Musica Scotica Vol VI: Vespers, Matins and Lauds for St Kentigern, Patron Saint of Glasgow [download]

Musica Scotica is a series of scholarly editions of Early Scottish Music, published under the general editorship of Dr Kenneth Elliott. Volume VI contains the Office (Vespers, Matins and Lauds) for St Kentigern, Patron Saint of Glasgow, from the Sprouston Breviary, dated to c. 1300, edited by Greta-Mary Hair (music and liturgy) and Betty I Knott (text and translations), together with the text of the Office for St Kentigern from the Aberdeen Breviary, printed 1510.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Painting of St Kentigern

Facsimiles of the Office from the Sprouston Breviary

Maps

The Sixteenth-Century Glasgow University Seal

Introduction 1: Greta-Mary Hair

Stemmata

Introduction II: Betty I Knott

The Editions

• Editorial Method

• Abbreviations

• The Music of the Office

• Texts and Translations of the Sprouston Office

• Texts and Translations of the Aberdeen Office

• Synopses of the Offices of St Kentigern in the Aberdeen and Sprouston Breviaries

Appendices

Bibliography

Index