Folklore.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Traditional and expressive forms of culture, such as song, story, dance, ritual, handicraft, art, food ways, costume, custom, religion, architecture, and work skills, and of the processes and meanings that underlie them. (AAT) For all folklore type material, qualified by country where necessary. (NLS) .
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Copy of "Fabularum Aesopicarum Delectus" (Edinburgh, 1710), with manuscript notes of James Maule, possibly 4th Earl of Panmure.
Item
Identifier: Acc.3933
Dates:
1710.
Correspondence and papers, including many manuscripts in Gaelic, journals and yearbooks (with many photographs), albums of watercolour paintings and sketches, and experimental notebooks, of John Francis Campbell of Islay (1821-1885), Gaelic scholar and collector of oral tradition, traveller, scientist, official of the royal household and public servant.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.50.1.1-51.2.7
Dates:
1841-1885.
Manuscripts with translations from Sanskrit, folk tales and sketches.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9325
Dates:
20th century.
Microfilm of Gaelic manuscripts containing tales and mythological verse.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1183
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, 14th century-15th century, in Gaelic containing mythological verse. (Adv.MS.72.1.19);
Manuscript, 14th century-15th century, containing tales of destruction, in Gaelic (Adv.MS.72.1.8).
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
Publisher`s file relating to all aspects of Aeneas MacKay`s 1933 edition of Robert Kirk`s "Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies".
File
Identifier: Acc.12750
Scope and Contents
Includes 15 letters from R B Cunninghame Graham.
Dates:
1931-1933.
Traditional tales and legends of Lanarkshire.
Series
Identifier: Acc.3546
Scope and Contents
Comprising:
1. "Scottish Legends of the Days of Wallace and Bruce"
2. "A Tale of Flodden Field; Arming of the Craftsmen of Lanark, 1513"
3. "Traditionary Tales and Legends of Lanark".
Dates:
19th century.