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DE/EW/5427

dedication text (summary) dedication text (verbatim)

An anniversary is to be celebrated yearly on the morrow of the feast of St Benedict in Lent for Master Malcolm de 'Gathmilk', clerk of the monastery of Dunfermline. The memorandum is dated on the Thursday after the feast of St Matthew, the apostle in 1339.

{. . .} vno die in anno . s{cilicet} . in c{r}astino s{an}c{t}i b{e}n{e}d{i}c{t}i in q{u}adragesima quolib{et} a{n}no usq{ue} ad finem hui{us} sec{u}li celebr' aniu{er}sale cu{m} solempnitate . qua dec{et} . et pleno s{er}uic{i}o magist{ri} malcolmi de Gathmilk clerici monasterii p{re}d{i}c{t}i de Dunf{er}melyn in memoria{m} {et} laudem dei {. . .} Dat{um} {et} Act{um} ap{u}d Du{n}f{er}mely{n} / die Jouis p{ro}x{im}o p{ost} festu{m} b{eat}i mathie ap{osto}li {. . .}

Type of dedication
Dating by feast day
Confidence
100
Saint named
Matthew the apostle
Saint details
ST/JD/85
Date low
None
Date high
23/9/1339
Entry reference
EN/EW/3229
Notes
None
no devotees recorded
devotees
name gender type confidence notes
locations
placename type os grid parish ref. county confidence
Dunfermline Abbey NT090873 Dunfermline [DFL] Fife 100