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Scotland -- History

 Subject

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

Found in 42 Collections and/or Records:

Papers of William Saunders, 1900s-1940s

 Series
Identifier: Coll-1022/JC/WS
Scope and Contents The papers consist of: Correspondence; Lecture notes (from Saunders' time as an Edinburgh University Student); Notebooks covering a variety of musical, literary, and historical subjects; Typescripts of two dramas by Gordon Roberts (submitted to Saunders for review); Typescripts of 8 articles on musical subjects by Janet, Baroness...
Dates: 1900s-1940s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Corson Collection / Papers of James Clarkson Corson
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Scotichronicon, by Walter Bower, 1510

 Part
Identifier: MS 186/ ff. 1r-332v; 333v-336r
Contents The bulk of MS 186 contains the 'Scotichronicon', by Walter Bower. Bower was a 15th-century abbot of the abbey of Inchcolm, on the island of Inchcolm in the Firth of Forth. He compiled an extensive history of Scotland, called the 'Scotichronicon'. In this narrative, Bower added some elements of his own and extended the account chronologically, but he declared in the text that his aim was to build upon the earlier work of Scottish history by John of Fordun, the 'Chronica Gentis Scotorum',...
Dates: 1510
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Composite manuscript containing the Scotichronicon and various genealogical texts

"Scottish arts and affairs. A weekly Causerie", c 1927-1929

 Item
Identifier: Coll-2124/4/7
Scope and Contents

"Scottish arts and affairs. A weekly Causerie", by "Mountboy" [Hugh MacDiarmid], manuscript, 9pp, c. 1927-1929, being lines on: Scotland and the Bank of England; The Port Edgar Scandal; Land Settlement in Scotland; and, Scottish Memoirs 1550-1746.

Dates: c 1927-1929
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Literary Papers of Hugh MacDiarmid collected by Kulgin D. Duval / Journalism

Sermons in English, 19th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-98/4/4/6
Scope and Contents

Sermons written in English. Anonymous author.

Dates: 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon / Material collected for research / Material related to James Mitchell

'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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon / Lecture notes / Public lectures

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon / Material collected for research / Sermons and religious material

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon / Material related to manuscript catalogues

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon / Lecture notes / Public lectures

The Lords of the Isles, 1899

 Item
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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon / Lecture notes / University lectures

The MacConachers of Lorn, 1909

 Item
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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon / Lecture notes / Public lectures