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‘1467 MS’ written by Dubhghall Albanach mac mhic Cathail and the Reverend John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’, written by Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.1
Scope and Contents
The manuscript consists of two sections, folios 1-9 ('1467 MS'), written in and about that date (folio 7 recto) by Dubhghall Albanach mac mhic Cathail (folios 3 recto, 5 recto, 7 recto, 8 recto), who was presumably a MacMhuirich; and folios 10-25 (Reverend John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’), written circa 1425 by Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín (date and hand established by Tomás Ó Concheanainn, “The scribe of John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’”, pages 99-101.The manuscript begins with Cormac’s Instructions...
Dates:
[Circa 1425, circa 1467.]
Glenmasan manuscript (Ulster cycle).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.3
Scope and Contents
It may be said in summary that the manuscript appears to be a product of a school conducted by An Giolla Riabhach Ó Cléirigh and Dubhthach Ó Duibhgeannáin, and that it circulated for a hundred years and more in Cowall. The Reverend William Campbell’s formalised note at page ii, giving the place Glenmasan and the date 1268, has provided the name by which it is generally known. In view of the difficulty Campbell experienced in the 1760s or 1770s in writing the date at page 29, one is entitled...
Dates:
ca. 1500.
Manuscript in Gaelic containing short religious, historical and mythological texts.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.5
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written in the following hands.1. Text and notes, folios 1 verso-10 verso. A hand of a type more characteristic of medical manuscripts, cf. Adv.MS.72.1.12. Distinctive uncial 'r' and v-shaped 'u'. No decoration save some red on capitals, folios 5-10. From various additions in a similar hand, especially that at folio 6 verso, column b, line 41, it appears as if the scribe returned to annotate his work at a later point in time. Possibly in fact more than one hand:...
Dates:
?15th century.
Microfilm of manuscript of 'History of England from the conquest of Julius Caesar to the accession of Henry VII' by David Hume.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.919-920
Dates:
1760-1761.
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.