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Description of the curious monuments and antiquities in the Island of Icolumkill
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Permanent URL	https://digital.nls.uk/78824825
Description	Also, an Account of the Island of Staffa, where the rural throne of the late King Fingal is extant : being the chief of the heroes so much admired by the poets by a gentleman who made the tour of Europe, prior to this description, in a letter to a friend ...
Shelfmark	Oss.318(4)
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 > Pamphlets
Dates / events:	1809 [Date published]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > Scotland > Edinburgh > Edinburgh (inhabited place) [Place published] Europe > United Kingdom > Scotland > Argyll and Bute > Iona (island) [Place in text] Europe > United Kingdom > Scotland > Argyll and Bute > Staffa (island) [Place in text]
Subject / content:	Islands Description Travel Antiquities (object genre)
Person / organisation:	Finn MacCumhaill, 3rd cent. [Subject of text]
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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
Description	Selected items from five 'Special and Named Printed Collections'. Includes books in Gaelic and other Celtic languages, works about the Gaels, their languages, literature, culture and history.