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CATALOGUES OF GAELIC AND IRTSH MSS. l.Xvii
and Jolm Mackenzie, executed in the year 1640. This circumstance
shows that the Gaelic language was in use in legal obligations at that
period, in the Highlands.
Loril Bannatyne.
This MS. was in the possession of the late
A variety of parchment MSS. on medicine, in the Gaelic charac-
ter, formerly in the possession of the late Dr Donald Smith. He was
also possessed of a complete copy of the Emanuel MS. before men-
tioned, and of copies of many otlur MSS., which he made at different
times from other MSS.
Two paper MS. Gaelic grammars, in the same character, formerly in
the possession of the late Dr Wright of Edinburgh.
Two ancient parchment MSS. in the same character, formerly in
the possession of the late Rev. James Maclagan, at Blair-Athole. Subject
unknown.
A paper MS. written in the Roman character, in the possession
of Mr Mathison of Feernaig, Ross-shire. It is dated in 1688, and con-
sists of songs and hymns by different persons, some by Carswell, bishop
of the isles.
A paper MS. formerly in the possession of a Mr Simpson in Leith.
The Lillium Mcdecina;, a paper folio MS. written and translated
by one of the Bethunes, the physicians of Skye, at the foot of Mount
Peliop. It was given to the Antiquarian Society of London by the late
Or Macqueen of Kilmore, in Skye.
Two treatises, one on astronomy, the other on medicine, written in
the latter end of the thirteenth or beginning of the fourteenth century,
formerly in the possession of Mr Astle.
GAELIC AND IRISH MSS. IN PUBLIC LIBRARIES.
IN THE ADVOCATES' LIBRARY.
Three volumes MS. in the old character, chiefly medical, with some
fragments of Scottish and Irish history ; and the life of St Coluniba, said
to have been translated from the Latin into Gaelic, by Father Caloho-
ran.
IN THE HARLEIAN LIBBARV.
A MS. volume (No. 5280) containing twenty-one Gaelic or Irish
treatises, of which Mr Astle has given some account. One of these
treats of the Irish militia, under Fion Maccumhail, in the reign of
Cormac-Mac-Airt, king of Ireland, and of the course of probation or
exercise which each soldier was to go through before his admission
therein. Mr Astle has given a fac simile of the writing, being the
thirteenth specimen of Plate xxii.
IN THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY, OXFORD
An old Irish MS. on parchment, containing, among other tracts, An
account of the Conquest of Britain by the Romans :—Of the Saxou