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Gaelic-English Dictionary in the hand of Sir James Foulis (1714-1791), 5th Baronet of Colinton.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.16
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Gaelic-English Dictionary (complete) A – Uthar. (Page 1 recto.)(ii) (Left blank by Sir John Foulis). Donald Smith’s hand. ‘Dubhach sinn a Bheinn Ghualann’, 10 quatrains. Entitled “Duan Bheann Ghualann – A Leabhar Bolg tSholaraidh le Brian Ua Réighli ann Cillmhaighnain”. Concludes “This beautiful address opens a Poem on the Subject of an Expedn. from Bein Ghualan to Scotland by the Féini, & is in name of Ossian — but the rest of the...
Dates:
Mid 18th century-late 18th century.
Gaelic material extracted from the papers of the author, broadcaster and schoolmaster, Hector MacIver (1910-1966).
Series
Identifier: MSS.14973-14976
Scope and Contents
The material extracted from MSS.26276-26300 consists chiefly of typescripts of Hector MacIver’s plays and broadcasts.
Dates:
1934-1962, undated
Gaelic Ossianic verse of James Macpherson and John Smith written out in a neat Gaelic script by John Sinclair of 70 Bell Street, Glasgow.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.8
Scope and Contents
The scribe, John Sinclair, extended the James Macpherson material, notably by translating from Macpherson’s English what was missing from his Gaelic. He explains his editorial principles in a foreword addressed to his namesake Sir John Sinclair (folios i-ii). He had borrowed Adv.MS.72.2.4 and Adv.MS.72.2.6 from Peter Turner at some time between 1802 and 1809, and includes brief transcripts from these; that with which the manuscript begins is cut short, as he was obliged to return the...
Dates:
1812-1813.
Gaelic poetry and a Deed of Renunciation, apparently from the papers of Colonel Robert Bruce Aeneas McLeod Sutherland.
File
Identifier: MS.14875
Scope and Contents
The poems are apparently from the papers of the donor, Norman Kent’s grandfather Colonel Robert Bruce Aeneas McLeod Sutherland (died 1887). The latter’s father, Captain Alexander Sutherland, was brought up at Sciberscross, Strath Brora, received his commission in 78th (Seaforth) Regiment in 1794, and served as a recruiting officer throughout Scotland.The contents are as follows.(i) Deed of Renunciation of Barbara Guthrie, wife of James Sutherland of Evelix, 1713...
Dates:
1st half of 18th century, undated.
Gaelic song collection from Amulree.
File
Identifier: Acc.13850
Content Description
A volume, 19th-century, of Gaelic songs copied from printed books or collected from local tradition around Amulree, Perthshire, including songs by Robert Stewart (Rob Raineach), his son Duncan Stewart, John MacNaughton (Iain Mac Neachdainn), Charlotte MacGregor (Searlaid Nic Griogair) and Donald MacDuff, Tomnagrew. A number of the songs were subsequently published in newspapers. - Together with a letter in Gaelic, 1892, of Donald Campbell, schoolmaster and Inspector of the Poor in Amulree...
Dates:
Ca. 1820-1883
Gaelic songs of Alexander Stewart, Milton of Callander and Glasgow.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9134
Scope and Contents
Small octavo notebook, ca. 1840s, in marbled covers. Folios i-ii, pages 1-110 (89-110 blank), folio iii. Contents and pagination in the hand of Alexander Stewart. A stitched but unbound booklet of 12 leaves, containing a verse narrative in English in a different hand, is loosely inserted at the back.The notebook contains 31 songs, of which 27 are in Gaelic, three in Scots, and one in a macaronic mix of both. No names of tunes are given, but the refrains, headed...
Dates:
early 1840s.
Gaelic verse mostly of Badenoch poets, collected in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and formerly held in the Cluny Charter Chest.
File
Identifier: Acc.11044
Scope and Contents
A collection of Gaelic verse, mostly of poets from the Badenoch area. It was written down in the late 18th century, with some later additions at the end. Most of the songs were published by Thomas Sinton in his article "Gaelic poetry from the Cluny charter chest", 'Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness' XXIII (1898-1899), pp. 247-281 (referred to below as "Sinton, TGSI"), and again in 'The Poetry of Badenoch' (Inverness 1906) by the same author.The collection was...
Dates:
1791-1801 and undated.
Galley proofs for 'A braid o thistles', by Douglas Young, with a copy the published work.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14448
Dates:
1947.
Genealogical and other material collected by William Camden, the antiquary.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.36
Scope and Contents
The title of the first item, `The nobilitie of Scotland ... 1606`, and some of the addenda to the genealogical tables are probably in Camden`s hand.The contents include:Genealogical trees of the royal and noble houses of Scotland, with some coats of arms drawn in trick, and additions to 1620 (folios 3, 34, 47).`The generall state of ye Scottish Commonwealth with ye causes of theire often mutinies and ther discords` (folio 38).`A Booke of...
Dates:
Early 17th century.
Genealogies of Scottish families, copied by Robert Mylne.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.8
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) The compilation by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh (see Adv.MS.34.3.19) copied from a manuscript of 1685 or later, with some additional material taken from ‘The Great historical geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary’ (page 1).(ii) Genealogical material taken partly from Camden, Dugdale and other historians (page 395).(iii) Verses on the death of William, 6th Earl of Douglas (page 480)....
Dates:
1685, or later.
‘Gentle shepherd’ by Allan Ramsay, being pages 307-382 of his ‘Poems’, volume 2, with marginal notes in the hand of Allan Ramsay the Younger.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.5.15
Scope and Contents
The intention was to republish the Scots text with an Italian translation (the latter already in existence), see folio 6. No Italian translation seems to be recorded.The notes consist of: the addition of title and dedication; the deletion of W H`s dedicatory verses; an amplification of the note of the scene, a few changes in the text, mostly orthographical, except for the final verses, which are completely recast; and the general comment (folio 6), `This edition has too many...
Dates:
1728 or after.
George Campbell Hay, Verse translations of two Gaelic songs into English
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Identifier: Acc.13628
Scope and Contents
Single sheet containing two verse translations of Gaelic songs: 1. "Verses to Alasdair Mac Colla", beginning "Too long have I lain as a man sleeping", being a translation of an anonymous 17th-century Scottish Gaelic song o Alasdair Mac Colla, beg. `Is fhad tha mis ann am chadal`, printed first in John Gillies`s Gaelic song collection (Perth, 1786), pp. 85-86. 2. "An Capaillín Bán", from the Irish Gaelic, beg. "My woe and distree! `tis death has the merciless...
Dates:
1940
Glenmasan manuscript (Ulster cycle).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.3
Scope and Contents
It may be said in summary that the manuscript appears to be a product of a school conducted by An Giolla Riabhach Ó Cléirigh and Dubhthach Ó Duibhgeannáin, and that it circulated for a hundred years and more in Cowall. The Reverend William Campbell’s formalised note at page ii, giving the place Glenmasan and the date 1268, has provided the name by which it is generally known. In view of the difficulty Campbell experienced in the 1760s or 1770s in writing the date at page 29, one is entitled...
Dates:
ca. 1500.
Glenriddell Manuscripts: copies of poems, letters, etc., of Robert Burns, compiled by the poet, 1791-1793, for presentation to Robert Riddell of Glenriddell.
Series
Identifier: MSS.86-87
Dates:
4th quarter of 18th century.
Greek poetry; a volume consisting of three printed books, with manuscript notes and annotations in Latin in an 18th-century hand.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.8.4
Scope and Contents
The printed books are:(1) Reiske, Johann J. ‘Anthologiae Graecae a Constantino Cephala conditae libri tres’, 2 parts (Leipzig, 1754);(2) an unidentified Ανθόλγια;(3) Μόσχου καὶ βιῶνος εἰδὐλλια, edited by A van Meetkercke (Bruges, 1565). The first part of (1) (except the preface) has been interleaved and several leaves have been added at the end of (2). On these leaves, on the last page of (3), and on the lower paste-down are manuscript...
Dates:
1565, 18th century.
Holograph manuscripts of Allan Ramsay.
Series
Identifier: MSS.804-805
Dates:
[1721, or after-1728, or after.]
Illustrated comments on the Housing Act, 1972 (Scotland), by Lachlan M Dinwoodie.
File
Identifier: Acc.5920
Scope and Contents
With illustrated verses, 1975, of Dinwoodie, "The Big Bell of Bow".
Dates:
1972, 1975.
Inscribed copy of Jessie Cormack, "The Spell".
File
Identifier: Acc.9282
Scope and Contents
with additional poems in typescript.
Dates:
1961.
Inscribed copy of Stewart Conn, "Thunder in the Air: Poems" (1967).
Item
Identifier: Acc.11181
Scope and Contents
Includes letter of Conn to Alexander Reid, on literary matters.
Dates:
1967.
Inscribed copy of "The Tree" (Dunfermline, 1977), by Tom Scott.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11586
Scope and Contents
Includes three related letters of Tom Scott to John Stewart Collis, 1978.
Dates:
1977-1978.
Inscribed copy of William A Younger, "Madonna and Other Poems" (1935).
File
Identifier: Acc.8912
Scope and Contents
With two letters of Younger to Dennis and Joan Wheatley.
Dates:
1935 and undated.
`Inscriptiones funebres virorum doctrina, probitate, virtute, clarorum, qui hoc aevo decessere`, compiled by Sir Robert Sibbald, being a collection of funerary inscriptions and elegies of Scots, some composed by Sibbald himself, with a few other poems.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.14
Dates:
Circa 1715.
Interleaved copy of Robert Estienne`s edition of Juvenal and Persius (Paris, 1544), with manuscript notes on the interleaved sheets and in the margins of the printed pages.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.13
Scope and Contents
The notes are in a 17th-century hand and consist of exegetical material, mostly of a fairly elementary nature. The words in the text on which there are notes are underlined. There is no indication of the identity of the annotator.
Dates:
17th century.
Italian manuscript of Books 1-5 of 'De consolatione philosophiae' by Boethius.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.14
Scope and Contents
The text ends on folio 105 verso; on folios 106-107 recto in the same hand is a note 'Ad sciendum de vita et morte Boetii Notandum ...'; folios 107 verso and 108 are blank.The text is written in a round Italian gothic hand. There are initials in red and blue, infilled and framed with red and green, at the beginning of each book (folios 1, 15 verso, 35, 63 verso, 87 verso). There are plain initials (some shaded) at the beginning of each section, alternately red and blue; within...
Dates:
Late 15th century.