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Manuscript song of Donald R Morrison, "Ri` Taobh a` Chuain".
Item
Identifier: Acc.4697
Dates:
circa 1969.
Manuscripts from the collection of Rev. Donald MacNicol, minister of Lismore.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.2152
Content Description
Gaelic manuscripts collected by the Rev. Donald MacNicol (1735-1802). MacNicol's collection arrived in the Library in 1951. From the late 1960s until its rediscovery in 2022, a part of the collection had been missing. This rediscovered part is listed here under its original reference number Acc.2152. The cataloguing is still to be upgraded in parts.Those manuscripts from the collection that had remained in the Library were re-numbered and catalogued separately before...
Dates:
ca. 1750-ca. 1900 and undated.
Material relating to Professor Derick S Thomson’s collection of poems ‘Eadar Samhradh is Foghar’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14969-14970
Dates:
1958, 1966-1967, undated.
Medical manuscript in Gaelic.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.13
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.Folios 1-8 (first layer):This part of the manuscript is written by a strong and slightly angular hand varying in size from small to average. Decoration and colour (red and brown) are profuse. In support of the premise that the first and second layers of the manuscript were bound together at an early stage, marginalia which look as if they are by a common hand are found at folios 1 recto (‘Meisi’), 2 recto (‘Meisi m’), 10 verso (‘Mar as c’),...
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
Medical manuscript in Gaelic.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.10
Scope and Contents
The text is a commentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates. The text-hand, crabbed in appearance, is generically similar to hand 75 of Adv.MS.72.1.2. Capitals are coloured red, but much of the pigment has dissolved and spread. A preliminary sketch has been made for a decorative initial at folio 3 recto. At folio 2 recto the missing matter is supplied in the bottom margin, parts of it two or three times. Here and at folios 2 verso, 3 recto and 5 verso emendations appear in two or three hands...
Dates:
15th Century.
Medical manuscript, in Gaelic, consisting chiefly of a treatise on diets and matters ancillary to medicine, including cosmology and a calendar.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.12
Scope and Contents
Of the four layers, all but the third probably were written by a single scribe; a fifth, written by him in ?Leinster circa 1549, is now Adv.MS.72.1.20.The manuscript is written in the following hands.1. Text, folios 1-9, 17-21. Hand 1 of Adv.MS.72.1.20. Average to poor in quality. Frequent rising ‘d’. Employs even more contractions than is usual in medical manuscripts. The ink has oxidised in places to an indistinct yellow. Rubricated in red. For a photograph of folio...
Dates:
16th century.
Medical manuscript in Gaelic consisting of two independent layers, but the text in both containing part of book two of the commentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.14
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.Folios 1-8 (first layer):In this part of the manuscript, the main text-hand, is an attractive one with elliptical curves, also appearing at Adv.MS.72.1.26, folio 7 recto, where it alludes to a Mac Maol-tuile, and at Adv.MS.72.1.10, folios 2 recto, 2 verso, 3 recto, and 5 verso, where it emends a copy of book 1 of the present tract. This suggests an origin in east Connacht. A less remarkable hand begins the layer (to folio 1 recto, column b,...
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Medical manuscript in Gaelic containing Isidore’s commentary on the Aphorisms of Johannes Damascenus (Mesue).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.23
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written in a hand of medium size and generally angular in appearance; another takes over in places at folios 4 verso-5 verso.The contents are as follows.On Isidore’s commentary on Aphorisms of Damascenus, cf. Adv.MS.72.1.13, folio 1 recto, column a, line 1. Beginning (acephalous) ‘...rainig a les cuisli ⁊ da tucaid leigheas’ = Adv.MS.72.1.13, folio 8 verso, column b, line 1. First complete section beginning ‘Cum nulla de quo ccon inter aqu[a]m et...
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Medical manuscript in Gaelic containing Isidore’s commentary on the Aphorisms of Johannes Damascenus (Mesue).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.22
Scope and Contents
The text of the manuscript is written in a bold slightly angular hand and is generally above average size. The only marginalium, ‘Amo Deus, bene literat, amen dico vobis’ (folio 1 verso) may be by the same hand although in a different ink. Capitals are coloured in red. The contents are as follows. On Isidore’s commentary on Aphorisms of Johannes Damascenus (Mesue), cf. Adv.MS.72.1.13, folio 1 recto, column a, line 1. Beginning (acephalous) ‘ata an triacla do beith uair and’ = Adv.MS.72.1.23,...
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Medical manuscript in Gaelic containing various short medical texts, chiefly scholastic in nature.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.27
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written by the following hands. 1. Text, folios 1 recto, column a, line 1-5 recto, column a, line 22. Perhaps more than one hand, akin to those of Dáibhí Ó Cearnaigh, the Ó Ceannamháins and John Beaton in Edinburgh University Library MS. Laing III 21 and British Library MS. Add. 15,582: generally small and functional, but with distinct variations in style (e.g. folio 3 recto), size (folio 4 recto) and quality (folio 4 verso). Capitals coloured red to folio 2...
Dates:
16th century.
Medical manuscript in Gaelic containing versions of John of Gaddesden’s ‘Rosa Anglica’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.20
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was written probably in Leinster, 1549 (cf. folio 6 verso, column b, line 9).The manuscript is written in the following hands.1. Text. Hand 1 of Adv.MS.72.1.12.2. Folio 6. Lúcas Ó Maol-Tuile, 1679. Cf. Royal Irish Academy MS.23 M 5, page 209.3. Folio 6 verso the Reverend John Beaton, 1690. He here writes in a pale yellow ink almost invisible to the naked eye.The texts from folio 4 verso begin with citations from the...
Dates:
1549.
Medical manuscript in Gaelic on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.21
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written in a small and precise hand, akin to that of Adv.MS.72.1.10 but strongly seriffed. There may be an Ó Siaghail connection, cf. folio 5 recto. It begins with a large decorated initial; capitals coloured red to folio 2 recto. Two further hands appear in marginalia, one at folios 2 verso and 5 recto, the other elsewhere as listed below; there are also some obscure marks or scrawls (folios 3 recto, 4 recto). The marginalia include three love-charms, all beginning ‘Bran...
Dates:
?15th century.
Medical manuscript in Gaelic written by Donnchadh Ó Conchubhair (Duncan O’Conacher, 1571-1647).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.22
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was written under MacDougall’s patronage in Lorne and Ossory, 1596-1600, by Donnchadh Ó Conchubhair (Duncan O’Conacher, 1571-1647) at the behest of Ollamh Osraige, Donnchadh Óg Ó Conchubhair, and with the help of Cathal mac Cuinn Uí Dhuinnshléibhe (the scribe of Royal Irish Academy 23 N 16), Giolla Pádraig mac Donnchaidh Óig Uí Chonchubhair, Niall Mac Iomhair, and others. When writing in Ireland Donnchadh uses the distinguishing epithet Albannach. His pedigree, Donnchadh mac...
Dates:
1596-1600.
Medical manuscript in Gaelic written by Feargus Ó Caiside.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.11
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was written by Feargus Ó Caiside in the house of Énrigh Ó Caiside, perhaps at a place called Faithche Caorach in County Monaghan or Fermanagh (folio 4 recto, column a, line 34; cf. “Éigse”, volume 2, page 165). His hand is simple, small and neat. The sole marginalium, ‘amen’, (folio 4 recto), may be by another hand. Due to the illegibility of folio 4 verso through staining and rubbing, the account of it below is in some respects tentative.With the manuscript is a...
Dates:
?16th century.
Microfilm of assorted Gaelic manuscripts and papers.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.563-565
Dates:
Late 12th century-late 19th century.
Microfilm of Ewen MacLachlan’s ‘Leabhar Caol’, containing transcripts (with occasional notes) from nine manuscripts sent to him for examination by the Highland Society of Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1453
Dates:
1st quarter of 19th century.
Microfilm of manuscript containing copies of Bernard de Gordon’s ‘Lilium medicinae’ and other texts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.425
Dates:
1621.
Microfilm of manuscript containing copies of Bernard de Gordon’s ‘Lilium medicinae’ and other texts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.561
Dates:
1621.
Microfilm of manuscript containing death and other tales, with some religious texts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.496
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Microfilm of manuscript containing “Táin Bó Cuailnge” and other tales in Gaelic, written by Fear Feasa Ó Duibhgeannáin.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.64
Dates:
Mid-17th century.
Microfilm of manuscript in Gaelic, titled ‘Neil MacBeath’s Psalter’, containing medical notes and Psalm 118, the ‘Divine Office’.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.468
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Microfilm of manuscript of Ewen MacLachlan’s ‘Celtic Analysis’.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1457
Dates:
1st quarter of 19th century.
Microfilm of manuscript of Foras Feasa Ar Éirinn, written by Geoffrey Keating.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.498
Dates:
1647.
Microfilm of ‘M.S. West Highland Tales Vol. V’, being mainly a continuation of the scripts and editorial material for inclusion in ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 3.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1583
Dates:
1860-1861.