Charms. Written.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: use for written charms.
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Assamese ‘parabaik’, or folding manuscript, bearing magical drawings and written charms., Undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.1899
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
Dates:
Undated.
Calendar written by Diarmuid Ó Fithcheallaigh; and a poem on the calendar usually attributed to Seán Ó Dubhagáin, followed by various medical texts, with some charms and folk cures.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.33
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written in the following hands.A. Diarmuid Ó Fithcheallaigh, cf. folio 1 verso.B. Donald Beaton, cf. page 84.C. Anonymous. Related in style to hand of Christopher Beaton, National Museum of Scotland H.MCR 40. D. Neil Beaton, cf. pages 33-34 and Adv.MS.72.1.2, folio 65 verso.E. Donnchadh Albannach Ó Conchubhair (1571-1647), cf. Adv.MS.73.1.22.F. Anonymous.G. Malcolm Beaton (flourished...
Dates:
[Circa 1538], 1593-1596, undated.
Charms and spells etc., including notes on witchcraft and astrology., Late 18th century, 1818.
Item
Identifier: MS.2716
Scope and Contents
A late eighteenth-century manuscript bearing the signatures 'John Blakey' (page 15) and 'Thomas Wyld' (pages 30, 72), with some additional matter (page i), dated 1818, written perhaps by the James Lomax whose signature is on page 3.
Dates:
Late 18th century, 1818.
Compendium of medical treatises in Gaelic written by Angus Beaton.
Item
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.
Letters in English from the Reverend Donald MacQueen of Kilmuir (died 1785) to the Reverend Dr John Stuart of Luss.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.21
Scope and Contents
The letters consist of the Reverend Donald MacQueen’s detailed comments on the Reverend Dr John Stuart’s Gaelic translation of part of the Old Testament with antiquarian excursi including quotations in Gaelic. The principal such excursi are noted below. (i) Letter of the Reverend Donald MacQueen to the Reverend Dr John Stuart, dated 27 November 1777. Genesis. Cf. ‘Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness’, volume 36 (1931-1933), page 364. (Folio 1.)(ii) Letter...
Dates:
[Before 1785.]
Medical manuscript in Gaelic.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.10
Scope and Contents
The text is a commentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates. The text-hand, crabbed in appearance, is generically similar to hand 75 of Adv.MS.72.1.2. Capitals are coloured red, but much of the pigment has dissolved and spread. A preliminary sketch has been made for a decorative initial at folio 3 recto. At folio 2 recto the missing matter is supplied in the bottom margin, parts of it two or three times. Here and at folios 2 verso, 3 recto and 5 verso emendations appear in two or three hands...
Dates:
15th Century.
Microfilm of charms and spells etc., including notes on witchcraft and astrology.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2072
Dates:
Late 18th century, 1818.
Scroll containing a collection of charms against maladies and evil spirits., 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.94