Scope and Contents Poem entitled 'Comhairle A Aoide do Mhac an Toisich' collected from Coinneach Mac Calaman [Kenneth Murchison] Lochcarnan at Uisgebha, Uist [Loch a' Charnain/Loch Carnan, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist and Uisgeabhagh/Uiskevagh, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula]. The poem is a list of advice on how to live a good life given by Mac an Toisich to Aoide, in a manner similar to a list of proverbs. Aoide asks Mac an Toisich if he followed the advice to which the answer is no but that if he had the advice he...

Scope and Contents Poem entitled 'Comhairle Aoide do Mhac-an-Toisich' collected from Coinneach Mac Calman or Murchison [Kenneth MacCalman or Murchison], Lochcarron, on 25 May 1865 at Uisge-bhagh [Loch Ros is Cromba and Uisgebhagh/Uiskevagh, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula]. The poem is a list of advice on how to live a good life given by Mac an Toisich to Aoide, in a manner similar to a list of proverbs. Aoide asks Mac an Toisich if he followed the advice to which the answer is no but that if he had the advice he...

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Proverb or verse beginning 'Saoghal subh sona dhuibh, Sar cudh fallan slan'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

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Proverb which reads 'Bh[e]ireadh e òrrais air mhath ghamhain' [His conduct would make a bear squeamish] and noted as being from An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye.

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Saying from Gairloch [Geàrr Loch, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] which reads 'Fhad an lagh Diabaig, 'S fhada shios Meallabhig'. [Diabaig and Melabhaig/Melvaig]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Contents This part of the manuscript contains the Speculum Peccatorum or Speculum Peccatoris (The Mirror of Sinners or The Mirror of the Sinner), a short religious treatise on confessional and moral topics. The author and the date of composition of this text are unknown, and it has been wrongly attributed to Augustine of Hippo and Bernard of Clairvaux.The...