Manuscripts.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to handwritten documents, and may also be used to distinguish certain documents from published or otherwise printed documents, as in the cases of typed personal letters or a typescript from which printed versions are made.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscript containing poems of William MacMurchy.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.15
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains a ‘coat of arms’ watermark. The scribe of the manuscript is William MacMurchy (see Adv.MS.72.2.12). MacMurchy also wrote versions of fourteen of the poems in this manuscript in what are now Adv.MS.73.2.2 (thence printed in ‘Reliquiae Celticae’, volume 2, pages 310-420) and the Inverneill MS (photostat, National Library of Scotland MS.14981). A number of the poems are plainly by the scribe himself.Ewen MacLachlan described it in his ‘Celtic Analysis’...
Dates:
18th century, before 1778.
Manuscript containing the poems of Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (Alexander MacDonald), written in Gaelic script.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.13
Scope and Contents
Of the two manuscripts mentioned in the custodial history note only the present one remains. A little further evidence for the ascription to Alasdair lies in the small portions of text in Roman hand (pages 118, 176; compendium &, passim), which may be compared with the facsimile of the poet’s hand published as frontispiece to the 1924 edition of his work. The manuscript was written during or after 1747 (cf. pages 143, 146, 149), and some of the poems, notably “An Àirce” (page 169),...
Dates:
1747.
Manuscript of "Cath Fionntrágha", written by Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.11
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains a Watermark: ‘horn’ and I D M (watermark is of type Heawood 2718-2734, Dutch & English documents 1665-1721). It is written by Alexander MacDonald (Alasdair Mac Mhaighistir Alasdair). It contains no statement of scribal identity, but script and some distinctive orthographical features are as Adv.MS.72.2.13. Some sea-runs here (pages 2-4) are strongly echoed in MacDonald’s ‘Birlinn Chlann Raghnaill’. The language is a unique mixture of Irish and Scottish Gaelic. The...
Dates:
18th century.