THE SCOTTISH COLLECTION OF CELTIC MSS.
Cabinet in Advocates’ Library—Curious assortment of vernacular
literature—Number and character—Origin of the
collection—Highland Society and Kilbride MSS.—Subsidiary
additions—Work for the expert—Fate of some luckless
documents—Value of MSS. XL., LIII., and LVI.—Three literary
monuments of the Western Highlands: (1) The Book of the Dean of
Lismore—History, description, value, contents, extracts, names
of contributors; (2) The Fernaig MS.—Characteristics—Interesting
details of supposed author; (3) The Book of Clanranald—Quaint
relic—Two MSS., the Red and the Black—History and contents, with
specimen prose-poem and elegy 115