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Found in 49 Collections and/or Records:

'Elements of Gaelic Grammar' by Stewart. Bound printed book, 1812

 Item
Identifier: Coll-98/4/5/7
Scope and Contents

This is a copy of the published printed Gaelic grammar 'Elements of Gaelic grammar', written by Alexander Stewart, published in Edinburgh in 1812. The book is interspersed with notes by Donald Mackinnon himself.

Dates: 1812
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon / Material collected for research / Linguistics

Etymological Notes, 1890-1891

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW24
Scope and Contents

2 notebooks containing Etymological and Philological Notes by Alexander MacBain. Also included in notebook headed, 'Philological Notes', are a number of newspaper cuttings containing a report of the Hibbert Lectures, delivered by Professor Sir John Rhys (1840-1915) on 'The Origin and Growth of Religion as illustrated by Celtic Heathendom'.

Dates: 1890-1891
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Etymologies concerning names around Brechin, c 1865

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW442
Scope and Contents

List of etymologies concerning names around Brechin, sent to David Dakers Black by Alexander Carmichael.

Dates: c 1865
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Gaelic grammar (Notes for a lecture series), 1895-1900

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Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/19
Scope and Contents A bundle of 6 notebooks, containing notes or scripts for lectures on a lecture series, which seems to have taken place in the academic years 1895-96 and 1899-00. The following notebooks survive:'Grammar, phonology, and vowels' (Item B.42a)'Consonants and phonetic processes' (Item B.42b)'Phonetic processes' (Item B.42c)'Eclipsis, accents, inflection, and mumber' (Item B.42d)'The [definite] article in the Celtic [languages]' (Item...
Dates: 1895-1900
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon / Lecture notes / University lectures

Grammar of the Foolah language by Robert Maxwell MacBrair

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-785
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript of MacBrair's 'sketch' of the grammar of the Foolah (or Foulah) language spoken by the pastoral Foulahs (or Fulani), the Teucorlars (or Tukulors) and the Laubies of the interior of Western Africa, bound together.

Dates: 1836-1843
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Grammars and dictionaries, 1891

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Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/28
Scope and Contents

A script for a lecture, delivered by Mackinnon on 19 January 1891. In the front of the notebook, before the script for the lecture begins, there is a list of grammars, dictionaries, and school books (in chronological order).

Dates: 1891
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon / Lecture notes / University lectures

Lecture Notes, April 1936

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW411
Scope and Contents

Notes by William J. Watson on early Celtic and Stress and its effects in Scots Gaelic.

Dates: April 1936
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Linguistic notebook by Rev. John Smith, 1810

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Identifier: Coll-98/4/2/2
Scope and Contents A paper manuscript of approximately 70 pages, covered in pasteboard with leather back. The volume is written upon from both ends. Some leaves are cut out at the beginning, and there are blank pages and spaces found throughout the document. On the inner front cover, it is written "John Smith, 6th February 1810, έπεα πτερόεντα". Then follows a fragment of a Gaelic etymological dictionary, beginning with "maireach" "morrow" (grave accent missing in original text),...
Dates: 1810
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon / Material collected for research / Notebooks by John Smith

Manuscript of "Historical Syntax of Classical Greek" by Prof. A. Berriedale Keith

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-2250
Scope and Contents Manuscript in 13 volumes entitled "Historical Syntax of Classical Greek" by Prof. Arthur Berriedale Keith, c 1914-1944. Dk.1.5: "Historical Syntax of Classical Greek by Prof. A. Berriedale Keith. Contents." Dk.1.6: "Historical Syntax of Classical Greek by Prof. A. Berriedale Keith. Sections 1-179." Dk.1.7: "Historical Syntax of Classical Greek by Prof. A. Berriedale Keith. Sections 180-258." Dk.1.8: "Historical...
Dates: c 1914-1944
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW13
Scope and Contents

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