Liber Pluscardensis (Chronicle of Scotland to 1435). — 1489; Scottish, Dunfermline
MS. Fairfax 8
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Description
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Title
Liber Pluscardensis (Chronicle of Scotland to 1435). — 1489; Scottish, Dunfermline
Shelfmark
MS. Fairfax 8
Place of origin
Scottish, Dunfermline
Date
1489
Language
Latin
Scottish Gaelic
Contents
Form
codex
Support
paper quires, outer leaves parchment
Physical extent
i+ 203 fols.
Provenance
Dunfermline, Fife, Benedictine abbey of the Holy Trinity: Binding leaves (not mentioned in Summary Catalogue no. 3888) are from Dunfermline abbey accounts. (MLGB3: evidence from binding or elements of a binding typical of a particular library, or pastedowns bearing evidence of provenance).
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Title
The Liber Pluscardensis or Chronicle of Scotland to 1436, in twelve books
Shelfmark
MS. Fairfax 8
Summary
The Liber Pluscardensis or Chronicle of Scotland to 1436, in twelve books, transcribed in 1489 (fol. 120v) from a lost original, which was probably compiled in 1461 at the Cistercian priory of Pluscarden, a cell of Dunfermline, for Richard Bothwell, abbot of Dunfermline, by Maurice Buchanan. At fol. 188 is a 'Lamentacio domini Dalphini Francie pro morte uxoris sue dicte Margarete' in twenty-three ten-line stanzas beg. 'Thee mychti Makar of ϸe maior monde'. The chronicle is followed by later copies of:
Fol. 192. an appeal of the University of Paris to the Pope in 1491
Fol. 198. a list of Scottish monasteries, sent to Fairfax by John Adamson of Edinburgh
Fol. 201. three bulls of pope Innocent [viii], dated 1487
Fol. 203. a protest by Adam Forman prior of Dunfermline against a sentence of excommunication dated May 3, 1525
Fol. 204. Latin verses dedicated to Fairfax in 1656 by Charles Gedde. MS. Jones 8 is a transcript of this work
Date
Written in 1489 in Scotland
Language
Multiple languages
Latin
Scottish Gaelic
Physical facet
On paper, in double columns, quires, of which the outer leaves are of parchment
Physical extent
209 Leaves
Custodial history
The MS. seems to have remained at Dunfermline until at least 1525, passing thence to the Drummonds of Hawthornden, and so to colonel Charles Fairfax in 1650. 'Mr. James Drummond 1650. Gifted theis book to Coronall Fairfax the 17 of December, anno 1650' (fol. vii).
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Collection contents
The Liber Pluscardensis or Chronicle of Scotland to 1436, in twelve books
