Scope and Contents

The leaves are not consecutive. The commentary runs from Matthew iii, 16-iv, 7, and v, 10-12.

Large initial in blue with pen-work decoration in red. Paragraph marks in red and blue.

On folio 1 is a sixteenth-century inscription relating to a survey of Swanton Abbot (Norfolk).

Scope and Contents

The bifolium contains Amos ix, 7-15, the prologues to Obadiah (F Stegmüller, ‘Repertorium biblicum medii aevi’ (Madrid, 1940), volume i, numbers 519 and 517) and Obadiah 1-20 (folio 1), and Micah ii, 4-v, 6 (folio 2).

Written in a large littera textualis with running titles, headings and chapter numbers in red. There is one ten-line decorated initial in red and an eight-line decorated initial in yellow, red, blue and green. Obadiah is marked 'Liber xix' and Micah 'Liber xxi'.

Scope and Contents Leaves not consecutive, pricked, ruled in drypoint, and rubricated.The Ordinal, which appears to be the same as that used elsewhere by the Cistercian Order at this period is described briefly in David McRoberts, ‘Catalogue of Scottish liturgical Books Fragments’.Robert, son of Robert, Lord Keith (died ?1514), was appointed Commendator of the Abbey of Deer in 1543, and was succeeded on his death by his nephew Robert, second son of William Earl Marischal (succeeded...