Jesus Christ

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Charm entitled 'Sgucha feithe' [Charm for Bursting Vein] collected from John Fraser, Balgay, Shieldeag, [Balgaidh/Balgy, Sìdeag/Shieldaig, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] crofter, age 69 beginning 'Chai[dh] C[riosda] air muin eich'. Carmichael describes John Fraser as a 'big man tall and handsome with a fine honest face - must have been powerful man in his day'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Contents Contains two texts, written by two different hands.ff. 1r-22v: Meditaciones Vite Christi [incomplete] by Pseudo-Bonaventureff. 23r-32v: Gospel of Nicodemus [incomplete]The texts are described separately, under MS 92/ff. 1r-22v; and MS 92/ff. 23r-32v. Writing Written by two different hands, both rather cramped. The rubrics are...

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A collection of newspaper and magazine cuttings covering issues relating to the LGBTQ+ community.

Articles cover local, national and international news, however Scottish publications have the strongest representation with Edinburgh and Glasgow based publications being a specific strength within this sub-series.

Scope and Contents Fragment of a story about Calum Cille [St Columba] probably collected from Roderick MacNeil, aged 88, crofter, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay which describes him as 'na dhuin[e] cruai[dh]' [a hard man]. A crowd of people were watering Calum Cille's crops when one man asked the housekeeper, who was baking, for some food. She refused him and then he asked for a piece of dough 'as ne Dia' [in the name of God?] and she said she could not refuse him. The man put the dough on the fire and it turned into...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

A collection of newspaper and magazine cuttings covering issues relating to the LGBTQ+ community.

Articles cover local, national and international news, however Scottish publications have the strongest representation with Edinburgh and Glasgow based publications being a specific strength within this sub-series.

Contents This manuscript is an anonymous prose translation of an early 14th century devotional text, Meditationes Vitae Christi. This work was traditionally attributed to St Bonaventure, but it has since been shown to have been composed by a Franciscan friar in Tuscany in the 14th century. The original text, from which the 15th century English translation derives, was a very popular Franciscan devotional text. Hundreds of manuscript copies exist of the Latin original,...

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Note entitled 'The blessed bramble' noting the tradition that Christ used a bramble branch to hit the donkey he rode and querying its veracity.

Scope and Contents Poem entitled 'Fhir a Chruthaich Fhir a Chri' collected from Mairi Nicrath [Mary MacRae], Caolas Stiatair N h-Earradh [Caolas Stiadar/Sound of Stiadar, Na Hearadh/Harris] on 4 April 1876 beginning 'Fhir a chruthaich fhir (air?) fhir a chri, Chruthaich a chre air an t-sluagh'. Before the poem is a detailed description of Mary MacRae, including her appearance, her age and a little about her Kintail background. The text of the poem has been scored through in pencil and additions have been made...

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Prayer beginning 'Bride mhin chai eir a glun, Mise teac[hd]a[i]r[e] Mhic De' [Criosda Clèireach Os Ar Cionn or Christ the Priest Above Us]. The vocabulary notes reads 'Stucanach = Rag dur. Stacanach = Diongmhalt strong.' Text has been scored through in pencil as if transcribed elsewhere.

Contents This section of the manuscript contains a religious text on the body and blood of Jesus Christ.It starts on f. 26v and is titled Questio de aperta negligentia corporis et sanguinis Dominus Noster Jesus Christus. The text itself starts with the words Queritur si aperta negligentia and it ends on f. 30r with minor injungatur. Writing...