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NOTES OF A SHETLAND ANTIQUARY
[GOUDIE, Gilbert]
[The manuscript commonplace of a Scottish antiquary]
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8vo. Manuscript on paper. [54] leaves. Contemporary roan-backed decorated blue paper boards. Extremities rubbed, loss to head and foot of spine. Pencilled ownership inscription to recto of FFEP: 'Gilb. Goudie / 31 Great King Street / 1899'.
A choice late nineteenth century manuscript commonplace, in the single legible hand, compiled by banker, antiquary, and sometime Treasurer of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Gilbert Goudie (1843-1918) whilst residing in Edinburgh. A native of the Shetland, Goudie devoted himself to studying the history of the archipelago, producing the first translation of The Orkneyinga Saga (1873) and publishing The Celtic And Scandinavian Antiquities Of Shetland (1904). Accordingly, this commonplace reflects his interests in the history of Scotland, comprising transcriptions of, inter alia, 'An Adventure with the "Press-gang" in Shetland in 1805, narrated verbatim by the Rev. Sinclair Thomson of Dunrossness, one of the principal actors, Edinburgh, 17 Septr 1862', 'Tacitus on Orkney and Shetland', 'Rosslyn, a Commemoration Sketch', and a letter 'To the editor of the Shetland Advertiser' dated 1862.
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