Antiphoners.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Collections of psalms, anthems, or verses to be sung responsively.
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Fragments of an antiphoner, Italy, includes antiphons for Vespers on Sunday, and for the Office of the Dead.
File
Identifier: MS.25252
Dates:
?17th century.
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
Microfilm of Antiphoner of Benedictine use, Italy, probably Lombardy.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1571
Dates:
[Circa 1460.]
Microfilm of Carver choir book (The Scone Antiphonary).
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.58
Dates:
16th century.
Microfilm of late 13th century manuscript, known as the 'Sprouston Breviary
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.884
Dates:
Late 13th century.
Microfilm of the Carver Choirbook, a sixteenth-century manuscript also known as the Scone Antiphonary.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.5
Dates:
16th century.
Noted liturgical books compiled for two nuns at the Convent of St Martha, Genoa.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8188-8189
Scope and Contents
Both volumes are written in imitation of Roman type. The stave, the rubrics, and the initials are in red; the text and the plainchant notes are in black. There is no decoration (except an imitation of a printer's device on the title page of each volume).
Dates:
1761-1762.
Pocket-book of Sir John Gordon of Invergordon, containing a digest of ten pocket-books of memoranda.
Item
Identifier: MS.108
Scope and Contents
The subjects include a family pedigree with chart and blazonings, accounts of income and expenditure, estate accounts and other business, receipts from the Principality of Scotland, prices, journeys, from Edinburgh to London, politics and elections, household recipes, verses.
Dates:
1754-1759.