Campbell, Sir Duncan, 1545-1631 (1st Baronet of Glenorchy)

Scope and Contents This is a manuscript volume entitled "Marbhrann Dhonnchaidh duibh", containing an elegiac poem commemorating the death of "Black Duncan of the Cowl", 1st Baronet of Glenorchy, in June 1631. Dated 1810-1820, copy of an anynomous mid-17th-century manuscript.Pencil inscription on the fourth folio: "Facsimile of a Gaelic Eulogy on Breadlabane 1631. This is given in Vol. 3 of National MSS of Scotland, with a Translation. Chiefly curious as speaking of the fame of the subject of the...