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Fragment of ‘lost’ score from 500 years ago found in Scotland A fragment of a musical score found in the Aberdeen Breviary of 1510, Scotland’s first full-length printed book, has shed light on the sound of pre-Reformation music. This rare discovery, containing just 55 notes, has been linked to religious traditions in Scotland’s northeast over five centuries ago. The fragment, identified as a unique harmonization of the Lenten hymn Cultor Dei, was uncovered by researchers from Edinburgh College of Art and KU Leuven in Belgium. Found within a copy of the Breviary, known as the “Glamis copy” due to its past residence in Glamis Castle, the book is now housed at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh.