List of Sources

1. Manuscripts For full descriptions see C.R Borland, A descriptive catalogue of the Western Medieval manuscripts in University Library (Edinburgh, 1916)

MS 33 Gradual, Low Countries, 15th century This large liturgical volume in Latin contains 10-13 lines of music per page and has some illustrations. It was probably produced for the House of Canonesses at Windesheim in Holland. In the 16th century it was adapted for Unreformed Roman Use through insertions and erasures.

MS 39 Book of Hours, English, mid-15th century This is an illustrated late medieval manuscript Book of Hours of the Sarum Use.

MS 42 Book of Hours, Low Countries, [entire volume] [Scottish connection]

MS 43 Book of Hours, French, c.1500 [Scottish connection] This is an illustrated late medieval manuscript Book of Hours of the Sarum Use in Latin produced in northern France, possibly Rouen, for a Scottish owner c.1500. The extensive illustrations show great similarities with the Playfair Hours in the Victoria and Albert Museum. The Kalendar contains Scottish saints, e.g. Ninian, Kentigern, Fillan, though they are not added to the Litany. There is a Memoriae rubric for Ninian but the service and an illustration of the saint are missing [f.148v].

MS 50 Martyrology, Scottish, 16th century This Latin Martyrology follows the Use of Aberdeen and was produced in the 16th century. The Kalendar is almost identical to the Aberdeen . That Breviary was the centrepiece of the national liturgical renaissance sponsored by Bishop of Aberdeen at the start of the 16th century and this Martyrology is part of that celebration of Scottish saints and the Scottish church. The Obits connect the volume to the Cathedral Church of Moray at Elgin.

MS 64 Dunkeld Antiphony, Scottish, mid-16th century Most of the compositions in this volume of music have been drawn from Continental sources during the 1540s. Despite its title, it was not directly linked to Dunkeld but did have connections with Robert Douglas, Provost of Lincluden collegiate church, Kirkcudbright.

MS 126 Kalendar, Scottish, late 15th century The Kalendar shows Cistercian saints and includes some astronomical tables. The volume belonged to the Cistercian Abbey of Coupar Angus, 1482.

MS 150 Evangeliarum et constitutiones of Convent of Sciennes, Scottish, 16th century This volume contains the Gospel readings and the Constitutions of the female Dominican Convent of St Katherine of Siena at Sciennes, Edinburgh. It was possibly the first manuscript acquired by Edinburgh University when it was received in exchange for the works of Bellarmine in 1593.

MS 169 Medica Secundum Scholam Salernitanan, English, late 15th century This is a medical volume written in Latin 1481 and signed by the scribe, Robert Sherborne. Recipes were copied into the book by Franciscus Cox in English during the 17th century. It contains an illustration of a late medieval doctor and his patient.

MS 170 Johannes Serapion Breviarum Medicum, French, 15th century This is a manuscript of a 13th century medical text by John Serapion written in Latin and produced in France showing signs of Italian influence. It also contains medical notes from the 16th century probably in an Italian script. It has several illustrations of a medieval doctor teaching pupils and diagnosing disease by a patient's bedside.

MS 186 Fordun’s Scotichronicon, Scottish, 1510 This copy of the famous medieval Scottish chronicle the Scotichronicon was written in Latin on vellum. The chronicle circulated widely in manuscript within .

MS 205 Lectura super Logicalia, Scottish, late 15th century This volume contains lecture notes on logic taken down at Louvain by Magnus Makculloch who was a clerk of the diocese of Ross and was patronised by Archbishop Scheves of St Andrews. It also contains student sketches and contemporary poems.

MS 208 Regiam Majestatem, Scottish, 16th century This copy of the Scottish legal book the Regiam Majestatem also contains a range of other legal treatises. The manuscript is also known as the Colville MS because of its association with Alexander Colville who was Commendator of Culross, 1566-80.

MS 308 Hours of Virgin Mary, English, 15th century This beautifully-illustrated manuscript Book of Hours of the was produced in during the 15th century and is associated with Otley, Yorkshire.

MS 312 Book of Hours, Flemish, late 15th century This beautifully-illustrated manuscript Book of Hours of the Use of Rome was produced in Flanders in the late 15th century. Its small size made it ideal for holding in the palm of the hand for private prayer.

Laing Seal No 1385 [Laing Charter 434] Seal of Kelso Abbey, Scottish, 1539 This is the seal of the Tironensian at Kelso, founded in 1128. It was used for official business, such as this charter of 30 October 1539, and displayed a central image of the Virgin Mary to whom the monastery was dedicated.

Laing MS III 210 Manuscript version of John Knox’s History of the Reformation, Scottish, 2nd half 16th century The four volumes of this version were composed largely between 1559-64 and revised from 1566-71 and they contain the section of the History [Books 1-4] written by Knox himself.

Laing MS 483.2 Scottish Metrical Psalter, Wode's Part Books, Tenor Part, Scottish, 2nd half 16th century The Wode Part Books are a musical setting in four partsof the Scottish Metrical Psalter printed in 1564. It was commissioned by James Stewart, earl of Moray, and compiled during the 1560s by Thomas Wode [or Wood], a former monk of Lindores who had joined the Reformed Kirk. For other illustrations see Scottish Metrical Psalter [Wode's Part Books]

2. Incunabula [15th-century printed material]

Inc. 22 [Dd. 34 .20] Juan de Torquemada Questiones 1487 [Scottish connections] This volume was signed by Archbishop Scheves of St Andrews [d. 1497] and donated to the Edinburgh Dominicans and later formed part of Clement Litill's library. It was printed in Strasburgh c1487.

Inc. 223 [Dd. 1. 24] Sarum Breviary, French [Scottish connections] This volume was printed in Rouen by Martin Morin for Jean Raichard in 1496. This is the only recorded copy and once belonged to John Crawford, a prebendary of the collegiate church of St Giles, Edinburgh, who presented it to the Chapel of St John the Baptist which he founded in 1511. It may later have been owned by the Dominican Convent of Sciennes in Edinburgh who took over the chapel. The Kalendar lists many Scottish saints. The titlepage has a woodcut of S George and dragon and English royal arms with MS chronograms for the dates of the return of James I 1424 and the arrival of Mary of Gueldres 1449. Crawford signed the titlepage.

Inc. 235 Papal Indulgence, England, end 15th century This small indulgence was printed by Wynken de Worde, at Westminster, c1497. It was issued by the papacy as a means of raising funds for the pilgrim shrine of St James, Compostella in Spain, and formed part of the process of penance in the late medieval church by granting the owner remission for the punishment for sin and would normally have been obtained for a fee. The sale of indulgences caused controversy especially at the beginning of the sixteenth century when Martin Luther attacked the practice in his 95 Theses at the start of the Protestant Reformation.

3. Early printed books [16th century]

Dd. 2. 33 Hamilton’s Catechism, Scottish, 1552 This volume was printed in St Andrews in 1552. Its publication was authorised by Archbishop John Hamilton of St Andrews and the Provincial Church Council that was held in that year. It was written in the Scots language and designed to be read from the pulpit to instruct the laity in the basic tenets of the Catholic faith, such as the sacraments, creed etc.

Dd. 2. 49 John Jewel Apology for the Church of England 1561 [Scottish connections] A year after the Scottish Reformation, this volume was presented by the English ambassador to Scotland, Thomas Randolph, to Lord James Stewart [later Regent Moray] immediately after the book had been printed in London. The book was written to justify the Elizabethan religious settlement of 1559. The gift was part of the attempt to form a closer alliance between Scotland and England based on a shared Protestant faith and mutual friendship.

Dd. 3. 11 Pagini Isagogae 1542 [Scottish connections] This volume was printed in Cologne in 1542 by Johannes Kempensis. It belonged to the Edinburgh Franciscans as Brother Alexander Arbuckle records.