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Calligraphic manuscript volume of poems written by James Cargill.
Carbon copy of typescript of "Selected Poems 1920-1970" by Albert D Mackie.
'Carmen paschale' by Coelius Sedulius; an Italian, possibly Florentine, manuscript, with the title 'De actibus prophetarum et toto Christi salvatoris cursu’.
Cartulary of the Earls of Winton, in a seventeenth century hand.
The charters are arranged in four books dealing with the lands of Elphinstone (folio 6), Tranent (folio 49), Hartsheid (folio 176), and Kirkliston and Winchburgh (folio 184). At the end (folio 219 verso) is a humorous quatrain by the copyist.
Cassette recording of 60 poems and 12 songs of William Soutar.
Catalogue (in two volumes) and valuation of the library of Alfred Shepherd, Writer to the Signet.
With a manuscript poem on the origins and early history of Britain.
CD of amateur recording of Naomi Mitchison reading seven of her poems.
Children`s rhymes and other scraps of Scottish poetry, possibly collected by Abijah Murray.
‘Christian. Spiritual Poems on Several Subjects, Relating to the conduct of providence and cases of the soul. In four parts. Part I’, by James Meikle, a surgeon of Carnwath, probably written between 1750 and 1780.
As explained by the author in his Preface to the Reader, the poems were written over a period of many years, with additions and revisions being made at later dates. This first part contains 101 poems, only a few of which are dated.
According to ‘The Life of James Meikle’, it was Meikle`s intention to publish the poems in four volumes, but for various reasons, publication never took place.
Christmas cards and papers of William Wolfe.
The collection consists of fourteen Christmas cards, 1989-2009, of William Wolfe (1924-2010), leader (1969 to 1979) and president (1980-1982) of the SNP. All the cards include a poem and all, but one of them, are illustrated with a photograph.
It also includes three letters, 1992-1994, and a typescript, 6 February 1992, concerning Wolfe`s account of his reaction to the Pope`s visit to Scotland in 1982.
Chronicles and historical works, written in England.
"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’.
Collection, made in the eighteenth century, of Jacobite songs, odes, satirical verse, etc.
Collection of English pasquils, mostly anonymous, but some attributed to John Dryden, Andrew Marvell and others.
The poems were written, according to the dates in the margin, mainly between 1676 and 1687 and are copied in several hands.
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.
Collection of holograph manuscripts of authors of the early 20th century.
Collection of manuscript fragments containing classical verse in Gaelic.
Collection of miscellaneous poems, some of which relate to Scottish affairs, written mainly before the Restoration.
On the flyleaf is written "Incept. March 23 1652/3".
The poems are written in two different hands and at the rear of the volume there are several pages written in cypher or shorthand.
Collection of papers of Mark Alexander Boyd, including a few of members of his family.
Collection of poems copied by several hands and including work by Byron, Scott and Thomas Campbell among others.
Some of the poems were copied at Dundee, Glasgow, London and Brechin Castle, and the volume appears to have belonged to members of the Robertson family of Dundee. There are pencilled notes on the different branches of the family inside the front cover.
Collection of romances and religious material, mostly in verse, written in the North Midlands by Richard Heeg with some items by James Hawghton and additions in other hands.
Collection of sacred religious hymns and verses.
The hymns and verses are by William Lighton, Robert Sandeman, William Sandeman, J.G?, and others whose initials are given.
Collection of Scottish pasquils in the hand of Sir James Balfour of Denmilne.
Collection of Scottish poems and Jacobite songs.
The majority of the poems are anonymous but there are two by Allan Ramsay, one by Jonathan Swift, and one attributed to Colley Cibber. Several of the other poems have been printed and some appear in ‘First Line Index of English Poetry’. A list of these poems is inserted at the beginning of the volume.
Apart from the poems there are several pages written in a cypher and folios 71-73 contain dressmaking accounts, dated 1722-1729, in a different hand.