Two-volume glossary of Gaelic terms connected with ‘music, poetry, dancing and oratory’ compiled by Angus Fraser, son of Captain Simon Fraser of Knockie.
Scope and Contents
The work is liberally illustrated with verse (fully referenced), traditions and anecdotes. On 17 May 1855 Simon Fraser calculated that it contained 2, 190 terms (1,466 + 724). On 1 July 1857 he records a slightly enlarged total of 2,210 (1,470 + 740). (Adv.MS.73.1.5, inside back cover; Adv.MS.73.1.6, folios 74 verso, 92 recto). Angus Fraser also prepared an amended copy of his father’s ‘Airs and Melodies peculiar to the Highlands’, which was published in 1874, after Angus’s death.
Dates
- Creation: [1855, or before.]
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Conditions Governing Use
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Extent
2 Volumes ; Folio.
Language of Materials
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic
Custodial History
The glossary appears to have reached the Advocates’ Library through Dr Alexander Halley who was the recipient of Angus' amended ‘Airs and Melodies peculiar to the Highlands’ (Adv.MS.73.1.5, page ix).
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Presented, 1925, by the Faculty of Advocates to the nation on the foundation of the National Library of Scotland.
Bibliography
Also in 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 91.
Fraser, Simon. ‘The airs and melodies peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles’ (Edinburgh, 1816).
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- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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