Manuscripts, Gaelic
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Manuscripts entirely or partially in Gaelic.
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
Book of Lismore (facsimile)
Fonds — Volume Dk.1.31
Identifier: Coll-1876
Scope and Contents
Handcrafted facsimile of the 15th century Irish manuscript Leabhar Leasa Mhoir.
Dates:
c1866
Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-98
Scope and Contents
The collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon includes lecture notes on the Gaelic language and culture, copies of Gaelic songs and poetry, religious texts such as hymns and sermons, fragments of medieval manuscripts, newspaper clippings, and photographs. As the first Chair in Celtic at the University of Edinburgh, Professor Mackinnon was very diligent in his work to document and share Gaelic language, literature, and history. The collection not only includes primary and secondary sources, it...
Dates:
15th-19th century
Gaelic Bible (Old Testament), translated by Rev. John Stewart of Luss
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1882
Scope and Contents
Books of the Old Testament translated into Scottish Gaelic, spanning 16 numbered bundles. Text is mostly in manuscript, with a few printed inserts bearing editorial amendments.Authorship is unclear from the content, but the enclosure of bundle 14 part 2 bears the note:
"Rev J. Stuart of Luss
Was Chairman of Church of Scotland Commission
For translation of the Bible"
The enclosure of bundle 15 bears the note:
"This cover is...
Dates:
Late 18th century - early 19th century
Gaelic literature (Notes for series of lectures), 1892-1893
Item
Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/22
Scope and Contents
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
Item
Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/23
Scope and Contents
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
Item
Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/24
Scope and Contents
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
Materia medica. Medical manuscript, Late 15th or early 16th century
Item
Identifier: Coll-98/4/1/3
Scope and Contents
A parchment manuscript, quarto size, consisting of thirteen leaves, without cover. The manuscript appears to have been written in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century. The hand is very good and regular. There is no ornamentation of the script, except that upper case characters are accentuated with red on all but the last four leaves. The writing is in two columns, and largely contracted.The text is an imperfect copty of the Tract on Materia Medica. There is nothing to...
Dates:
Late 15th or early 16th century
McBeath Gaelic Medical Manuscript, 16th century
Item
Identifier: La.III.21
Scope and Contents
Dating from the 16th-century, it is a medical manuscript, in Gaelic and Latin. It was owned by the family of McBeath (also known as Bethunes or Beatons) who were for many generations physicians of repute in the West Highlands, particularly in Mull and Islay. On pages 189-190 there is a carefully prepared family tree. In the Gaelic world basic medical texts were available in the vernacular, whereas Latin remained the language of medical learning in the rest of Scotland. This manuscript shows...
Dates:
16th century
Medical fragment in Gaelic, 15th century
Item
Identifier: Coll-98/4/1/1
Scope and Contents
Eight leaves of parchment, small folio, stitched together with stout linen thread. The writing on the first six leaves is in two columns, in a plain, clear hand of the fifteenth century."J. J." (?Jacobus Jack) is written in quite a modern hand on the foot of margin of fol.3aa, otherwise there is nothing to indicate author, date, or scribe. The text is continuous, and the subject is given in Latin, written in small capitals:...
Dates:
15th century
Medical fragment in Gaelic, Late 16th century
Item
Identifier: Coll-98/4/1/2
Scope and Contents
A fragment consisting of three leaves of parchment, one of which is detached. On the foot margin of the first leave 'John Smith' is written. Across the page of the last leaf is writtein in large, firm, modern hand, 'Enter not into quarrelsom company,' and, apparently, in the same hand, down in the middle space of the detached leaf, 'Jacobus Jack Aught this Book.'The text is written in two columns, in a plain, legible hand, and probably dating from the late sixteenth century. The...
Dates:
Late 16th century