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Calendar written by Diarmuid Ó Fithcheallaigh; and a poem on the calendar usually attributed to Seán Ó Dubhagáin, followed by various medical texts, with some charms and folk cures.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.33
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written in the following hands.A. Diarmuid Ó Fithcheallaigh, cf. folio 1 verso.B. Donald Beaton, cf. page 84.C. Anonymous. Related in style to hand of Christopher Beaton, National Museum of Scotland H.MCR 40. D. Neil Beaton, cf. pages 33-34 and Adv.MS.72.1.2, folio 65 verso.E. Donnchadh Albannach Ó Conchubhair (1571-1647), cf. Adv.MS.73.1.22.F. Anonymous.G. Malcolm Beaton (flourished...
Dates:
[Circa 1538], 1593-1596, undated.
Dialogue containing the basic articles of Christianity, translated into Gaelic by Alexander MacAulay (autograph).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.8
Dates:
1763.
Editorial correspondence and papers of Derick S Thomson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11418
Scope and Contents
Papers concern Thomson`s "Companion to Gaelic Scotland" and "Gairm" magazine
Dates:
circa 1952-1992.
Further Gaelic manuscripts from the Irvine-Robertson collection.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14544
Content Description
A small group of manuscripts that were formerly part of Acc.3184 (now MSS.14877-14881), to be merged with that collection in due course.
The manuscripts were brought together by the Rev. Dr. Alexander Irvine (1773-1824), minister of Fortingall and then Little Dunkeld, Gaelic scholar and collector of Gaelic verse. They comprise correspondence in English, sermons in Gaelic, and Gaelic poetry collected by Irvine.
Dates:
ca. 1800-1823
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
Letters of Alasdair Mac Aonghais and David Johnson to John Peter Hudson.
File
Identifier: Acc.13933
Content Description
Letter in Gaelic, 1986, of Alasdair Mac Aonghais, concerning his Gaelic courses, and two letters, 1996, of David Johnson, concerning scales used in Gaelic music.
Dates:
1986-1996
Manuscript containing the letter of Prester John, and other works.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.41
Scope and Contents
Originally 2 separate manuscripts: (a) folios 1 and 16, (b) folios 2-15. Part (a), a bifolium, is by a single anonymous hand, origin and date unknown. John Mackenzie, secretary of the Highland Society of London described part (a) as “A small Octavo Vellum Manuscript in Prose, containing two Leaves, signed, London Janry. 5th. 1803 John Mackenzie”. (Highland Society of Scotland minutes.) Part (b) was written by several hands, one text to each. The main text, the Letter...
Dates:
(?)15th century-17th century.
Manuscript of Geoffrey Keating’s ‘History of Ireland’ written by the scribe Sémus Ó Gribín.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.4.11
Scope and Contents
The scribe of the manuscript is Sémus Ó Gribín, who also wrote Royal Irish Academy 24 L 17, Geoffrey Keating’s ‘Eochair-Sgiath an Aifrinn’. He completed the manuscript in March 1696 for Patrick Logan, schoolmaster at Lurgan. Bound in (folios vi-vii) is a letter dated Lurgan, 17th August 1696, from Logan to an unnamed friend, consigning the manuscript to him for scholarly perusal and ultimate delivery to the Advocates Library. It thus became the first of the Advocates’ Gaelic manuscripts....
Dates:
1696.
Material relating to Professor Derick S Thomson’s collection of poems ‘Eadar Samhradh is Foghar’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14969-14970
Dates:
1958, 1966-1967, undated.
Medical manuscript in Gaelic written by Feargus Ó Caiside.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.11
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was written by Feargus Ó Caiside in the house of Énrigh Ó Caiside, perhaps at a place called Faithche Caorach in County Monaghan or Fermanagh (folio 4 recto, column a, line 34; cf. “Éigse”, volume 2, page 165). His hand is simple, small and neat. The sole marginalium, ‘amen’, (folio 4 recto), may be by another hand. Due to the illegibility of folio 4 verso through staining and rubbing, the account of it below is in some respects tentative.With the manuscript is a...
Dates:
?16th century.
Microfilm of ‘M.S. West Highland Tales Vol. V’, being mainly a continuation of the scripts and editorial material for inclusion in ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 3.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1583
Dates:
1860-1861.
Microfilm of two Gaelic manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.497
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript containing the letter of Prester John, and other works, ?15th century-17th century (Adv.MS.72.1.41);
Manuscript of various Gaelic texts, 17th century (Adv.MS.72.1.42).
Dates:
14th century-17th century
Miscellaneous correspondence of the Highland Society of Scotland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.12
Dates:
1827-1833, undated.
Miscellaneous Gaelic papers in various hands, including that of William Forbes Skene.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.15
Dates:
19th century.
Miscellaneous Gaelic papers in various hands, relating principally to William Forbes Skene’s work in preparing his ‘Chronicles of the Picts and Scots’ and ‘Celtic Scotland’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.16
Dates:
Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
Papers and poetry concerning the Macrae family.
File
Identifier: Acc.13984
Content Description
Letter, 1925, of John T. Macrae, Inverinate, to H. R. Macrae of Macrae, Flett and Rennie, W.S., concerning a Macrae monument erected by Col. John Macrae-Gilstrap. With a sketch of the monument and a transcription of the text on it. Also contains typescript copies, 1908, of two Gaelic songs: Donnchadh Mòr Mac Rath, song headed "Marbh rann do Tearachair [sic] Ban MacRath Fear Inbhirintait, 1711", beginning: 'A duigh 's mor mo chuid calla / 'Smi bhi amharc am fearann ud...
Dates:
1908-1925 and undated.
Papers collected by the Highland Society of Scotland Ossian Committee and its successor the Committee on Celtic Literature.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.10
Dates:
1797-1807.
Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.14
Scope and Contents
Mackintosh MacKay was a native of the Reay Country, the son of Captain Alexander MacKay of Duard Beg. In 1828 William Forbes Skene, then nineteen, was sent by his father, at Sir Walter Scott’s recommendation, to study Gaelic with him at Laggan. MacKay had then just finished his work on the Highland Society of Scotland’s Dictionary.The contents are as follows.(i) (John Mackechnie, number 1). A note recording the return of Adv.MS.72.1.33, pages 41-42, formerly here, to...
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
Proofs of the Highland Society of Scotland Dictionary, with correspondence between Mackintosh MacKay and the Reverend John MacLeod of Dundonald.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.3
Scope and Contents
Proofs of the Highland Society of Scotland Dictonary, complete except for A-Accent and Eng-Gae. The bottom half of each sheet was left blank by the printer. Mackintosh MacKay, the Corrector of the Press, sent the sheets, as they were printed off, to the Reverend John MacLeod of Dundonald. MacLeod added comments and corrections, and both used the blank portions for at times animated correspondence. This process took place between 18th June 1824 and 19th May 1828. Between the...
Dates:
1824-1828.
Scrapbooks of correspondence and papers of Alexander MacDonald ("Gleannach").
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13587
Scope and Contents
Alexander MacDonald ("Gleannach", 1860-1928) is the author of `Story and Song from Loch Ness-side` (Inverness 1914) and of a Gaelic poetry collection of his own, `Còinneach `us Coille` (Inverness 1895). After the appearance of his poetry collection he continued to contribute songs composed or edited by himself to newspapers, but these were not subsequently collected into a second volume. He also wrote a large number of articles on Gaelic- and Highland-related matters in journals...
Dates:
1878-ca. 1925
The MacNicol collection, comprising Gaelic songs and other papers collected by the Reverend Donald MacNicol, minister of Lismore, and his son Dugald MacNicol, with some added papers and listings of later owners and users of the collection.
Collection
Identifier: MSS.14850-14864
Scope and Contents
A collection of Gaelic songs and associated papers, brought together by the Rev. Donald MacNicol (1735-1802), minister of Lismore, and continued by his son Dugald (b. 1791), an army officer. The Gaelic songs are from a range of periods and include Ossianic verse, waulking songs and songs by contemporaries of the collectors, such as Dugald Buchanan, Donnchadh Bàn Macintyre and Seumas Mac Gille-Sheathanaich (Shaw). The Ossianic verse was published in John Francis Campbell's 'Leabhar na...
Dates:
1752-ca. 1900 and undated, with most of the material dating from the later 18th and early 19th century.
Transcript made by the Reverend Walter MacLeod of the Book of the Dean of Lismore.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.12
Scope and Contents
Transcript of the Book of the Dean of Lismore (Adv.MS.72.1.37) made in 1897 by the Reverend Walter MacLeod (1864-1935) of Strathkinnes, Fife. Corresponds page for page and line for line to the original. The circumstances of the transcript are described by Donald Mackinnon in a letter to J T Clark, Keeper of the Advocates’ Library, 13 November 1895 (now pages ii-iii) and in a note at folio i verso. The Reverend Walter MacLeod was chosen to make the transcript due to his skill in...
Dates:
1897.
Translation into English by Thomas Ross (later the Reverend Dr Thomas Ross of Lochbroom) of parts of James Macpherson’s concocted originals as published in Sir John Sinclair’s ‘Poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.4
Scope and Contents
Copious notes face part of the text, beginning at verso of folio xiii and ending at folio 33 verso. Thomas Ross submitted at least part of the manuscript to the Highland Society of London (see his letter to their secretary, folio iii). His hand was similar to Ewen MacLachlan’s, and in notes at folio 24 verso Sir John Sinclair attributes his work on ‘Temora’ to the latter.
The manuscript is watermarked 1804.The contents are as follows.(i) Letter of the Reverend W...
Dates:
1807-1809, 1894, undated.