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REPORT
OF THE
COMMITTEE OF THE HIGHLAND SOCIETY
OP
SCOTLAND,
APPOINTED TO INQUIRE INTO THE NATURE AND
AUTHENTICITY OF THE
FOEMS OF OSSIAN,
DRAWN UP, ACCORDING TO THE DIRECTIONS OP THE COMMUTES,
BY
HENRY MACKENZIE, Esq,
ITS CONS'ENER OR CHAIRMAN.
COPIOUS APPENDIX,
CONTAINING SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL DOCUMENTS ON WHICH THE
REPORT IS FOUNDED.
EDINBURGH:
JE)?mteti at tie «Llnibcrfitg J^efa ;
FOR. ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO. EDINBURGH,
AND LONGMAN, HURST, REES & ORME, LONDON.
1805.

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Report of the Committee of the Highland Society of Scotland, appointed to inquire into the nature and authenticity of the poems of Ossian
DescriptionDrawn up, according to the directions of the Committee, by Henry Mackenzie ... ; with a copious appendix, containing some of the principal documents on which the report is founded.
ShelfmarkOss.226
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Form / genre: Written and printed matter > Books
Dates / events: 1805 [Date published]
Places: Europe > United Kingdom > Scotland > Edinburgh > Edinburgh (inhabited place) [Place published]
Subject / content: Celtic (culture)
Epics
Literary criticism
Authenticity
Person / organisation: Archibald Constable & Co. [Publisher]
MacPherson, James, 1736-1796 [Subject of text]
Ossian, active 3rd century [Subject of text]
Mackenzie, Henry, 1745-1831 [Author]
Highland Society of Scotland [Sponsor]

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Ossian Collection
DescriptionSelected 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
DescriptionSelected 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.