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.

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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]

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Primary sources

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

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