Scope and Contents The manuscript consists of two sections, folios 1-9 ('1467 MS'), written in and about that date (folio 7 recto) by Dubhghall Albanach mac mhic Cathail (folios 3 recto, 5 recto, 7 recto, 8 recto), who was presumably a MacMhuirich; and folios 10-25 (Reverend John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’), written circa 1425 by Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín (date and hand established by Tomás Ó Concheanainn, “The scribe of John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’”, pages 99-101.The manuscript begins with Cormac’s Instructions...

Scope and Contents The collection is divided into 'Choice Poems, &c., on Several Occasions preceeding 1745' and 'Poems composed since the Attempt, 1745', and contains poems by Alexander Robertson of Strowan, Dryden, Montrose, Dr Archibald Pitcairne, and others, with a few ascribed to William Hamilton of Bangour, and many by 'Valerius' and other anonymous writers.At the end (folio 39 verso) is a Jacobite calendar, below which are the names Margaret Lowther and Almaria Trueworth, with a Royalist...

Scope and Contents The manuscript, watermarked 1796, was compiled by and for Dr Donald Smith when in Ireland circa 1798. Scribes: (a) anonymous, Roman hand; (b) Toirdhealbhach Maguidhir (Terence McGuire), Gaelic hand; (c) Dr Donald Smith, Roman hand. Terence Mcguire’s work at part II pages 17-90, written in 1798 (cf. pages 17, 45, 69) reproduces material written by him in 1788 at Royal Irish Academy 1185 (24 C 55), pages 159-175, and in 1789 at Royal Irish Academy 1074 (24 P 29),...

Scope and Contents In addition to George Skene's journal there are notes of expenditure on the journey and of the mileage of part of the route (folio 1 verso); part of an anti-Hanoverian parody of the ‘Te Deum’, ?1742 (folio 34); and part of a diary, probably of Joseph Mackie, 1837 (folio 35).At the end of the volume, inverted, are detailed accounts of expenditure on the journey of 1729 (folio 1 inverted) and recipes, medical and other (folio 3 inverted), including directions for the treatment of...

Scope and Contents The manuscript contains a ‘coat of arms’ watermark. The scribe of the manuscript is William MacMurchy (see Adv.MS.72.2.12). MacMurchy also wrote versions of fourteen of the poems in this manuscript in what are now Adv.MS.73.2.2 (thence printed in ‘Reliquiae Celticae’, volume 2, pages 310-420) and the Inverneill MS (photostat, National Library of Scotland MS.14981). A number of the poems are plainly by the scribe himself.Ewen MacLachlan described it in his ‘Celtic Analysis’...

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),...

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The contents are as follows: Manuscript, 17th-18th century, of bardic fragments, containing a strong element of MacMhuirich poetry (Adv.MS.72.2.2);

Donald Smith’s Irish miscellany, [circa 1798] (Adv.MS.72.3.2);

Part of a Gaelic grammatical treatise, 17th century, (written in the traditional character) giving the paradigms of a number of nouns and verbs.(MS.1745).

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The contents are as follows: ‘1467 MS.’ written by Dubhghall Albanach mac mhic Cathail and the Reverend John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’, written by Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín, [circa 1425, circa 1467], (Adv.MS.72.1.1);

Manuscript, 16th century-17th century, containing a medical compendium, in Gaelic, asembled by the Mull Beatons (Adv.MS.72.1.2);

‘Materia medica’, 15th century, formerly belonging to the Beaton family of physicians (Adv.MS.72.1.3).

Scope and Contents The manuscript was found among the possessions of the donor's father, James Myles, a sub-editor at 'The People’s Journal' (DC Thomson). Alexander Maclean was a local stringer on Mull. They became friends and visited each other on several occasions. The work was later published with illustrations by Mairi Hedderwick.With a photograph, annotated 'The Newshound', of an Airedale Terrier dog looking out of the window of Alexander Maclean's press agency van ('Alexander Mac Lean's News...

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The longer pieces include 'The Tragedie of Glenco', 'Proelium Gilliekrankianum', 'Bellum Bothwellianum', 'Tarquin and Tullia', and Dr Archibald Pitcairne's 'Assembly' and 'Babell'.

There is a recipe for stomach-ache on folio x verso.