Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

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DE/EW/4398

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Rental of the altar of St Duthac in the parish church of St Nicholas of Aberdeen. . . . Master Duncan Shearer, rector of Clatt, furnished and decorated the said altar of St Duthac with a silver chalice with the images of SS Molocus, Photinus, Kentigern and St Brigid on the chalice and on its paten the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary gilded and with several other ornaments. . . . .

Rentale altaris sancti Duthaci in ecclesia parrochiali beati Nicholai de Abirdene {. . .} Magister Duncanus Scherar rector de Clat ornauit et decorauit dictum altare sancti Duthaci cum calice argenti cum ymaginibus sanctorum Moloci Fotini Kentigerni et sancte Brigide supra calicem et in patena eiusdem cum ymagine beate Marie virginis deauratis et cum diuersis alijs ornamentis . Et cum sedili ante altare supra quod ponere fecit vnum volumen ligatum in quo incipiunt sermones fratris Willelmi Lugdon de epistolis in dominicis diebus per annum . et vnum martilogium et vnum psalterium cathenanda coram dicto altari ad sedile siue stallum . et pro Deo orate pro eo et cum vno breuiario in percamino cathenato .

Type of dedication
Image
Confidence
100
Saint named
Molocus
Saint details
ST/EW/158
Date low
None
Date high
1560
Entry reference
EN/EW/2737
Notes
None
devotees
name gender type confidence notes
Duncan Shearer Male Canon 100 Master Duncan Shearer, canon of Aberdeen and rector of Clatt. First dean of the faculty of Arts, university of Aberdeen. Died in 1503. See Macfarlane, William Elphinstone, 240-1.
locations
placename type os grid parish ref. county confidence
Aberdeen Church (Parish) NJ940063 Aberdeen St Machar [ABN] Aberdeen 100