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Papers of Edmund Crosby Quiggin (1875-1920), Munro Lecturer in Celtic, Cambridge University, relating to the preparation of editions of Gaelic texts.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14870-14872
Scope and Contents
Due to the War and Dr Edmund Crosby Quiggin’s early death, neither work was published. The papers were used however by Professor John Fraser in publishing his collection of Quiggin’s Book of the Dean of Lismore transcripts, ‘Poems from the Book of the Dean of Lismore’.
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century.
Photocopies of notes, transcriptions and poems of William Stuart Henry.
File
Identifier: Acc.9127
Dates:
circa 1965-1975
Photocopy of a transcript and description by Terry L Meyers of a notebook, 1876, of William Sharp containing his play, "Ariadne in Naxos" and poem "Beatrice".
Item
Identifier: Acc.10954
Dates:
circa 1994.
Poems and letters of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3788-3794
Scope and Contents
All, except the poems in MS.3791, are accompanied by transcripts.
Dates:
1881-1887, undated.
Poems and songs of William MacRitchie, transcribed by George MacRitchie.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8119
Dates:
1834.
Poems and songs of William MacRitchie, transcribed by his son, George.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6398
Dates:
1834.
Poems of George Lauder, transcribed, 17th century, chiefly from printed copies indicated in the manuscript.
File
Identifier: MS.1806
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains the following poems.
(i) Valedictory Address, 1622. (Folio 1.)(ii) On the Execution of Charles I. Printed: Delft, 1649. (Folio 2.)(iii) 'Good Wishes to His Highnes the Prince upon His Birth Day, 14 November'. (Folio 3.)(iv) 'The wnconstant Lover', 1624. (Folio 3 verso.)(v) 'For the Heroycall L: Colonel Lauder ... A Christmas Carol'. Signed: F G. (Folio 4.)(vi) 'The Souldiers Wishe'. Printed: Edinburgh, J...
Dates:
17th century.
Schoolbook, transcribed in the early 12th century, containing notes and glosses (in Latin and German) on authors studied in schools and other texts which could be used in teaching.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Juvenal, 'Satires': citations with commentary in alphabetical order of keyword, incipit 'Maior auaritie patuit'. (i.88). (Folio 1.)(ii) Lucan, 'Civil War': introduction and citations with and without commentary from books 1-6 and 9, incipit 'Lucanii sum(m)a utilitas e(st) i(n) topog(ra)phia'. (Folio 5 verso.)(iii) Philosophical notes, possibly connected to Porphyry's introduction to Aristotle's 'Analytica...
Dates:
Early 12th century.
Small collections of letters and papers, and some transcripts from manuscripts made with the permission of the owners of the originals.
File
Identifier: MS.1758
Dates:
1645-1936, undated.
“Swinton’s kirk MSS”, a collection of original 17th-century Scottish historical documents, and of copies, 18th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.31.2.18-20
Scope and Contents
The papers appear to have belonged to Lord Swinton, and may be the collection of the Reverend Samuel Semple, Swinton’s maternal grandfather (cf. FES i, 172).
Dates:
17th century.
Transcript by John Dougall, 1821, from the Harley manuscript, ‘The Morall fabillis of Esope’ by Robert Henryson, schoolmaster of Dunfermline.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.5
Scope and Contents
A modern transcript from the Harleian MS.3865. Prefixed are five leaves of notices respecting the manuscript and the transcriber John Dougall, London, 1821.
Dates:
1571, 1821.
Transcript copy, late eighteenth century, of ‘De hortorum cultura’, book III, by Josephus Mylius, and other poems.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.37
Scope and Contents
‘De Hortorum Cultura, libri III. Josephi Misii Voltalinæ, ad Isabellam Sociam. Brixiæ apud vimentium Sabium, M.D.LXXIII’.
Dates:
1574.
Transcript, early 19th-century, of 'The Passioun of Crist' by Walter Kennedy, from British Library Arundel MS 285, folios 6-46.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.2
Scope and Contents
The transcript has been corrected in another contemporary hand.
Dates:
16th century.
Transcript made by Ewen MacLachlan of the Book of the Dean of Lismore.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.3
Scope and Contents
Manuscript in the hand of Ewen MacLachlan, Aberdeen, entitled ‘An t-Easpaig’ - presumably because it contains the work of the Dean of Lismore, whom MacLachlan calls (page 1) “Easpuig Leasmòr”. This is valuable, as being MacLachlan’s original Book of the Dean of Lismore transcript, subsequently (but not always accurately) copied by himself and others. (See Adv.MS.72.3.6). It does not strictly follow the order of the original, but the order in which MacLachlan found it easiest to read the...
Dates:
1st quarter of 19th century.
Transcript titled ‘The Gododdin’ by the Reverend John Williams Ab Ithel (1811-1862).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.19
Dates:
[1852, or after.]
Transcripts made by the Reverend Dr Thomas Ross (later Minister of Lochbroom) of James Macpherson`s Gaelic manuscripts of the Ossian poems, together with the Latin translation by Robert Macfarlane, made for the edition published by the Highland Society of London in 1807.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.73.4.1-73.4.6
Dates:
3rd quarter of 18th century, 1804, or before.