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Photographs and Photostats of Gaelic manuscript material of Scottish origin or interest in libraries outwith Scotland.
Series
Identifier: MS.14901(i)-(v)
Dates:
Mid 20th century-late 20th century.
Photostats of a manuscript, undated, containing Gaelic poetry in the hand of William MacMurchy found at Inverneill House in 1949 by Colonel Duncan Campbell of Inverneill.
Item
Identifier: MS.14951
Scope and Contents
The manuscript consists of versions of four poems which also appear in Adv.MS.73.2.2.
The contents are as follows.
(i) ‘Tuirseach andiu crioch Gaoidhioll’, 152 lines (page 1);
(ii) ‘Do bheath Ghiolleasbuig gad dhuthchus’, 32 lines (page 5);
(iii) “Ghillasbuig mo bheannachd re m’bheo”, 7 stanzas (page 6);
(iv) “‘Ghillasbuig mo mholachd rem’ bheo”, 8½ stanzas (page 7).
Dates:
18th century.
Poem, 'Do Bhoireannach Breugach Coirbte', an English version of which, 'To a depraved lying woman', is written on the rectos of four pages.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14434
Dates:
Circa 1942.
Poems of Rob Donn Mackay.
Item
Identifier: MS.1669
Scope and Contents
A volume of songs of Rob Donn Mackay (1714-1778); according to a note at the front, of unknown authorship (folio i), it was taken down from the recitation of the poet, who could not write, ‘by a daughter of the parish Minister, John Thomson, 1763-1809’, (i.e., presumably the Minister of Durness, 1764-1811), possibly Janet (1766-1785). However, the paper of the volume is dated 1813-1815, and this, together with the presence of a lament for Rob Donn in it, suggests that it is a later copy of...
Dates:
ca. 1815.
Positive Photostat of a manuscript containing Gaelic poetry collected by the Reverend James McLagan (MacLagan MS.73 in Glasgow University).
Item
Identifier: MS.14950
Scope and Contents
The photostat includes a portion which once formed part of National Library of Scotland MS.3784.
The Photostat of the manuscript was catalogued by John Mackechnie as follows.
Mackechnie, page 424 (MacLagan MS.73 a-b) (folios 1-4);
Mackechnie, page 324 (NLS MS.3784 (2), numbers 3, 4, 1, 2, 4, 5 in that order) (folios 5-8);
Mackechnie, page 424 (MacLagan MS.73 c-n) (folios 9-12).
Dates:
[Circa 1755.]
Printed copy of the three parts published of the English-Gaelic dictionary of Alexander Robertson, schoolmaster, Kirkmichael, Perthshire.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.18
Scope and Contents
This is a printed volume, being the only complete copy now known to exist of the three parts published of the dictionary of Alexander Robertson, schoolmaster, Kirkmichael, Perthshire. It was printed by Charles Stewart, Edinburgh, 1803, on paper watermarked 1802.Another copy of the three specimens was sent by Robertson to the Highland Society of Scotland in 1808 subsequent to sending the manuscripts of the remainder of his work (now Adv.MS.73.3.16 etc.) and receiving £30. His...
Dates:
1803, 1820.
Proof copy of Gaelic translation of part of Hugh MacDiarmid, "A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle", translated by the Reverend Roderick Macdonald.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10554
Dates:
1992.
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.
Records of the Highland Society of London, including minutes, account books, correspondence and letter books.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.268
Dates:
1781-1931.
Remains of a duanaire containing poems to three generations of the O’Reillys of East Bréifne (County Cavan), preceded by a poem to Maguire.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.30
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is dated by James Carney to about 1500. His description of the manuscript is in his “Poems on the O’Reillys”, pages ix, 235; most of the poems are there edited. It had previously been noticed by Quiggin in ‘Prolegomena to the study of the later Irish bards, 1200-1500’, page 102. Written across the page; at folios 4 verso and 6 verso a second column is created out of the broad right margin. The manuscript is written in the following hands.1. Text. A good...
Dates:
[Circa 1500.]
Remains of a Gaelic-English dictionary written by Alexander Robertson, schoolmaster, Kirkmichael, Strathardle, Perthshire.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.73.3.16-73.3.21
Scope and Contents
The dictionary was written out during or shortly after 1800-1801 (watermarks).It is noteworthy that Alexander Robertson’s parish minister since 1790, the Reverend Allan Stewart (1762-1829), shared his interest in Gaelic lexicography: in 1823 the Reverend Dr Alexander Irvine, discussing Armstrong’s dictionary, wrote, “My co-presbyter Stewart Kirkmichael is labouring hard. His work will be more useful than Armstrong’s”. (Ingliston MS. A.i.5, number 25). Volumes 1-3...
Dates:
1800-1801.
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
Songs collected and arranged by Duncan M Morison, Stornoway.
File
Identifier: MS.14977
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) “Gur fhada ris na dh’fhuirich mi”, 7 stanzas. ‘Lewis Spinning Song’. Also at middle of folio 3 verso (folio 1 recto);(ii) “Dh’fhalbhainn leat do Mhiabhaig an Uig”, 5 stanzas. With English translation in Hector MacIver’s hand (bottom of folio 3 verso) (folio 2 verso);(iii) “Mairi bheag bhan na suidhe air an làr”, 2 stanzas. “Child Bridesmaid’s Plaint” (folio 3 verso);(iv) ‘When Alexander oor King was deid’, 1...
Dates:
1932-1938.
Spiritual poetry of Anna Nic Fhearghais (Ann Ferguson), Auchnafad, Kintyre.
Item
Identifier: MS.14987
Scope and Contents
A volume of spiritual songs by Anna Nic Fheargais (Ann Ferguson), daughter of Duncan Ferguson (1775-1803), and wife of Duncan MacMillan, farmer in Auchnafad between Tayinloan and Clachan, Kintyre.
Dates:
ca. 1820-1850.
Spiritual verse in Gaelic by John Maclean.
Item
Identifier: MS.29901
Scope and Contents
Volume undated, but almost certainly compiled to serve as printers` copy for the first edition of Maclean`s spiritual poetry, printed in Glasgow in 1835.
Contains 26 poems, all religious except the last.
Dates:
Circa 1834.
Student`s notes, circa 1590, on law, order of the Court of Session, practicles and styles copied by James Grant.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10375
Scope and Contents
Includes two Gaelic poems of James Grant.
Also with farm accounts, 1722-1748, of James Mackie.
Dates:
circa 1590-1748.
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.
Three volumes of photocopied literary papers of Major Neil Macleod, Royal Artillery, of Waternish, Isle of Skye and Dalkeith.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12321
Scope and Contents
Volume 1: Gaelic verse; volume 2: remarks on the Books of Genesis, Exodus and Revelation; volume 3: reminiscences of his life.
Dates:
2nd half of 19th century.
Transcript, 1861, of the Book of the Dean of Lismore.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.6
Scope and Contents
A not too accurate page-for-page copy of Aberdeen University (King’s College) Library (AUL) MS.449 (Mackechnie, page 356), which is itself largely a copy of Adv.MS.72.3.3. Made by a clerk (his initials, A C, are at pages 42, 75) for William Forbes Skene in 1861 when he and the Reverend Dr Thomas McLauchlan were preparing their edition of the Book of the Dean of Lismore, Adv.MS.72.3.3 being at this time still in possession of the Highland Society of Scotland and apparently therefore unknown...
Dates:
1512-1542.
Transcript made by Ewen MacLachlan of the Book of the Dean of Lismore.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.3
Scope and Contents
Manuscript in the hand of Ewen MacLachlan, Aberdeen, entitled ‘An t-Easpaig’ - presumably because it contains the work of the Dean of Lismore, whom MacLachlan calls (page 1) “Easpuig Leasmòr”. This is valuable, as being MacLachlan’s original Book of the Dean of Lismore transcript, subsequently (but not always accurately) copied by himself and others. (See Adv.MS.72.3.6). It does not strictly follow the order of the original, but the order in which MacLachlan found it easiest to read the...
Dates:
1st quarter of 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.
Transcript of some of the items from the Book of the Dean of Lismore (Adv.MS.72.3.6) by Donald C MacPherson.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.9
Dates:
19th century.
Transcripts made by the Reverend Dr Thomas Ross (later Minister of Lochbroom) of James Macpherson`s Gaelic manuscripts of the Ossian poems, together with the Latin translation by Robert Macfarlane, made for the edition published by the Highland Society of London in 1807.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.73.4.1-73.4.6
Dates:
3rd quarter of 18th century, 1804, or before.
Transcripts of Gaelic manuscripts written by the Reverend Donald Mackintosh.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.11
Scope and Contents
The transcripts were written by the Reverend Donald Mackintosh, who was ‘Keeper of the Records and Translator of the Gaelic Language’ to the Highland Society of Scotland from January 1801 until his death in 1808. These are transcripts from 2 of the 5 manuscripts which Mackintosh obtained on loan from Ewen MacLachlan of Kilbride in July 1801. He dates the completion of the last of the major items of his transcript 3rd August 1804 (page 201); on 25th May of that year he had in fact requested a...
Dates:
1801-1804.
Transcripts of the final draft of the Highland Society of Scotland Gaelic-English-Latin Dictionary.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.72.3.13-14, 72.3.16-72.3.17
Scope and Contents
These thick manuscript volumes were written by three clerks (James Connell, Evander McLeod and another) under the supervision of the Reverend Dr John MacLeod of Dundonald. They were part of the final draft of the Highland Society of Scotland Dictionary, and were transcribed between June 1822 and June 1823 from materials prepared by MacLeod and Ewen MacLachlan (see below). Corrections appear in MacLeod’s hand; he complained that it took him two days to correct what his clerks wrote in four...
Dates:
19th century.