Aberdeen Breviary
'Aberdeen Breviary' contains the following 3 items:
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Copy 1, Volume 1
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Pars Hiemalis
First volume of a two-volume made-up set of the Aberdeen Breviary: Pars Hyemalis or Hiemalis. -
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Copy 1, Volume 2
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Pars Aestivalis
Second volume of a two-volume made-up set of the Aberdeen Breviary: Pars Estivalis or Aestivalis. The title page is missing. -
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Leaves and fragments used in the binding of a volume
1 copy of quire N and 11 copies of quire V of Proprium Sanctorum of Pars Estivalis, all formerly used in the binding of a volume. Also includes two vellum leaves from a 12th-century liturgical manuscript from the same source. For a full description of these leaves, see Robert Donaldson, 'Fragments of the Aberdeen Breviary', Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Transactions VI.3, (1995), 71-86, and 'Fragments of the Aberdeen Breviary: Further Consideration' in the same journal, VI.4, (1998), 132-133. The part references here refer to the order in which these leaves have been placed (loose but encapsulated) in the volume assembled by NLS.
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| Description: | Prepared and edited by William Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen. Printed in Edinburgh in 1510 on Scotland�s first press set up by Walter Chepman and Androw Myllar. The largest product of that press. Two volumes, entitled �Pars hiemalis� and �Pars aestivalis�. The whole breviary is also known as �Breviarium Aberdonense�. |
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