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St Margaret's Gospel-Book : The Favourite Book of an Eleventh Century Queen of Scots

by Rebecca Rushforth

This is a rare manuscript owned by the Bodleian Library, which was purchased for ?6 at auction in 1887. It was discovered afterwards to belong to none other than Margaret, Queen of Scotland and was her favourite book, according to her medieval biographer, Turgot. The book explains this beautiful manuscript, exploring its making and its meaning for Margaret, looking at how it became associated with her sanctity; and setting this against the background of historical events which made Margaret a significant figure both then and now. Although Margaret was revered as a saint, her medieval Latin biographer recounts only a single miracle, an occasion on which this very book fell in a stream but was later found undamaged. A Latin poem added at the beginning of the Bodleian gospel-book describes the same events. 114p col and b/w illus (Bodleian Library 2007)

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