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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.
15th-century book of hours, according to the Use of Paris, written in France.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.12
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Calendar in French in red and black. Entries in red include Saints Eloi (24 June) and Marcel (3 November) (folio 2).(ii) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary (folio 14).(iii) Penitential Psalms and Litany (folio 54).(iv) Hours of the Cross (folio 72).(v) Hours of the Holy Ghost (folio 76).(vi) Office of the Dead (folio 79 verso).(vii) The Sept Requestes and a hymn to the Cross in...
Dates:
15th century.
15th-century book of hours, according to the Use of Paris, written in France.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.13
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Calendar in French, in red, blue and gold (folio 1). Entries in gold include Saints Genevieve (3 January), Stephen (3 August), Lupus and Giles (1 September) and Denis (9 October). St Martial appears in red on 26 July.(ii) Sequences of the Gospels (folio 14).(iii) `Obsecro te` (in the masculine form), `O intemerata` (in the feminine form) and suffrages to St Sebastian. (folio 20 verso)(iv) Hours of the Blessed...
Dates:
15th century.
15th-century book of hours, according to the Use of Rome, written in Italy.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.15
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary (folio 1). The Te Deum at Matins is replaced by the canticle ‘Te matrem laudamus’. The Hours are followed (folio 77 verso) by the same office for Advent.(ii) Gradual and Penitential Psalms (folio 95 verso).(iii) Litany and prayers (folio 128).(iv) Office of the Dead (folio 141 verso).(v) Hours of the Cross (folio 199 verso).(vi) Office of the Cross (folio...
Dates:
15th 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.
Common-place book of medical, chemical and alchemical recipes and experiments.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.10
Scope and Contents
At the end of the manuscript are numerous prescriptions by a physician in high practice in Scotland in the beginning of the 17th century. One commences ‘Dedi Alexandro comiti Eglintonis uxoris meae confebr[...]ino… 30 Octob.1625’.On a fly leaf is written ‘I wagered with the young laird of Darfie that his wyff was with a sone (deprehenso pulsu brachii dextri maiore) a paire of stage ledder gloves the last of Januar 1634’.The description of the manuscript in the folio...
Dates:
Early 17th century.
Commonplace book of James Gray, priest of the diocese of Dunblane.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.7.3
Scope and Contents
Composite manuscript produced in Scotland and compiled in the late 15th century, probably circa 1500, by James Gray, priest of the diocese of Dunblane and secretary to William Scheves, Archbishop of St Andrews. The manuscript is a commonplace book and consists of a variety of religious, historical, legal, and literary material. There are several hands evident throughout the manuscript. Anderson states that folios 1r-24v are written by very similar hands, and could...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Composite volume of 15th-century manuscripts of miscellaneous works by four hands bound together, with an incunable, in the 16th-century or earlier.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.8
Scope and Contents
The collection has been in one volume since the 16th century at least. The contents are as follows:[(i) A printed book: Johannes de Hildesheim, ‘Liber de gestis ac translatione trium regum’, etc., ([Cologne], 1478) = National Library of Scotland Inc.43 (B.M.Cat. IB 4236) (folio 1)]. Folio 56 blank.(ii) Baebius Italicus (?), `Ilias latina` (‘Poetae latini minores’ ii.3; this manuscript is not included in the list given by P Vollmer in ‘Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen...
Dates:
15th century.
Dupuy book of hours, produced in Flanders in the late 15th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.18
Scope and Contents
(i) Calendar in French in gold, blue and red (folio 1). It includes Saints Lubin, bishop of Chartres (14 March and 15 September), Pavasce (16 June), Mello (22 October) and Maclou (15 November).(ii) Sequences of the Gospels (folio 7).(iii) `Obsecro te` and ‘O intemerata` (folio 10 verso).(iv) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary, according to the use of Rome (folio 15). Matins of the Hours of the Cross and of the Holy Spirit are inserted between Lauds and...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
'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.
Manuscripts from Blairs College Library.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.221
Dates:
1177, 15th century-1924.
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.
Palimpsest, made up of at least five English manuscripts of the 8th to 11th centuries, overwritten in England in the late 11th century and belonging to Thorney Abbey.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.8
Scope and Contents
Underwriting: Such identification as has been achieved is due to N R Ker, in ‘Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Transactions’, iii, 169 and what follows; and E A Lowe, ‘Codices Latini Antiquiares’, supplement. Ultra-violet photographs of folios 1 + 8, 4 + 5, 9 + 16, 28 + 31, 19 + 22, 3, 30 recto, and 26 + 33 are in MS.8494, folios 1-15.Folios of the manuscripts (i), (ii), (iv), and (v) have generally been turned sideways and folded to form sheets of the new volume;...
Dates:
8th century-11th century.
Papers from the library of St Benedict`s Abbey, Fort Augustus.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11218
Scope and Contents
Includes:
patristic texts, 1080, of Marianus at Regensburg
"Rule of St Benedict", 15th century
Book of Hours, late 15th century, with the signature of Mary of Guise
fragments of music, 15th century to 16th century, from the Inverness song-school
Dates:
11th century to early 18th century.
Papers of Alexander Fraser Tytler.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11737/1-8
Scope and Contents
Includes commonplace books, diaries, books of etchings, sketchbooks and a manuscript "Remembrances of Woodhouselee".
Dates:
Late 18th century-early 19th century.
Printed copy of Cornelius Van Eck, "Principia Juris Civilis" (1756), with manuscript annotations.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7836
Dates:
1756.
Printed copy of Justinius, "Institutes" (1678), with manuscript annotations.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7835
Dates:
1678.
'Rosslyn missal', a manuscript written in Ireland probably for Down Cathedral, Downpatrick.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.19
Scope and Contents
Manuscript written in Ireland, probably for Down Cathedral in Downpatrick. Lawlor has dated the work as probably of the 13th or early 14th century based on palaeographic evidence. Henry and Marsh-Micheli have suggested the work could also be attributed to the 12th century based on the decoration. This manuscript is a missal of the English (pre-Sarum) type introduced into Ireland from the later 12th century, with a few archaic, possibly local, features. The missal appears to have...
Dates:
13th century.