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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.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.1
Scope and Contents
The manuscript consists of two sections, folios 1-9 ('1467 MS'), written in and about that date (folio 7 recto) by Dubhghall Albanach mac mhic Cathail (folios 3 recto, 5 recto, 7 recto, 8 recto), who was presumably a MacMhuirich; and folios 10-25 (Reverend John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’), written circa 1425 by Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín (date and hand established by Tomás Ó Concheanainn, “The scribe of John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’”, pages 99-101.The manuscript begins with Cormac’s Instructions...
Dates:
[Circa 1425, circa 1467.]
Compendium of medical treatises in Gaelic written by Angus Beaton.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.10
Scope and Contents
The compendium of medical treatises was written 1611-1614 by Angus Beaton. He gives only his patronymic, Aonghus mac Fearchair mhic Aonghuis (pages 126, 192, 260), but this is sufficient to identify him as of the Beatons of Husabost in Skye. Apart from one visit to Skye (Trumpan, page 66), and a meeting or consultation with Cameron of Lochiel at a place called Dunán Eachain (page 106), Angus’ line-fillers and other notes indicate that the manuscript was written on circuit in the contiguous...
Dates:
1611-1614.
Copy, with manuscript additions and corrections, of Alexander MacBain, "An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language" (first edition, Inverness, 1896).
Item
Identifier: Acc.9854
Dates:
1896.
Correspondence and papers, 1996-1999, of Ronald Black concerning the publication of his work 'An tuil: anthology of 20th century Scottish Gaelic verse' (Polygon: Edinburgh, 1999); with papers, 1937-1999, relating to other work on 20th century Gaelic literature.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12035/1-38
Scope and Contents
Includes scripts of two unpublished Gaelic novels of the Rev Ewen MacLean, Edinburgh, and photocopies of 'Leabhar nam Prannag', manuscript poems of Ian Paterson.
Dates:
1937-1999, undated.
Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.50.1.1-51.2.7
Dates:
1841-1885.
Correspondence of Malcolm MacFarlane, with related literary, lexicographical and musical papers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9736/1-161
Scope and Contents
Born in Dalavich, Argyll and resident for most of his life in Paisley and Elderslie where he was in business as a surveyor, MacFarlane was a notable Gaelic activist and writer from the late 1880s. He played a prominent part in the early years of An Comunn Gaidhealach (particularly in the production of its magazine, An Deò-Gréine, later An Gaidheal) while, as a radical in politics, taking issue with what he regarded as the An Comunn leadership's over-deference to aristocratic patronage and...
Dates:
1882-1930, undated.
“Dean of Lismore’s book: a selection of ancient Gaelic poetry from a manuscript collection made by Sir James M’Gregor, Dean of Lismore, in the beginning of the sixteenth century, edited with a translation and notes by the Rev Thomas M’Lauchlan, and an introduction and additional notes by W F Skene, Esq” (Edinburgh, 1862), with corrections in the hand of Donald C MacPherson.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.9
Dates:
1862.
Genealogical manuscript titled ‘An Leabhar Muimhneach’ written by Diarmuid Ó Conchubhair.
Item
Identifier: MS.14874
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was written in 1709 by Diarmuid Ó Conchubhair (Dermod Connor) for Muiris Ó Sobháin (Maurice Sovane or Savage) in the latter’s house at Ballineedora, parish Ballymacelligot, barony of Trughanacmy, County Kerry. In his preface the scribe craves indulgence for any faults in his work on the grounds that this is his first book, and that he had been pressed into the service of Queen Anne. The names of his patron and of another Sovane, Hugh, have been carefully mutilated wherever...
Dates:
1709.
Manuscript containing a collection of Ossianic poems by the Reverend Alexander Pope (circa 1706-1782) of Reay.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.23
Scope and Contents
A letter written by Alexander Pope in 1763 and published in the Ossian Report, Appendix, page 52, indicates that this collecting activity took place about 1739. Folios 1-7 are in Pope’s hand, and a note at folio 1 verso confirming his identity appears to be signed W P, perhaps his son William. Folios 8-11 are in hand of the Reverend Alexander Sage (1753-1824) of Kildonan, as are numerous corrections passim and a reference at folio 5 verso.The contents are as follows....
Dates:
[Circa 1739.]
Manuscript containing a medical compendium, in Gaelic, assembled by the Mull Beatons
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.2
Scope and Contents
A medical compendium assembled by the Mull Beatons, from materials originating with themselves, with Irish physicians and with Ó Conchubhairs, consisting of thirteen disparate sections of manuscript, recently bound individually in limp vellum. The medical theory represented may be described as practical by medieval standards. There is a preponderance of specific treatments, and later hands in particular have added many charms and prayers. There is little metaphysics except in sections 2, 4...
Dates:
16th century-17th century.
Manuscript containing classical Gaelic verse and tales, written by Eoghan Mac Gilleoin.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.36
Scope and Contents
The scribe of the manuscript is Eoghan Mac Gilleoin (Hugh MacLean), in 1699 schoolmaster at Kilchenzie, Kintyre.
The manuscript consisted originally of three parts. Part I was being written by 29th November 1690 (see folio 104 recto) and was still incomplete on 9th December (folio 110 verso). It was paginated by MacGilleoin at top centre of each page, save for the endpapers. Two watermarks are found, one sheet bearing the letters A D, the rest having a ‘grape’ design with the...
Dates:
1690-1691.
Manuscript containing copies of Bernard de Gordon’s ‘Lilium medicinae’ and other texts.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.2.11
Scope and Contents
The main text, the ‘Lilium medicinae’, was written about October 1621 (folio 102 verso) at Duart (34 verso, 39 recto) for ‘Eoin’ (39 verso), presumably by John Beaton of the Pennycross family (1594-1657), father of the Reverend John. Also in this manuscript is the only extant piece of sustained medical writing in the Reverend John’s hand.The manuscript is written in five different hands:1. Chief text-hand. Appears to identify itself so ‘Ed: Bar’ (folio 2 recto),...
Dates:
1621.
Manuscript containing death tales and other tales, with some religious texts.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.40
Scope and Contents
Pages 1-12, 29-48, and 49-68 of the manuscript can all be associated through their marginalia with the Antrim MacDonalds or the Clanranald or both. Perhaps pages 1-12 were brought to Scotland on the occasion of the return from Ireland of Domhnall mac Iain Mhùideartaich and Iain, son of Brian MacMhuirich, circa 1650 (‘Reliquiae Celticae’, volume 2, page 206). As for pages 13-28, Martin Martin states (1703): ‘The life of Columbus, written in the Irish character, is in the custody of John...
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Manuscript containing genealogies in Gaelic.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.6
Scope and Contents
First layer (folios 1-6).The first layer contains Uí Néill pedigrees, versions corresponding to many of which may be found in the Book of Ballymote, folios 69-86. See also O’Brien, ‘Corpus genealogiarum Hiberniae’, pages 160-180. The first layer of the manuscript is written in the following hands:1. Text. Chief hand of Adv.MS.72.1.28. Capitals here coloured red.2. Folios 1 verso (‘bro’), 4 verso (‘a’). Large. Cf. Adv.MS.72.1.10, folio 6...
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Manuscript containing historical miscellany in Gaelic, written by Niall MacMhuirich.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.50
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was written by Niall MacMhuirich circa 1658 (folio 6 verso). A portion (National Museum of Scotland MCR, volume 39, pages 11-16) of Niall MacMhuirich’s Clanranald history, for which Adv.MS.72.1.50 is probably a source-book, was laid up with the manuscript until 1896, when it was gifted by the Advocates’ Library to Clanranald. A copy of the material, made by Donald MacPherson in 1874 (National Library of Scotland Acc.2543, folio 21), was added to the present manuscript as...
Dates:
[Circa 1658.]
Manuscript containing poems of William MacMurchy.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.2
Dates:
1748, 1806, undated.
Manuscript containing poems of William MacMurchy.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.15
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains a ‘coat of arms’ watermark. The scribe of the manuscript is William MacMurchy (see Adv.MS.72.2.12). MacMurchy also wrote versions of fourteen of the poems in this manuscript in what are now Adv.MS.73.2.2 (thence printed in ‘Reliquiae Celticae’, volume 2, pages 310-420) and the Inverneill MS (photostat, National Library of Scotland MS.14981). A number of the poems are plainly by the scribe himself.Ewen MacLachlan described it in his ‘Celtic Analysis’...
Dates:
18th century, before 1778.
Manuscript containing scholastic texts in Gaelic.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.7
Scope and Contents
There are only two or three hands in this singularly well-preserved and rather beautiful portion of manuscript, and only one non-scribal marginalium. The chief hand or style of the text (folios 1-5, 8-11) uses some fine decorative initials (partly zoomorphic) and red, yellow, green and brown colouring. The other (folios 6-7) is unembellished. The marginalium, “Ní bí amuigh aonduini ón ég”, 2 lines (folio 7 recto) is in a large formal script recalling a hand of the Annals of Ulster in...
Dates:
?15th century.
Manuscript containing specimens of Homer’s Iliad in Gaelic verse by Ewen MacLachlan.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.19
Scope and Contents
Ewen MacLachlan hoped to publish a volume of the work if these met with approval. Includes title-page, preface and contents list.The contents are as follows.(i) Specimens of Gaelic Iliad. (Page 1.)(ii) ‘Qui sublime meas orbe volubili’, 9 quatrains. Ossian’s Address to rising Sun. (Page 46.)(iii) ‘De sinis, flavo radiate crine!’ 4 quatrains. Ossian’s Address to Setting Sun. (Bottom of page 47.)(iv) ‘Jam noctis umbras somnifero dies’,...
Dates:
[1812, or before.]
Manuscript containing syllabic verse in Gaelic, written by members of the MacMhuirich family.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.48
Scope and Contents
This manuscript bears all the marks of a MacMhuirich provenance. The scribe who wrote the greater part of it is unknown, but his Gaelic hand is precise and well formed. Two poems (folios 9 verso, 10 verso) are in the hand of Niall MacMhuirich (circa 1639-1726), of whom the chief scribe was evidently a contemporary. A third hand, unknown, is responsible for the text at folio 32, which is further distinguished from foregoing folios by its common ‘pot’ watermark - the rest having what appears...
Dates:
Between 1660 and 1678.
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 containing the poems of Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (Alexander MacDonald), written in Gaelic script.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.13
Scope and Contents
Of the two manuscripts mentioned in the custodial history note only the present one remains. A little further evidence for the ascription to Alasdair lies in the small portions of text in Roman hand (pages 118, 176; compendium &, passim), which may be compared with the facsimile of the poet’s hand published as frontispiece to the 1924 edition of his work. The manuscript was written during or after 1747 (cf. pages 143, 146, 149), and some of the poems, notably “An Àirce” (page 169),...
Dates:
1747.
Manuscript containing the Seven Wise Masters and syllabic verse.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.39
Scope and Contents
Written c.1690 or later (cf. folio 31 recto) by an unknown scribe in practised Gaelic hand with ornamented capitals. Scribal probationes pennae (pen trials) at folios 22 recto, 23 recto, 32 recto (‘cionnus sin pinn na fion’; ‘amen’). There remain here only the last 4 of the 15 or so tales of which the international romance of the “Seven Wise Masters” is comprised, and we may conclude from this that the present manuscript is the end portion of an original of over 80 folios. The sole foliation...
Dates:
17th century.
Manuscript containing 'Togail na Tebe', a Gaelic prose adaptation the 'Thebaid' of Statius, and 'Togail Troi', a Gaelic adaption of 'De excidio Troiae historia', and other texts.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.8
Scope and Contents
The volumes consists of two separate manuscripts. The first, which ends at folio 27, may have once formed part of the manuscript that constitutes the Yellow Book of Lecan columns 573-958 (see Ó Con cheanainn, “Gilla Ísa Mac Fir Bhisigh and a Scribe of his School”, page 157.The manuscript is written in the following hands:1. Text, folios 1 recto-5 verso, column b, line 40, 9 recto-22 verso. Gilla Ísa Mac Fir Bhisigh, poet and historian to Ó Dubhda Tír...
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
Manuscript containing two Bruidhean tales: ‘Bruighean Chaorthuinn’, and ‘Bruidhean Bheag na halmhaine’, written by Eoghan Mac Pháill, Dunstaffnage.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.34
Scope and Contents
The manuscript written in circa 1603 by Eoghan Mac Pháill, Dunstaffnage, is in varying styles of handwriting. These may be described as styles 1, 2, 4 and 5. Another style (3) appears in Adv.MS.72.2.2. Style 5 is secretary, while the rest are Gaelic. It appears at pages 24, 41, 42, 45 and 47, and in a word (?‘Duntrone’) scribbled at page 13 lower margin. Style 4 is found only in unimportant marginalia (pages 39 and 41).Donald Mackintosh (1743-1808) transcribed ‘Bruidhean...
Dates:
[Circa 1603.]