The Lesmahagow Missal
Artist: Medieval
Location: National Museum of Scotland
Date: 1240
Materials: vellum
Grant:
Amount Paid: £500 (Total: £1,500)
Vendor: Sir Sydney Cockerell
Review number: 1890 (1957)
Provenance:
Possibly Robert Lord Petre, Sir Sydney Cockerell.
Description:
A volume containing 170 vellum leaves written in double column, with four illuminated initials of unusual design and many in the usual red and blue. It can be identified with a monastery in the diocese of Glasgow and the cultus of St Machutus.
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