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Neuaufgefundene Gedichte Ossians. Aus dem Englischen. Mit erläuternden Anmerkungen und einer Abhandlung über die Werke dieses celtischen Barden

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Type of record: Book

Title: Neuaufgefundene Gedichte Ossians. Aus dem Englischen. Mit erläuternden Anmerkungen und einer Abhandlung über die Werke dieses celtischen Barden

Other titles: Ancient Gaelic poems

Level: Item

Classmark: Anglo-German/YOU

Creator(s): Young, Matthew (fl. ca. 1790?)

Additional creator(s): Macpherson, James (1736-1796) (Other); Pfaff, Christoph Heinrich (Other)

Related people: Macpherson, James; Pfaff, Christoph Heinrich

Publisher: [s.n.]

Publication city: Frankfurt und Leipzig

Date(s): 1792

Language: German

Size and medium: [15],255,[1] p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/264605

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017173879705181

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Part-title on [.1] reads: "Abhandlung über die Aechtheit und Unverfälschtheit der von Herrn Mac-Pherson herausgegebenen Gedichte Ossians, in Beziehung zugleich auf diese neu aufgefunden Gedichte dieses celtischen Barden. Part-title (p.81) reads: "Einleitung des englischen Uebersezers, Herrn Young's". The body of the work consists of a translation of "Ancient Gaelic poems respecting the race of the Fians, collected in the Highlands of Scotland in the year 1784. By M. Young" (Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, vol.1, Antiquities, pp.43-119, 1787), although not reproduced in the original order.


Anmerkungen... etc. by Christoph Heinrich Pfaff.

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