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Manuscript essays of George Mackay Brown concerning Gerard Manley Hopkins, with related notebooks and notes.
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Identifier: Acc.13909
Scope and Contents
Includes several manuscript essays concerning various aspects of Hopkins' work, as well as three notebooks and some loose pages of notes, all concerning Hopkins.
Dates:
Circa 1962-1964.
Manuscript in Gaelic containing a collection of the religious poems of Tadhg Óg Ó Huiginn (died1448), written chiefly by Eoghan Carrach Ó Siaghail.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.29
Scope and Contents
A collection of the religious poems of Tadhg Óg Ó Huiginn written chiefly by Eoghan Carrach Ó Siaghail (folio 6 recto). Eoghan Carrach is the scribe of a poem in Bodleian MS. Laud Misc. 615, page 129, and of Franciscan MS. A 8, written for Niall Óg Ó Néill during 1532-1545 (Dillon, Mooney and de Brún, ‘Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the Franciscan Library, Killiney’, page 16; cf. Plummer ‘On the colophons and marginalia of Irish scribes’, page 17). The manuscript was completed...
Dates:
[Before 1449.]
Manuscript in Gaelic containing medical and religious text, with encomiastic verse.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.25
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written in the following hands.1. Text, folios 1-2, 23-24. Formal, often unusually large for a medical hand; bold, strongly seriffed.2. Relieves hand 1 at intervals, folios 1-2, 23; distinguishable by its crooked ‘s’.3. Text, folio 24 recto, column b, line 1-end. Small.4. Text, folios 3-22. Ovoid ‘d’. Changes style (notably ‘g’) and ink at folio 18; a face is amusingly drawn in the initial 'D' here, almost the only decoration...
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Manuscript in Gaelic containing mythological verse.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.19
Scope and Contents
A manuscript beautifully written by a single hand, large with distinctive ‘g’, strongly seriffed. Each poem begins with a large illuminated capital, and there is much decoration besides; colouring is red. There are marginalia in later hands: ‘Amen dico vobis’ (folio 3 recto); ‘olc an litir sin agad a Eogain’ (folio 5 verso, of Adv.MS.72.1.2, folio 86 verso); ‘Ag so leabar………Briain(?) ull(?)’. The contents are as follows.About 25 quatrains, acephalous and...
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
Manuscript leaf of part of William Edmondstowne Aytoun, "Bothwell".
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Identifier: Acc.8433
Dates:
1856.
Manuscript narrative poem, "Days of Chivalry, or Adelaide and Ethelbert" by John Clark.
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Identifier: Acc.11766
Scope and Contents
Illustrated with watercolours.
Dates:
circa 1830-1840.
Manuscript notes and writings of George Mackay Brown, including journal entries, lists, drafts of a short story, review, and poems.
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Identifier: Acc.13910
Scope and Contents
Assorted fragments of manuscript writing, including:A list of essays by George Mackay Brown for a proposed collection, 'drawn up with Brian Murray 23 November 1992'.A letter, 1993, from Celtic Cross Press concerning a review for 'A girdle round the moon', by Christopher J Moore, with notes of George Mackay Brown concerning the book written on the envelope.A manuscript draft, Christmas Eve 1981, of a story beginning 'The yellow dynasty it was called'....
Dates:
1979-1992, undated.
Manuscript of a commentary by Michael Miniclardi on 'De consolatione philosophiae' by Boethius.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.3
Scope and Contents
The main text ends on folio 221 verso. Folio 222 contains 30 hexameters on Boethius (incipit 'Floruit hic doctor clarusque Boetius autor'). Folios 223-228 recto contain an 'exortatio' 'ad honorem dei et sanctorum apostolorum petri et pauli', written by Miniclardi in 1444. Folio 228 verso-230 verso contain, in a different hand, a draft speech against Q Ligarius (defended by Cicero in his extant speech 'Pro Ligario'), presumably a school exercise; interlinear corrections are possibly by...
Dates:
1443.
Manuscript of a poem of John Caulfield, "The Triumph of Love".
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Identifier: Acc.8046
Scope and Contents
With a letter of Thomas Blacklock to Caulfield.
Dates:
circa 1774.
Manuscript of a poem of John Copland, "St Andrews".
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Identifier: Acc.6754
Scope and Contents
In a binding by James Scott.
Dates:
circa 1776.
Manuscript of a selection of poems of Forbes MacGregor, "Four Gates of Lothian", selected and introduced by Alastair Mackie.
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Identifier: Acc.7449
Dates:
1979.
Manuscript of an incomplete copy of 'De Actibus Apostolorum' by Arator.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.19
Scope and Contents
Manuscript produced in England containing an incomplete copy of Arator's 'De Actibus Apostolorum'. The manuscript was probably written at the end of the 12th century, and has been dated as such by Ker and Watson. The work has also been dated to the 13th century by Borland and McKinlay. The work is written in a gothic script with between 27-34 lines to a page. The manuscript is the work of several contemporary hands. McKinley has identified four different hands present...
Dates:
Late 12th century.
Manuscript of 'Ane Abbregement of Roland Furious translait out of Ariost togither with sum rapsodies of the author's youthfull braine. And last, ane schersing out of trew felicitie composit in Scotis meitir’ by John Stewart of Baldynneis, written in his own hand.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.6
Scope and Contents
The text is enclosed in red double straight lines: proper names and titles are also in red ink.
Dates:
Circa 1586.
Manuscript of 'Anticlaudianus' by Alain de Lille, written in England or northern France.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.3
Dates:
1st half of 13th century.
Manuscript of ‘Apostle of the North’ written as a young man by the Reverend Dr John MacDonald of Ferintosh (1779-1849).
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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.18
Scope and Contents
From July 1805 a licentiate of the Presbytery of Caithness, the Reverend Dr John MacDonald was sent by Sir John Sinclair to travel the north-west in search of Ossian’s poems. This he did during September-October 1805; Sinclair called him his ‘Poetical missionary’. (Adv.MS.73.2.15, folios 128-129). His experiences were frustrating, however, as is shown by his letters from Portree and Fort Augustus (Adv.MS.73.2.15 folios 139, 146). The result was the present manuscript. Sinclair paid him £11...
Dates:
1805.
Manuscript of chiefly Gaelic proverbs written by William MacMurchy.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.12
Scope and Contents
The manuscript bears a ‘coat of arms’ watermark, and was written circa 1759 (cf. page 11) by William MacMurchy (died circa 1778) of Campbeltown in Kintyre, schoolmaster, tailor, poet, musician and scribe, for whom see Conley, 'A poem in the Stewart Collection', page 26. He may have been a pupil of Hugh MacLean (schoolmaster of Kilchenzie, Kintyre, circa 1699), as his Gaelic hand, typical of its period for Irish manuscripts, bears at times a strong resemblance to that of the latter (note...
Dates:
[Circa 1759.]
Manuscript of `Lamentationum Ieremiae paraphrasis poetica, auctore Thoma Moravio Scoto`.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.23
Scope and Contents
The author was probably the same Thomas Murray whose ‘Naupactiados’ was published in 1604. The manuscript contains two verse dedications to James VI, composed before 1603 (folios 2-6), and, following the Lamentations, a version of Psalm 1 (folio 32 verso).
Dates:
Late 16th century.
Manuscript of miscellaneous poems of George Donnan, in his own hand.
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Identifier: MS.9377
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of eighteen poems all in the classical style, and including pastoral verses, odes and epitaphs, and imitations of Horace.
Dates:
1786.
Manuscript of Ossianic poems written by various anonymous hands from recitation of Archibald Fletcher (born circa 1734), Achallader, Argyll.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.24
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is watermarked 1798, and is described by John Francis Campbell (‘Leabhar na Feine’, page xvi) ‘as genuine a bit of folk lore as any in the world’.Archibald Fletcher’s affidavit, sworn before Archibald Menzies, Justice of the Peace, in Edinburgh, 1801, is printed in the Ossian Report, Appendix, page 270. It lists the tradition-bearers from whom he learned the poems. Menzies states that Fletcher could write his name, but was unable to read the manuscript, which is...
Dates:
[1798, or after.]
Manuscript of poem of Hercules Rollock, "De Peste Edinburgi Grassante, anno 1585".
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Identifier: Acc.4373
Scope and Contents
With contemporary copy, signed by Rollock.
Dates:
circa 1585.
Manuscript of poem of Iain Crichton Smith, "The Ladder of Experience".
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Identifier: Acc.5983
Dates:
circa 1950-circa 1973.
Manuscript of poem of James Hogg, "The White Rose of Scotland".
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Identifier: Acc.9701
Dates:
circa 1834.
Manuscript of religious verse in Gaelic.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.14
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains an early ‘pot’ watermark. The scribe unknown, but his hand bears family resemblance to that of some Ó Siaghails, e.g. Eoghan Carrach. ‘Saltair’ format, i.e. written along the page, 1 quatrain per line, with single unrelated quatrains at foot of many pages; at folios 1 verso and 5 verso-10 recto these are followed by the date 1582. As manuscript dating this appears consistent with text and watermark. There are many corrections to the text in what appears to be the...
Dates:
1582.