Ane Accompt of the Genealogie of the Campbells

Ane Accompt of the Genealogie of the Campbells is a seventeenth-century source documenting the history of Clan Campbell.

Description

The history is preserved in manuscript form in NLS Advocates' MS 32.6.13, 34.5.22.[1] The work appears to date to c. 1670×1676.[2] A transcription of the text was published in 1916.[3]

The history is the work of Raibeart Duncansone, minister of Campbeltown.[4] Raibeart is stated to have been assisted by several sennachies, which could be evidence that members of the MacLachlan learned kindred contributed to the history.[5]

The history seems to have been based upon the now-lost Colvin's Genealogy of the Campbells, composed by Alexander Colville in 1650×1660.[6] Ane Accompt was in turn a source for other important Campbell histories, such as the Craignish History (also derived from Colville's now-lost work) and the Auchinbreck History.[7]

Citations

References

Primary sources

  • Macphail, JRN, ed. (1916). Highland Papers. Publications of the Scottish History Society, Second Series (series vol. 12). Vol. 2. Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable. OL 24828785M – via Internet Archive.

Secondary sources

  • MacGregor, M (2002). "The Genealogical Histories of Gaelic Scotland". In Fox, A; Woolf, D. The Spoken Word: Oral Culture in Britain, 1500–1850. Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain. Manchester: Manchester University Press. pp. 196&ndash, 239. ISBN 0 7190 5746 9.
  • MacGregor, M (2008). "Writing the History of Gaelic Scotland: A Provisional Checklist of 'Gaelic' Genealogical Histories". In McGuire, NR; Meek, DE; Ó Baoill, C. Caindel Alban: Fèillsgrìobhainn do Dhòmhnall E. Meek. Scottish Gaelic studies (series vol. 24). Aberdeen: University of Aberdeen. pp. 357&ndash, 379.
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