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There are about 330 medieval manuscripts held in Special Collections, about half of them drawn from the Laing Collection. They are of diverse origin and subject matter, with some manuscripts representing the Benedictine and Carthusian monasteries at Erfurt, some material from Bury St. Edmunds, Reading and Syon and other British locations, and also from Aberdeen, Dunkeld, Elgin, Sciennes, and Inchcolm, in Scotland. Well represented are biblical, liturgical and theological texts, especially a good collection of late medieval illuminated books of hours. Within the Biblical manuscripts there are Bibles, parts of the Bible, Bible histories, Lives of our Lord and the Blessed Virgin Mary, and other saints. The Liturgical manuscripts include Antiphoner, Breviaries, Directories, Grails, Horae, Martyrology, Missals, Pontificals, Psalters etc. Theological texts include Apocryphal material, Commentaries, General, Moral, Mystical, Sermons, and Patristic material. There are Philosophy texts, Law, material on Medicine and History. The manuscripts include Classical and Medieval Literature.

Book Reader Icon Digital Book: Four Gospels, Germany (Ms 12)

Book Reader Icon Digital Book: Bible Historial, France (Ms 19)

Book Reader Icon Digital Book: Celtic Psalter (Ms 56)

Book Reader Icon Digital Book: Book of Hours, 1430 (Ms 39)

Media group: Religion In Late Medieval Scotland.

Media group: complete digitised version of MS 42 Book of Hours.

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