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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.