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Manuscript copy of “The 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”, written by Donald C MacPherson.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.7
Dates:
[1862, or after.]
Manuscript copy of the English ‘History of the Macdonalds’, ascribed by Donald Gregory to a Hugh Macdonald.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.12
Scope and Contents
The copy (watermarked 1829) is ascribed by Donald Gregory in 1836 (‘History of the western Highlands and Isles of Scotland’, page 10) to a Hugh Macdonald. Hand anonymous, probably that of a clerk. Gregory’s ascription to Hugh Macdonald may result from a misreading of Sir William MacLeod Bannatyne’s preface, in which ‘Austin’ (Hugh) in fact occurs twice although the words ‘Austin being himself’ resemble ‘written by himself’. Gregory had the history copied (watermarked 1827); the only...
Dates:
[1829, or after.]
Manuscript fragment containing a section Bernard of Gordon’s ‘Lilium medicinae’ written by Donnchadh Ó Conchubhair, formerly part of Adv.MS.73.1.22.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.18
Scope and Contents
The manuscript begins ‘⁊ gurub measa a regimin go coitchenn’.
Dates:
[After 1574.]
Manuscript in Gaelic containing a collection of the religious poems of Tadhg Óg Ó Huiginn (died1448), written chiefly by Eoghan Carrach Ó Siaghail.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.29
Scope and Contents
A collection of the religious poems of Tadhg Óg Ó Huiginn written chiefly by Eoghan Carrach Ó Siaghail (folio 6 recto). Eoghan Carrach is the scribe of a poem in Bodleian MS. Laud Misc. 615, page 129, and of Franciscan MS. A 8, written for Niall Óg Ó Néill during 1532-1545 (Dillon, Mooney and de Brún, ‘Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the Franciscan Library, Killiney’, page 16; cf. Plummer ‘On the colophons and marginalia of Irish scribes’, page 17). The manuscript was completed...
Dates:
[Before 1449.]
Manuscript in Gaelic containing historical and mythological texts.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.28
Scope and Contents
The chief hand is number 1 of Adv.MS.72.1.6 - medium to large in size, with a lack of curves and a downward tendency of many strokes, particularly noticeable in ‘g’ and ‘t’. Two hands without these characteristics relieve it at folios 3, 6 verso and 7 recto. Marginalia are mainly by these secondary hands: ‘amen’ (passim), letters of alphabet (folio 1 verso, 3 verso), ‘abair’ (folio 5 recto, 6 recto), ‘ma beandacht’ (folio 5 verso), ‘cenn’ (folio 6 recto), ‘comaimsir’ (folio 6 recto). ...
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Manuscript in Gaelic containing medical and religious text, with encomiastic verse.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.25
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written in the following hands.1. Text, folios 1-2, 23-24. Formal, often unusually large for a medical hand; bold, strongly seriffed.2. Relieves hand 1 at intervals, folios 1-2, 23; distinguishable by its crooked ‘s’.3. Text, folio 24 recto, column b, line 1-end. Small.4. Text, folios 3-22. Ovoid ‘d’. Changes style (notably ‘g’) and ink at folio 18; a face is amusingly drawn in the initial 'D' here, almost the only decoration...
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Manuscript in Gaelic containing medical, religious, and mythological texts.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.26
Scope and Contents
Consists of two distinct manuscripts: (a) folios 1-4, 11, containing chiefly a collection of mirabilia, and (b) folios 5-10, a medical remnant possibly of east Connacht origin (see folios 7 recto, 9 verso).The manuscript is written in the following hands:1. Text, folios 1-4, 11. A hand with curved strokes and distinctive ‘g’.2. Text, folio 4 verso, column b, lines 36-42. Neat.3. Text, folios 5-10. Strongly seriffed, slightly crabbed. Includes...
Dates:
15th Century-16th Century.
Manuscript in Gaelic containing mythological verse.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.19
Scope and Contents
A manuscript beautifully written by a single hand, large with distinctive ‘g’, strongly seriffed. Each poem begins with a large illuminated capital, and there is much decoration besides; colouring is red. There are marginalia in later hands: ‘Amen dico vobis’ (folio 3 recto); ‘olc an litir sin agad a Eogain’ (folio 5 verso, of Adv.MS.72.1.2, folio 86 verso); ‘Ag so leabar………Briain(?) ull(?)’. The contents are as follows.About 25 quatrains, acephalous and...
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
Manuscript in Gaelic containing short religious, historical and mythological texts.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.5
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written in the following hands.1. Text and notes, folios 1 verso-10 verso. A hand of a type more characteristic of medical manuscripts, cf. Adv.MS.72.1.12. Distinctive uncial 'r' and v-shaped 'u'. No decoration save some red on capitals, folios 5-10. From various additions in a similar hand, especially that at folio 6 verso, column b, line 41, it appears as if the scribe returned to annotate his work at a later point in time. Possibly in fact more than one hand:...
Dates:
?15th century.
Manuscript in Gaelic of the life of Saint Findchua of Brí Gobhann.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.24
Scope and Contents
According to its colophon (folio 8 recto), the manuscript is written by Conchubhar for the vicar and parson of Brí Gobhann (Mitchelstown, County Cork) and for the grandson of Robert Condon, all of whom, apparently, have promised to pay him for his work. He adds, apparently by way of warning, that his attorney (tuirrne) is Denis Ó Duinnín; this may be the Donnchadh mac Giolla-na-naomh Uí Dhuinnín who wrote a section of the Yellow Book of Lecan in ?1465. Conchubhar’s script is generally...
Dates:
?15th Century.
Manuscript in Gaelic titled ‘Aided Con Culainn’.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.45
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written by a single hand, competent but unremarkable, and in this respect comparable to many medical hands such as that of Adv.MS.72.1.13, folios 17-24. No marginalia save for ‘ye men of ……’ and ‘…Mc….’(?) scrawled in what is presumably a late 18th-century hand at folio 1 recto.The manuscript is described thus in John Mackenzie’s inventory of 1803: ‘A large quarto Vellum Manuscript in Prose, containing 6 Leaves, with two Columns in a page, not stitched. Signed...
Dates:
?16th century.
Manuscript known as ‘Neil MacBeath’s Psalter’, containing medical notes in Gaelic and prayers and Psalm 118 in Latin.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.4
Scope and Contents
This remarkably small, chubby manuscript, ‘Neil MacBeath’s Psalter’, is described by David McRoberts in ‘Two Hebridean liturgical items’, page 171, with a plate showing its external appearance. ‘Cleric and physician’, he concludes, ‘he . . . had in his vade-mecum, which he would fasten to his belt, all the literature he required (his substitute for the Divine Office and his medical notes) when he set out to attend to the souls and bodies of his parishioners’. The ‘Divine Office’ is Psalm...
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
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.
Manuscript of "Cath Fionntrágha", written by Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.11
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains a Watermark: ‘horn’ and I D M (watermark is of type Heawood 2718-2734, Dutch & English documents 1665-1721). It is written by Alexander MacDonald (Alasdair Mac Mhaighistir Alasdair). It contains no statement of scribal identity, but script and some distinctive orthographical features are as Adv.MS.72.2.13. Some sea-runs here (pages 2-4) are strongly echoed in MacDonald’s ‘Birlinn Chlann Raghnaill’. The language is a unique mixture of Irish and Scottish Gaelic. The...
Dates:
18th century.
Manuscript of chiefly Gaelic proverbs written by William MacMurchy.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.12
Scope and Contents
The manuscript bears a ‘coat of arms’ watermark, and was written circa 1759 (cf. page 11) by William MacMurchy (died circa 1778) of Campbeltown in Kintyre, schoolmaster, tailor, poet, musician and scribe, for whom see Conley, 'A poem in the Stewart Collection', page 26. He may have been a pupil of Hugh MacLean (schoolmaster of Kilchenzie, Kintyre, circa 1699), as his Gaelic hand, typical of its period for Irish manuscripts, bears at times a strong resemblance to that of the latter (note...
Dates:
[Circa 1759.]
Manuscript of English-Gaelic vocabulary compiled by a blinded veteran of the 92nd (Gordon) Regiment, Malcolm MacPherson, at Bridge of Teith, Doune, Perthshire, and written for him by another.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.6
Dates:
1812.
Manuscript of “Gaël Albanich” by William Forbes Skene (1809-1892), containing a history of the Highland clans.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14896-14897
Scope and Contents
The manuscript, dated 1st March 1834, was the winning entry in a competition of the Highland Society of London for the best essay on the history of the Highland Clans. It is illustrated in pen and ink and in watercolours.
Dates:
1834.
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.
Manuscript of Ossianic poems written by various anonymous hands from recitation of Archibald Fletcher (born circa 1734), Achallader, Argyll.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.24
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is watermarked 1798, and is described by John Francis Campbell (‘Leabhar na Feine’, page xvi) ‘as genuine a bit of folk lore as any in the world’.Archibald Fletcher’s affidavit, sworn before Archibald Menzies, Justice of the Peace, in Edinburgh, 1801, is printed in the Ossian Report, Appendix, page 270. It lists the tradition-bearers from whom he learned the poems. Menzies states that Fletcher could write his name, but was unable to read the manuscript, which is...
Dates:
[1798, or after.]
Manuscript of religious verse in Gaelic.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.14
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains an early ‘pot’ watermark. The scribe unknown, but his hand bears family resemblance to that of some Ó Siaghails, e.g. Eoghan Carrach. ‘Saltair’ format, i.e. written along the page, 1 quatrain per line, with single unrelated quatrains at foot of many pages; at folios 1 verso and 5 verso-10 recto these are followed by the date 1582. As manuscript dating this appears consistent with text and watermark. There are many corrections to the text in what appears to be the...
Dates:
1582.
Manuscript of "Sgeul an Amadain Mhóir", with an English translation of it in the hand of the Reverend Dr Alexander Irvine of Little Dunkeld (1772-1824).
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.73.2.4-73.2.5
Dates:
[1809-1824.]
Manuscript of “Táin Bó Cuailnge” and other tales, written by Eoghan Mac Gilleoin.
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Identifier: MS.14873
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was written by Eoghan Mac Gilleoin (Hugh Maclean) between 1692 and 1698. Mac Gilleoin was in 1699 schoolmaster at Kilchenzie, parish Killean and Kilchenzie, south Kintyre, (Campbell & Thomson, ‘Edward Lhuyd in the Scottish Highlands’, page 10). John MacNeill’s pedigree (folio 52 verso) was written in 1720. ‘Contracte’ is scrawled in the margin of folio 53 recto. ‘In my defence God me defend’ is written at folio 57 recto in a quaint early hand, and in the...
Dates:
1692-1698.
Manuscript of the ‘Dindshenchas’.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.16
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written in the following hands.1. Text, folio 1. Large, with tall loop on ‘g’. Fine ornamental initials, decoration in red.2. Folio 1, lower margin. Large.3. Text, folios 2-5. Large, many oblique strokes. A bold clear hand. Ornamental initials, decoration in red.4. Text, folio 6. Large but crude, written between rather than on the lines and therefore irregular in appearance.In addition there are marginalia on every...
Dates:
?15th Century.
Manuscript of the “Togail Troí”.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.15
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written in the following hands.1. Text, pages 1-49. Tuathal Buidhe Ó Duibhgeannáin (cf. pages ii, 10, 32, 42). Perhaps the Tuathal Ó Duibhgeannáin of the celebrated Connacht scribal family whose son Cú-coigcríche (flourished 1629) was one of the Four Masters (Walsh, ‘Irish men of learning’, page 2). His hand is rather large and coarse, and includes a frequent distinctive ‘a’ with curved-back ascender. There are some decorative initials, with a little mauve...
Dates:
?16th century.
Manuscript scores of Gaelic and Scots songs for the clarsach, by Jean Campbell.
File
Identifier: Acc.11770
Scope and Contents
Includes a copy of article (English translation) by Ank Van Campen on Jean Campbell.
Dates:
1959, 1972-1973 and undated.