Notebook of paper and blotting-paper, bound in blue paper. It has a water-mark of 1837. On the first page of blotting-paper Dr Archibald MacCallum has written in pencil, 'Found accidentally at an old bookstand in Glasgow, 1880'. Dr MacCallum, Chaplain at the Glasgow Reformatory, left his library and a sum of money to Glasgow University to establish a Celtic Lectureship.
The writer of the book was a master penman who embellished his writing with red and blue ink capitals and upper-case roman numerals.
The notebook contains an acrostic ((a) below) and a poem of 33 double qtt with no heading ((b) below).
[Notebook of paper and blotting-paper, bound in blu…]
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- ReferenceGB 247 MS Gen 1090/14/44
- Dates of Creation1800
- Language of MaterialGaelic
- Physical DescriptionPaper, ff.8 + 2 of blotting-paper.
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