Scope and Contents The volume contains the Hours of the Cross in Latin at folio 2 and in Dutch at folio 75 verso, the Penitential Psalms in Latin at folio 106, the Litany in Latin at folio 117 verso, psalms and prayers with indulgences, a variety of prayers to Christ, the Virgin, and some of the saints, and other devotional exercises.There are large miniatures of the Crucifixion (folio 1 verso), St Anthony (folio 28 verso), the Annunciation (folio 80 verso), the Deposition from the Cross (folio 90...

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The seven penitential psalms begin on folio 2.

The Psalms and several of the prayers are written in Latin (Psalms 1 (51) and cxxix (130) are not written out in full), the rest of the prayers and all the rubrics are in Italian.

A scrap of paper inscribed 'Libriccino che fu di uso del Cardinal Duca d'Yorck' in a nineteenth-century hand is tipped in at the front of the volume (folio i).

Scope and Contents Contains the following:(i) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary and of the Cross, according to the Use of Sarum (folio 1); (ii) Prayers, part of the Office of the Dead (apparently not of Sarum Use), psalms and suffrages of saints (folio 50); (iii) Penitential Psalms (folio 89); (iv) Psalms 132-134 (folio 99); (v) The Litany, which does not include any English saints (folio 102); (vi) 'Ave Maria' and the Creed (folio 111 verso); (vii) Fragment of a fourteenth-century glossed text of...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary (folio 1);(ii) Hours of the Holy Cross (folio 51);(iii) Hours of the Holy Ghost (folio 54);(iv) Penitential Psalms (folio 57); Litany (folio 67);(v) Office of the Dead (folio 73); Sequences of the Gospels (folio 98); Eight Verses of St Bernard (folio 102);(vi) Prayers, 'Obsecro te' (folio 104) and 'O intemerata' (folio 108); 'Les sept ioies principales de...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Calendar in French in red and black; added in black in a later hand at the end of March are Saints Dennis [sic], Patrick and Grizel, in English (folio 6);(ii) Hours of the Cross (folio 18);(iii) Hours of the Holy Ghost (folio 26);(iv) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary (folio 31);(v) Office of the Dead (folio 92);(vi) Penitential Psalms and Litany (folio 132);(vii) 'Obsecro te'...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Calendar in gold, blue, and red; entries in gold include Saints Gervais (19 June), Eloi (25 June), Romain (23 October), and Thomas Becket (29 December) (folio 1); (ii) Sequentiae of the Gospels (folio 12); (iii) Hours of the Virgin (folio 18); (iv) Penitential Psalms (folio 62); (v) Litany and Supplications (folio 73); (vi) Hours of the Cross (folio 78); (vii) Hours of the Holy Ghost (folio 80); (viii) 'Obsecro te' and 'O intemerata' (folio...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Calendar in gold, red and blue. Entries in gold include St Mor (15 January), la feste des neiges (5 August), St Romain (23 October), and St Thomas Becket (29 December) (folio 1); (ii) Sequentiae of the Gospels (folio 13); (iii) 'Obsecro te' and 'O intemerata' (folio 16); (iv) Hours of the Virgin (folio 21); (v) Penitential Psalms (folio 46); (vi) Litany and Supplications (folio 53 verso); (vii) Hours of the Cross (folio 58); (viii) Hours of the...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Calendar in French in gold, red and blue; entries in gold include Saints Eloi (25 June), Martial (3 July) and Romain (23 October) (folio 1);(ii) Sequences of the Gospels (folio 13);(iii) 'Obsecro te' and 'O intemerata' (folio 18);(iv) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The office of Nones is incorrectly described as Vespers (folio 25);(v) Penitential Psalms and Litany (folio 72);(vi) Hours...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Calendar in French in red and black. Entries in red include Saints Nicholas (9 May and 6 December) and Martial (3 July). (Folio 1.)(ii) Sequences of the Gospels. (Folio 10.)(iii) Passion according to St John. (Folio 13 verso.)(iv) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The whole of Sext, Nones, and Vespers, and much of the other offices is missing. It is probable that Lauds was followed by Matins and Lauds of the...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Calendar; later entries have been made as follows: Hyginus (12 January), Hilarius (13 January), Marcellinus (16 January), Anastasius (27 April), Felix (30 May), Stephanus (3 August), Calixtus (14 October), Linus (26 November) (folio 1);(ii) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary (folio 13);(iii) Penitential Psalms (folio 65); Fifteen Gradual Psalms (cues only for the first twelve) (folio 77 verso);(iv) Litany, followed...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Prayers in Latin and Dutch in the female form (folio 1); (ii) Calendar, containing in red several saints from the Ghent area, such as Veerelt (4 January), Macharis (9 May), Amelberga (10 July), Bave (1 October) and Lievin (12 November) (folio 4); (iii) Hours of the Virgin (folio 16); (iv) Mass of the Virgin (folio 56); (v) Prayers to the Blessed Sacrament and to the Virgin (folio 61 verso); (vi) Penitential Psalms (folio 65); (vii) Litany and...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Hours of the Virgin, with collects and antiphons for different classes of feast days (folio 1); (ii) Penitential Psalms (folio 71); (iii) Office of the Dead, with additional collects (folio 79).Lacking leaves before folio 1 and after folios 70, 76, 78, and 115. The lower margins of folios 1 and 81 have been cut away, without loss of text. Decorated penwork initials in red, blue, gold, and green at folios 1, 19 verso, 30 verso, 35 verso,...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Calendar and tables for finding Easter. The Calendar includes many Utrecht saints in red. (Folio 1.) (ii) Hours of the Cross. (Folio 15.) (iii) Hours of the Virgin. (Folio 17.) (iv) Penitential Psalms. (Folio 39.) (v) Litany and Supplications. (Folio 44.) (vi) Office of the Dead. (Folio 49.) (vii) Prayers at Communion. Four of these occur in Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, MS.11171, folios 75, 81-82, 98 verso. See M Meertens, ‘De Godsvrucht in de...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Calendar, including several Utrecht saints in red (folio 1); (ii) Hours of the Virgin (folio 13); (iii) Hours of the Cross (folio 48); (iv) Hours of the Eternal Wisdom (folio 59); (v) Penitential Psalms (folio 78); (vi) Litany and prayers (folio 88 verso); (vii) Various prayers including suffrages of the saints (folio 97); (viii) Mass of the Virgin and various prayers (folio 139); (ix) Office of the Dead (folio 152); (x) Hours of the Passion (folio...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Calendar, including several Utrecht saints in red (folio 2); (ii) Hours of the Virgin (folio 14); (iii) Hours of the Cross (folio 59); (iv) Hours of the Holy Ghost (folio 85); (v) Hours of the Eternal Wisdom (folio 106); (vi) Penitential Psalms and Litany (folio 129); (vii) Office of the Dead (folio 153).Lacking the first leaves of sections (ii)-(vii) (i.e. after folios 13, 58, 84, 105, 128, 152), and leaves after folios 39, 65, 82,...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Calendar, including Saints Photin (2 June) and (in red) Nisier (2 April) and Annemont (28 September), all bishops of Lyons, and Claude, archbishop of Besançon (6 June) (folio 1); (ii) Gospel of St John, I, 1-14 (folio 13); (iii) Hours of the Virgin (folio 15); (iv) Hours of the Cross (folio 63); (v) Hours of the Holy Ghost (folio 66 verso); (vi) Penitential Psalms (folio 71); (vii) Litany (including Saints Annemont twice, Nisier and Just) and...

Scope and Contents The book in its present state can be regarded as little more than a fragment, since it lacks leaves at the beginning and after folios 10, 19, 33, 41, 44, 46, 48, 50, 55, 58, 64, 67, 70, 72, 76, 82, 88, 105, and 106 (after which at least one gathering seems to be missing). Many of the remaining leaves have had the lower corners supplied with new vellum, and folios 107-110, which are in a different hand, appear to be part of a later insertion. The front pastedown and folio 11, its conjugate,...

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MSS.9447-9458 consist of Scottish and English music, and French lute music, all dating from before 1675. MSS.9459-9469 consist of French music brought to Scotland by James and Harie Maule after their visits to France between 1678 and 1683. MSS.9470-9475 are opera scores and parts acquired by James Maule when in exile in Italy after the 1715 rising.

Scope and Contents The commonplace book contains Latin poetry (including extracts from Horace, Virgil and Juvenal), songs, prose and exercises; astronomical, navigational, and mathematical notes and exercises, with some diagrams and tables; notes on the art of gunnery; some common psalm tunes; prayers; English proverbs, verse and poetry; extracts from a guide to the education of children and youth; instructions concerning card tricks; some verse attributed to the 1st Marquis of Montrose and notes on his role...

Scope and Contents The book originally belonged to Robert Edward's father, Alexander, a Dundee merchant, and a business account dated 1622 is on folio 1. The volume chiefly consists of songs, psalms, notes, and instrumental items, several of which appear twice or with parts separated, scraps on the history of music, and poetical items alone. Many of the pieces are of Scottish origin but English and Continental composers appear, as well as both pre- and post-Reformation music.The...

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The Latin poetry consists of the 'Hecatombe' of Robert Boyd of Trochrig, and various poems and many of the metrical versions of the Psalms by George Buchanan.

The English poetry consists of a number of poems which appeared in the 'Scots Magazine', and an excerpt from Edward Young's 'Night thoughts'.

Scope and Contents The volume includes a Calendar (folio 8), possibly of the diocese of Liège, with entries in red for 'Die groet letanye' (26 April), "Franciscus ons h' vad" (4 October, duplex), and Hubrecht (3 November, duplex), and in black for Magdelberte (7 September, duplex); Mass for All Souls (folio 20); Penitential Psalms and Litany (folio 32); 'Den corten souter van der passien' (folio 96 verso); Vespers for the vigil of All Souls (folio 166); the Hours of All Souls (folio 332); and a large number of...

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Many of the manuscripts contain notes, indexes, etc., by George Neilson.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Most of the compositions of G W Crawford are written on a large scale and the collection consists chiefly of full scores, piano reductions and orchestral parts. There are very few drafts or sketches: almost all the compositions are in their final form, and many are in the hands of copyists. Most of the works are undated. Those dates that appear (usually on the last page or leaf) range from 1892 to 1941, but it is rarely clear whether these are of composition, revision or performance. Almost...