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Marked 'Mackinnon A10' and noted thus in previous historical records. This appears to be notes in preparation for, or a draft of, a paper on love songs in the Gaelic song tradition.

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Marked 'Mackinnon A12' and noted thus in previous historical records. This notebook is full with notes on what appears to be a discussion of modern Gaelic poetry between 1600 and 1790 (according to the front cover).

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This appears to be a notebook in which Mackinnon has cut printed extracts of Ossianic poetry from other sources, and inserted them into this notebook. There are some handwritten notes alongside some of the printed extracts, which may be in preparation for study or discussion of the Ossianic poetry.

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This appears to be a notebook perhaps used for teaching and researching. It contains a list of words found in manuscripts, along with their modern Scottish Gaelic word, and sometimes a translation or explanation in English.

Scope and Contents Mackinnon appears to have written some notes, perhaps in preparation to publish a textbook that he had possibly expected to title 'Celtic Philology'. This is the first part, which he has titled 'Phonology'. Despite this title, much of the notebook's contents are descriptions, as they were understood at the time, of the classification of Celtic languages as a branch of Indo-European, how they are related to other languages, and a detailed account of the linguistic typology of Celtic...

Scope and Contents Mackinnon appears to have written some notes, perhaps in preparation to publish a textbook that he had possibly expected to title 'Celtic Philology'. This is the second part in the collection, but Mackinnon has labelled it (in error?) as the first part, which he has titled 'Sounds'. The notebook's contents have a lot of information about the latest linguistic theory at this time, as well as attempts to describe defunct Celtic languages, such as Gaulish, as much as extant Celtic languages at...

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Mackinnon appears to have written some notes, perhaps in preparation to publish a textbook that he had possibly expected to title 'Celtic Philology'. This is the second part, which he has titled 'Morphology'. Although part of a series on 'Celtic' linguistics, much of the notebook's contents appear to focus on the morphology of Scottish Gaelic, and includes nominal and verbal morphology.

Scope and Contents Most of the notebook's pages are empty. This notebook contains the published article, 'On the Dialects of Scottish Gaelic', written by Donald Mackinnon for the Highland Society of Inverness (1890-1899?). Each page of the published article has been removed from its original source and pasted onto pages of this notebook. Alongside the inserted pages of the article, there are notes and annotations, presumably by Mackinnon himself. In the rest of the notebook, where there are no inserted pages...

Scope and Contents Marked 'Mackinnon A13' and noted thus in previous historical records. It has also been previously recorded as A39, and it is not clear when it became A13.The title of the notebook, Laoidhean na Gaeltachd, translates to English as 'Hymns of the Gaelic-speaking region' or 'Hymns of the Highlands' or 'Hymns of the Highlands and Islands'. (Gaeltachd, or, in modern Scottish Gaelic, ...

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In the front, an article published by Donald Mackinnon in the 'Celtic Magazine', December 1886, on the topic of 'loanwords in Gaelic' has been removed from its original source and has been glued into this notebook. Towards the back of the notebook, there are word lists that appear to be notes in preparation for a dictionary of loanwords in Gaelic. Many pages in the notebook, however, is empty.