Transcript, 1861, of the Book of the Dean of Lismore.
Scope and Contents
A not too accurate page-for-page copy of Aberdeen University (King’s College) Library (AUL) MS.449 (Mackechnie, page 356), which is itself largely a copy of Adv.MS.72.3.3. Made by a clerk (his initials, A C, are at pages 42, 75) for William Forbes Skene in 1861 when he and the Reverend Dr Thomas McLauchlan were preparing their edition of the Book of the Dean of Lismore, Adv.MS.72.3.3 being at this time still in possession of the Highland Society of Scotland and apparently therefore unknown to Skene.
Dates
- Creation: 1512-1542.
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Conditions Governing Use
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Extent
96 Leaves ; Folio.
Language of Materials
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic
Arrangement
viii + 183 (+ many blank) pages.
Custodial History
Formerly Gaelic MS.LXXXIV.
Aberdeen University MS.449 was made by Ewen MacLachlan for Sir John MacGregor Murray, and subsequently passed through the hands of Donald Gregory, Angus MacDonald of Inch and the Reverend J W MacIntyre of Kilmonivaig (F.R.192: ‘Scroll Catalogue of the Gaelic Manuscripts in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates, compiled in 1861 by W. F. Skene’, folio 76).
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Presented, 1925, by the Faculty of Advocates to the nation on the foundation of the National Library of Scotland.
Bibliography
Genre / Form
- Title
- National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
- Author
- National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
- Description rules
- International Standard for Archival Description - General
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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