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Notebook headed "Gaelic Medical Lore", containing word lists and notes on Gaelic medical knowledge and beliefs. Begun from both ends. The text beginning at the back end is entered without first turning the notebook upside down, so that the order of pages is back to front.

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The notebook is lacking a few leaves.

The notebook contains names of ironmongers and coal-suppliers, apparently in continuation of MS 20577(i). It was later used for studies in Arabic, including a glossary, written probably whilst J B S Haldane was serving in Mesopotamia; and afterwards for mathematical calculations. A poem on the experiences of Haldane in Mesopotamia is written at folio 40.

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Much of the material consists of notes made by Canon Andrew John Young of his reading. Some of the notebooks include page references to other volumes of notes which are not in this collection.

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The notebook also includes rhyme lists (folio 54), articles on the makars and on an Edinburgh eccentric (folios 77, 95) and a Scots glossary (folio l54).

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Robert Sutherland (1909-1981) who wrote under the name 'Robert Garioch', was educated in Edinburgh and, after the war of 1939-1945 when he was a prisoner in Italy and Germany, became a schoolteacher in Kent. He returned to Edinburgh in 1959, where he taught and worked for the School of Scottish Studies in the University.

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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.

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This is the revised version prepared for production by the Curtain Theatre, Glasgow, in April 1938. It includes a glossary of Scots terms (folio 77).

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The contents are as follows. (i) Brief pieces written to fill up spaces in magazines, and other short prose writings, 1953, ?1962, undated (folio 1); (ii) Criticisms by Hugh MacDiarmid of work by another writer, undated (folio 77); (iii) Glossaries of Scots words, undated (folio 82); (iv) Introductory note and list of proposed contents for MacDiarmid's ‘Collected poems’ (Edinburgh, 1962) (folio 99). These are followed (folio 112) by suggestions for the contents by M L Rosenthal.

Scope and Contents From the Series: “An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...

Scope and Contents From the Series: “An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...

Scope and Contents From the Series: “An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...

Scope and Contents From the Series: “An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...

Scope and Contents From the Series: “An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...

Scope and Contents From the Series: “An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...

Scope and Contents From the Series: “An exceptionally accurate and accomplished Gaelic scholar and phonetician, [Charles Robertson] was also for over thirty years a diligent collector of facts relating to Gaelic philology and topography, and — to a less extent — of folk-lore. Much of his work on Gaelic phonetics and dialects has been published in the ‘Celtic Review’ and elsewhere.” (‘Scotsman’, 6 August 1928.)The collection is composed chiefly of notebooks, bound or loose-leaf. Some have many blank pages; only the...