Copies, circa 1680, of (i) ‘Description of the Western Isles of Scotland’ by Sir Donald Monro, `High Dean of the Isles`, originally written in 1549 (page 1); (ii) `The Description of the Iles of Scotland` by an unknown author written probably around 1577-1582 (page 22).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.6
Dates
- Creation: 1549, 1577-1582.
Extent
0.00 Linear metres (31 pages. Folio.)
Language of Materials
English
Custodial History
The manuscript was bought at the sale of Robert Sibbald’s library, February 1723.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Presented, 1925, by the Faculty of Advocates to the nation on the foundation of the National Library of Scotland.
Bibliography
This particular copy of ‘Description of the Western Isles of Scotland’ was published in 1961, edited by R W Munro.
The copy at Adv.MS.35.3.12(iii) was published in ‘Macfarlane`s Geographical Collections’, volume iii (1908).
‘Description of the Iles of Scotland` was published in ‘Celtic Scotland’ by William Forbes Skene (1880), volume iii, pages 428-440.
The copy at Adv.MS.35.3.12(iii) was published in ‘Macfarlane`s Geographical Collections’, volume iii (1908).
‘Description of the Iles of Scotland` was published in ‘Celtic Scotland’ by William Forbes Skene (1880), volume iii, pages 428-440.
Genre / Form
- Title
- National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
- Author
- National Library of Scotland
- Date
- 10 07 2015
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Prepared Using Local Descriptive Rules
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division Repository
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Archives and Manuscript Division
National Library of Scotland
George IV Bridge
Edinburgh EH1 1EJ
0131 623 3700
manuscripts@nls.uk