The ''Arbuthnott Missal'' is the only extant
missal
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(
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) of the Scottish Use. It won a prestigious top award in the
British Library
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's Hidden Treasures competition 2007.
James Sibbald, priest of
Arbuthnott
Arbuthnott ( gd, Obar Bhuadhnait, "mouth of the Buadhnat") is a village and parish in the Howe of the Mearns, a low-lying agricultural district of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is located on the B967, east of Fordoun (on the A90) and north-west ...
,
Scotland
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, wrote it in 1491 on
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in
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characters with
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. It corresponds closely with the typical edition of 1498 of the
Sarum Missal.
After the
Reformation
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, the missal became the property of the
Arbuthnott family, in whose possession it remained until 1897, when it was purchased by Archibald Coats of
Paisley, who presented it to the town museum.
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It was edited under the title ''Liber Ecclesie Beati Terrenani de Arbuthnott: Missale secundum usum Ecclesiæ Sancti Andreæ in Scotia'' by ]Alexander Penrose Forbes
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He was the sec ...
, Bishop of Brechin
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and published in 1864 by his brother George Hay Forbes
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Despite severe physical adversity, Forbes was responsible for church building at Burntisland near ...
at the Pitsligo Press
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, Burntisland
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Arbuthnott
Arbuthnott ( gd, Obar Bhuadhnait, "mouth of the Buadhnat") is a village and parish in the Howe of the Mearns, a low-lying agricultural district of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is located on the B967, east of Fordoun (on the A90) and north-west ...
1491 books
15th century in Scotland
15th-century Christian texts
15th-century illuminated manuscripts