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Agreement made by Alexander, son of Wilhelmi fil. Thor., with the church of Linlithgow, as to his setting up a chantry and chapel for private worship at Ochiltree.
Item
Identifier: Ch.863
Dates:
14th century.
Bible, probably written in Italy in the 13th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.19
Scope and Contents
The order of contents is the usual one (see ‘Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries’, ii, pages 210-212), except that the Prayer of Solomon is included at the end of Ecclesiasticus (folio 193). The prologues are as listed in ‘Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries’, with the following exceptions: 2 Chronicles, no prologue; Job, Stegmüller 349; Psalms, Stegmüller numbers 430, 10470, and 1833, 1; Proverbs has two additional prologues, Stegmüller 456 and 455; Jeremiah has two additional...
Dates:
Mid 13th century.
Bible, written in France.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.1.2
Scope and Contents
The order of contents (from folio 3) is that usually found in French bibles of the period, with the common set of 64 prologues (see ‘Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries’, pages 210-212). The biblical books are followed (folio 412) by the interpretations of Hebrew names beginning ‘Aaz apprehendens` (see ‘Repertorium Biblicum medii aevi’, number 7709). Leaves containing II Maccabees 8, verses 22-10, verse 30 and 14, verse 5 - Matthew 1, verse 11 are missing.There are...
Dates:
2nd half of 13th century.
'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.
Book of Hours, according to the use of Sarum, written and illuminated in the Netherlands.
Item
Identifier: MS.16499
Scope and Contents
For further details see ‘Medieval manuscripts in British libraries’ by Neil R Ker, volume 2 (Oxford, 1977), pages 581-583.The contents are as follows:
(i) Calendar (folio 1). The only English saint, St Thomas Becket (29 December), has been erased.
(ii) Oes of St Bridget. (Folio 13.)
(iii) Prayers. (Folio 23.)
(iv) Memoriae of Saints John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Thomas Becket, Anne, Mary Magdalene, Katherine, Barbara, and Margaret. (Folio 27.)
Folio 37 verso blank.
(v)...
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Book of hours, according to the Use of Utrecht, written in the western Netherlands, probably in the province of South Holland, in the second half of the 15th-century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.18
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was made in the western Netherlands, probably in the province of South Holland.The contents are as follows:(i) Calendar and table of Golden Numbers in red and black. Entries in red include Saints Servatius (13 May), Jero (17 August) and Lambert (17 September). June and November are missing. (Folio 1.)(ii) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a hymn `Ave rosa sine spinis’ (‘Repertorium hymnologicum’, number 2084), and `Obsecro te`. (Folio...
Dates:
2nd half of 15th century.
Borthwick manuscripts, consisting of two 15th century Books of Hours, and a 15th century almanac girdle book.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12059/1-3
Dates:
15th century.
Brief of Pope Leo X recommending Sir John Forman of Hatton to the mercy of Henry VIII of England.
Item
Identifier: Ch.867
Scope and Contents
No seal.
Dates:
1514.
Calendar from a 14th-century Dominican liturgical book produced in southern Germany.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.20
Scope and Contents
The entries are in black and red, with one (translatio Marie Magdalene, March 19) in blue. Among those in red are: Dorothea (February 7), Runegund (March 3), George the Martyr (April 23), Peter (April 29: ‘ord(in)is n(ostri)’), Walburga (May 1), translatio beati Dominici (May 24), Henry (July 13), Dominic (August 5: ‘co(n)fess(oris) p(at)ris n(ost)ri’), Laurence (August 10), Sebaldus (August 19), Abbot Giles (September 1), Martin of Tours (November 11), Elisabeth of Hungary (November 19),...
Dates:
14th century.
Calendar from a 14th-century liturgical work from Germany.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.4.21
Scope and Contents
The entries are in black and red. Among those in red are: Peter (April 29), Petronella (May 31), Dominic (August 5 ‘p(at)ris n(ost)ri`), Augustine (August 28), and Nicholas (December 6). There are several later additions, including: Gertrude (March 17), Adalbert (April 23), Erasmus (June 2), Procopius (July 11), Anne (July 26), Martha (July 27), Barbara (December 4). Othmar (November 15) and Conrad (November 26) are deleted.The calendar is from a Dominican house, perhaps a...
Dates:
14th century.
Calendar of Holyrood Abbey: a bifolium containing the entries for July to October.
Item
Identifier: MS.5048
Scope and Contents
The entries are written in red, blue, green, and black. There are several additions and deletions in later hands, and a sixteenth-century marginal note concerning writs of property.
Dates:
13th century.
'Carmen paschale' by Coelius Sedulius; an Italian, possibly Florentine, manuscript, with the title 'De actibus prophetarum et toto Christi salvatoris cursu’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.7
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains the preface; book i divided as 'de figmentis poetarum' (verses 1-59), 'Invocatio vel oratio poetae' (verses 60-102), and 'Liber I' in 26 sections (verses 103-368); book ii, called 'liber primus de nouo testamento', in 21 sections; book iii, called 'liber secundus Miracula et facta x̄p̄i', in 27 sections; book iv, not separated, in 19 sections; book v, separated into 'quartus' (verses 1-260) in 20 sections and 'V et ultim(us)' (verses 261-438) in 9 sections; the two...
Dates:
15th-century.
Charter by Donald, Abbot of Cupar, to James Hering of Glascloyne (Glasclune), of the lands of Cailleis near Cupar.
...
Identifier: Ch.865
Scope and Contents
Seal gone.
Dates:
1558.
Charter by Malcolm, son of Earl Duncan to the Nuns of North Berwick, of the Church of North Berwick with the land thereof and others.
Item
Identifier: Ch.898
Scope and Contents
Three cuts indicating cancellation.
Dates:
Before 1199.
Charter of Anne of Denmark in favour of William Schaw, son of John Schaw of Lathangy.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14221
Content Description
Dated Edinburgh, 28 February 1611.The charter is addressed to Patrick Stewart of Beith and Robert Ure of Saling, deputy bailies of Dunfermline, instructing them to take action in transferring the hereditary sasine of the late John Schaw of Lathangy to his son William Schaw. The signature stamps of Anne and James VI and I are applied at the top of the charter; the document states that this was done by Thomas Bigholme for John Paip, Writer to the Signet. There is the...
Dates:
28 February 1611.
Charters collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.1.18
Scope and Contents
The great majority of the charters concern St Andrews Cathedral or Priory; smaller groups relate to the Abbeys of Dunfermline and Lindores and the House of Friars Preachers in Aberdeen; and there is a miscellaneous secular remnant. There are 17 of the twelfth century, 36 of the thirteenth, 18 of the fourteenth, 23 of the fifteenth, and 9 of the sixteenth.Balfour pasted the charters into a book (which he had previously intended to use for genealogies, having written headings on...
Dates:
12th century-1553, 1627 or after-18th century.
Chartulary of Cambuskenneth Abbey.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.1.2
Scope and Contents
‘Registrum Monasterii de Cambeskenneth’. A formal transcript of all the charters of the Abbey which were in danger of destruction from its damp situation, obtained by Abbot Alexander Myln (the first president of the Court of Session) under the confirmation of the great seal, and with the attestation of Sir James Foulis, Clerk of Register affixed to each charter.The foundation charter of David I occurs at folio 6.The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue...
Dates:
24 July 1535.
Chartulary of Dunfermline Abbey.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.1.3A
Scope and Contents
Manuscript produced in Scotland containing the Register of Dunfermline Abbey, a Benedictine house founded circa 1070 and dissolved in 1593. The material in the register covers the 12th to the 16th centuries.The manuscript is a composite register compiled at various stages through the 13th to the 16th centuries. Davis and Broun state that the original portion of the manuscript was created sometime between 4 February 1254 and the early part of 1255. The work is multi-scribal and...
Dates:
13th century.
Chartulary of Kelso Abbey, 14th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.5.1
Scope and Contents
Chartulary produced in Scotland for the use of the Tironensian Abbey of Kelso, founded at Selkirk in circa 1113, removed to Kelso in 1128, and dissolved in 1607. The contents are generally arranged topographically. Copies of the foundation charters are found at the beginning. The other royal, episcopal and papal charters are mainly grouped at the end. Witness lists are often omitted from the documents. The manuscript is multi-scribal and displays various charter hands of the 14th and 15th...
Dates:
14th century.
Chartulary of Paisley Abbey, 16th century, containing material covering the years 1163-1530.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.14
Scope and Contents
Chartulary produced in Scotland containing documents and charters concerning Paisley Abbey. The contents are arranged according to subject matter, and in part topographically. The volume includes copies of royal, papal and episcopal charters, with a contemporary table of contents at the front.Davis has dated the manuscript to the 1520s. Scott suggests that part of the manuscript may have been started around 1505, but that the presence of a group of texts dated to 1522 supports...
Dates:
1520-1530.
Chartulary of the bishopric of Moray, 16th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.9
Scope and Contents
Chartulary compiled in Scotland containing a selection of transcripts of charters, deeds, and acts of the Bishopric of Moray, covering the 13th to the 16th centuries. The manuscript is also known as the 'Red Book of the Church of Moray'. Davis dates the manuscript to the 16th century. Borland suggests that the manuscript can be dated to circa 1540, with later 16th-century additions. This suggestion is certaninly true of the later portion of the chartulary, but the first 94 folios were...
Dates:
16th century.
Chartulary of the Bishopric of Moray, written in parts from the late 13th century to the late 16th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.10
Scope and Contents
Manuscript produced in Scotland, containing the older chartulary of the Bishopric of Moray. The manuscript is a composite register and contains material written at different times in various hands, from the latter half of the 13th century down to the late 16th century. The material covers the 12th to the 16th centuries.The bulk of the manuscript, folios 1-114, was possibly brought together in the late 14th century after the destruction of the Cathedral. There are later additions...
Dates:
Late 13th century-16th century.
Chartulary of the Hospital of the Holy Trinity at Soutra, written in 1399 by William de Cranstoun, notary public.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.1
Scope and Contents
The charters, which are not in chronological order, cover the period 1162-circa 1330. They are followed by a copy of Cranstoun`s notarial instrument concerning the making of the chartulary (folio 25) and copies of two charters of 1426 and 1440 in different hands (folio 26 verso).
Some of the initials have simple penwork decoration by the scribe, whose notarial sign is also given (folio 25 verso).
Dates:
1162-circa 1330.
Chronicles and historical works, written in England.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.1
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Table of the sons and grandchildren of St. Louis (folio 1)(ii) `Scala mundi`: historical and genealogical tables from the Creation (folio 1 verso). A similar manuscript of this text is in Trinity College, Cambridge, MS. 645. The chronology goes up to 1519, but apart from a few additions in later hands, the last entry is the accession of Albert the Great in 1438. The tables include lunar and solar years, the dates of...
Dates:
15th century.
Cistercian rules, copied by Alexander Scot, monk of the Cistercian Abbey of Newbattle.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.1
Scope and Contents
(i) 'Liber antiquarum definitionum', i-iv, omitting ii.1-2 ('Nomasticon Cisterciense', pages 367-400). Section i is the 'Carta caritatis', the original rule of the order (folio 1).(ii) 'Constitutio Benedicti Papae XII' ('Nomasticon Cisterciense', pages 473-495; different numbering of chapters), with an index prefixed (folio 19).(iii) 'Liber antiquarum definitionum', ii.1-2, iii-xiii, omitting iii.2 and xii.1 ('Nomasticon Cisterciense', pages 376-378, 395-457) (folio...
Dates:
1523.