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17: 183:. Indeed, historian Jane Geddes has gone so far as to call the Aberdeen Breviary a work of “religious patriotism,” pointing out Scotland's sixteenth-century efforts to establish its own identity. She writes that both Elphinstone and the king “were attempting to direct the apparently growing interest in local cults . . . . toward a range of saints that they identified as Scottish.” 202:. Historian Steve Boardman speculates Fiacre appealed to the Scots because of their traditional military alliance with France and long history of wars against the English Crown. Furthermore, the Irish-born French saint is associated with the death of England's invading King 694: 342:; this facsimile was issued to members of the Bannatyne, Maitland and Spalding Clubs. The copy held by the University of Edinburgh has been entirely digitised, and is available for viewing online. 552: 236:
Boardman points out, however, that there are a few cases in which Elphinstone and Boece included saints associated with Scotland, but introduced as otherwise. One example is St.
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in Scotland, including both national heroes and local saints. He also noted that Elphinstone devoted time to the study of ancient Scottish histories, especially in the
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twelve years before. To help him with the undertaking, Elphinstone, in turn, tapped the man who had helped him found the university, Scottish philosopher and historian
393: 125:, which had been in use since the twelfth century, the Aberdeen Breviary contained brief lives, or biographies, of the saints as well as the 750: 295:
as well, although, except for the poem for the office of St. Fiacre, they are not high in quality. All these were to be used as acts of
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worship throughout the country. The saints’ lives, or biographies, in the breviary were all written by either Elphinstone or Boece.
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Legends of Scottish Saints: readings, hynmns and prayers for the commemorations of Scottish saints from the Aberdeen Breviary
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A facsimile of one copy was published in two parts (Pars estiva & Pars hyemalis) in 1854 & 1855, edited by
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The creation of the Aberdeen Breviary can be seen as one of the features of the growing Scottish
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The breviary, which was composed in Latin, includes at the back a small, 16-page book entitled
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However, unlike the Sarum Rite, the Aberdeen work also contained lives of the nation's saints—
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Medieval Art, Architecture and Archaeology in the Dioceses of Aberdeen and Moray
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saints, one of the most interesting being the office of an Irish missionary in
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were commissioned to “bring home a printing press” primarily for that purpose.
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in origin, desired the printing of a Scottish version. Since Scotland had no
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Along with focusing on Scottish saints, Elphinstone sometimes “Scotticized”
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Boece once noted that Elphinstone collected legends of saints from every
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The Scottish Legendary: Towards a Poetics of Hagiographic Narration
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Only four copies of the Aberdeen Breviary are extant: one in the
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The Cult of Saints and the Virgin Mary in Medieval Scotland
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A page from the psalter of the Aberdeen breviary of 1509
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and identity of the early sixteenth century. In 1507,
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Latin
Scottish
Catholic
breviary
nationalism
King James IV
Sarum Breviary
English
printing press
Walter Chepman
Androw Myllar
Edinburgh
William Elphinstone
Bishop of Aberdeen
University of Aberdeen
Hector Boece
octavo
Sarum Rite
liturgy
canonical hours
Roman practice
Christian
diocese
Western Isles
Cuthbert
Bede
Scottish saints
Kentigern
Machar

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