Marginalia. Annotations.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Notes or symbols written or printed in the margins of pages. For scenes or figures in the margins or decorative borders of a page of text, use "marginal illustrations".
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Manuscript containing the poems of Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (Alexander MacDonald), written in Gaelic script.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.13
Scope and Contents
Of the two manuscripts mentioned in the custodial history note only the present one remains. A little further evidence for the ascription to Alasdair lies in the small portions of text in Roman hand (pages 118, 176; compendium &, passim), which may be compared with the facsimile of the poet’s hand published as frontispiece to the 1924 edition of his work. The manuscript was written during or after 1747 (cf. pages 143, 146, 149), and some of the poems, notably “An Àirce” (page 169),...
Dates:
1747.