| Description | King's College Inventory 1542 [from Shuttle 23.1]; An old register of the whole utensils both silver, brass, iron and others belonging to the Church, steeple, hall, chambers, kitchen etc of the said College vestry and other parts of the said College in the year 1542 made in a Rectoral visitation by the Rector, Mr James Strachan [Strathauchin] of Balhelvy and his four assessors.
The books in this inventory are not the library books, despite the fact that the existence of the library is mentioned. Rather, they are a list of liturgical and related books which supported the activities of the Chapel; antiphonaries, epistolars, gospels, missals, 'a book accommodated to the needs of the organist' and two 'books for the young', probably for the teaching of the child Choristers.
Contains:
Antiphonale; antiphonale; antiphonale pro hyemali tempore tantum; antiphonale estati tantum inserviens; antiphonale temporale tantum continens.
Septem psalteria...Antiphonalia omnia prescripta et psalteria membrana, caracteribus aureis argentis et azureis rubrisque capitulis exarata, divorum effigiebus auri argenti atque colorum varietate gratissima, uti historiarum principia poscunt, depicta.
Duo breviaria...quibus magister Joannes Hervy rector de Benhum, olim rector Universitatis Parisiensis, collegium donavit; breviarium; breviarium et parvum psalterium...quae donavit Alexander Spittaill rector de Clatt.
Legenda de tempore; legenda de sanctis.
Duo gradalia
Epistolare
Evangeliare
Martyrologium
Liber ad organiste usum accommodatus
Ordinarium
Evangelium preincipalium festorum cum calendario obituum, dono Alexandri Galloway rectoris a Kinkell.
Myssale, capitalibus elementis aureis rubris et azureis, artificiosis picturis adiectis; tria myssalia.
Octo processionalia
Duo libri pro juvenibus
Magnus liber, vocabulare catholicon dictus
Rationale dominicorum. |