Glossary of Lord Reay's Country by the Reverend Adam Gunn, from the poems of Rob Donn Mackay, supplemented from the 'Celtic Monthly', volume vi (January-April 1898)., [1898, or after.]
Scope and Contents
“An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)
The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the number of those written on is given. Most of the books are undated.
Dates
- Creation: [1898, or after.]
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Extent
15 Leaves ; Small quarto.
Language of Materials
From the Series: Undetermined
Arrangement
29 pages.
Genre / Form
Repository Details
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