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Scotland -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = AMS

Found in 38 Collections and/or Records:

'St Oran's Ceilidh: The need for a history of the Highland people', 1910

 Item
Identifier: Coll-98/1/2/11
Scope and Contents

The script or notes for a lecture, possibly a public lecture held at St Oran's Chapel on the Isle of Iona.

Dates: 1910

Stewart manuscripts, 18th or 19th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-98/4/3/4
Scope and Contents

These are a collection of sermons and religious writings. It is currently not certain which Stewart after which the manuscripts are named.

Dates: 18th or 19th century

Story of a Gaelic manuscript (Story of the MacLauchlan Manuscript), late 19th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-98/5/8
Scope and Contents

Handwriting notes that give an account of how MacLauchlan and Skene lost a manuscript, and retrieved after they had lost it. The manuscript which they lost was: MS.NLS.72.i.38, which is often referred to as the 'Kilbride Manuscript No.24'.

Dates: late 19th century

The Claim of Celtic Studies upon the Lowland Scot, 1913

 Item
Identifier: Coll-98/1/2/14
Scope and Contents

A script or notes for a lecture, apparently to be address to graduates in Celtic at the University of Edinburgh, on 4 July 1913. The subject appears to be on the Highland-Lowland divide, and why Lowlanders should care about Celtic.

Dates: 1913

The Lords of the Isles, 1899

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Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/31
Scope and Contents

A script for two lectures delivered by Mackinnon on 17 October 1899 and 31 October 1899.

Dates: 1899

The MacConachers of Lorn, 1909

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Identifier: Coll-98/1/2/9
Scope and Contents

A script for what appears to be a public lecture, held at the Gaelic Society of Glasgow on 30 November 1909. Lorne is spelled as 'Lorn'.

Dates: 1909

The Royall Cedar, by Frederic van Bossen

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1474
Scope and Contents

Unbound copy of a manuscript, Edinburgh 1688, with original stitching. Commences with an elaborate title page with allegorical figures, with shield and decorated borders. There follows a list of authorities used in the writing of the work and a dedication. Van Bossen states that he has made use of an ancient manuscript by John Tulloch, Bishop of Orkney. The work forms a substantial history of Scottish nobility and follows the structure of that laid out in other copies.

Dates: 1687-1689

Transcript for 'History of Argyll and the Isles'. By Donald Mackinnon, and accompanying letters from William Blackwood, Late 19th or early 20th century

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Identifier: Coll-98/3/3/9
Scope and Contents This is a handwritten original transcript, a copy of which appears to have been sent to Blackwell Publishers in Edinburgh so as to print a volume on the history of Argyllshire "and the Isles". Further investigation of the transcript contents may be required to ascertain whether the "Isles" refer to the islands that traditionally form part of the Argyllshire region (cf. Argyll and Bute, as currently named), which would include Mull, Islay, and Jura, or whether it refers to the entire...
Dates: Late 19th or early 20th century