1). Entries in red include Saints Thomas Aquinas (7 March), Servanus (1 July), and Ninian (16 September), and in black, Saints Margaret of Scotland (19 June), Findoce (13 October) and the usual Cistercian saints. The calendar was published in ‘Kalendars of Scottish saints’, pages 53-64.(ii) Psalter and Canticles (folio 7). The Te Deum is omitted.(iii) Litany, including Saints Servanus, Blaan,...
Dates:
Circa 1470.
Inchmahome Psalter, probably from the Low Countries.
Item
Identifier: Dep.273- is now Acc.12780.
Dates:
Late 13th century-14th century.
Inchmahome Psalter, probably from the Low Countries.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12780
Scope and Contents
Manuscript given to Inchmahome Priory in the early 16th century.
Dates:
Late 13th century to 14th century.
'Iona Psalter'.
Item
Identifier: MS.10000
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Calendar in black, red and blue. The KL initials, and the entries for the major festivals and for the feast of St Columba (9 June), probably intended to have been in gold, have not been completed. The feasts are fully graded with two entries for Saints Benedict, Augustine and Frideswide (12 February and 19 October). There are a number of English saints and also entries for the Scottish Saints Felan (8 January), Ciaran (4 March) and Finan (7 April)....
Dates:
4th quarter of 12th century-1st quarter of 13th 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
Manuscripts from Blairs College Library.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.221
Dates:
1177, 15th century-1924.
Microfilm of Bohun Psalter. Hours and Psalter according to the use of Sarum, made in England for Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.83
Dates:
Late 14th century.
Microfilm of Iona Psalter, written in England probably for a nun on Iona.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.79
Dates:
4th quarter of 12th century-1st quarter of 13th century.
Microfilm of late 13th century manuscript, known as the 'Sprouston Breviary
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.884
Dates:
Late 13th century.
Microfilm of manuscript in Gaelic, titled ‘Neil MacBeath’s Psalter’, containing medical notes and Psalm 118, the ‘Divine Office’.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.468
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Microfilm of missal, psalters and calendar of Scottish religious houses.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.469
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Lesmahagow missal, probably written for use in the Tironensian priory of Lesmahagow, first half of the 13th century; and additional related material acquired at the same time (MSS.16495-16496);
Inchmahome Psalter, late 13th century to 14th century, probably from the Low Countries (Acc.12780);Calendar, 13th century, of Holyrood Abbey: a bifolium containing the entries for July to October (MS.5048);Perth psalter, late 15th century,...
Dates:
13th century-late 15th century.
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.
Microfilm of Psalter of French provenance; and, Book of hours.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.532
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Psalter of French provenance, 2nd half of 15th century, written for a community of Dominican nuns (MS.7122);
Book of hours, 2nd half of 15th century, probably according to the Use of Rome (MS.7124).
Dates:
2nd half of 15th century.
Microfilm of psalters and chartulary, 13th-15th century, of Scottish religious houses; and, 'Lives of the bishops of Dunkeld' by Alexander Myln, 16th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.470
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Culross psalter, [circa 1470], made for Richard Marshall, Cistercian abbot of Culross (Adv.MS.18.8.11);
Aberdeen psalter and hours, 15th century (Adv.MS.18.8.14);
Ramsay psalter, late 13th century, written for use at Saint Omer (Adv.MS.18.8.8);
15th century manuscript, Chartulary of Scone Abbey (Adv.MS.34.3.28);
'Lives of the bishops of Dunkeld' by Alexander Myln, 16th century (Adv.MS.34.5.4).
Dates:
13th century-16th century.
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.
Notes of births and deaths, 1662-1835, of members of a family named Cogan who lived in Ireland, Glasgow and Edinburgh, contained in a volume including printed works, 1633-1639.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.7.2.21
Scope and Contents
The notes are dispersed through the printed texts, which are:
(1) ‘The Holy Bible’ (London, 1638);
(2) ‘A Briefe Concordance’ (London, 1633); and,
(3) ‘The Whole Book of Psalmes’ (London, 1639).
A typed family tree made out from the notes has been pasted inside the front cover.
Dates:
1633-1639, 1662-1835.
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.
Photocopies of three pages from the Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney, probably writtern by a Scottish calligrapher.
File
Identifier: Acc.6260
Dates:
circa 1620-circa 1640.
Printed edition of the metrical Psalms (Edinburgh, 1615), (Aldis 480.5), with contemporary manuscript additions of musical parts for the Psalms, probably by Edward Millar.
File
Identifier: Acc.12805
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and papers on the item, 1913-1962.
Dates:
1615.
Psalter, probably written in the area around Liège in the 14th century
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.17
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Calendar in red and black with solar notations and Easter on 27 March (folio 1). All the entries are among the feasts listed in ‘Gothic manuscript illumination in the diocese of Liège (c.1250-c.1330)’, ii, pages 214-228, except `Inventio sancti dyonisii` (22 April) in red. Saints Agatha, Egidius, Lambert, Remigius and Germanus, and Dyonisius cum sociis suis are also in red, and Saints Emmerentian, Gertrude, Ursmar, Remaclus, Hubert, and the...
Dates:
14th century.
'Ramsay psalter', written in France in the late 13th century for use at Saint Omer, and then in the possession of the Ramsay family of Colluthie
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.8
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Calendar in black and red (folio 1) containing several saints of the Saint Omer region but not the relics of St Maxime at Thérouanne. It includes Saints Silvinus (17 February), Omer (8 June, 9 September, 21 October), Bertin (16 July and 5 September), Francis (4 October) and Folquinus (14 December). Saints Denis and Thomas Becket are in red. Obits have been added in later hands for Robert III, James V and various members of the Ramsay family of...
Dates:
Late 13th century.