page_title: Chepman and Myllar Press
section_title: The Aberdeen Breviary
hierarchical_section_title: Chepman and Myllar Press / Surviving Publications of the Press / The Aberdeen Breviary
caption_attribution_description: English: A list of Saints from the Aberdeen Breviary of 1509. Taken from the copy in the National library of Scotland.
context_page_description: The Chepman and Myllar Press was the first printing press to be established in Scotland.
  The press was founded in 1508 in Edinburgh by Walter Chepman and Androw Myllar, both burgesses of the Scottish capital. The two partners operated under a charter of King James IV issued in 1507 which gave them a monopoly in printed books within Scotland.
  Very few products of the press are preserved today. Those that have survived largely intact are nine chapbooks of vernacular literature known collectively as The Chepman and Myllar Prints and a Latin religious text known as The Aberdeen Breviary. Fragments of two other publications also exist. These were editions of The Wallace and The Buke of the Howlat.
  The press seems to have had a brief existence. The earliest surviving example of its work dates to 1508 and the latest to 1510.
  Chepman and Myllar's press is also referred to as The Southgait Press.
context_section_description: The Aberdeen Breviary or "Brevarium Aberdonense" is the largest surviving product of Chepman and Myllar's press.
  Produced between 1509 and 1510, it is a substantial Latin text consisting of two volumes printed in black and red.
  Breviaries are handbooks intended to guide priests in conducting Catholic religious ceremonies. They include a psalter and prayers to mark particular festivals and saints' days. The content of breviaries varied across Catholic Europe, with the English Salisbury or Sarum Rite dominant throughout the British Isles.
  The Breviary was compiled by Bishop William Elphinstone of Aberdeen and aimed to give the rituals of the Scottish Church a character distinctive from that in England and its dependencies. More than seventy of the saints honoured by it are identified with Scotland. As such, it forms part of the policy set out in the charter which established the press;
  that in tyme cuming mess bukis, manualis, matyne bukis and portuus bukis efter our awin Scottis use, and with legendis of Scottis sanctis, be usit generaly within al our Realme alssone as the sammyn may be imprentit and providit.
  Copies of the Aberdeen Breviary survive, in varying degrees of completeness, at Edinburgh University, Aberdeen University, The National Library of Scotland, The British Library and a private collection.
caption: A litany of saints from the Aberdeen Breviary. Scottish Saints are prominent including, Kentigern, Ebba and Triduana.  (Edinburgh University Library).
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