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Manuscript in Gaelic containing short religious, historical and mythological texts.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.5
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written in the following hands.1. Text and notes, folios 1 verso-10 verso. A hand of a type more characteristic of medical manuscripts, cf. Adv.MS.72.1.12. Distinctive uncial 'r' and v-shaped 'u'. No decoration save some red on capitals, folios 5-10. From various additions in a similar hand, especially that at folio 6 verso, column b, line 41, it appears as if the scribe returned to annotate his work at a later point in time. Possibly in fact more than one hand:...
Dates:
?15th century.
Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.14
Scope and Contents
Mackintosh MacKay was a native of the Reay Country, the son of Captain Alexander MacKay of Duard Beg. In 1828 William Forbes Skene, then nineteen, was sent by his father, at Sir Walter Scott’s recommendation, to study Gaelic with him at Laggan. MacKay had then just finished his work on the Highland Society of Scotland’s Dictionary.The contents are as follows.(i) (John Mackechnie, number 1). A note recording the return of Adv.MS.72.1.33, pages 41-42, formerly here, to...
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
Two-volume glossary of Gaelic terms connected with ‘music, poetry, dancing and oratory’ compiled by Angus Fraser, son of Captain Simon Fraser of Knockie.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.73.1.5-73.1.6
Scope and Contents
The work is liberally illustrated with verse (fully referenced), traditions and anecdotes. On 17 May 1855 Simon Fraser calculated that it contained 2, 190 terms (1,466 + 724). On 1 July 1857 he records a slightly enlarged total of 2,210 (1,470 + 740). (Adv.MS.73.1.5, inside back cover; Adv.MS.73.1.6, folios 74 verso, 92 recto). Angus Fraser also prepared an amended copy of his father’s ‘Airs and Melodies peculiar to the Highlands’, which was published in 1874, after Angus’s death.
Dates:
[1855, or before.]