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Manuscript of a 'materia medica' in Gaelic, with some specifics and a calendar.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.3
Scope and Contents
A materia medica, with some specifics (prescriptions) and a calendar. Text, decoration and certain of the hands all bear comparison with John Rylands Library MS. Ir. 35, a manuscript of Scottish provenance for which see Ingliston MS. A.i.9, number 50, and ‘The Academy’, volume 49, page 405.The manuscript is written by the following hands:1. Text, folios i-33, 36-39. A very fine hand bearing similarities to that of Domhnall Albanach Ó Troighthigh, British...
Dates:
?15th century.
Notebook of a mid-19th century Lady containing knitting and crochet patterns, and Gaelic poetry.
Item
Identifier: MS.14899
Scope and Contents
The notebook, watermarked 1833, is anonymously written from both ends. End ‘A’, paginated 1-121, consists of knitting and crochet patterns based on Gaugain, ‘The knitter’s friend’. Includes ‘The McDonald pattern’ (page 113). End ‘B’ is paginated 1-63, but pages 9-34 have been cut out. Pages 1-55 are in the same hand as end ‘A’, and are catalogued below. Pages 56-63 are in a later hand and contain knitting patterns and recipes.The contents are as follows....
Dates:
Mid 19th century.