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Annotated and corrected typescript of "Scotland, an Anthology" compiled by George Campbell Hay.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10651
Scope and Contents
Includes translations of Gaelic poetry.
Dates:
circa 1950-1984.
Autograph poem “An Eala Bhàn” by Iain Crichton Smith, with typed transcript and English translation.
File
Identifier: MS.14971
Dates:
1968.
Collection of genealogical material on various Scottish families and items of historical interest copied by Robert Mylne, the antiquary, in the late 17th or early 18th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘The Portrait of True Loyalty exposed in the Family of Gordon, without interruption to this present year 1691. With a Relationof the Castle of Edr. in the year 1689’ (folio 1), which is attributed to David Burnet, a Catholic Priest. The original manuscript, which was in Blairs College, Aberdeen (‘The House of Gordon’, page xxxvi), is at the Scottish Catholic Archives, Columba House, Edinburgh, where it has the...
Dates:
1554-1720.
Commonplace book, undated, compiled by James Glasford (died 1845).
File
Identifier: MS.8493
Scope and Contents
The contents include: extracts from personal letters, biblical commentaries, poems and translations of poems.
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Composite volume of 15th-century manuscripts of miscellaneous works by four hands bound together, with an incunable, in the 16th-century or earlier.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.8
Scope and Contents
The collection has been in one volume since the 16th century at least. The contents are as follows:[(i) A printed book: Johannes de Hildesheim, ‘Liber de gestis ac translatione trium regum’, etc., ([Cologne], 1478) = National Library of Scotland Inc.43 (B.M.Cat. IB 4236) (folio 1)]. Folio 56 blank.(ii) Baebius Italicus (?), `Ilias latina` (‘Poetae latini minores’ ii.3; this manuscript is not included in the list given by P Vollmer in ‘Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen...
Dates:
15th century.
Copies of miscellaneous papers.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.3.11
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Copy, after 1688, of the `Account of the Affairs of Scotland relating to the Revolution in 1688’ by Colin, Earl of Balcarres. The text is similar to that of Ruddiman`s edition of 1754. For other copies of the work, see MSS.1911 and 3738, and Adv.MSS.33.7.12-33.7.13 and 49.7.6. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copies, late 17th and early 18th century, of two Latin poems by Archibald Pitcairne, with translations: `Elegy on the Viscount of...
Dates:
Late 17th century-early 18th century.
Corrected manuscripts of six collections of poems and translations of Kenneth White.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7540
Dates:
1969-1979.
Correspondence and memoranda of Sir John Sinclair, relating chiefly to his attempts to trace Gaelic manuscripts, to the translation into English of the Gaelic ‘Poems of Ossian’, and to his ‘Fingal; a tragedy, in five acts’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.26
Dates:
1808-1820.
Diaries of John Chisholm, Kings Counsel; and papers formerly loosely enclosed therein.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21072-21096
Scope and Contents
John Chisholm, from Perth, studied at Edinburgh and Leipzig, and was admitted advocate in 1881. He stood unsuccessfully as a Conservative at the elections of 1885 and 1892. He took silk in 1904 and was appointed Sheriff of Roxburgh, Berwick and Selkirk in 1905. He married in 1892, and died in 1929.
Dates:
1877-1928.
`Flótte mannlegs lífs eður dauðadans`: a translation into Icelandic verse of a work written in Danish by Thomas Lauritzson.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.7.13
Dates:
18th century.
Further papers of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton relating to historical matters.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.379
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, papers and copies of research documents assembled by Lord James Douglas-Hamilton for the publication of his books 'Motive for a Mission, the Story Behind Rudolf Hess’s Flight to Britain' (1st edition London 1971, 2nd edition Edinburgh 1979 and paperback edition, 1980); 'Air Battle for Malta: The Diaries of a Fighter Pilot', (Edinburgh 1981); and 'Roof of the World: Man’s First Flight Over Everest', (Edinburgh 1983).
Dates:
1968-1983.
Gaelic Ossianic verse of James Macpherson and John Smith written out in a neat Gaelic script by John Sinclair of 70 Bell Street, Glasgow.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.8
Scope and Contents
The scribe, John Sinclair, extended the James Macpherson material, notably by translating from Macpherson’s English what was missing from his Gaelic. He explains his editorial principles in a foreword addressed to his namesake Sir John Sinclair (folios i-ii). He had borrowed Adv.MS.72.2.4 and Adv.MS.72.2.6 from Peter Turner at some time between 1802 and 1809, and includes brief transcripts from these; that with which the manuscript begins is cut short, as he was obliged to return the...
Dates:
1812-1813.
George Campbell Hay, Verse translations of two Gaelic songs into English
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Identifier: Acc.13628
Scope and Contents
Single sheet containing two verse translations of Gaelic songs: 1. "Verses to Alasdair Mac Colla", beginning "Too long have I lain as a man sleeping", being a translation of an anonymous 17th-century Scottish Gaelic song o Alasdair Mac Colla, beg. `Is fhad tha mis ann am chadal`, printed first in John Gillies`s Gaelic song collection (Perth, 1786), pp. 85-86. 2. "An Capaillín Bán", from the Irish Gaelic, beg. "My woe and distree! `tis death has the merciless...
Dates:
1940
Italian manuscript of Books 1-5 of 'De consolatione philosophiae' by Boethius.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.14
Scope and Contents
The text ends on folio 105 verso; on folios 106-107 recto in the same hand is a note 'Ad sciendum de vita et morte Boetii Notandum ...'; folios 107 verso and 108 are blank.The text is written in a round Italian gothic hand. There are initials in red and blue, infilled and framed with red and green, at the beginning of each book (folios 1, 15 verso, 35, 63 verso, 87 verso). There are plain initials (some shaded) at the beginning of each section, alternately red and blue; within...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Letter of Rev. Charles Walker MacIntyre to the editor of `An Gaidheal`, with annotated proofs of Gaelic verse translations made by his father, John MacIntyre, minister of Kilmonivaig.
File
Identifier: Acc.13335
Scope and Contents
Letter, dated 7 Feb. 1877, offering poetic translations of John MacIntyre, minister of Kilmonivaig, to the editor of `An Gaidheal`. With three proof copies, one with the letter of MacIntyre`s son on the same sheet, of Gaelic verse translations, all with manuscript annotations mostly in John MacIntyre`s hand:`King Robert Bruce`s address to his army before the Battle of Bannockburn`, a translation of Robert Burns`s poem `Scots wha hae`, beg. `Albannacha! a dhòirt `ur fuil`, signed...
Dates:
1877
Letters and poems of Alexander Laing, the Brechin poet; and poetry and other literary matter of Henry Scott Riddell.
File
Identifier: MS.3115
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Letters, poems, etc., of Alexander Laing, the Brechin poet, to Peter Buchan, collector of Scottish ballads, Peterhead, 1828-1850, undated. The letters, which are in Laing's autograph, deal chiefly with literary matters of the day. Most of the poems (folios 4, 6, 10, 19, 23) appear later in published form.(ii) Poems and other literary matter of Henry Scott Riddell, in his autograph, with one letter to him, 1815-1865, undated. Several of...
Dates:
1815-1865, undated.
Literary and family papers of Sir Alexander Gray (1882-1968), Professor of Political Economy at Aberdeen and later at Edinburgh University.
Series
Identifier: MSS.26001-26018
Scope and Contents
Sir Alexander Gray published several volumes of his own poems and of translations of European ballads, and his literary papers consist of his work in these fields.
Dates:
[Circa 1916]-[circa 1960.]
Literary and personal papers of Alastair Mackie, comprising poetry notebooks and manuscripts, translations and journals.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13233
Scope and Contents
Alastair Mackie left his literary remains to his friend, and former pupil, the writer Christopher Rush. The collection was very disordered when Rush received it, and he has carried out extensive work in sorting and listing it, alongside his preparation an edition of Alastair Mackie`s collected poems for publication by Two Ravens Press. The collection primarily consists of draft manuscripts of Mackie`s Scots and English poems, and of his translations of ancient and modern European and Russian...
Dates:
1937-1995.
Literary papers of Andrew Tannahill, including typescripts of plays, poems, articles and translations of French poetry into Scots.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12664
Dates:
circa 1920-1986.
Manuscripts and typescripts of "The Fanatic" and of a translation of Dughall Bochanan`s "La a`Bhreitheanais", by James Robertson.
File
Identifier: Acc.12113
Dates:
1997-1999.
Manuscripts and typescripts, undated, of translations of poetry and prose by George S Fraser.
File
Identifier: Acc.11406
Scope and Contents
Includes related correspondence, 1965-1986, and an undated manuscript of W S Graham.
Dates:
1965-1986 and undated.
Manuscripts of poems and translations by Edwin Morgan (1920-2010).
Series
Identifier: MSS.27493-27494
Scope and Contents
Edwin Morgan was educated in Glasgow and joined the English Department of Glasgow University in 1947, becoming Titular Professor in 1975.
Dates:
1959-1984.
Microfilm of assorted manuscript material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.67
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Receipt, 1575, of Archebault Betun (Archibald Bethune), an archer of the French King`s Scots Guard (Ch.872);Account, 17 February 1552, of the provisions supplied to the Royal Household at Amboise. Includes a translation (Ch.2059); Bill, 1553, concerning expenses of the French royal household (Ch.2593);Holograph poems, [1931, or before]; and, 'The secret of the heather ale', a tale, 1892, by Neil Munro. (MS.816);...
Dates:
1552-[1931, or before].
Microfilm of ‘M.S. West Highland Tales Vol. V’, being mainly a continuation of the scripts and editorial material for inclusion in ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 3.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1583
Dates:
1860-1861.
Miscellaneous Gaelic papers in various hands, relating principally to William Forbes Skene’s work in preparing his ‘Chronicles of the Picts and Scots’ and ‘Celtic Scotland’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.16
Dates:
Mid 19th century-late 19th century.