| Administrative History | Tailour was not a brother of Syon monastery but was possibly a layman or clergyman connected with Syon. |
| Custodial History | The manuscript was brought from the Cape of Good Hope in April 1828: this is the earliest record of any mediaeval manuscripts in South Africa and probably the earliest in the whole Southern Hemisphere. |
| Source | Robertson; William (1804-1879); minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, South Africa. William Robertson was born in Moray in around 1804 and educated at King’s College, Aberdeen, graduating MA in 1828. He was ordained in Edinburgh in 1831 and became a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa. He served in the parishes of Clanwilliam, Swellendam and Cape Town, and was Moderator of the Synod in 1842 and 1852. He graduated DD from King’s College in 1840, though it was awarded to him at the Cape of Good Hope. His influence was strongly felt in the church and he was a popular minister and moderator. The district of Robertson near Cape Town is named after him. He died in South Africa in 1879. |