Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

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DE/EW/4340

dedication text (summary) dedication text (verbatim)

Mentions building work by William Elphinstone, bishop of Aberdeen, founder of the university and college of Aberdeen, beyond the chapel of St Katherine the virgin.

{. . .} Decimo per reuerendum in Christo patrem ac dominum Villelmum Elphinstoun Aberdonensem episcopum et rectorem conditorem et fundatorem vniuersitatis et collegij Aberdonensis qui huic ecclesie adduxit maiores campanas campanile construxit et erexit ac laminibus plumbeis texit cum tota naui ecclesie cum cancellis per circuitum preter capellam diue Katarine virginis

Type of dedication
Chapel (within a church)
Confidence
90
Saint named
Katherine the virgin
Saint details
ST/JD/9
Date low
None
Date high
1514
Entry reference
EN/EW/2705
Notes
None
devotees
name gender type confidence notes
None None 100 None
locations
placename type os grid parish ref. county confidence
Aberdeen Cathedral NJ940087 Aberdeen St Machar [ABN] Aberdeen 100