Leaves and fragments used in the binding of a volume
(1) Folio 1 recto - Outer half-sheet from gathering N, Proprium Sanctorum, Pars Estivalis
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| Aberdeen Breviary > Leaves and fragments used in the binding of a volume > (1) Folio 1 recto - Outer half-sheet from gathering N, Proprium Sanctorum, Pars Estivalis |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/75172958 |
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| Description | Half-sheet containing leaves N1, N4, N5, N8 (folios 97.100, 101, 104); this side contains the rectos.Number 1 in Donaldson's numbering (the small pencil number on the sheet); number 3 in the other sequence of pencil numbering on the sheet. The sheet is damaged with some text lost. |
| Description | 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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| Shelfmark | RB.m.353 |
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| Description | The Aberdeen Breviary commissioned by William Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen. Printed in Edinburgh in 1510 on Scotland's first press by Walter Chepman. Two two-volume copies and fragments. Bound with one volume is the only known copy of 'Compassio Beate Marie', a short liturgical booklet printed by John Story around 1510-1532. |
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