Celtic Philology: History of the Celts and Celtic (Notes for a lecture series), 1884-1885

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 language' (Item B37c)

'Celtic as Indo-European [according to] Prichard, Bopp, Zeuss, and Ebel'; and 'Celtic as Indo-European [according to] Ebel and scholars since Ebel' (Item 37d)

'Position of Celtic [according to] Schleicher and Ebel' (Item 37e)

'The Celtic languages' [Containing comparative typology and historical linguistics of the Celtic languages] (Item 37f)

'Points of difference between the Celtic languages' (Item 37g)

'The language of Old Gaul' [Evidence for language spoken in Gaul up until and including the time of Caesar] (Item 37h)

'The Ogham alphabet' (Item 37i)

'Abstracts of lectures on the Celtic languages 1884-5' (This notebook is almost completely empty, bar a few pages in the front section, which contains a syllabus for the students, who studied Celtic at the University of Edinburgh in the academic year 1884/85)