The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia is a wide-ranging reference work written by John Mactaggart, published in 1824 and reissued after the author's death in a run of 250 copies in 1876. The scope of the work is given by its full title: The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, or, the Original, Antiquated, and Natural Curiosities of the South of Scotland; Containing Sketches of Eccentric Characters and Curious Places, with Explanations of Singular Words, Terms, and Phrases; Interspersed with Poems Talks, Anecdotes, etc., and Various Other Strange Matters; the Whole Illustrative of the Ways of the Peasantry, and Manners of Caledonia; Drawn out and Alphabetically Arranged.
The work is an important source for Scots lexicography and is cited in 500 entries of the Scottish National Dictionary.
References
- McLure, J Derrick (2004). "A LOCAL TREASURE-TROVE: John Mactaggart's Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia" (PDF). Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society. Third Series. LXXVIII: 131–138. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 July 2023.
- "Results of Advanced Search for "gallov encycl"". Dictionaries of the Scots Language | Dictionars o the Scots Leid. 2 July 2023. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
External links
- 1824 first edition at archive.org
- 1876 reprinting at archive.org