Scope and Contents Marked 'Mackinnon A14' and noted thus in previous historical records. The title of the booklet, Beatha an America mu Thuath, or, as it would be written in modern Scottish Gaelic, Beatha ann an Aimeireaga a Tuath translates to English as 'Life in North America'. The title is descriptive as this appears to be a booklet about why and how Scots would move to North America, with specific mention of Canada and New England. This does...

Scope and Contents A bundle of 17 notebooks, containing notes or scripts for lectures on a lecture series, which seems to have taken place between 1883 and 1884. The following notebooks survive:'Celtic: A member of the Aryan family' (Item 40a)'The Celt in Europe' (Item 40b)'Manners and customs: The military system of the ancient Celts' (Item 40c)'Manners and customs: The religion of the Celts' (Item 40d)'Manners and customs: Agriculture, food, drink,...

Scope and Contents A bundle of 10 notebooks, containing notes or scripts for lectures on a lecture series, which seems to have taken place between 1884 and 1885. The following notebooks survive:'The Celts before Caesar'; and '(II) The Celts at the time of Caesar' (Item B37a)'Classification of languages as isolating, agglutinative, and amalgamating'; and '(II) Linguistics studies of the Ancients and the Middle Ages' (Item B37b)'Sanskrit'; and 'Celtic [as an] Indo-European...

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This is a list of notes in chronological order, providing a history of the Gaelic Psalter, starting in 1659, and ending in 1836.

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An essay on Colkitto. This may be in preparation for publication, and appears to be Mackinnon's own handwriting.

Scope and Contents This is a bundle of notebooks (or jotters) in which Mackinnon made notes for his volume on the History of Argyll and the Isles. Each notebook represents a section of his volume; the title of each section being on the front cover of its notebook. Some sections may have been earlier drafts, or were re-written, so more than one notebook may have the same section number,or no section number at all. The sections are listed below:I. Early inhabitantsII. (1) Pre-Dalriadic;...

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A sermon in English based on Acts XX.35. No date or author.

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There are four sets of lists contained on ff. 338r-342v. Ff. 338r-v is 'de romanis pontificis' ('Roman popes'); ff. 339r-v is 'de romanorum Imperatoribus' ('Roman generals'); ff. 339v-341v records 'Sedes episcopales' ('Episcopal seats'); ff. 341v-342r contains a 'Tabula monasteriorum Scocie' ('Table of monasteries in Scotland'), and f. 342v covers 'Vicecomitatus Scocie' (Sheriffdomes in Scotland').

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A script for a lecture, presumably for students of Celtic at the University of Edinburgh in 1911. The subject of the lecture seems to be about sending children to other families or clans for education and training in certain areas of Highland culture and life.

Scope and Contents A bundle of 7 notebooks, containing notes or scripts for lectures on a lecture series, which took place in the academic year 1892-93. The following notebooks survive:'(I) Three periods of Gaelic literature; (II) Did the heathen Gael write books?; and (III) The extant literature of ecclesiastical Latin' (Item B46a)A draft of 'Did the heathen Gael write books?' (Item B46b)'Literature of the 1st period: Latin commentators and controversialists' (Item...