Riddles
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Anonymous manuscript riddles, undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.7462
Scope and Contents
With associated letter, 1975, of Margaret Jeffrey.
Dates:
1975 and undated.
Audio cassettes of recordings of the works of William Soutar, produced by Scotsoun.
Series
Identifier: Acc.6805/1-4
Dates:
1976.
Four letters, 1823 and undated, of Jane Welsh Carlyle, and two letters, 1838 and undated, of Grace Welsh to Isabella McTurk.
File
Identifier: Acc.12039
Scope and Contents
Includes:
1. verses, 1832 and undated, in various hands;
2. riddles and verses, circa 1828, given by Jane Welsh Carlyle to Isabella McTurk.
Dates:
1823-1838.
Four letters, [1823], and undated, of Jane Welsh Carlyle, and two letters, 1838, and undated, of Grace Welsh, to Isabella McTurk, mainly concerning personal matters.
File
Identifier: Dep.295- is now Acc.12039.
Scope and Contents
Includes:
1. verses, 1832 and undated, in various hands;
2. riddles and verses, circa 1828, given by Jane Welsh Carlyle to Isabella McTurk.
Dates:
[1823]-1838, and undated.
Manuscript, written in England in the late 11th century, containing the satires of Persius, the fables of Avianus, and miscellaneous poetry and other works.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.12
Scope and Contents
Most of the leaves are palimpsest, but the underwriting is illegible; it may be from the same manuscripts as that in Adv.MS.18.7.8 (pricking from the original manuscript survives on folios 3+6, 9, 16+23, 17+22, 26+29, 34+35, in one or both edges of the text-frame; the width of the ruled area was 172 millimetres in folios 3+6, 17+22, 26+29, 192 millimetres in folio 9.). See 'Notice et extraits d'un manuscrit d' Edinbourg', 33 and what follows.The contents of the manuscript are as...
Dates:
Late 11th century.
`Melange Ridicule`, commonplace book compiled by Rachel Duff
Item
Identifier: Acc.13543
Scope and Contents
Commonplace Book containing miscellaneous verse, riddles, letters and numerous pasted in cartoons, drawings and press cuttings. Printed items include prints from John Kay`s `Original Portraits`, 1839, a printed programme for the New Concert Hall, Canongate, 1754 and a copy of the `Edinburgh Evening Courant` for 24 September 1745 with an account of the Battle of Prestonpans.
Dates:
Undated, 19th century
Photographs of riddles and verses given to Isabella McTurk by Jane Welsh Carlyle.
File
Identifier: Acc.7322
Dates:
circa 1828.