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Manuscripts.

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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
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:

Miscellany (perhaps a part of a larger collection of papers), 1714, 1728, 1736, and undated, mostly relating to James Anderson, Writer to the Signet, and his ‘Diplomata Scotiæ’.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.22.2.19
Scope and Contents

The largest groups consist of lists of abbreviations used in mediaeval documents (folios 64, 71-111) and copies of various forms of letters (folios 65-69); most of the remaining papers consist of notes on various subjects and transcripts of unrelated documents. An engraved facsimile, 1771, of a charter of William the Lion has been added to the papers (folio 9).

Dates: 1714-1736.

`M.S. West Highland Tales. Vol. I. Aug.1860`., 1859-1860.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.50.1.1(1)
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Righ og Easaidh ruagh`, the manuscript of the Gaelic tale transcribed by Hector MacLean, schoolmaster at Ballygrant, Islay, and Campbell`s principal collector and collaborator, from the recitation of James Wilson, a blind fiddler on the island, 1859. Printed in ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, 1, pages 12-18. (Folio 3.)(ii) A version of `Righ og Easaidh ruagh` as transcribed by Hector Urquhart, gamekeeper on...
Dates: 1859-1860.

`M.S. West Highland Tales. Vol. I. Aug.1860`., 1859-1860.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.50.1.1(2)
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(xvi) Continued from Adv.MS.50.1.1(1). `Sgeulachd Chonnil`, English version from original by Kenneth MacLennan, Turnaig, Poolewe, 1859. ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, 1, pages 143-148. (Folio 206.)(xvii) Gaelic text of `Sgeulachd Chonnil`, as transcribed by Hector Urquhart from Kenneth MacLennan. ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’ , 1, pages 148-152. (Folio 210.)(xviii) Corrected proofs of the Connal...
Dates: 1859-1860.

‘M.S. West Highland Tales, Vol. II’, consisting almost entirely of original materials and proofs for Volume 2 of the ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, excepting the continuation of one tale from Volume 1 (folios 1-7)., 1859-1860.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.50.1.2(1)

‘M.S. West Highland Tales Vol. III`, mostly containing material for ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 2, in continuation of Adv.MS.50.1.2, but also including scripts, notes or proofs for tales bound out of series and published in ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 1 and the earlier part of volume 2., 1859-1860.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.50.1.3(Part 1)
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘The Tale of the Soldier/The Old Soldier` or ‘Sgeulachd an t-Saighdear/An Saighdear`, English (folio 2) and Gaelic (folio 10) versions, the latter as transcribed by Hector Urquhart from John MacDonald, Inveraray, 1860. ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, 2, pages 276-285. With a corrected proof of the Gaelic text (folio 9 verso), and a covering letter (folio 14) of Urquhart to John Francis Campbell, 23 January 1860. (Folio...
Dates: 1859-1860.

‘M.S. West Highland Tales Vol. III`, mostly containing material for ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 2, in continuation of Adv.MS.50.1.2, but also including scripts, notes or proofs for tales bound out of series and published in ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 1 and the earlier part of volume 2., 1859-1860.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.50.1.3(Part 2)
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(xvi) Continued from Adv.MS.50.1.3(Part 1). `The Fair Gruagach, Son of the King of Eirinn`, English version and notes. ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, 2, pages 410-425, 434-435. For other scripts, see section (xxv), below. (Folio 240.)(xvii) `The Slim Swarthy Champion` or `An Ceathairneach Caol Riabhach`: English version with extensive internal notes on the text (folio 251), and Gaelic version by Hector MacLean from...
Dates: 1859-1860.

‘M.S. West Highland Tales, Vol. IV`, containing material for or relating to ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 3., 1860-1861.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.50.1.4(Part 1)
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) “The Rider [or Knight] of Grianag and Iain [`John` deleted] the Soldier`s Son”: English version and notes. ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, 3, pages 1-23. (Folio 1.)(ii) `Am Buideal Ime` or ‘The Keg of Butter’ (folio 29); “Am Madadh ruadh `s am Bonnach beag” or ‘The Fox and the Little Bannock’ (folio 32); “Mar a thug am Madhadh ruadh an car as a` Gobhair” or ‘How the Fox took a turn out of the Goat (folio 35);...
Dates: 1860-1861.

‘M.S. West Highland Tales, Vol. IV`, containing material for or relating to ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 3., 1860-1861.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.50.1.4(Part 2)

‘M.S. West Highland Tales, Vol. IV`, containing material for or relating to ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 3., 1860-1861.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.50.1.4(Part 3)

`M.S. West Highland Tales Vol. VI`, consisting entirely of material, in considerable disorder, for ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 4., 1861.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.50.1.6(Part 1)
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) The manuscript, much amended, of parts of the Ossian essay extending from ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, 4, pages 68-81 (folios 1-18); pages 99-113 (folios 19-44); pages 117-123 (folios 45-57). Some mis-arrangement in the order of folios in the original binding has been corrected. (Folio 1.)(ii) Page proofs and (from folio 68) some earlier proofs interspersed with extensive manuscript additions, of `Postscript`...
Dates: 1861.

`M.S. West Highland Tales Vol. VI`, consisting entirely of material, in considerable disorder, for ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 4., 1861.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.50.1.6(Part 2)
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(viii) Continued from Adv.MS.50.1.6(Part 1). A long series of manuscript sections, mingled with sections and leaves of corrected and amended proofs representing together a text corresponding closely to the final version of the Ossian essays. ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, 4, pages 23-37, 40-42, 45-46, 50-56, 59-83, 92-113, 115-122, 128-151, 155-160. (Folio 202.)(ix) Much corrected and amended proofs, with...
Dates: 1861.

`M.S. West Highland Tales Vol. VI`, consisting entirely of material, in considerable disorder, for ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 4., 1861.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.50.1.6(Part 3)
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(xii) A manuscript entitled ‘Rough draught: Postscript’, considerably longer than the piece of that title in ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, 4, pages 1-4, and containing material re-worked for later essays; dated at end (folio 466 verso), 25 June [18]61. (Folio 411.)(xiii) Corrected proofs, many cut and pasted and marked by John Francis Campbell with the instruction for the printer ‘correct and make up’ or ‘make...
Dates: 1861.

‘M.S. West Highland Tales Vol. VIII`, containing mostly original Gaelic scripts produced by John Francis Campbell`s collectors of “Versions of Stories in [‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’] Vol. 1”., 1859-1860.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.50.1.8(Part 1)

‘M.S. West Highland Tales Vol. VIII`, containing mostly original Gaelic scripts produced by John Francis Campbell`s collectors of “Versions of Stories in [‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’] Vol. 1”., 1859-1860.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.50.1.8(Part 2)