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"Cinquant [sic] Octonaires sur la vanité et inconstance du monde, dediez a tresillustre seigneur le conte de Shrewsbury, pour ses estrennes l'an 1607", being a calligraphic copy of the verses by Antoine de la Roche Chandieu, first published anonymously in ‘Les Cantigues du Seigneur de Maisonfleur’.
Item
Identifier: MS.25240
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written in a variety of calligraphic hands and is decorated throughout with paintings of flowers, birds and insects. The pages containing Octonaires XVII, XXXI and XXXVIII are missing.The original title page and the dedication to the Earl of Shrewsbury have been cut out and pasted onto the verso of folio i and the inside of the front cover respectively.There are a number of later drawings and notes, including records of births of members...
Dates:
[1586, or before]-19th century.
Copy of Giles Dixey, "Deinde, More Collected Verses", with dedication and letter of Dixey to Ruari McLean.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8544
Dates:
1971.
'Divine aenigms and pious problems', poems by John Donne, son of Dr John Donne, Dean of St Paul's.
Item
Identifier: MS.634
Scope and Contents
The poems are dedicated to Francis, Baron Newport, afterwards Earl of Bradford. There are three illustrative diagrams, the ‘ensignes’ of the twelve Patriarchs, and ‘an index of most remarkable matters’.
Dates:
17th century.
Four letters, 1874-1884, of Thomas Stevenson to Peter G Tait, with one, 1886, to Mrs Tait.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.8378
Scope and Contents
Includes:
sonnets, 1858, of Sir William Rowan Hamilton, sent to Mrs Tait.
two documents, undated, concerning H S Reid, one being the text of the dedication of a chapel.
Dates:
1858-1886.
Manuscripts of prose and poetry by Hamish Hendry, with a copy of 'A Scots Dominie' (1924), inscribed to his daughter.
File
Identifier: Acc.12993
Dates:
Circa 1920-1924.
Microfilm of Glenriddell Manuscripts: copies of poems, letters, etc., of Robert Burns, compiled by the poet, 1791-1793, for presentation to Robert Riddell of Glenriddell.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.900
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Poems, 4th quarter of 18th century, of Robert Burns, including "Tam o’ Shanter" and "Holy Willie’s Prayer", with a copy of a letter, 1787, to Dr Moore, and a dedicatory letter, 1791 (MS.86);
Letters, 4th quarter of 18th century, of Robert Burns (MS.87).
Dates:
4th quarter of 18th century.
Miscellaneous Gaelic papers in various hands, including that of William Forbes Skene.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.15
Dates:
19th century.