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 The source material and translations are variously endorsed or annotated by Henry Mackenzie, Donald Mackintosh, and Ewen MacLachlan.The contents are as follows.(M 1). Notes by John Francis Campbell, dated 25 November 1872. (Folio 1.)(i) Cover, probably for folios 12-22, 24-33. Bears hands of Ewen MacLachlan and Mackintosh MacKay. Cf. Adv.MS.73.2.10, folio 207. (Folio 2.)(M 2). Ossianic fragments with some corresponding passages from James...

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This volume containing a collection of pen drawings, with mottoes and verse (chiefly extracts from the Roman poetry) emblematical of death, bears the following title ‘Admodum Reuerendo Patri Jacobo Stratio per Prouinciam Flandro-Belgicam Præposito Prouinciali Tranfactor in Religione vitæ fuæ suinquagefimum annum Deo Opt. Max. inter communes omnium acclamationes consecranti post placatam Mortam Suinquaginta de morte Emblematis Applaudebat Poësis Aldenardensis’.

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There are some notes and summaries (folios 84, 204), proper names, and quotations in Latin (passim) in cursive script. A few leaves at the beginning are missing. The shorthand used resembles the system devised by T Metcalfe, (‘Radio-stenography, or short writing’) from which it was probably adapted by the copyist himself.

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On the first end-paper and on the fly-leaves (folios i, ii) there are quotations of poetry about music. The date of the manuscript is probably not much later than the date of publication of the book.