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Collection of Scottish poems and satirical verse.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.13
Scope and Contents

The first 70 folios are in manuscript while the latter half of the volume consists of a collection of printed broadsides of the 18th century. Several of the manuscript items appear in print and a list of them is inserted at the beginning of the volume.

Dates: ?Early 18th century.

Collection of Spanish poetry.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.41
Scope and Contents

The poetry is anonymous.

The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.190) includes the reference: (W.6.45).

Dates: Early 17th century.

Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15
Scope and Contents

The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.

Dates: 1548-1641.

Collection of tales and verse compiled for Ronald MacDonald of Staffa, Advocate, by Iain MacMhuirich (John MacPherson), schoolmaster in Mull.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.1
Scope and Contents Tales and Ossianic verse written down from the recitation of Donald MacLean (born 1715), who had most of his material from his grandfather Malcolm MacPhail (Calum Mac Phail), Rothill, Torosay. Macpherson's foreword is dated April 1803; the date on the back of the final leaf gives the dating of ‘1802-3-& 4’.The contents are included as collection "P" in John Francis Campbell of Islay's 'Leabhar na Feinne' (London 1872), and page numbers are given below; see also pages...
Dates: 1802-1804, 1871.

'Collection of the ancient martial music of Caledonia’ by Donald Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1822), with the signature of Peter Reid dated Glasgow 1826, a poem in his hand, and other material bound in at the back.

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Identifier: MS.22118
Scope and Contents Peter Reid's signature is on the flyleaf (folio i) and the poem in his hand on the recto of page 2 of the 'Instructions'.Bound in at the back are:(i) Leaves ruled for music on most of which Reid has written out additional tunes, below which, on some of the leaves, are marginalia, parts of which have been lost due to trimming of the leaves (folio 1);(ii) Unruled leaves on which he has written various poems and songs (folio 35), and a list of the clans of...
Dates: 1822-1826

`Coloquy betwixt Philander and Silvia` and other Scottish poems, mainly satirical.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.16
Scope and Contents

All the poems are apparently unpublished.

Dates: Circa 1760.

Common-place book containing a collection of verse transcripts and reminiscences relating chiefly to Frasers and Roses, with some of the writings or compositions of Forbes and Culloden and John Roy Stewart, written by Peter Rose.

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Identifier: MS.14898
Scope and Contents The manuscript, watermarked 1827, was written by Peter Rose who lived circa 1764-1841, a cadet of a family which had a lease of Ardachy, Abertarff, 1726-1770. He spent his working life in the West Indies, retiring to Scotland 1824 or 1825. A cloth label on the inside front cover is inscribed ‘P. ROSE OF ROSE HALL’, and pencilled note on the flyleaf reads “Bd. At B’pool 1 Sep /36” (i.e. 1836?). The contents are as follows.(i) Contents list (folio ii);(ii)...
Dates: [1827 or after.]

Commonplace book, 1863-1896, of Robert Dickson Glover, a merchant at Roslin and later in Portobello.

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Identifier: MS.14277
Scope and Contents

The book contains verses, historical and literary material, notes of events in Roslin, 1869-1873, and fragments of a diary for 1895-1896. A later hand has added copies of poems and of the will, May 1927, of John Glover who died in 1933 (folio 96).

Dates: 1863-1896, 1927, undated.

Commonplace Book containing drawings of scenery, characters, flora and fauna and miscellanous verse.

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Identifier: Acc.13650
Scope and Contents

This volume contains numerous illustrations including the `Costume of the Ladies of Edinburgh, Spring 1828`, a drawing of the Water of Leith, a man in Albanian costume in southern Italy, the ruins of a Roman temple in Palmyra in Syria, together with flora and fauna. There are also verses from Shakespeare, Byrone, Washington Irving, Sir Walter Raleigh, Milton and James Thomson.

Dates: 1828-1847, undated.

Commonplace book containing poems, household and medical recipes, riddles and notes, written in several hands.

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Identifier: MS.14275
Scope and Contents

Folios 1-20 contain a collection of verses, most of which are dated 1789.

Dates: 1783-1828.

Commonplace book of Donald Mackay, 1848, containing miscelleanous texts including medical prescriptions, texts of religious instruction, songs partly with music, and Gaelic songs, partly composed by Mackay himself.

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Identifier: Acc.14338
Content Description Commonplace book dated 1848, paginated by the scribe 1-732, 781-790, blank after page 727. A leather label pasted onto the front paste-down reads "Donald McKay 1848". The scribe was possibly the Rev. Donald Mackay (1829-1910), a native of Creich, Sutherland, minister of various parishes including Paisley and Nova Scotia. From 1848-1853, around the time of writing of the commonplace book, he was schoolmaster in Ullapool. If Mackay's identity could be confirmed, this time scale might explain...
Dates: 1848.

Commonplace book of George Anderson, Glasgow.

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Identifier: MS.14276
Scope and Contents

As well as poetry, recipes and miscellaneous notes, the book includes instructions for road-making (page 3) and designs for a pump and a building for making lamp-black (pages 37, 66).

Dates: 1818-1827.

Commonplace book of James Gray, priest of the diocese of Dunblane.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.34.7.3
Scope and Contents Composite manuscript produced in Scotland and compiled in the late 15th century, probably circa 1500, by James Gray, priest of the diocese of Dunblane and secretary to William Scheves, Archbishop of St Andrews. The manuscript is a commonplace book and consists of a variety of religious, historical, legal, and literary material. There are several hands evident throughout the manuscript. Anderson states that folios 1r-24v are written by very similar hands, and could...
Dates: Late 15th century.

Commonplace book of Janet W M Stewart.

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Identifier: Acc.14402
Scope and Contents

Includes excerpts from the novels of Sir Walter Scott, the poetry of Lord Byron and John Milton, and the plays of Joanna Baillie. The volume also includes a number of drawings of buildings and landscapes and several illustrations of flowers.

Dates: 1820-1834.

Commonplace book of Mrs C E R Drummond-Hay, of Seggieden, containing religious verses and transcripts of letters from her son, Lieutenant (later Lieutenant-Colonel) James Adam Gordon Richardson Drummond-Hay while on active service.

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Identifier: MS.8907
Scope and Contents

The thirteen letters, written between February and April 1885, are addressed by James Drummond-Hay to his parents and other members of his family, and recount in diary form his experiences as a member of the Coldstream Guards contingent both on the voyage to the Sudan and on arrival there. There is much detailed description of military activity in the Suakin region.

Dates: 1868-1885.

Commonplace book of Patrick Turner containing ‘Bolg an t-Sholair’ and other miscellaneous verse in Gaelic.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.7
Scope and Contents Commonplace-book (watermarked 1798) of Patrick Turner when he was a corporal in the Argyll Fencibles, dated Meath 1801 (folio 24 verso). The script is largely Roman, occasionally Gaelic, and the language of the text varies from Scotticised transliteration of Irish to pure Scottish Gaelic. Turner’s affidavit, Ingliston MS A.i.15 (g), states ‘that the manuscript in the Roman character and in his own hand writing, was transcribed from a manuscript in the possession of a Schoolmaster ten or...
Dates: 1801.

Commonplace book of the Earl of Buchan.

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Identifier: MS.963
Scope and Contents The comonplace book contains drafts of letters to the ‘Bee’, an inventory of the Earl of Buchan’s property, lists of Scottish portraits, an ode, ‘To the Shepherd of the Cot’, and notes and drafts of papers on the Scottish Peerage and other subjects. Included is a manuscript copy of ‘The New Order of Gooding and Manuring all sorts of Field Land with Common Salts’, by Archibald, afterwards 1st Lord Napier (said to have been printed by Robert Waldegrave), referring to the right to issue...
Dates: 1778-1791.

Commonplace Book probably compiled by C Shaw, York.

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Identifier: Acc.13514
Scope and Contents

Commonplace Book consisting largely of verse, but also with drawings of a Highland scene and pipers at Farr, botanical specimens from Farr and Edinburgh, and pasted in scraps from a visit to Scotland of 1826, and later visits to Switzerland and France.

Dates: 1826-1865, undated

Commonplace book, undated, compiled by James Glasford (died 1845).

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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 manuscript of miscellaneous Gaelic texts.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.8
Scope and Contents A composite ('mangeral', page 194) manuscript of 3 sections, the first probably from Ulster, the others from Munster.Section 1: Pages 13-182. ‘Foolscap’ watermark typical of latter half of 17th century. The hand at pages 13-120 is otherwise unknown, but the date ‘1709’ (page 44, margin) may be an indication of the year of writing. That at pages 121-180 is Hand X of the Antrim Manuscript, National Museum of Scotland MCR 40.Section 2: Pages 182a-272. ‘Coat of arms’...
Dates: 18th century.

Composite volume of 15th-century manuscripts of miscellaneous works by four hands bound together, with an incunable, in the 16th-century or earlier.

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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.

Composite volume of English origin containing two manuscripts of the 12th and 13th century; the 'Thebaid' of Statius, and the 'Aeneid' of Virgil

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.12
Scope and Contents (i) Statius, 'Thebaid' (folio 1). There is a prose argument on folio v verso, and verse arguments to books ii-v, vii-ix, and xii. The text of this manuscript belongs to Boussard's group σ⁴ (Paris.lat.8280, Vatican Barb.lat.106, Vatican Pal.lat.1692, Florence Laur.pl.58.7 - all 13th century; and Milan Ambros.H.21 inf., 14th-15th century), as omitting x.104-105 and 112-117, having the interpolation before x.131, and having varying readings in the other test passages (x.62 'pudorem', s.1....
Dates: 12th century-13th century.

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Language
English 708
Undetermined 358
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 74
Latin 50
Multiple languages 28
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Names
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 26
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 22
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 17
Ewart, Gavin Buchanan, poet, 1916-1995 15
Morrison, Trevor, poet, d 2013 14
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Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 13
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 11
Graham, William Sydney, poet, 1918-1986 11
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 11
Scott, Thomas McLaughlin, poet and editor, 1918-1995 10
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 9
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 9
Hogg, James, the Ettrick Shepherd (Scottish poet, novelist and essayist) 9
Soutar, William (poet) 9
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 8
Turnbull, Gael Lundin, poet and physician, 1928-2004 8
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 7
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 7
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, novelist, 1850–1894 7
Campbell, Thomas (poet) 6
Chapman, Scotland, literary magazine 6
Hay, George Campbell, poet, 1915-1984 6
Macgregor, Forbes, poet and teacher, 1904-1991 6
Gray, Alasdair (author) 5
Macleod, Joseph Todd Gordon, poet and radio announcer, pseudonym Adam Drinan, 1903–1984 5
Smith, Iain Crichton (poet and author) 5
Sutherland, Robert Garioch, poet, pseudonym Robert Garioch, 1909-1981 5
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 5
Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron (afterwards Noel, poet) 4
Cencrastus (Scottish literary and cultural magazine) 4
Finlay, Ian Hamilton, poet and sculptor, 1925-2006 4
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 4
Henderson, Hamish, poet and folklorist, 1919-2002 4
Jamieson, Morley, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1940-1988 4
Leonard, Thomas, poet, b 1944 4
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 4
Ramsay, Allan, poet, 1684-1758 4
Reid, Alastair, poet, b 1926 4
Scotia Review, literary journal 4
Scott, Alexander Mackie, poet and editor, 1920-1989 4
White, Kenneth, poet and writer, b 1936 4
Aitken, William Russell, bibliographer, 1913-1998 3
Akros, literary magazine 3
Black, David MacLeod, poet, b 1941 3
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 3
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 3
Carlyle, Jane Baillie Welsh, poet and writer, née Welsh, 1801-1866 3
Conn, Stewart, poet, playwright and broadcaster, b 1936 3
Fowler, Alastair David Shaw, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1930 3
Fulton, Robin, poet, b 1937 3
Hutchison, Isobel Wylie (botanist and traveller) 3
Irvine, Alexander, Minister of Little Dunkeld, 1773-1824 3
Jamie, Kathleen, poet, b 1962 3
Louis César de La Baume Le Blanc, Duc de La Vallière 3
MacCaig, Norman Alexander, poet, 1910-1996 3
Macfie, Ronald Campbell, physician and writer, d 1931 3
McTurk, Isabella, correspondent of Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle, poet and writer, fl 1823-1828: recipient 3
Morgan, Edwin George, Professor of English, University of Glasgow, and poet, 1920-2010 3
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012. 3
Price, Richard John, librarian, poet and editor, b 1966 3
Reid, Alexander, playwright, 1914-1982 3
School of Poets, 1981-, Edinburgh 3
Scott, Francis George, composer, 1880-1958 3
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 3
Scottish Poetry Library, 1984-, Edinburgh 3
Sibbald, Robert, Sir, Knight (physician and Geographer Royal) 3
Turner, William Price, author, 1927-1988 3
Aytoun, William Edmondstoune, poet, 1813-1865 2
Boccaccio, Giovanni (Writer and Poet) 2
Boswell, Sir Alexander, 1st Baronet, of Auchinleck, 1775-1822 2
Bowring, Sir John, Knight, politician, diplomatist and author, 1792-1872: recipient 2
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 2
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 2
Burnett (of Leys) 2
Butlin, Ronald Y, writer, b 1949 2
Cargill, James, Edinburgh, writing master, fl 1830-1861 2
Corrie, Joseph, miner and playwright, 1894-1968 2
Cruickshank, Helen Burness, poet, 1886-1975 2
Currie, James (physician) 2
Edinburgh Review (Scottish cultural magazine, 1969-) 2
Gardner, Archibald Ward, physician, 1923-1994 2
Greig, Andrew, poet, b 1951 2
Grieve, Valda, 2nd Wife of Christopher M, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid, née Trevlyn, 1906-1989 2
Hendry, Diana Lois, poet and children's writer, b 1941 2
Henry, William Stuart, artist, pseudonym Henry Stuart, fl 1942-1973 2
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 2
Hogg, Robert, nephew of James Hogg, the poet, 1802-1834 2
Holton, Harvey, poet, 1949-2010 2
Hutchison, Alexander, poet, b 1943 2
Jamieson, Robert Alan, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1958 2
Jarvie, Gordon, writer and editor, b.1941. 2
Law, Thomas Sturdy, poet, 1916-1997 2
Lines Review, Scottish poetry journal 2
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 2
Mac Mhurchaidh, Uilleam , ca. 1700-1778 (schoolmaster, poet and scribe) 2
MacCulloch, John, geologist, 1773-1835 2
MacDonald, Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, poet, ca. 1698-ca. 1770 2
MacGill-Eain, Somhairle (poet) 2
MacMhuirich family (Gaelic poets) 2
MacMhuirich, Niall, ca. 1637-1726 2
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