Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

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DE/EW/4321

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Item a silver image of the Holy Virgin Mary of Pity inscribed with an image of her crucified son with a border within a square (?), weighing seven pounds, 10 and a half ounces, gifted by Master Andrew Lyell, late treasuer of this church around the year 1500. A silver-gilt cross with three red stones in which there was once a part of the wood of the cross of St Andrew, the foot of which was stolen, given by Gilbert Greenlaw, bishop of Aberdeen, who also granted a great breviary for the use of the choir, in two volumes, now lost.

{. . .} Item ymago diue virginis Marie de pietate inscripta argenti cum ymagine filij sui crucifixi cum clausura infra quadrata ponderis septem librarum decem vnciarum cum dimediata dono venerabilis viri magistri Andree Lyell quondam huius ecclesie thesaurarij circa annum domini millesimum quingentesimum . Crux argenti deaurata cum tribus lapidibus rubeis in qua quondam erat pars ligni crucis Sancti Andree cuius pes rapina sublatus est cum reliquis introscriptis dono quondam bone memorie domini Gilberti Grenlau Aberdonensis episcopi qui etiam dono concessit magnum breuiarium ad vsum chori nunc per duo volumina pertitum {. . .}

Type of dedication
Relics
Confidence
100
Saint named
Andrew
Saint details
ST/JD/3
Date low
None
Date high
13/1/1549
Entry reference
EN/EW/2695
Notes
None
devotees
name gender type confidence notes
Bishop of Aberdeen Gilbert Greenlaw, de Male Bishop 100 Gilbert de Greenlaw, bishop of Aberdeen 1390-1421; Watt and Murray, Fasti, 3.
locations
placename type os grid parish ref. county confidence
Aberdeen Cathedral NJ940087 Aberdeen St Machar [ABN] Aberdeen 100