Manuscripts, Gaelic
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Manuscripts entirely or partially in Gaelic.
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
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, Late 16th century
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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
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: "(q)u(i)nque sunt...
Dates:
15th century
Notes on manuscripts, Late 19th or early 20th century
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Identifier: Coll-98/3/1/17
Scope and Contents
Notes on manuscripts by Mackinnon for undetermined purpose. The notes appear to have been divided into two sections: (I) Historical, genealogical, MacVuirish; and (II) Metaphysical, [indecipherable], medical, [indecipherable]. Some pages have excerpts and cuttings from newspapers attached.
Dates:
Late 19th or early 20th century
Printer's copy of the English translation of the 'Glenmasan Manuscript', Late 19th or early 20th century
Item
Identifier: Coll-98/3/1/20
Scope and Contents
Titled 'Englsh translation', this is the printer's copy of a translation of the Glenmasan Manuscript.
Dates:
Late 19th or early 20th century
'Scroll catalogue of the Gaelic manuscripts in the Advocates' Library', Late 19th or early 20th century
Item
Identifier: Coll-98/5/2
Scope and Contents
A handwritten list by Mackinnon himself of the Gaelic manuscripts in the Advocates' Library, along with notes, mostly on the contents of each manuscript listed.
Dates:
Late 19th or early 20th century