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Ancient Inscriptions on Stones Found in Scotland’ | 323 Proc SocTHE Antiq MORTON Scot 144 MANUSCRIPT:(2014), 323–348 ‘ANCIENT INSCRIPTIONS ON STONES FOUND IN SCOTLAND’ | 323 The Morton Manuscript: ‘ancient inscriptions on stones found in Scotland’ Lawrence Keppie* ABSTRACT An eight-page manuscript, presented to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 1827 and, until recently, considered lost, lists nine Roman and four medieval inscriptions, of which four are otherwise unknown. This paper discusses the sources used in the compilation of the manuscript, which is traditionally ascribed to James Douglas, 14th earl of Morton (1702–68). The conclusion reached here is that much of the information which it contains was assembled in the mid-17th century and collated into its present form much later, perhaps in the early 18th century. Preserved in the archives of the Society of lost. The present writer relocated it a few years Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh, is an eight- ago. page manuscript in an 18th-century hand, with The Morton Manuscript is bound up in one the title ‘Ancient Inscriptions on Stones found of the Society’s Communications volumes in Scotland’, which lists both Roman and only a few folios after a letter in the hand of medieval epigraphic texts.1 It was presented to Susannah, Dowager Countess of Morton, which the Society on 13 October 1827. The writer has lists artefacts presented by her on 20 September EHHQ LGHQWLÀHG DV -DPHV 'RXJODV WK HDUO RI 1827 to the Society, soon after the death of her Morton (below p 341), who died in 1768. The husband, the 16th earl.7 The indorsement (on fol ‘Morton Manuscript’ was known to Sir Daniel 333 verso), in the hand of Edward Drummond Wilson, who cited two Roman inscriptions from Hay, Secretary of the Society from 1827, reads it in his Archaeology and Prehistoric Annals as follows: of Scotland.2 It was also used by Emil Hübner, Ancient Inscriptions on Stones found in Scotland. the editor of the seventh volume of the Corpus of Latin Inscriptions (1873), which dealt with Query – Were not these memoranda made by E[arl] of Morton who was born in 1702, was Pres[iden]t of the Roman epigraphic material from Britain. the Roy[a]l Soc[iet]y & died 1760 [sic]. Hübner was in Edinburgh in 1866,3 but seems not to have become aware of the manuscript Or may they have been written by Robert Riddle who was a distinguished Antiquary & died 1730 before he returned home to Berlin. Subsequently [sic]. KH ZURWH WR -RVHSK $QGHUVRQ .HHSHU RI WKH National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland Presented to the Society of Scotish [sic] Antiquaries by Susan Countess Dowager of Morton 13th Oct. from 1869, in search of details.4 Anderson sent 1827. him verbatim transcriptions from which Hübner quoted extensively. In 1896, the antiquary Dr A total of 13 inscriptions are listed, all in Latin. -DPHV0DFGRQDOGFLWHGWKHPDQXVFULSWLQUHODWLRQ They are transcribed and discussed below in the to one stone (no 12 below).5 However, in 1953, order in which they appear in the manuscript. 53:ULJKWRQHRIWKHHGLWRUVRIWKHÀUVWYROXPH 7KH WH[WV DFFRPSDQ\LQJ WKHP DUH FKLHÁ\ LQ of the Roman Inscriptions of Britain, sought it English, with some sentences in Latin. Pencil out in vain,6 and it has since been considered annotations on the manuscript are in the hand * The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ Keppie, L.indd 323 24/11/2015 14:47 324 | SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF SCOTLAND, 2014 Illus 1 Communications to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Volume 4 (1823–7), fol 331 recto (nos 1–3). © National Museums Scotland Keppie, L.indd 324 24/11/2015 14:47 THE MORTON MANUSCRIPT: ‘ANCIENT INSCRIPTIONS ON STONES FOUND IN SCOTLAND’ | 325 RI-RVHSK$QGHUVRQZKRQXPEHUHGWKH5RPDQ of this attribution. The Roman fort at Inveresk, inscriptions in our manuscript in a sequence close to the mouth of the River Esk, is now followed by Emil Hübner in 1873. No 2 (below) overlain by the cemetery attached to St Michael’s is described by Anderson as ‘Now in Hunterian Kirk.12 The altar was erected by Quintus Lusius Museum, Glasgow’. Nos 5, 9 and 10 are marked Sabinianus, an imperial procurator,13 to Apollo ‘New to me’. Grannus, a healing god, one of whose cult centres Several of the Roman inscriptions and the was at Aquae Granni, now Aachen, Germany. accompanying commentaries derive from the More recently, Sabinianus’ names and title have 1607 edition of William Camden’s Britannia, been read on a second altar from Inveresk.14 through the English translation by Philemon In April 1565, when word of the altar’s Holland, published in 1610 and again in 1637. discovery reached the Court in Edinburgh, To judge from various minor typographical Queen Mary acted swiftly to ensure its survival, indicators, our author was consulting the latter.8 contacting the ‘baillies of Mussilburgh’.15 :H FRXOG ZHOO KDYH ORRNHG WR ÀQG VRPH XVH Thomas Randolph, Ambassador of Queen PDGH RI 6LU -DPHV 'DOU\PSOH·V HGLWLRQ RI Elizabeth I at the Scottish Court, wrote to the earl the Scotland chapter of Camden’s Britannia RI%HGIRUGDERXWWKHÀQGFLWLQJDVKLVDXWKRULW\ published in 1695; but none is evident. Editions ‘Alexander Clerke whoe was ther to see it’.16 of the Britannia by Edmund Gibson (1695 and Soon afterwards, Randolph wrote also to Sir 1722) and by Richard Gough (1789 and 1806) William Cecil, Elizabeth’s secretary of state, were not used. describing it as ‘a stone that was found, w[i]th these words greven upon hym’.17 1. Fol. 331 recto (illus 1–2) The Scottish poet and itinerant scholar Thomas Near unto Mussleburgh in An[no]: 1549 was digged Seget,18 whose home was at Seton, East Lothian, up a stone w[i]th this Inscription, in form of the a few kilometres from Inveresk, passed drawings Head of an Altar, of the altar to the classical scholar Marc Welser Appolini Aπλλων Ακερσκμης (Velserius) at Augsburg and to the cartographer Grano Abraham Ortels (Ortelius) at Amsterdam, both Q. Lusius of whom he met in 1597.19 These are our only Sabinia visual records of it.20 People who ‘saw the stone Nus. when newly dug out’ supposed that there could *proc be some letters in a further line below, possibly Aug. to be read as MAX.21 *U. SS. L. U. M. -RKQ 1DSLHU RI 0HUFKLVWRQ UHIHUV WR WKLV altar in his Plaine Discovery of the whole Appolini / Grano / Q(uintus) Lusius / Sabinia / nus Revelation of Saint John, as ‘a foundation of / proc(urator) / Aug(usti) / v(otum) s(usceptum) a Romane monument lately found . bearing s(olvit) lu(bens) m(erito). ‘To Apollo Grannus, Quintus Lusius Sabinianus, imperial procurator, this inscription dedicatorie’; however, it was 22 ZLOOLQJO\ DQG GHVHUYHGO\ IXOÀOOHG WKH YRZ KH KDG ‘now utterlie demolished’. William Camden undertaken.’ In Greek: ‘Apollo unshorn.’ included the inscription in the 1600 edition of his Britannia, arranging Napier’s text in three This is a Roman altar from Inveresk, near lines.23 By 1607, Camden had a fuller text to Musselburgh, Midlothian.9 It was the earliest hand, communicated to him by Sir Peter Young, Roman inscribed stone to be reported from ¶WHDFKHU DQG WUDLQHU RI .LQJ -DPHV WKH VL[WK LQ Scotland. Camden’s account is confusing on the his youth’,24 who ‘hath in this wise more truely ÀQGVSRW10KRZHYHU-RKQ1DSLHURI0HUFKLVWRQ FRSLHG >LW@ IRUWK· LQFOXGLQJ D ÀQDO OLQH ZKLFK (the inventor of logarithms) gives it clearly as Young read as V.SS.L.V.M. Camden expanded Musselburgh.11 Perhaps our author underlined the these letters to votum susceptum solvit lubens placename in his text to emphasise the correctness merito, ¶+HIXOÀOOHGWKHYRZKHKDGXQGHUWDNHQ Keppie, L.indd 325 24/11/2015 14:47 326 | SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF SCOTLAND, 2014 willingly and deservedly’.25 Later commentators to marginal notes (cf no 5 below); they were amended the line to the more normal V.S.L.M., mistakenly copied out by our author as part of votum solvit libens merito, ¶+HIXOÀOOHGKLVYRZ the inscription. willingly and deservedly’.267KRXJK-RKQ1DSLHU appears to report the altar as destroyed by 1593 2. Fols 331 recto, 331 verso (illus 1, 3, 4) (see above), it was seen in the churchyard at A Stone digged out the ruinous ditch of Grames Inveresk by Sir Robert Sibbald in the opening Dyke, now fast[e]ned in the Wall of the house years of the 18th century. However, by that time of Calder pertaining to the Lord Sandilands of ‘almost all the inscription had been lost, except a Torphichen w[hi]ch sheweth that the 2nd legio few letters’.27 The marginal reference to Apollo as Augusta built the said Wall for the space of three κερσκμης, ‘of unshorn hair’ (more correctly, Miles & more. κερσεκμης ), derives from Camden, through Imp. Caes. Tit . jo. AELIO 28 the medium of Holland’s edition. The epithet HADRIANO Angon This stone ¶XQVKRUQ·VLJQLÀHG$SROOR·VHWHUQDO\RXWKIXOQHVV Aug. pio. p.p. Leg. ii. Aug. is at Calder This is the only Roman stone for which a per m. p. iii.D. cixvis GDWHRIGLVFRYHU\LVVSHFLÀHGLQRXUPDQXVFULSW Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) Tito Aelio / Hadriano However, our author’s designation of the year Anton(ino) / Aug(usto) Pio p(atri) p(atriae) leg(io) 1549 results from a casual reading of the previous II Aug(usta) / per m(ilia) p(assuum) IIIDCLXVIs. paragraph of Philemon Holland’s translation of ‘For the emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Camden’s Britannia. The reference was to the Antoninus Augustus Pius, Father of his Country, the Battle of Pinkie, fought near Inveresk in 1547 Second Augustan Legion built (this) over a distance (not 1549), a date applied in error to the inscribed of 3,666½ paces.’ stone.29 The arrangement of the words here follows This is a distance slab from the Antonine Wall, Philemon Holland.
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