The Lesmahagow Missal

Medieval

National Museum of Scotland

1240

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.

• Medium: vellum
• Art Fund Grant: £500 ( Total: £1,500)
• ArtFunded in: 1957
• Vendor: Sir Sydney Cockerell

Provenance

Possibly Robert Lord Petre, Sir Sydney Cockerell.

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