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Annotated and corrected typescript of "Scotland, an Anthology" compiled by George Campbell Hay.
Includes translations of Gaelic poetry.
Annotated typescripts of eight poems of W S Graham.
Author's interleaved proof copy of ‘Occasional verses, translations and imitations’ by Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie; with letters and papers to Glenbervie formerly loosely inserted therein.
Composite manuscript of miscellaneous Gaelic texts.
Composite volume of 15th-century manuscripts of miscellaneous works by four hands bound together, with an incunable, in the 16th-century or earlier.
Composite volume of English origin containing two manuscripts of the 12th and 13th century; the 'Thebaid' of Statius, and the 'Aeneid' of Virgil
Copies of Edwin Muir, "First Poems" (1925) and "Chorus of the Newly Dead" (1926), the former inscribed by Muir to John and Dorothy Holms.
Both annotated by Beatrix Holms
Copies of "The Works of Robert Burns..." (Liverpool, 1800), and "Reliques of Robert Burns" (London, 1808), both annotated by Alexander Fraser Tytler.
Copy of facsimile of "Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect" (Kilmarnock, 1786), known as the Kilmarnock Burns, collated with the Edinburgh edition (1787), annotated by Prof Robert Dewar and with his notes inserted.
Copy of Sydney Goodsir Smith, "Skail Wind. Poems" (1941), with autograph emandations and additions by the author.
Corrected manuscript of unpublished poem of David Scott, "British Deed or Trafalgar", with annotations by William Bell Scott.
Corrected page proofs by George Bruce of his "Today Tomorrow: Collected Poems, 1993-2000".
Glenmasan manuscript (Ulster cycle).
Late 10th-century manuscript, produced in England, which contains a selection of the poetry of Coelius Sedulius, with glosses in Latin and Old English.
Late 14th- or early 15th-century manuscript of the ‘Roman de la Rose’, written in two stages by Guillaume de Lorris, circa 1230, and Jean de Meun, circa 1270.
Manuscript containing Irish tales and verse written by Seán Mac Cíar.
Manuscript containing Irish verse, written by the scribe Séamus Ó Maolruanaigh.
Manuscript containing syllabic verse in Gaelic, written by members of the MacMhuirich family.
Manuscript containing the letter of Prester John, and other works.
Manuscript containing the poems of Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (Alexander MacDonald), written in Gaelic script.
Manuscript, written by Antonio Caballario, of the 'Eclogues' and 'Aeneid' of Virgil.
Microfilm of English manuscript of miscellaneous works of Coelius Sedulius.
Microfilm of manuscripts of Statius, Virgil, Ovid and Claudian.
The contents are as follows:
Two originally separate manuscripts, 12th century-13th century, of Statius and Virgil, bound together from at least the late 14th century, when the volume was in the Library of Dover Priory (Adv.MS.18.5.12);
Two originally separate manuscripts, late 12th century-13th century, of the ‘Fasti’ by Ovid and of major poems of Claudian, the former of which belonged to Leicester Abbey, bound together from at least the 16th century (Adv.MS.18.5.13).
Microfilm of ‘Roman de la Rose’, [circa 1230, circa 1270]; and, ‘The Talbot Hours’, 15th century.
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, late 14th or early 15th century, of ‘Roman de la Rose’, written in two stages by Guillaume de Lorris, circa 1230, and Jean de Meun, circa 1270 (Adv.MS.19.1.7);
‘The Talbot Hours’, Psalter and Hours, 15th century (Dep.221/1).