The Bannatyne manuscript is a traditional account of Clan MacLeod.
[1] Although the work is undated, a watermark dates the paper upon which it is written to 1829.
[3] Lord Bannatyne was the son of Roderick Macleod (died 1784), and Isabel (fl.
[4] William Macleod Bannatyne is known to have compiled an earlier account of the clan in 1767.
[6] The manuscript, therefore, seems to date from 1829 to the year of Bannatyne William Macleod's death in 1857.