Scope and Contents Henry Comyn Maitland served as a magistrate and judge in Bengal 1908-1925, and practised as a barrister in London till 1939. During World War II he lived in Edinburgh, but spent several months each year at Iochdar, South Uist. The dictionary was mainly compiled between 1939 and his death. The dictionary consists of about 30,000 slips. Each slip bears a Gaelic quotation with English translation and reference. The quotations are drawn from periodicals and other printed works, chiefly...

Scope and Contents There are only two or three hands in this singularly well-preserved and rather beautiful portion of manuscript, and only one non-scribal marginalium. The chief hand or style of the text (folios 1-5, 8-11) uses some fine decorative initials (partly zoomorphic) and red, yellow, green and brown colouring. The other (folios 6-7) is unembellished. The marginalium, “Ní bí amuigh aonduini ón ég”, 2 lines (folio 7 recto) is in a large formal script recalling a hand of the Annals of Ulster in...

Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Regiam Maiestatem` in four books of 209 continuously numbered chapters (34, 72, 34, and 69 in each book), with table at the beginning (folio 2). This is preceded (folio 1 verso) by a couplet beginning `Me legat antiquas qui vult proferre loquelas` (‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page xxvi) and 11 verses beginning `Hoc trahit ad lumen antiqua statuta volumen` (‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page xv). ‘Acts of...

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: Notebook, 2nd half of 17th century-1st quarter of 18th century, of Sir Robert Sibbald containing geological and topographical material (Adv.MS.13.2.8);‘Glossary of Shetland words’, Early 19th century, prepared for John Jamieson by the Reverend Thomas Barclay, principal of Glasgow University (Adv.MS.22.5.2);Original manuscript, 1776, of ‘Fauna Orcadensis’ by George Low, Minister of Birsay (Adv.MS.32.4.1);Manuscripts, 1770-1772,...

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The contents are as follows: Glossary of Gaelic terms connected with ‘music, poetry, dancing and oratory’ (Adv.MS.73.1.5);

Glossary of Gaelic terms connected with ‘music, poetry, dancing and oratory’ (Adv.MS.73.1.6).

Scope and Contents The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Printed prospectus of the Sanitary Protection Association of Edinburgh, late 19th century. (Folio 1.)(ii) Printed list of members, with subscriptions, of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries (Konungliga Norraena Fornfraeda-Felag), 1849, in Icelandic. There are also an extract from the constitution of the Society (in French), a note on the subscriptions (in Danish), and a list of the books published by the Society....

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The volume contains part of a series of lectures on the social, religious, and cultural life of the Romans (folios 1-38), very incomplete due to missing pages. An inverted series of notes contains a glossary or vocabulary to the oration of Isocrates to Demonicus, sections 1-9, also very incomplete (inverted folios 1-12). Two pages (inverted folios 13-14) contain an ink sketch of a man training a horse.

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The work is liberally illustrated with verse (fully referenced), traditions and anecdotes. On 17 May 1855 Simon Fraser calculated that it contained 2, 190 terms (1,466 + 724). On 1 July 1857 he records a slightly enlarged total of 2,210 (1,470 + 740). (Adv.MS.73.1.5, inside back cover; Adv.MS.73.1.6, folios 74 verso, 92 recto). Angus Fraser also prepared an amended copy of his father’s ‘Airs and Melodies peculiar to the Highlands’, which was published in 1874, after Angus’s death.