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Microfilm of three Gaelic manuscripts of religious and medical texts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.666
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘1467 MS.’ written by Dubhghall Albanach mac mhic Cathail and the Reverend John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’, written by Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín, [circa 1425, circa 1467], (Adv.MS.72.1.1);
Manuscript, 16th century-17th century, containing a medical compendium, in Gaelic, asembled by the Mull Beatons (Adv.MS.72.1.2);
‘Materia medica’, 15th century, formerly belonging to the Beaton family of physicians (Adv.MS.72.1.3).
Dates:
15th century-17th century.
Microfilm of various Gaelic manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1365
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, 1462, known as the ‘Emanuel Manuscript’, containing 'An Cath Cathardha', written by Tadhg Ó Cianáin (Adv.MS.72.1.46);Gaelic version of classic epics, 14th-15th century (Adv.MS.72.1.8);Continuation of Adv.MS.72.1.43: 17th century copy of Foundation of Knowledge of Ireland; or History of Ireland. A narrative history by Geoffrey Keating (Adv.MS.72.2.1);Compendium of medical treatises, 1611-1614, in Gaelic written by...
Dates:
14th century-17th century.
Pocket-book of Sir John Gordon of Invergordon, containing a digest of ten pocket-books of memoranda.
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Identifier: MS.108
Scope and Contents
The subjects include a family pedigree with chart and blazonings, accounts of income and expenditure, estate accounts and other business, receipts from the Principality of Scotland, prices, journeys, from Edinburgh to London, politics and elections, household recipes, verses.
Dates:
1754-1759.