Ogham alphabet
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Celtic Philology (Notes for a lecture series), 1886-1887
Item
Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/18
Scope and Contents
A bundle of 11 notebooks, containing notes or scripts for lectures on a lecture series, which seems to have taken place between 1886 and 1887. The following notebooks survive:'Origins and position of the Celtic languages in the Indo-European group' (Item B.41a)'Early literature: Adamnan, etc.' (Item B.41b)'Letters and their sounds: Ogham' (Item B.41c)'Vowels and laws of sound change' (Item B.41d)'Grimm's Law' (Item B.41e)'Phonetic processes. Part I' (Item...
Dates:
1886-1887
Note about Uilleam Swain who wrote ogham, October 1892
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/50
Scope and Contents
Note about Uilleam Swain [William Swain], Taigh Beallach Ruai, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire, who wrote ogham which his wife was able to understand.
Dates:
October 1892
'Old Gaelic Literature', 1914
Item
Identifier: Coll-98/1/2/16
Scope and Contents
Script or notes for a lecture on the subject of old Gaelic literature, including some descriptions of Ogham. This appears to have been a lecture address to students of Celtic at the University of Edinburgh.
Dates:
1914