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A draft paper discussing a Gaelic version of Pharsalia, Late 19th or early 20th century
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Identifier: Coll-98/4/6/8
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Marked 'Mackinnon A5' and noted thus in previous historical records. This appears to be a draft paper, written by Mackinnon himself, discussing a Gaelic version of the Latin epic poem, 'Pharsalia'. Mackinnon refers to a few scholars and their role in previous understandings of Pharslia, but these names are difficult to source in the historical record, e.g. Dr Donald Smith.There appears to be no Gaelic whatsoever in this text, and it is not clear to which version of Pharsalia he...
Dates:
Late 19th or early 20th century
'Abstract of Course [in Celtic] of Lectures. Part I: Language; Part II: Literature', 1886-1895
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Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/4
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A syllabus for students of Celtic, presumably at the University of Edinburgh.
Dates:
1886-1895
Celtic Philology (Notes for a lecture series), 1886-1887
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Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/18
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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
Dr. Smith's Seann Dàna, 1908
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Identifier: Coll-98/1/2/6
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Script or notes for a lecture about Dr. Smith's 'Seann Dàna' ('Old Poems').
Dates:
1908
English version of 'Thebaid', Late 19th or early 20th century
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Identifier: Coll-98/3/1/23
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This is an English translation of the Latin poem 'Thebaid', written by the Latin poet, Statius. There is no title, bt previous historical records indicate that this may have been the text used by Mackinnon, who had the work published in 'Celtic Review'. This is likely to be an English translation of the Gaelic manuscript 72.1.8,ff.1-28, although the poem survives and translations of it survive in other manuscripts.
Dates:
Late 19th or early 20th century
Gaelic literature AD 1000 - 1560 (Notes for a lecture series), Late 19th or early 20th century
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Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/21
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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
Gaelic literature (Notes for a lecture series), Late 19th or early 20th century
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Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/20
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A bundle of 6 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:'Old period: Ecclesiastical Latin' (Item B43a)'Old period: Secular Latin' (Item B43b)'Old period: Gaelic and glosses' (Item B43c)'Old period: Prose and verse' (Item...
Dates:
Late 19th or early 20th century
Gaelic literature (Notes for series of lectures), 1892-1893
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Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/22
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A bundle of 7 notebooks, containing notes or scripts for lectures on a lecture series, which took place in the academic year 1892-93. The following notebooks survive:'(I) Three periods of Gaelic literature; (II) Did the heathen Gael write books?; and (III) The extant literature of ecclesiastical Latin' (Item B46a)A draft of 'Did the heathen Gael write books?' (Item B46b)'Literature of the 1st period: Latin commentators and controversialists' (Item...
Dates:
1892-1893
Gaelic medical manuscripts (Notes for a lecture), Late 18th or early 19th century
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Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/23
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A single notebook containing notes or a script for a lecture held on Gaelic medical manuscripts. There is no indication of when the lecture was conducted.
Dates:
Late 18th or early 19th century
Gaelic medical manuscripts (Notes for a lecture), Late 19th or early 20th century
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Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/24
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A single notebook containing notes or a script for a lecture held on Gaelic medical manuscripts. There is no indication of when the lecture was conducted.
Dates:
Late 19th or early 20th century