The Lesmahagow Missal

Item date: 13th century
Grant Value: 100
Item cost pre-decimal: 1500
Item date acquired: 1957
Item institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

Manuscript of 170 leaves written in double column with four large illuminated initials. No other missal of a Tironian house is known to exist. Illustrated as frontispiece in AR

Item Provenance
May have been plundered from Lesmahagow in 1336 by the Earl of Cornwall. May have been owned by Lord Petre in the 18th century. Bought from Sir Sydney Cockerell