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Book of hours, according to the use of Amiens.
Item
Identifier: MS.8893
Scope and Contents
(i) Calendar in French in red and black. Entries in red include Saints Firmin (13 January, 1 and 25 September) and Fuscian (11 December). A table for determining the date of Easter is included in March. (Folio 1.)
(ii) St John's Gospel, I, volumes 1-14, and prayers. (Folio 13.)
(iii) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary. (Folio 17.)
(iv) Hours of the Cross. (Folio 76.)
(v) Hours of the Holy Ghost. (Folio 88.)
(vi) 'Deus propicius esto', 'Obsecro te' and Suffrages, including Saints Fiacre and...
Dates:
15th century.
Book of hours, according to the Use of Paris.
Item
Identifier: MS.10981
Scope and Contents
(i) Suffrage to St Anthony and a prayer to the Virgin, 'Veni vena venie'. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Sequences of the Gospels. (Folio 3.)
(iii) 'Obsecro te' and 'O intemerata'. (Folio 9.)
(iv) Hours of the Virgin. (Folio 17.)
(v) Penitential psalms, litany hymn 'Salve sancta caro Dei' (U. Chevatier, ‘Repertorium hymnologicum’ (Louvain, 1892-1921), number 18175) and prayers (Folio 80.)
(vi) Hours of the Cross. Matins and Lauds are missing. (Folio 106.)
(vii) Hours of the Holy Ghost. Matins and Lauds and...
Dates:
1st half of 15th century.
Book of hours, according to the Use of Rome, probably written in Padua.
File
Identifier: MS.9742
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Hours of the Virgin. (Folio 1 verso.)
(ii) Penitential Psalms and Litany. (Folio 97.)
(iii) Mass of the Virgin from the Common of Saints. The text up to the Gospel has been deleted with red paint. (Folio 129.)
(iv) Hours of the Cross. (Folio 133.)
(v) Hours of the Holy Ghost. (Folio 138.)
(vi) Office of the Dead. (Folio 145.)Written in littera semi-gothica textualis. Folio 9 appears to have been written after folio 10. Folios 94 verso-96, 128,...
Dates:
2nd half of 15th century.
Book of hours, according to the Use of Rome, written in Florence.
Item
Identifier: MS.9743
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Calendar in red and brown, KL monograms in blue. Entries include Saints Aquilinus (15 May, in red), Clare of Assisi (12 August), and Nicholas of Tolentino (10 September). Folios 13-14 are blank but ruled. (Folio 1.)(ii) Hours of the Virgin. (Folio 15.)(iii) Office of the Dead. (Folio 81.)(iv) Penitential Psalms and Litany. (Folio 119.)(v) Hours of the Cross. (Folio 140.)(vi) Hours of the...
Dates:
[Circa 1450-circa 1460.]
Fragments of liturgical and other medieval manuscripts.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21097-21100
Dates:
13th century-15th century.
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 Book of hours, according to the use of Paris.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.533
Dates:
15th century.
Microfilm of book of hours, according to the Use of Rome, probably written in Padua.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2056
Dates:
2nd half of 15th century.
Microfilm of book of hours, according to the Use of Rome, written in Florence.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2057
Dates:
[Circa 1450-circa 1460.]
Microfilm of Book of hours, according to the Use of Rouen.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1139
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Microfilm of ‘Roman de la Rose’, [circa 1230, circa 1270]; and, ‘The Talbot Hours’, 15th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.520
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, late 14th or early 15th century, of ‘Roman de la Rose’, written in two stages by Guillaume de Lorris, circa 1230, and Jean de Meun, circa 1270 (Adv.MS.19.1.7);
‘The Talbot Hours’, Psalter and Hours, 15th century (Dep.221/1).
Dates:
[Circa 1230]-15th century.
Microfilm of two manuscripts from Blairs College Library: ‘The Talbot Hours’, 15th century; and, Andrew Lundy’s Primer, late 15th-early 16th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.315
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: ‘The Talbot Hours’, psalter and hours, 15th century (see ‘Catalogue of Scottish medieval liturgical books and fragments’ by David McRoberts, numbers 77 and 88 (Glasgow, 1953)) (Dep.221/1); Andrew Lundy’s Primer, late 15th-early 16th century (see ‘Catalogue of Scottish medieval liturgical books and fragments’ by David McRoberts, number 49. See also article by W J Anderson in the ‘Innes review’, xi, 1960, pages 39-51) (Dep.221/5).
Dates:
15th century-early 16th century.
Miniature from a book of hours painted in the style of Jean Bourdichon.
Item
Identifier: MS.8999
Scope and Contents
The miniature depicts St Luke writing in his study, the walls of which are enriched with coloured marble and Renaissance decoration. The bull, his symbol, appears in the lower right-hand corner. The miniature is in a gold frame, the outer edge of which has been trimmed. Written in red capitals across the bottom of the frame is the text '[I]n illo tempore missus est Angelus Gabri[el]'. The verso contains Luke 1, 26-34 in eighteen lines of littera bastarda. Its left-hand margin has a border...
Dates:
[Circa 1500.]
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.
Yule collection, chiefly of Scottish manuscripts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but including a Book of Hours and some Persian manuscripts.
Collection
Identifier: MSS.3134-3185
Scope and Contents
Many of the papers are accompanied by transcripts or summaries by Alexander Macdonald.
Dates:
1552-19th century