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‘Our Awin Scottis Use’: Chant Usage in Medieval Scotland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Isobel Woods
Isobel Woods*
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
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In September 1507, James IV of Scotland issued a licence to the Edinburgh printers Chepman and Millar to produce, among other books, mass books, manuals, matin books and breviaries ‘efter our awin Scottis use’. This same licence (see Appendix 1) prescribes that these new books be used throughout Scotland and that all imports according to Salisbury use be banned. This Scottish use, therefore, was considered to be a separate entity – but what was it?

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Journal of the Royal Musical Association , Volume 112 , Issue 1 , 1987 , pp. 21 - 37
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Copyright © Royal Musical Association, 1987

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