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Microfilm of two Gaelic manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.497
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript containing the letter of Prester John, and other works, ?15th century-17th century (Adv.MS.72.1.41);
Manuscript of various Gaelic texts, 17th century (Adv.MS.72.1.42).
Dates:
14th century-17th century
Microfilm of two Gaelic manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.508
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Notes, 1874, on the Clanranald manuscript, then in the possession of Admiral Ronald J MacDonald of Clanranald (MS.14900);
Gaelic manuscript (MS.14989).
Dates:
?19th century.
Microfilm of two-volume glossary of Gaelic terms connected with ‘music, poetry, dancing and oratory’ compiled by Angus Fraser, son of Captain Simon Fraser of Knockie.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.524
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Glossary of Gaelic terms connected with ‘music, poetry, dancing and oratory’ (Adv.MS.73.1.5);
Glossary of Gaelic terms connected with ‘music, poetry, dancing and oratory’ (Adv.MS.73.1.6).
Dates:
[1855, or before.]
Miscellaneous collection, chiefly Gaelic or of Gaelic interest, apparently from the library of the Reverend A J Macdonald, Minister of Killearnan.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3781-3784
Scope and Contents
The earliest item is dated 1673, but the bulk of the material consists of copies made in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Dates:
1673-early 20th century.
Miscellaneous correspondence of the Highland Society of Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.12
Dates:
1827-1833, undated.
Miscellaneous Gaelic papers in various hands, including that of William Forbes Skene.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.15
Dates:
19th century.
Miscellaneous Gaelic papers in various hands, relating principally to William Forbes Skene’s work in preparing his ‘Chronicles of the Picts and Scots’ and ‘Celtic Scotland’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.16
Dates:
Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
Notebook of a mid-19th century Lady containing knitting and crochet patterns, and Gaelic poetry.
Item
Identifier: MS.14899
Scope and Contents
The notebook, watermarked 1833, is anonymously written from both ends. End ‘A’, paginated 1-121, consists of knitting and crochet patterns based on Gaugain, ‘The knitter’s friend’. Includes ‘The McDonald pattern’ (page 113). End ‘B’ is paginated 1-63, but pages 9-34 have been cut out. Pages 1-55 are in the same hand as end ‘A’, and are catalogued below. Pages 56-63 are in a later hand and contain knitting patterns and recipes.The contents are as follows....
Dates:
Mid 19th century.
Notebook of Angus Peter Campbell, kept during his Gavin Wallace Fellowship at the National Library of Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13856
Dates:
2016.
Old Testament (Edinburgh, 1826) in Gaelic, interleaved and with manuscript amendments and notes, probably for a revised edition of the Gaelic Bible.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8943
Dates:
1826.
Ossianic verse collected by Duncan Kennedy, Kilmelfort (born 1763), known as “Kennedy’s Collection”.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.72.3.9-72.3.10
Scope and Contents
Duncan Kennedy’s collection is described by John Francis Campbell as ‘the most interesting collection that I know’ (Adv.MS.72.3.10, page vi). Kennedy collected between the ages of 12 and 20 while travelling through Argyll and Lochaber. The poems are written down in a standardised fashion, i.e. in quatrains throughout and always preceded by an ‘argument’ (introduction) in English. Page references in each of the records are to the beginning of the ‘argument’.Adv.MS.72.3.9 was...
Dates:
1774-1783.
Papers and Gaelic collections of the Rev. Dr. Alexander Irvine, minister of Little Dunkeld.
Collection
Identifier: MSS.14877-14881
Scope and Contents
Papers of the Rev. Dr. Alexander Irvine of Little Dunkeld (1773-1824), consisting mainly of Gaelic poetry collected in Perthshire, and partly elsewhere, between ca. 1797 and 1808.
Dates:
ca. 1797-ca. 1808
Papers and poetry concerning the Macrae family.
File
Identifier: Acc.13984
Content Description
Letter, 1925, of John T. Macrae, Inverinate, to H. R. Macrae of Macrae, Flett and Rennie, W.S., concerning a Macrae monument erected by Col. John Macrae-Gilstrap. With a sketch of the monument and a transcription of the text on it. Also contains typescript copies, 1908, of two Gaelic songs: Donnchadh Mòr Mac Rath, song headed "Marbh rann do Tearachair [sic] Ban MacRath Fear Inbhirintait, 1711", beginning: 'A duigh 's mor mo chuid calla / 'Smi bhi amharc am fearann ud...
Dates:
1908-1925 and undated.
Papers and translations collected by the Highland Society of Scotland Ossian Committee and its successor the Committee on Celtic Literature.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.16
Scope and Contents
The source material and translations are variously endorsed or annotated by Henry Mackenzie, Donald Mackintosh, and Ewen MacLachlan.The contents are as follows.(M 1). Notes by John Francis Campbell, dated 25 November 1872. (Folio 1.)(i) Cover, probably for folios 12-22, 24-33. Bears hands of Ewen MacLachlan and Mackintosh MacKay. Cf. Adv.MS.73.2.10, folio 207. (Folio 2.)(M 2). Ossianic fragments with some corresponding passages from James...
Dates:
[1794, or after]-1872, undated.
Papers collected by the Highland Society of Scotland Ossian Committee and its successor the Committee on Celtic Literature.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.10
Dates:
1797-1807.
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.
Papers of Aonghas MacNeacail, including poems, articles, reviews, television and radio scripts, sound recordings of interviews, and correspondence on literary and personal matters.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11223/1-185
Dates:
1970-1995, undated.
Papers of Donald Thomson.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13916
Content Description
Papers, mainly 1930s-1970s, of Donald Thomson (1907-1980), teacher of Gaelic at Oban High School and Gaelic scholar and educationalist. Thomson was born in December 1907 at Lionel, Ness, Isle of Lewis, the youngest of three children, and brought up by his grandparents from the age of ten after the early death of both parents. He was educated at Skigerain and Lionel Primary Schools and the Nicolson Institute in Stornoway, then went on to study at Aberdeen University, where he graduated with...
Dates:
1907-2002
Papers of John MacCallum, policeman, Glasgow.
File
Identifier: Acc.12529
Scope and Contents
Includes Gaelic songs and music.
Dates:
circa 1890-1925.
Papers of the Irvine Robertson family, the Rev. Alexander Irvine, and the Stewart families of Garth, Kynachan and Drumcharry, with associated papers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13156
Scope and Contents
Includes legal documents, correspondence, financial papers, Scottish travel journals, sermons and poetry. The correspondence is particularly of the Rev. Dr. Alexander Irvine, minister of Little Dunkeld, and Col. David Stewart of Garth. Includes several items in Scottish Gaelic.
Dates:
17th-20th centuries.
Papers of the Rev Dr Neil Ross, Gaelic scholar and poet.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12354
Dates:
circa 1824-1943.
Part of the Ossianic collection of the Reverend Alexander Campbell of Portree (1770-1811).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.3
Dates:
1798-1806.
Photocopy of manuscript of John Grant, "Oide Piob Mhor nan Gaidheal", (Highland Bagpipe Instructor).
Item
Identifier: Acc.8271
Dates:
1943.