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Chronicles.

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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Histories in which events are described in chronological order. For records of events in yearly sequence but less connected or filled out by commentary or interpretation, use ""annals."".

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Abridgement by Patrick Russell, prior of the Charterhouse of Perth, of a work by Walter Bower known as the 'Book of Cupar Angus'.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.7
Scope and Contents Manuscript compiled in Scotland by Patrick Russell, a prior of the Charterhouse of Perth. The manuscript is an abridged copy of the 'Book of Cupar Angus', which is itself an abbreviation of the 'Scotichronicon'.The manuscript is written in a single column, probably all by the same hand, which is becomes harder to read towards the end of the volume. The work is not complete, as two or more folios are missing between 246v and 247r.Watt suggests that the lost examplar...
Dates: 1460 - 1488