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Manuscript containing verse and tale fragments in Gaelic.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.47
Scope and Contents
Originally 3 separate fragments, each by a different scribe. Folios 1 and 4, are the outer leaves of a copy of ‘An Tenga Bithnua’. Date and provenance unknown, except perhaps for folio 2 (text: Ulster, 15th century).Initials and inventory numbers are as follows. Folio 1 recto: ‘No 11’ (pencil, ?hand of Lewis Gordon, Depute Secretary of the Highland Society of Scotland), ‘15’ ‘JMcH’ (James McHardy, cf. Adv.MS.72.1.43), ‘N. 4’ (scored out), ‘10’ (erased). Folio 3 recto: ‘16 JMcH’...
Dates:
?15th century-17th century.
Microfilm of Irish and Scottish Gaelic manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.653
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Book of the Dean of Lismore, 16th century (Adv.MS.72.1.37);
Manuscript, ?15th century-17th century, containing verse and tale fragments in Gaelic (Adv.MS.72.1.47);
Manuscript, 17th century, of syllabic verse (Adv.MS.72.1.48);
Manuscript, 1618-1647, containing Irish bardic verse (Adv.MS.72.1.49);
Manuscript, [circa 1658], containing historical miscellany in Gaelic, written by Niall MacMhuirich (Adv.MS.72.1.50).
Dates:
?15th century-17th century.