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Item
Identifier: Coll-98/3/2/1
Scope and Contents
Marked 'Mackinnon A8' and noted thus in previous historical records. This notebook is near empty, with some initial notes on the linguistic differences between Goidelic and Brythonic languages. Breton is referred to in this ntoebook as 'Armoric', and Scots is referred to as 'Scotch'. These may have been the start of a text or lesson plan on the historical and comparative linguistics of Goidelic and Brythonic, but it does not have much to offer, other than maybe some insight into Mackinnon's...
Dates:
Late 19th or early 20th century
Item
Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/4
Scope and Contents
A syllabus for students of Celtic, presumably at the University of Edinburgh.
Dates:
1886-1895
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Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/17
Scope and Contents
A bundle of 17 notebooks, containing notes or scripts for lectures on a lecture series, which seems to have taken place between 1883 and 1884. The following notebooks survive:'Celtic: A member of the Aryan family' (Item 40a)'The Celt in Europe' (Item 40b)'Manners and customs: The military system of the ancient Celts' (Item 40c)'Manners and customs: The religion of the Celts' (Item 40d)'Manners and customs: Agriculture, food, drink,...
Dates:
1883-1884
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Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/14
Scope and Contents
A bundle of 10 notebooks, containing notes or scripts for lectures on a lecture series, which seems to have taken place between 1884 and 1885. The following notebooks survive:'The Celts before Caesar'; and '(II) The Celts at the time of Caesar' (Item B37a)'Classification of languages as isolating, agglutinative, and amalgamating'; and '(II) Linguistics studies of the Ancients and the Middle Ages' (Item B37b)'Sanskrit'; and 'Celtic [as an] Indo-European...
Dates:
1884-1885
Item
Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/18
Scope and Contents
A bundle of 11 notebooks, containing notes or scripts for lectures on a lecture series, which seems to have taken place between 1886 and 1887. The following notebooks survive:'Origins and position of the Celtic languages in the Indo-European group' (Item B.41a)'Early literature: Adamnan, etc.' (Item B.41b)'Letters and their sounds: Ogham' (Item B.41c)'Vowels and laws of sound change' (Item B.41d)'Grimm's Law' (Item...
Dates:
1886-1887
Item
Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/21
Scope and Contents
A bundle of 4 notebooks, containing notes or scripts for lectures on a lecture series. There are no dates noted on the front covers, but the lectures presumably took place at the University of Edinburgh while Donald Mackinnon was Chair of Celtic. The following notebooks survive:'Contents of the literature: Historical section' (Item B44a)'Contents of the literature: Laws; Literary grammars and dictionaries; Science (medical); Translated literature' (Item...
Dates:
Late 19th or early 20th century
Item
Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/16
Scope and Contents
This notebook contains a script for a lecture, which was probably delivered on multiple occasions (the front of the notebook notes 15 December 1890 and 22 January 1894, for example). The lecture introduces students to the history, themes, and structures of hymns in Gaelic.
Dates:
1890s
Item
Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/15
Scope and Contents
This contains the script for the opening lecture of the academic year 1894/95. This lecture was delivered by Mackinnon on 30 October 1894, and introduced the students to the medical manuscripts in Box 1 'Mackinnon 1-5' of this collection.
Dates:
1894
File
Identifier: Coll-98/5/19
Scope and Contents
This is a list of persons and institutions to which copies of the catalogue of Scottish Gaelic manuscripts were to be sent from the University of Edinburgh. The list contains some very prestigious persons and institutions, including the Marquis of Bute, the British Museum, the Bodleian Library, and the University of Cambridge.
Dates:
Late 19th or early 20th century
Item
Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/37
Scope and Contents
Probably a script for a lecture on Celtic scholars, some of which are listed in the agents section of this record. There may be other scholars in the document who have not been added to the record.
Dates:
Late 19th or early 20th century
