Elegiac poetry

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Fragment containing portions of eighteen lines from an elegiac poem. There is a reference to a well-known passage of the Iliad in one of the couplets.

The script is a clear upright uncial, which may be assigned to the second century. There is a very deep margin (7.8 cm) at the top of the column, perhaps intended for scholia.

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Personal note relating to the cladhs [graveyards] on Tarasaigh/Taransay noting how they made him think of 'Gray's elegy' and how 'I could wish to send the cut skull to the mu[seum] but am unwill[in]g to remove it. not right I think.'

Scope and Contents Composite volume, mainly containing poems written by Rev. William MacRitchie in 1775.Item 1: Selection of items pasted into the front end board and flyleaf. Includes a short printed poem titled ‘Song; June, tho’ prudence may press me’, and sketches of Castle Stewart and a mountain at the head of Glencoe. 'Song; June...' appears later in the volume in manuscript at p.81.Item 2: Section titled ‘Poems chiefly in the year 1775, written on 164 numbered quarto pages. An...

Scope and Contents This is a manuscript volume entitled "Marbhrann Dhonnchaidh duibh", containing an elegiac poem commemorating the death of "Black Duncan of the Cowl", 1st Baronet of Glenorchy, in June 1631. Dated 1810-1820, copy of an anynomous mid-17th-century manuscript.Pencil inscription on the fourth folio: "Facsimile of a Gaelic Eulogy on Breadlabane 1631. This is given in Vol. 3 of National MSS of Scotland, with a Translation. Chiefly curious as speaking of the fame of the subject of the...