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Commonplace book of Patrick Turner containing ‘Bolg an t-Sholair’ and other miscellaneous verse in Gaelic.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.7
Scope and Contents
Commonplace-book (watermarked 1798) of Patrick Turner when he was a corporal in the Argyll Fencibles, dated Meath 1801 (folio 24 verso). The script is largely Roman, occasionally Gaelic, and the language of the text varies from Scotticised transliteration of Irish to pure Scottish Gaelic. Turner’s affidavit, Ingliston MS A.i.15 (g), states ‘that the manuscript in the Roman character and in his own hand writing, was transcribed from a manuscript in the possession of a Schoolmaster ten or...
Dates:
1801.
Commonplace books, note books and song collections, partly in Gaelic, of Frances Tolmie, Rev. Alexander McDonald Cornfute Tolmie and John Tolmie.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14025
Content Description
A collection of nine notebooks containing songs in English and Gaelic, newspaper cuttings especially on Highland and Gaelic subjects, poetry and notes on a variety of subjects. The collection was preserved by John Tolmie, oldest son of the Rev. John William Tolmie (1831-1886, minister of Bracadale and Contin). John Tolmie, who compiled four volumes in the collection, was a nephew of Frances Tolmie, collector of Gaelic songs. Two further volumes belonged to Frances Tolmie herself, and...
Dates:
1885-1915 and undated
Manuscript known as ‘Neil MacBeath’s Psalter’, containing medical notes in Gaelic and prayers and Psalm 118 in Latin.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.4
Scope and Contents
This remarkably small, chubby manuscript, ‘Neil MacBeath’s Psalter’, is described by David McRoberts in ‘Two Hebridean liturgical items’, page 171, with a plate showing its external appearance. ‘Cleric and physician’, he concludes, ‘he . . . had in his vade-mecum, which he would fasten to his belt, all the literature he required (his substitute for the Divine Office and his medical notes) when he set out to attend to the souls and bodies of his parishioners’. The ‘Divine Office’ is Psalm...
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Records of the Highland Society of London, including minutes, account books, correspondence and letter books.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.268
Dates:
1781-1931.
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.