Edinburgh National Library of Scotland Advocates MS 72.1.39
| Manuscript Identification | |
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| Reference Number | Gaelic1 |
| Location | Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland |
| Siglum/Shelfmark | Advocates MS 72.1.39 |
| Page/Folio range | 1r-22r (?) |
| Textual Content and Tradition | |
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| Standardised title of narrative | The Seven Wise Masters |
| Incipit or textual title | |
| Version (siglum) | A (Seven Sages) |
| └ Language Group within Version | Gaelic Version A |
| └ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version | |
| └ Further scholarly subgroup (1) | |
| └ Further scholarly subgroup (2) | |
| Translated/adapted from (Version/Text) | |
| Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition | |
| Languages | |
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| Language of text | Gaelic |
| Regional or specific Language of text | Scots Gaelic |
| Source for regional or specific Language of text | |
| Digitisation and Editions | |
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| Digitisation | https://www.isos.dias.ie/NLS/NLS_Adv_MS_72_1_39.html |
| Modern Editions | |
| Note |
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This fragmentary text contains only the final four stories of the Seven Sages sequence, perhaps following the Version A pattern. See the notes on the Version Page for more information about the Gaelic Seven Sages more broadly. |
| Authorship and Production | |
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| Scribe | |
| Author | |
| Place of Manuscript Production | |
| Date of Manuscript Production | 1690 - 1693 |
| Source of Date of Manuscript Production | https://www.isos.dias.ie/NLS/NLS_Adv_MS_72_1_39.html, Black (1997) |
| Physical Description | |
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| Material | Paper |
| Total pages/folios in Manuscript | 34 |
| Height | 194 |
| Width | 14 |
| Script style/form | |
| Prose or verse | Prose |
| Illustrations | No |
| Contents and Additional Texts | |
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| Other texts in the Manuscript | (i) 'The Seven Wise Masters'.
(ii) 'Tug ar ceim ar gcul', 4½ qq. Elegy on Aonghus, evidently a Clanranald cleric. (iii) [Ó Dubhagáin.] 'Bliaghuin so solus dath', 87 qq. (Folio 23 recto line 1) (iv) Tadhg Óg [Ó Huiginn]. 'Ata an saogal ag seirmoir', 23 qq. Incomplete. (v) 'O gur mich gho dusgadh', 2½ stt. Vernacular love poem written semi-phonetically in Alexander McDonald’s hand, corresponding to Glasgow University Library MacLagan MS Gen 1042 no.75 'Gur mithich dhamh dusga' §§la la-h, 2a-d, 3a-h. (Folio 28 recto line 10) (vi) Folio 28 verso is blank. (vii) 'Meisneach mileadh a mac Eóin', 26 qq. (possibly acephalous). On the return from exile of Domhnall, son of Eoin of Clanranald, c.1650. In the lower half of f.30r the scribe wrote ‘Fan’. On top of this McDonald scribbled ‘Alexander McDonald aught this Book / the grace of God upon him Look / to make him wise and understand / to keep the Holy Lords Comands / Finnard in Ranock / Janr 15 1738 years’ (the rhyme appears also at ff.13r, 20r, 29r). In the space remaining above this McDonald inserted ‘Sir Fionart January the twenty forth 1739 years Recived from Duncan Cameron the sume of twenty [pounds] Scots money the value recived of mine in your [hand] make thankfull paymt and oblidge your Most [humble] Servant Alexander McDonald’. (Folio 29 recto) (viii) [Tadhg Óg Ó Huiginn]. 'Iomdha ród direch ag Dia', 10 qq. (Folio 30 verso line 1) (ix) 'Dual freasdal air bfeirg flatha', 22 qq. Poem of conciliation to Eoin, chief of MacLeod, c.1690. (Folio 31 recto line 1) (x) Alexander McDonald’s hand. ‘[ ] Book belongs to me Alexander [ ] and is the Laufully ouner of it. ‘Alexander McDonald aught this Book and if this Book being be amissing Send it home with god and if you do no [as] I say Remember on the Letter days and if you do not as I say Remember on the pains of hell / Remember man as thow goes by / to see the Dead as they do lay / as thow art now so once was I / as I am now so must thow be / Remember man that thow most Die (these 5 lines repeated) / and so most I’. (Folio 32 verso) (xi) Traces of an ornamental initial. (Folio [33] recto) (xii) Traces of (a) a bardic poem in hand of chief scribe; (b) material similar to that on folio 32 verso. (Folio [33] verso) (xiii) Fragment of English sermon in Alexander McDonald’s hand. (Folio [34] recto) (xiv) Bill of exchange in Alexander McDonald’s hand: ‘[ ] please pay to me Alexr [ ] my order within the House [ ] Dull the of ten [ ] yow in ready Cash your thankfull [ ]an Kenndy’. (Folio [34] verso) |
| Catalogues and Research Literature | |
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| Catalogue | https://www.isos.dias.ie/NLS/NLS_Adv_MS_72_1_39.html, https://manuscripts.nls.uk/repositories/2/resources/21936 |
| Modern Research Literature | Greene (1944), Black (1979), Black (1997) |
| Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript | |
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