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format, including the two forming the cover. The pages are written in double columns of 38, sometimes 39 lines each. The binding is anomalous at the beginning: the folio which now comes 3rd should have been the 5th, while a gap exists between the 4th and 5th leaf, possibly between the 5th and 3rd and
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found it in the hands of the Rev. John
Mackinnon (1753-1803), who said that he had acquired it from people in his neighbourhood. Bannatyne passed the manuscript on to the Highland Society of Scotland, whose minutes record that it was laid before the Ossian Committee in March 1799. Donald MacKinnon
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Ireland but entered Argyllshire not long after its creation. Marginal notes rather than external documentation shed some light on its earliest known stages. At the bottom of folio 9 occurs the name of one 'Robert Campbell
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assigns a date no later than the end of the 15th century and suggests that the manuscript may well have been a first-hand copy of this early 13th-century exemplar. The presence of older linguistic features in the texts points to even earlier strata of writing. MacKinnon therefore proposes the
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poetry. After the death of Rev. William
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A Descriptive
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version, ed. and tr. Vernam Hull, "The Cause of the Exile of Fergus Mac Roig –
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210:Longes mac n-Uislenn
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460:MacKinnon, Donald.
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52:Longas mac nUislenn
480:Mackechnie, John.
305:Fernaig manuscript
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