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Scottish Gaelic language

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = EUA

Found in 132 Collections and/or Records:

List of Goidelic language dictionaries, titled 'G: Dict:', Late 19th or early 20th century

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Identifier: Coll-98/5/10
Scope and Contents One side of a page with a list of Goidelic idctionaries. The list is divided into three sections: Irish (labelled 'I. G.'), Scottish Gaelic (labelled 'S. G.'), and Manx. Dictionaries are listed in each section in chronological order of publication.For the list of Irish dictionaries, the earliest listed is O' Clery from 1643, and the latest is O' Reilly in 1817.The earliest listed Scottish Gaelic dictionary is AMD in 1741, and the latest is EMD in...
Dates: Late 19th or early 20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon / Material related to manuscript catalogues

Miscellaneous Notes by Rev Charles Robertson, late 19th-early 20th century

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW13
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Notebook containing miscellaneous notes by the Reverend Charles Robertson. Contents include a list of Gaelic loan-words, notes on aspiration, eclipsis and phonetics, sources of information concerning old Gaelic beliefs and lists of grammatical stems.

Dates: late 19th-early 20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Miscellaneous papers and letters, 18th century

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Identifier: Coll-98/4/8/1
Scope and Contents A collection of miscellaneous papers and letters, most of which are handwritten, but there is printed text. Much of the content is in English, with some in Scottish Gaelic. There is no particular theme, which requires the documents to be kept together, although this is how they were historically held.One of the letters is signed from P. Stuart, dated 26 April 1782. P. Stuart appears to be writing to his brother, Rev. John Stuart. The letter is requesting that Rev. John Stuart...
Dates: 18th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon / Material collected for research / Miscellaneous papers and correspondence

Miscellaneous Papers by Alexander MacBain, c.1880

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW29
Scope and Contents Series of loose leaf papers by Alexander MacBain, mostly connected with his student days at Aberdeen University. Contents include: an essay entitled, 'Study and Books', a Presidential Address by Alexander MacBain to the Celtic Society, 7 November 1879, debates on Universal Suffrage and Irish Land Agitation, an essay entitled, 'Separate Legislation for the Highlands', a Gaelic debate on the theme, 'Co aca bu choir an t-Seann Nollaig agus Callain', a number of poems, an essay on Relativity and...
Dates: c.1880
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Miscellaneous printed items, 18th and 19th centuries

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Identifier: Coll-98/4/4/7
Scope and Contents There are miscellaneous printed booklets, some unbound, and some pages may have been separated from their original booklet. There appear to be five distinct booklets:1. A translation to Gaelic of Joseph Alleine's religious work 'An alarm to the Unconverted', originally published in 1672. This translation is titled 'Earail dhurachdach do pheacaidh neo-iopmaichte', translated by I. Smith, and published in 1839.2. A translation to Gaelic...
Dates: 18th and 19th centuries
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon / Material collected for research / Material related to James Mitchell

Na leig linn am feasd gluasachd, 18th century

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Identifier: Coll-98/4/3/8
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There is no author, date, or title. It has been noted in previous historical records by the first line of the text: Na leig linn am feasd gluasachd, which translates as 'Do not leave us to the feast of movement'. It appears to be religious in tone; perhaps a prayer.

Dates: 18th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon / Material collected for research / Sermons and religious material

No title. Collection of manuscripts., 18th or 19th century

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Identifier: Coll-98/4/6/11
Scope and Contents A collection of manuscripts in Gaelic that appears to contain stories and songs. The author of the manuscripts is unknown. The following 26 stories are songs are recorded as being component in this collection:1. Asthairngeadh o dhanaibh Ossein2. Riomhach le mhor sluadh e3. Laoidh an deirg4. Sgeula beag thugam air Feann5. Laoidh an deirg6. 'N tra choimhid an dithis sin7. Cia b' e chithead iad an...
Dates: 18th or 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon / Material collected for research / Poetry, folklore, and songs

Note entitled 'Gaelic', 1885

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/276
Scope and Contents

Note entitled 'Gaelic' dealing with the education of children in Gaelic, stating that in Barra [Barraigh] it has been said that there are some parents who 'do not want school'.

Dates: 1885
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Notebook, late 19th-early 20th century

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW19
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Notebook belonging to Alexander MacBain of Inverness. It contains newspaper cutting of articles, written by Alexander MacBain, entitled 'The Gaelic Language: A Historical Sketch', 'Celtic and Old Gaelic Literature' and 'Old Gaelic Saga and Ballad Literature'.

Dates: late 19th-early 20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Notebook containing Gaelic ballads, 18th or 19th century

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Identifier: Coll-98/4/6/2
Scope and Contents

Gaelic ballads

Dates: 18th or 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon / Material collected for research / Poetry, folklore, and songs

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