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

1. MacGregor (2008) p. 368.
2. MacGregor (2008) p. 368; MacGregor (2002) p. 212.
3. Macphail (1916).
4. MacGregor (2008) p. 368; MacGregor (2002) p. 212.
5. MacGregor (2002) p. 212.
6. MacGregor (2002) pp. 208, 212.
7. MacGregor (2002) p. 208.

References

Primary sources

• Macphail, JRN, ed. (1916). Highland Papers. Publications of the Scottish History Society. Vol. 2. Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable. OL 24828785M.

Secondary sources

• MacGregor, M (2002). "The Genealogical Histories of Gaelic Scotland". In Fox, A; Woolf, D (eds.). The Spoken Word: Oral Culture in Britain, 1500–1850. Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain. Manchester: Manchester University Press. pp. 196–239. 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 (eds.). Caindel Alban: Fèillsgrìobhainn do Dhòmhnall E. Meek. Scottish Gaelic Studies. Aberdeen: University of Aberdeen. pp. 357–379.