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FRAGMENTS
O F
ANCIENT POETRY,
'Colledled in the Highlands of Scotland,
AND
Tranflated from the Galic or Erse Language.
The Second Edition.
Vos quoque qui fortes animasy helloque peremias
Laudihus in iojigum vatgs dimittitis avum,
Pluri7?ia fecuri fudifiis carmina Bardi.
LUCAN.
EDINBURGH
'Printed for G. Hamilton and J. Balfour.
MDCCLX.

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(3) Title page
Permanent URL	https://digital.nls.uk/77456734
Description	Title page, 2nd edition.

Fragments of ancient poetry, collected in the Highlands of Scotland, and translated from the Galic or Erse language
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Description	The second edition. (Also Edinburgh: 1760.) (With a final advertisement leaf.)
Shelfmark	Oss.2
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record
Attribution and copyright:	The physical item used to create this digital version is out of copyright

Form / genre:	Written and printed matter > Books
Dates / events:	1760 [Date published]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > Scotland > Edinburgh > Edinburgh (inhabited place) [Place published]
Subject / content:	Poetry Celtic (culture) Forgeries (derivative objects)
Person / organisation:	Hamilton and Balfour (Edinburgh, Scotland) [Publisher] MacPherson, James, 1736-1796 [Author] Ossian, active 3rd century [Attributed name]
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Ossian Collection
Description	Selected books from the Ossian Collection of 327 volumes, originally assembled by J. Norman Methven of Perth. Different editions and translations of James MacPherson's epic poem 'Ossian', some with a map of the 'Kingdom of Connor'. Also secondary material relating to Ossianic poetry and the Ossian controversy.

Early Gaelic Book Collections
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