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‘1467 MS’ written by Dubhghall Albanach mac mhic Cathail and the Reverend John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’, written by Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín.
Collection, made in the eighteenth century, of Jacobite songs, odes, satirical verse, etc.
Donald Smith’s Irish miscellany.
Fair copy in an unidentified hand of apparently early 18th-century provenance of `Buchanan Revis`d [:] Annotations or Animadversions on Buchanan`s Historie and his Dialogue, etc.` by Sir James Turner, along with the rest of the contents of Adv.MS.31.1.14.
The transcript of Turner`s `observations` on O`Flaherty`s ‘Ogygia’ is written in the same hand but on slightly smaller leaves.
The copy may have been made for Sir Robert Sibbald who appears to have made a few brief additions at various places.
The volume appears to have been re-bound early in the 19th century.
Journal, 1729, of George Skene, containing ‘An Account of a Journey to London, with the particular rout by Thomas Burnett of Kirkhill, George Skene of that ilk, and David Skene his brother german'.
Manuscript collection of unpublished Italian satirical poems: ‘Raccolta delle migliori satire venute alla luce in occasione di diversi conclavi. Da quello di P.P. Alesandro VIII sino à quello di PP. Benedetto XIV’.
Manuscript containing poems of William MacMurchy.
Manuscript containing poems of William MacMurchy.
Manuscript containing the poems of Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (Alexander MacDonald), written in Gaelic script.
Microfilm of English Clandestine Satire 1660-1704. Popular Culture, Entertainment and Information in the Early Modern Period. Reel 9 (Adam Matthew Publications).
Microfilm of three Gaelic manuscripts.
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, 17th-18th century, of bardic fragments, containing a strong element of MacMhuirich poetry (Adv.MS.72.2.2);
Donald Smith’s Irish miscellany, [circa 1798] (Adv.MS.72.3.2);
Part of a Gaelic grammatical treatise, 17th century, (written in the traditional character) giving the paradigms of a number of nouns and verbs.(MS.1745).
Microfilm of three Gaelic manuscripts of religious and medical texts.
The contents are as follows:
‘1467 MS.’ written by Dubhghall Albanach mac mhic Cathail and the Reverend John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’, written by Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín, [circa 1425, circa 1467], (Adv.MS.72.1.1);
Manuscript, 16th century-17th century, containing a medical compendium, in Gaelic, asembled by the Mull Beatons (Adv.MS.72.1.2);
‘Materia medica’, 15th century, formerly belonging to the Beaton family of physicians (Adv.MS.72.1.3).
Miscellaneous items.
Notes titled, 'Hints and reflections', of satirical sermons and meditations on public affairs.
Satirical account of military and court figures by "Crastinus"
Typescript draft of 'The Haggis' by Alexander Maclean.
Volume containing verse and prose, chiefly Jacobite and satirical.
The longer pieces include 'The Tragedie of Glenco', 'Proelium Gilliekrankianum', 'Bellum Bothwellianum', 'Tarquin and Tullia', and Dr Archibald Pitcairne's 'Assembly' and 'Babell'.
There is a recipe for stomach-ache on folio x verso.