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,...

Scope and Contents The manuscript was written by Niall MacMhuirich circa 1658 (folio 6 verso). A portion (National Museum of Scotland MCR, volume 39, pages 11-16) of Niall MacMhuirich’s Clanranald history, for which Adv.MS.72.1.50 is probably a source-book, was laid up with the manuscript until 1896, when it was gifted by the Advocates’ Library to Clanranald. A copy of the material, made by Donald MacPherson in 1874 (National Library of Scotland Acc.2543, folio 21), was added to the present manuscript as...

Scope and Contents This manuscript bears all the marks of a MacMhuirich provenance. The scribe who wrote the greater part of it is unknown, but his Gaelic hand is precise and well formed. Two poems (folios 9 verso, 10 verso) are in the hand of Niall MacMhuirich (circa 1639-1726), of whom the chief scribe was evidently a contemporary. A third hand, unknown, is responsible for the text at folio 32, which is further distinguished from foregoing folios by its common ‘pot’ watermark - the rest having what appears...