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Translation into English by Thomas Ross (later the Reverend Dr Thomas Ross of Lochbroom) of parts of James Macpherson’s concocted originals as published in Sir John Sinclair’s ‘Poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.4
Scope and Contents
Copious notes face part of the text, beginning at verso of folio xiii and ending at folio 33 verso. Thomas Ross submitted at least part of the manuscript to the Highland Society of London (see his letter to their secretary, folio iii). His hand was similar to Ewen MacLachlan’s, and in notes at folio 24 verso Sir John Sinclair attributes his work on ‘Temora’ to the latter.
The manuscript is watermarked 1804.The contents are as follows.(i) Letter of the Reverend W...
Dates:
1807-1809, 1894, undated.
Tunes for fiddle and bagpipe, with some Gaelic poetry, compiled by Barbara Forsyth.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9496
Dates:
circa 1863-1875.
Two poems by Alexander Hutchison.
File
Identifier: Acc.11358
Scope and Contents
Includes Gaelic translation by Rody Gorman.
Dates:
1996 and undated.
Two separate and apparently independent fragments of manuscript in Gaelic bearing different portions of the same text, the commentary on the Aphorisms of Damascenus.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.17
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.Folio 1: (John Mackenchie’s ‘B’).The text is written by an undistinguished and rather variable hand, small to average in size.On Isidore’s commentary on Aphorisms of Johannes Damascenus, cf. Adv.MS.72.1.13, folio 1 recto, column a, line 1. Beginning ‘(I)lla non debet nos commovere [et] [c]eter[a]’ = Adv.MS.72.1.13, folio 2 recto, column b, line 35. Ends incomplete ‘mar at[a] reubarbarum ar meid as cosm[ail]’ = Adv.MS.72.1.13,...
Dates:
15th century-16th 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.]
Typescript of "Bardachd Ghaidhlig/Gaelic Poetry" of William Neill.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11623
Dates:
2nd half of 20th century.
Typescript supplement to the Reverend Donald Maclean’s ‘Typographia Scoto-Gadelica’, compiled by the Reverend Donald Mackinnon, Free Church minister of Kennoway, Fife.
Item
Identifier: MS.14965
Scope and Contents
The typescript contains entries 1785-1929.
Dates:
[1915, or after.]
Typescripts of "An Oidhche Mus Do Sheòl Sinn".
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12472
Scope and Contents
Includes notes, research notes, vocabulary and correspondence.
Dates:
circa 2000-2003.
Typescripts of works by Norman MacDonald, Lewis.
File
Identifier: MS.14972
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Gaelic play for stage, titled ‘Shonnie’ (folio 1);(ii) Gaelic play for radio, titled ‘Buisneachd’ (folio 19);(iii) Gaelic play for stage, titled “An Ceistear ‘s am Bard ‘s na Boirionnaich” (Published under that title) (folio 64);(iv) English radio feature, titled ‘Iolaire’ (folio 91);(v) English short story, titled ‘Potatoes and Herring’ (folio 125);(vi) ‘The first Day of the Season’. Do...
Dates:
[1971, or before]-[1975, or before.]
Verse and prose writings, correspondence, photographs and press cuttings of Domhnall R MacGillemhoire/Donald R Morrison of Scalpay, Isle of Harris.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.358- is now Acc.12363.
Dates:
1951-2002.
Verse and prose writings, correspondence, photographs and press cuttings of Domhnall R MacGillemhoire/Donald R Morrison of Scalpay, Isle of Harris.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12363
Dates:
1954-2002.
Xeroxes of three manuscript music books containing airs collected by the sisters Margaret Douglas MacLean Clephane and Anna Jane Douglas MacLean Clephane of Torloisk, Mull.
Series
Identifier: MS.14949(a)-(c)
Scope and Contents
The airs in the music books are drawn from a broad range of cultures, including Gaelic.
Dates:
1808-1825.