Manuscripts.
Subject
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Scope Note: Refers to handwritten documents, and may also be used to distinguish certain documents from published or otherwise printed documents, as in the cases of typed personal letters or a typescript from which printed versions are made.
Found in 6567 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscript containing a register of documents relating to the Dominican Priory of Elgin and the Maison Dieu, copied from the chartulary of the see of Moray and certified mostly by David Douglas, notary public, in 1548.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.7.2
Scope and Contents
A register of documents pertaining to the Dominican Priory of Elgin and the Maison Dieu, copied from the Chartulary of the see of Moray and certified mostly by David Douglas, notary public, in 1548. An introduction by John Leslie (1527-1596), later bishop of Ross, on f. 1v states the purpose and attests the transcription. This is written in a different hand from that of David Douglas, whose transumpts or transcriptions begin on folio 2r. His hand continues to folio 71r, where...
Dates:
1548.
Manuscript containing classical Gaelic verse and tales, written by Eoghan Mac Gilleoin.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.36
Scope and Contents
The scribe of the manuscript is Eoghan Mac Gilleoin (Hugh MacLean), in 1699 schoolmaster at Kilchenzie, Kintyre.
The manuscript consisted originally of three parts. Part I was being written by 29th November 1690 (see folio 104 recto) and was still incomplete on 9th December (folio 110 verso). It was paginated by MacGilleoin at top centre of each page, save for the endpapers. Two watermarks are found, one sheet bearing the letters A D, the rest having a ‘grape’ design with the...
Dates:
1690-1691.
Manuscript containing copies of Bernard de Gordon’s ‘Lilium medicinae’ and other texts.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.2.11
Scope and Contents
The main text, the ‘Lilium medicinae’, was written about October 1621 (folio 102 verso) at Duart (34 verso, 39 recto) for ‘Eoin’ (39 verso), presumably by John Beaton of the Pennycross family (1594-1657), father of the Reverend John. Also in this manuscript is the only extant piece of sustained medical writing in the Reverend John’s hand.The manuscript is written in five different hands:1. Chief text-hand. Appears to identify itself so ‘Ed: Bar’ (folio 2 recto),...
Dates:
1621.
Manuscript containing death tales and other tales, with some religious texts.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.40
Scope and Contents
Pages 1-12, 29-48, and 49-68 of the manuscript can all be associated through their marginalia with the Antrim MacDonalds or the Clanranald or both. Perhaps pages 1-12 were brought to Scotland on the occasion of the return from Ireland of Domhnall mac Iain Mhùideartaich and Iain, son of Brian MacMhuirich, circa 1650 (‘Reliquiae Celticae’, volume 2, page 206). As for pages 13-28, Martin Martin states (1703): ‘The life of Columbus, written in the Irish character, is in the custody of John...
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Manuscript containing directions for various dances.
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Identifier: MS.3860
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: directions for dancing quadrilles, waltzes, reels, and country dances: 'Contre-danses à Paris, 1818' (folio 1); 'Country Dances' (folio 49); 'A selection of reel steps or steps for setting, 1818'. The paper is watermarked 1820 and later. Additions dated 1849 occur on folios 10, 36-37. 'Note, 1818' (folio 12) gives an account of the introduction of the French waltz and quadrille into England after the Napoleonic War and of an incident which led to the disrepute of...
Dates:
1818-1849.
Manuscript containing genealogies in Gaelic.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.6
Scope and Contents
First layer (folios 1-6).The first layer contains Uí Néill pedigrees, versions corresponding to many of which may be found in the Book of Ballymote, folios 69-86. See also O’Brien, ‘Corpus genealogiarum Hiberniae’, pages 160-180. The first layer of the manuscript is written in the following hands:1. Text. Chief hand of Adv.MS.72.1.28. Capitals here coloured red.2. Folios 1 verso (‘bro’), 4 verso (‘a’). Large. Cf. Adv.MS.72.1.10, folio 6...
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Manuscript containing German text apparently dedicated to William of Orange (possibly a poem on Namur)., ?18th century.
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Identifier: Acc.3591/9
Dates:
?18th century.
Manuscript containing historical miscellany in Gaelic, written by Niall MacMhuirich.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.50
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was written by Niall MacMhuirich circa 1658 (folio 6 verso). A portion (National Museum of Scotland MCR, volume 39, pages 11-16) of Niall MacMhuirich’s Clanranald history, for which Adv.MS.72.1.50 is probably a source-book, was laid up with the manuscript until 1896, when it was gifted by the Advocates’ Library to Clanranald. A copy of the material, made by Donald MacPherson in 1874 (National Library of Scotland Acc.2543, folio 21), was added to the present manuscript as...
Dates:
[Circa 1658.]
Manuscript containing: (i) copies of correspondence, with related papers, between the `Catholic Remainder of the British Church` (the non-juring Bishops) and the Orthodox Church, concerning a scheme for union between these bodies, 1716-1725; (ii) copies of letters of Thomas Brett to Archibald Campbell, Bishop of Aberdeen, 1722-1725.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.17
Scope and Contents
(i) The negotiations between the non-juring Bishops and the Orthodox Church were initiated during the stay in London of Archbishop Arsenius of Thebais, and conducted largely through the Russian Court; they end on the death of Peter the Great. See ‘A History of the Non-Jurors’, pages 309-361, and ‘The Orthodox Church of the East in the Eighteenth Century’.The original letters and papers from the Orthodox side in these negotiations (with English or Latin translations when these are...
Dates:
1716-1725.
Manuscript containing Irish bardic verse.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.49
Scope and Contents
The scribe of the manuscript is the same as that of Adv.MS.72.1.38, pages 29-30, 193; Adv.MS.72.1.42, folio 26; Adv.MS.72.1.43; Adv.MS.72.2.1; and Adv.MS.72.2.2, folio 46. The dating of Adv.MS.72.1.38 and Adv.MS.72.1.43 suggest a floruit for him of 1618-1647.The contents (text) are as follows.(i) Continuation from Adv.MS.72.2.2, folio 46 recto, of “Ionmhuin tech re ttugas cúl”, here beginning “Iosdadh níamhghl[an] Cairrgi an Chróigh” (‘Leabhar branach’, line 4370). 11...
Dates:
1618-1647.
Manuscript containing Irish grammar written by Aodh Ó Dálaigh (Hugo Daly) for Paris Anderson, a student of Trinity College, Dublin.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.5.1
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is titled (folio 1 recto) ‘£3.0.0. Irish Grammar. 1734. Written by one Daly a Conaught Man for Paris Anderson, A.M.T.C.D. 1734’. The contents (text) are as follows.(i) ‘Aoibhin sin Eire ard’, 5 quatrains. (Folio 2 recto.)(ii) Version of Hugh MacCurtin’s ‘Irish Grammar’, chapters 1-7, beginning “Ablitir na tengan Gaoidhilge ann so sios ar ndiaidh go fóirleathan air gach modh, & gach foirim dar gnáth leis na Gaodhaluibh a scrobhadh. Agas...
Dates:
1734-1735.
Manuscript containing Irish tales and verse.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.38
Scope and Contents
At page 190 a ‘Pot’ watermark (passim) indicates dating in first half of 17th century; the variety of it which occurs up to page 28 belongs notably to period 1608-1621. The chronology at page 171 points more precisely to 1618. Other watermarks appear at pages 49 and following (‘horn’) and 59 and following. Four principal scribes contributed to the work: A. Pages 5-28, 47-114, 117-142, 155-170, 175-192. Formal, slightly pointed. Charles O’Conor of Belanagare...
Dates:
First half of 17th century.
Manuscript containing Irish tales and verse written by Seán Mac Cíar.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.5
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was written (except page 68) by Seán Mac Cíar (John Short), a native of Clogher, County Tyrone, in 1738. Other hands appear in marginalia at pages 81 (‘Patt C[ ]’), 301 (including ‘Arthur Mates is this Book / and if it be Lost / or sole pray send home gain to Lucan’), 327, 330 (‘Arthur Magma [ ] is my Name and [ ] I write same So [ ]’), 332 and 334. The name of Michael MacDonald appears at pages 81, 308, 312 and 313, with the addition of ‘Kells’ at page 81 and of ‘his hand and...
Dates:
18th century.
Manuscript containing Irish verse, written by the scribe Séamus Ó Maolruanaigh.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.4
Scope and Contents
The scribe (except page 44) of the manuscript is Séamus Ó Maolruanaigh. Marginalia in his hand, both Roman and Gaelic, are to be found on the flyleaf, on page 1 (Page 1, line 5 ‘James’; the lower three-eighths of the folio has been torn out, leaving ‘[ ] his hand and seal’ in margin), page 3, page 4 (‘Semus o ionnraic liom mar an geadna mar amhrn’), page 11, page 15 (‘[Se]mus ua Maolruadhneadh a labhar ⁊ a laimh / a n-aois an tidh’), page 17 (‘James M’ twice, with an intervening 6-line...
Dates:
18th century.
Manuscript containing mathematical principles compiled by Patrick Chalmers (died 1824)., 1752.
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Identifier: MS.15510
Manuscript containing poems of William MacMurchy.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.15
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains a ‘coat of arms’ watermark. The scribe of the manuscript is William MacMurchy (see Adv.MS.72.2.12). MacMurchy also wrote versions of fourteen of the poems in this manuscript in what are now Adv.MS.73.2.2 (thence printed in ‘Reliquiae Celticae’, volume 2, pages 310-420) and the Inverneill MS (photostat, National Library of Scotland MS.14981). A number of the poems are plainly by the scribe himself.Ewen MacLachlan described it in his ‘Celtic Analysis’...
Dates:
18th century, before 1778.
Manuscript containing poems of William MacMurchy.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.2
Dates:
1748, 1806, undated.
Manuscript containing scholastic texts in Gaelic.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.7
Scope and Contents
There are only two or three hands in this singularly well-preserved and rather beautiful portion of manuscript, and only one non-scribal marginalium. The chief hand or style of the text (folios 1-5, 8-11) uses some fine decorative initials (partly zoomorphic) and red, yellow, green and brown colouring. The other (folios 6-7) is unembellished. The marginalium, “Ní bí amuigh aonduini ón ég”, 2 lines (folio 7 recto) is in a large formal script recalling a hand of the Annals of Ulster in...
Dates:
?15th century.
Manuscript containing specimens of Homer’s Iliad in Gaelic verse by Ewen MacLachlan.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.19
Scope and Contents
Ewen MacLachlan hoped to publish a volume of the work if these met with approval. Includes title-page, preface and contents list.The contents are as follows.(i) Specimens of Gaelic Iliad. (Page 1.)(ii) ‘Qui sublime meas orbe volubili’, 9 quatrains. Ossian’s Address to rising Sun. (Page 46.)(iii) ‘De sinis, flavo radiate crine!’ 4 quatrains. Ossian’s Address to Setting Sun. (Bottom of page 47.)(iv) ‘Jam noctis umbras somnifero dies’,...
Dates:
[1812, or before.]
Manuscript containing syllabic verse in Gaelic, written by members of the MacMhuirich family.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.48
Scope and Contents
This manuscript bears all the marks of a MacMhuirich provenance. The scribe who wrote the greater part of it is unknown, but his Gaelic hand is precise and well formed. Two poems (folios 9 verso, 10 verso) are in the hand of Niall MacMhuirich (circa 1639-1726), of whom the chief scribe was evidently a contemporary. A third hand, unknown, is responsible for the text at folio 32, which is further distinguished from foregoing folios by its common ‘pot’ watermark - the rest having what appears...
Dates:
Between 1660 and 1678.
Manuscript containing “Táin Bó Cuailnge” and other tales in Gaelic, written by Fear Feasa Ó Duibhgeannáin.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.9
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was written by Fear Feasa Ó Duibhgeannáin, whose subscription, “Trocuire co bfagbha an tí do scriobh sin .i. Fer Fesa O Duibgennain / amen”, appears, with the name smudged, at folio 10 recto. The hand is the same as that of Royal Irish Academy 24.N.3, written by Fear Feasa Ó Duibhgeannáin in County Leitrim in 1666, and substantially the same as that of Trinity College Dublin 1394 (H.5.22), written by the same scribe in County Wexford in 1646.Scribal marginalia are...
Dates:
Mid-17th century.
Manuscript containing the letter of Prester John, and other works.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.41
Scope and Contents
Originally 2 separate manuscripts: (a) folios 1 and 16, (b) folios 2-15. Part (a), a bifolium, is by a single anonymous hand, origin and date unknown. John Mackenzie, secretary of the Highland Society of London described part (a) as “A small Octavo Vellum Manuscript in Prose, containing two Leaves, signed, London Janry. 5th. 1803 John Mackenzie”. (Highland Society of Scotland minutes.) Part (b) was written by several hands, one text to each. The main text, the Letter...
Dates:
(?)15th century-17th century.
Manuscript containing the poems of Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (Alexander MacDonald), written in Gaelic script.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.13
Scope and Contents
Of the two manuscripts mentioned in the custodial history note only the present one remains. A little further evidence for the ascription to Alasdair lies in the small portions of text in Roman hand (pages 118, 176; compendium &, passim), which may be compared with the facsimile of the poet’s hand published as frontispiece to the 1924 edition of his work. The manuscript was written during or after 1747 (cf. pages 143, 146, 149), and some of the poems, notably “An Àirce” (page 169),...
Dates:
1747.
Manuscript containing the Seven Wise Masters and syllabic verse.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.39
Scope and Contents
Written c.1690 or later (cf. folio 31 recto) by an unknown scribe in practised Gaelic hand with ornamented capitals. Scribal probationes pennae (pen trials) at folios 22 recto, 23 recto, 32 recto (‘cionnus sin pinn na fion’; ‘amen’). There remain here only the last 4 of the 15 or so tales of which the international romance of the “Seven Wise Masters” is comprised, and we may conclude from this that the present manuscript is the end portion of an original of over 80 folios. The sole foliation...
Dates:
17th century.
Manuscript containing 'Togail na Tebe', a Gaelic prose adaptation the 'Thebaid' of Statius, and 'Togail Troi', a Gaelic adaption of 'De excidio Troiae historia', and other texts.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.8
Scope and Contents
The volumes consists of two separate manuscripts. The first, which ends at folio 27, may have once formed part of the manuscript that constitutes the Yellow Book of Lecan columns 573-958 (see Ó Con cheanainn, “Gilla Ísa Mac Fir Bhisigh and a Scribe of his School”, page 157.The manuscript is written in the following hands:1. Text, folios 1 recto-5 verso, column b, line 40, 9 recto-22 verso. Gilla Ísa Mac Fir Bhisigh, poet and historian to Ó Dubhda Tír...
Dates:
14th century-15th century.