MacDonald, Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, poet, ca. 1698-ca. 1770
Person
Dates
- Existence: ca. 1698 - ca. 1770
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Booklet containing Gaelic songs., second half of the 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Acc.2152/12
Scope and Contents
A small unbound octavo booklet, 18 leaves. Undated. The first pages contains a contents list of titles and is signed 'Donald McNicol' at the bottom.
Contains 7 Gaelic songs, including a version of 'Smeòrach Chloinn Raghnaill' by Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair and a version of 'Òran na comhachaig' by Dòmhnall mac Fhionnlaigh nan Dàn.
Listed in Mackechnie, 'Catalogue of Gaelis manuscripts', vol. 1, p. 330.
Dates:
second half of the 18th century.
Manuscript containing a substantial collection of Gaelic songs., 1777
Item
Identifier: Acc.2152/6
Scope and Contents
[Description in progress]Unbound notebook, 87 leaves. In four sections, stitched together into one volume. The original sections were: folios 1-23; 24-47; 48-62; 63-87. There is no scribal pagination, but library foliation has been supplied. In the hand of Rev. Donald MacNicol. Dated 1777 at the front, and signed by MacNicol on the first pages of the middle two sections (folios 24 recto and 48 recto).The contents are:Section 1:Index of songs,...
Dates:
1777
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.
Miscellaneous Gaelic verse and correspondence., 1762-1825 and undated
File
Identifier: MS.14857
Scope and Contents
A folder of loose sheets of various sizes, written in various hands, and mostly undated. 45 folios. The names of the scribes are identified where possible. The contents are:[Black Prince]. Poem entitled on docket "Black Prince", beginning ''N cuala tu Sheamais ruaig aite / Nan Uaislin achduineach armach'. At the head is written: 'S fad 's gairrid a rithis am Buinsgeal. Large single sheet, paper date 1825, folded lengthwise into a bifolium. See also the following two items....
Dates:
1762-1825 and undated
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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The MacNicol collection, comprising Gaelic songs and other papers collected by the Reverend Donald MacNicol, minister of Lismore, and his son Dugald MacNicol, with some added papers and listings of later owners and users of the collection.
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Gaelic songs and verse.