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Collection of manuscript fragments containing classical verse in Gaelic.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.2
Scope and Contents
A collection of bardic fragments varying considerably in size, condition and legibility.In John Sinclair's ‘The poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’, and William Forbes Skene's scroll catalogue of the Advocates' Gaelic manuscripts (1861), the contents are described as follows (present circumstances indicated):Number 16 (a) ‘The conclusion of a Gaelic chronicle of the kings of Scotland down to King Robert III’ (missing).(b) ‘A Fingalian tale,...
Dates:
17th century-18th century.
Fragments of the Kilbride collection, in Gaelic, consisting of poems illustrating the life of Colum-cille, part of a tale of Caithréim Conghail Cláiringhnigh, and a contract between Duncan MacDougall and his servitor.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.31
Scope and Contents
The contents consist of three fragments from the Kilbride collection, but two of these (folios 1-5, Colum-cille poems, and folio 8, a MacDougall contract) are of very great independent value.Folios 1-5 (Mackechnie’s ‘A’, ‘B’).These fragments, ?15th century, contain an orderly sequence of poems illustrating the life of Colum-cille. The hand is that which inscribes the Colum-cille poem “Aingeal Dé dom dhín” on the fly leaf of British Library MS. Egerton 2899...
Dates:
?15th century-17th century.
Lexicographical fragments found loose in MS.14957, written by Edward Dwelly and various of his informants.
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Identifier: MS.14958
Scope and Contents
Includes some cuttings and proofs.
Dates:
Early 20th century.
Manuscript containing the letter of Prester John, and other works.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.41
Scope and Contents
Originally 2 separate manuscripts: (a) folios 1 and 16, (b) folios 2-15. Part (a), a bifolium, is by a single anonymous hand, origin and date unknown. John Mackenzie, secretary of the Highland Society of London described part (a) as “A small Octavo Vellum Manuscript in Prose, containing two Leaves, signed, London Janry. 5th. 1803 John Mackenzie”. (Highland Society of Scotland minutes.) Part (b) was written by several hands, one text to each. The main text, the Letter...
Dates:
(?)15th century-17th century.
Manuscript containing verse and tale fragments in Gaelic.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.47
Scope and Contents
Originally 3 separate fragments, each by a different scribe. Folios 1 and 4, are the outer leaves of a copy of ‘An Tenga Bithnua’. Date and provenance unknown, except perhaps for folio 2 (text: Ulster, 15th century).Initials and inventory numbers are as follows. Folio 1 recto: ‘No 11’ (pencil, ?hand of Lewis Gordon, Depute Secretary of the Highland Society of Scotland), ‘15’ ‘JMcH’ (James McHardy, cf. Adv.MS.72.1.43), ‘N. 4’ (scored out), ‘10’ (erased). Folio 3 recto: ‘16 JMcH’...
Dates:
?15th century-17th century.
Papers and translations collected by the Highland Society of Scotland Ossian Committee and its successor the Committee on Celtic Literature.
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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.
The Chronicle of Fortingall, a 16th-century manuscript written in Highland Perthshire, Scotland.
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Identifier: MS.50300
Scope and Contents
A manuscript of varied contents, written by a group of scribes in Fortingall, Perthshire, mostly in the third quarter of the 16th century. The volume chronicles deaths and other events mainly in Highland Perthshire and other Highlands areas, but it also occasionally includes events of national concern, such as those surrounding the forced abdication of Mary, Queen of Scots. The chronicle entries are mainly in Latin, sometimes with Scots words used instead Latin terms, but a number of...
Dates:
ca. 1550-1579
Two separate and apparently independent fragments of manuscript in Gaelic bearing different portions of the same text, the commentary on the Aphorisms of Damascenus.
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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.