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4 THE ARBUTHNOT BOOK OF HOURS. This book, which was used in the chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Parish Church of St. Ternan, Arbuthnot, in the diocese of St. Andrews, also belonged to the Arbuthnot family. It is a small folio of 80 leaves of vellum in the original binding, covered with the ancient linen slip or chemisette. The original veils of silk or crape still remain to protect the illuminated pages. These are (1) St. Ternan, with the inscription, Ymago Sancti Ternani archiepiscopi cum cruce in manu": (2) The Salutation, with the inscription, "Salutacio Beate Virginis": (3) The Virgin and Child, without any inscription: (4) Death and Resurrection, also without inscription: The Passion, inscribed "Ymago Crucifixi" (6) The "Mass of St. Gregory" without inscription. These illuminations are rudely drawn, obviously by a different hand from that which illuminated the missal. There is no resemblance between the St. Ternan of this MS. and the St. Ternan of the other. The volume appears to have been written by James Sibbald, who wrote the missal and psalter. Its date is ascertained to be between 1471 and 1484, by a rubric towards the end.

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The illumination of the Mass of St. Gregory, at which the book is here placed open, is of special interest. is the only known picture of a mediaeval altar which was undoubtedly painted by a Scottish hand. The picture known as the Darnley Cenotaph is much later in date and somewhat obscure in meaning, and the altar shown in the Aberdeen Prayer Book at Duns Castle is the work of a Flemish hand. It must be borne in mind that the scene here represented is not merely a service in a mediaeval church; it is the story of the vision, which St. Gregory is supposed to have seen when saying mass, of our Lord appearing as in his sufferings, rising from the tomb, but surrounded by all the instruments of the Passion. The vision above the altar therefore obliterates all traces of reredos, curtains, etc. The church represented seems intended to be apsidal with whitened wall (here conventionally shown as grey), a flor paved with tiles in two colours, a large altar vested in a green frontal, not embroidered, but made of some rich textile material with a large bold pattern: no frontlet is shown. There are no candlesticks, but, as was often the case in a small church, the rule requiring a light is satisfied by a large torch held by the clerk, who stands in a blue cassock and full surplice at the south end of the altar. Upon the altar are the chalice and paten, and what may be intended for the instrumentum pacis or 'pax brede' which was used for giving the ceremonial kiss of peace. A cardinal is holding St. Gregory's tiara, and the saint himself kneels before the altar in albe and amice with blue apparels, and a blue chasuble with a shaped gold orphrey.

The details shown here may be compared with the mediaeval pictures of altars and vestments on the screen above Cases 16 and 17.

The blank leaves at the end contain obits of the Arbuthnot family in sixteenth and seventeenth century hands.

Lent by the COMMITTEE OF THE PAISLEY FREE LIBRARY
AND MUSEUM.

5 THE ARBUTHNOT PSALTER. This volume, which also was the property of the Arbuthnot family, is an octavo of 142 leaves of vellum, in the original binding. The illuminations are confined to a few borders and initials. A colophon on the last leaf informs us that it was written by the same ecclesiastic who afterwards wrote the missal Hunc librum fecit scribi et finiri quarto die Marcij anno domini millesimo quadringentesimo octuagesimo secundo Indictione prima per manum Jacobi sybbalde capellani Honorabilis vir Robertus arbuthnot de eodem filius quondam Bone memorie ac deo Deuoti Dauid arbuthnot de eodem. quorum animabus propi tietur ihesus christus Amen."

The death of the father of the donor of the Psalter, and founder of the Chapel, is recorded in the Kalendar on 8th October, St. Triduan's day: "Obitus beate memorie david arbuthnot quondam domini de eodem: qui obiit viij die mensis instantis Anno domini m° ccco. lxxo. Orate pro eo."

A more recent hand has noted in the Kalendar for September two disastrous days for Scotland. On 7th, "The feild of Pynkecleich ves strovkin anno 1547 ": and on 9th, "Obiit Jacobus quartus rex scotorum apud bellum de floudane 9 septembris anno domini 1513 Orate pro eo." On the last page there occurs the following inscription in Latin: " May this book remain here until an ant shall drink all the waters of the

ocean, and a tortoise shall perambulate the globe.

Robert de Arbuthnot."

Lent by COMMITTEE OF THE PAISLEY FREE LIBRARY
AND MUSEUM.

6 THE RATHEN MANUAL. A considerable portion of a manuscript of the Sarum Manual. Probably written towards the end of the 15th century, and used in Scotland, as appears from the addition at the end of a form for the Greater Excommunication in broad Scots. The MS. is imperfect at the beginning and in the middle; it appears to have been copied from an English MS. without alteration as there are no Scottish saints' names in the kalendar.

It was found among the books of the late Dr. Cock, minister of Kathen in Aberdeenshire in the condition in which it is here shown, all the sheets being loose. They are here spread out so as to show various parts of the book, including the vernacular espousals in the marriage service, and the Greater Excommunication in broad Scots.

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Said to have been used by Mary Queen of Scots and left by her at Terregles, in Kirkcudbrightshire, near Dumfries.

Lent by the DUCHESS OF NORFOLK.