Notebook of Angus MacIntosh containing notes on old English grammar, Second half of the 20th century
Scope and Contents
Notebook of the linguist Angus McIntosh containing notes on old English grammar.
Dates
- Creation: Second half of the 20th century
Creator
- McIntosh, Angus, 1914-2005 (Professor of English Language and General Linguistics, University of Edinburgh) (Author, Person)
Language of Materials
English, Old English.
Conditions Governing Access
Open. Please contact the repository in advance.
Biographical / Historical
Angus McIntosh (1914-2005) was the first Forbes Professor of English Language and General Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, a position that he occupied from 1948 to his retirement in 1979. His research interests included philology and historical linguistics relating to both Middle English and Scots.
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Extent
1 notebook
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This notebook was bought in bookshop in Edinburgh (Westport Books) by Richard Ovenden, who then donated the notebook to Special Collections a few years later.
Accession no. SC-Acc-2021-0019.
Processing Information
Catalogued by Aline Brodin in March 2022.
Repository Details
Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository
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