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Material relating to Thomas Muir, the political reformer.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3824-3829
Dates:
Late 18th century.
Photostats of a manuscript, undated, containing Gaelic poetry in the hand of William MacMurchy found at Inverneill House in 1949 by Colonel Duncan Campbell of Inverneill.
Item
Identifier: MS.14951
Scope and Contents
The manuscript consists of versions of four poems which also appear in Adv.MS.73.2.2.
The contents are as follows.
(i) ‘Tuirseach andiu crioch Gaoidhioll’, 152 lines (page 1);
(ii) ‘Do bheath Ghiolleasbuig gad dhuthchus’, 32 lines (page 5);
(iii) “Ghillasbuig mo bheannachd re m’bheo”, 7 stanzas (page 6);
(iv) “‘Ghillasbuig mo mholachd rem’ bheo”, 8½ stanzas (page 7).
Dates:
18th century.
Photostats of manuscripts held in the Abbotsford Library, all in the hand of Sir Walter Scott.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2229-2232
Dates:
1796-1797.
Positive Photostat of a manuscript containing Gaelic poetry collected by the Reverend James McLagan (MacLagan MS.73 in Glasgow University).
Item
Identifier: MS.14950
Scope and Contents
The photostat includes a portion which once formed part of National Library of Scotland MS.3784.
The Photostat of the manuscript was catalogued by John Mackechnie as follows.
Mackechnie, page 424 (MacLagan MS.73 a-b) (folios 1-4);
Mackechnie, page 324 (NLS MS.3784 (2), numbers 3, 4, 1, 2, 4, 5 in that order) (folios 5-8);
Mackechnie, page 424 (MacLagan MS.73 c-n) (folios 9-12).
Dates:
[Circa 1755.]