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Completed section of a Gaelic-English dictionary written by Archibald Fletcher, schoolmaster, Greenock.
Copy made by Alexander MacLaurin of the unpublished portion of Alexander Robertson’s Gaelic-English dictionary (Adv.MSS.73.3.16-73.3.21).
Copy of Edward Dwelly`s Gaelic dictionary with inserted correspondence.
Copy, with manuscript additions and corrections, of Alexander MacBain, "An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language" (first edition, Inverness, 1896).
Correspondence of Malcolm MacFarlane, with related literary, lexicographical and musical papers.
English-Gaelic dictionary written by Alexander MacLaurin.
At Adv.MS.72.2.23, page 458, and Adv.MS.72.2.24, page 549, is the identical subscription: “This English and Gaelic Dictionary consisting of four volumes folio in manuscript half bound was composed by Alexr. McLaurin / Stabler in Edinr. N.B. The English words were taken from Thomas Sheridan’s pronouncing Dictionary in two volumes octavo”. This seems most likely to refer to the edition of the General Dictionary of the English Language published at Dublin in 1784.
Final draft of an unpublished Appendix to his ‘Illustrated Gaelic-English Dictionary’ by Edward Dwelly (1864-1939), Fleet, Hants.
The draft consists largely of material in A-D received too late for inclusion in the appropriate early parts of his published work.
Gaelic-English Dictionary in the hand of Sir James Foulis (1714-1791), 5th Baronet of Colinton.
Gaelic-English-Latin dictionary containing ‘G’-‘O’ written by the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan, as part of the final draft of the Highland Society of Scotland Dictionary.
The manuscript is based partly on material in Adv.MS.73.3.13, 14, 6, 15, 4 (in that order). Mackintosh MacKay pasted on marginal slips bearing additional material, as he did with Adv.MSS.72.3.13, 72.3.14, 72.3.16, 72.3.17, but not so copiously.
Gaelic-English-Latin dictionary, containing words beginning with ‘M’-‘N’, written by the Reverend Dr Alexander Irvine as his assignment for the Highland Society of Scotland.
Gaelic-English-Latin dictionary, containing words with the letter ‘O’, written by the Reverend Dr Alexander Irvine as his assignment for the Highland Society of Scotland.
Lexicographical fragments found loose in MS.14957, written by Edward Dwelly and various of his informants.
Includes some cuttings and proofs.