Liturgy.
Subject
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Scope Note: Refers generally to the prescribed rites of formal and public worship, typically including words, music, symbolic aids, and ritual actions. The diverse forms of liturgy reflect the needs and attitudes of different religious communities. The term can also refer more specifically to the Christian rite of the Eucharist.
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence and other papers of John Dowden, Bishop of Edinburgh.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.171
Dates:
1858-1940, and undated.
Late 13th-century manuscript known as the 'Sprouston Breviary'.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.2.13B
Scope and Contents
This manuscript was produced in Scotland in the late 13th century, probably sometime between 1285 and 1300 according to Hair and Knott. Borland, Frere and McRoberts have suggested that it may be of the early 14th century, but most scholars agree that it was written sometime around 1300. The manuscript contains musical services as well as the text of Church services according to the Use of Sarum. The work is written in littera textualis in double columns of unequal length....
Dates:
Late 13th century.
Manuscript known as the 'Herdmanstoun Antiphonal', or 'Herdmanstoun Breviary'.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.2.13A
Scope and Contents
Manuscript known traditionally as the Herdmanstoun Breviary, but more correctly described as an Antiphonal. It was written in the north of England, possibly Northumberland, but later taken to Scotland and altered. It has been suggested by Höhler that the manuscript was possibly written for the college of canons founded at Chester-le-Street by Bishop Anthony Bek of Durham. Bannister speculates that the volume may have been brought to Scotland during the reign of David II (1329-1371). ...
Dates:
Circa 1300
Manuscript of the Communion Office of the Scottish Episcopal Church, as used in St. Andrew's Home Mission Chapel, Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14573
Scope and Contents
i, 21, ii-iii folios. Bound in black leather with marbled endpapers. With blind-stamped decoration on both covers, and golden lettering on the front cover: "Communion Office S. Andrew's Home Mission Chapel."The Episcopal congregation of St Andrew's was founded in 1865 and initially used a chapel in Infirmary Street, Edinburgh. It was renamed St. Michael's in 1881, and in 1882 moved to Hill Square, Edinburgh. It remained there until 1965, when it was united with the congregation...
Dates:
1877
Manuscript of uncertain origin written in the late 15th or early 16th century, in Greek, containing liturgies and other religious works.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.20
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) The liturgies of St John Chrysostom (folio 1), St Basil the Great (folio 19), and the Presanctified (folio 41). Substantial differences from modern texts (Εὐχολόγιον τὸ μέγα (Venice, 1862), pages 47-97, 108-118, was used) are: in Saints John and Basil the ό̔τι πρέπει, the ό̔τι σὸν τὸ ϰράτος, and the ό̔τι ἀγαθός are placed after, not before, the prayers of the first, second, and third antiphons respectively, in St John before...
Dates:
Late 15th century-early 16th century.
Microfilm of 13th century manuscript, 'The Rosslyn Missal'.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.216
Dates:
13th century.
Microfilm of late 13th century manuscript, known as the 'Sprouston Breviary
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.884
Dates:
Late 13th century.
'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.