McLagan Manuscripts

254 Gaelic manuscripts collected or transcribed by the Rev. James McLagan (1728-1805), chaplain to the Black Watch and minister at Blair Atholl.

They were presented to the Library in 1910.

How to find material in the McLagan Collection

• Details of all the manuscripts may be accessed via the collection level description (click on 'list collection content' to view listing of all items) on the manuscripts search. The manuscripts are shelved at MS Gen 1042.
• John Mackechnie: Catalogue of Gaelic manuscripts in selected libraries in Great Britain and Ireland (Boston: 1973), vol. 1, pp. 412-452.
• Donald Mackinnon: A descriptive catalogue of Gaelic manuscripts in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, and elsewhere in Scotland (Edinburgh: 1912), pp 302-310.
• D.S. Thomson: 'A catalogue and indexes of the Ossianic ballads in the McLagan MSS', Scottish Gaelic Studies, vol. 8 (1955-1958), pp 177-224.
• See also  Anja Gunderloch's Catalogue of Gaelic Manuscripts in Glasgow University (links to PDF version of catalogue)