Elegies.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poems, especially funeral songs or laments for the dead.
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Miscellaneous legal papers, elegies and poems., 1596-17th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2935
Scope and Contents
The papers include reports of Justiciary Court trials, 1596-1639 - some not in Robert Pitcairn's ‘Criminal Trials’ (Bannatyne Club, 1833) (folio 5); notes of decisions of the Lords of Council and Session, 'by my cussine' Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall and by Thomas Veitch, Advocate, 1619-circa 1650 (folio 37); elegies on ministers, seventeenth century (folio 63); and poems, chiefly Royalist and Jacobite (folio 74).
Dates:
1596-17th century.
Personal papers and photographs of Michael Roberts., c1900s-2015.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13860/2-13b
Photostats of parts of 'Adversaria', a commonplace-book of Sir Walter Scott., 1796.
File
Identifier: MS.2232
Scope and Contents
The following sections of the book are reproduced:(i) Poem on Cater Thun, beginning, 'Cold the wild blast that chills thy brow', 5 May 1796 (folio 1);(ii) 'To a Lady', lines beginning, 'For thee from Time's slow mouldering hold' (folio 3);(iii) Lines beginning, 'Farewell my dear Jamie, ah take my farewell', with the refrain, 'Lochaber no more' (folio 4);(iv) 'Elegy on Shenstone', beginning, 'Listless laid beneath a willow' (folio 5);...
Dates:
1796.
Poems, chiefly elegies and personal satires, and Jacobite political satires, and a few other documents, Scottish and English, chiefly of the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century., 1644-1821, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2092
Scope and Contents
Several of the papers are in the hand of Robert Mylne.
Dates:
1644-1821, undated.
Poems, chiefly undated odes and elegies., 1777, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.6389
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
There is also some correspondence of the Seaforth family, Henry's son, Joshua Henry, having married Helen, daughter of Lord Seaforth.
Dates:
1777, undated.
Printed Gaelic battle song and elegy on the death of Rev. Dr. Alexander Irvine., ca. 1804 and 184
Item
Identifier: MS.14877
Scope and Contents
A folder of miscellaneous material, containing:[Anonymous]. A printed battle song headed "Brostuchadh cogaidh do chlannuibh Gaidheal 'sna bliannuibh 177-8, 1803-4 nuair a thug na Francaich ionnsuidh air Breatuinn agus Eirinn; agus fa leath do 'n Lochraidh-dheonach. Air fonn, 'O cuir a nall am bodach.'" Begins ''S mithich dusgadh, chlanna-Gaidheal, / 'S buill a' chatha ghlacadh dana.' 25 stanzas of 4 lines, with a refrain of 4 lines beginning 'O Chlanna-Gaidheal chugnuibh, / I...
Dates:
ca. 1804 and 184
‘The secret history of the revolution in a missive from the Earl of Balcarras to King James the Seventh… att Paris’, 1688-1690.
Item
Identifier: MS.14792
Scope and Contents
On page 117 there is an ‘Elogie upon the Viscount of Dundee by Doctor Pitcairn’ in Latin with an English translation.
Dates:
1688-1690.
Treatises on Oriental languages, chiefly in the hand of Robert Melvill., 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.1940
Scope and Contents
The volume includes a Hebrew grammar (folio 1); 'Linguae Chaldaicae brevis institutio' (folio 23); Syriac and Hebrew vocabularies (folios 27 verso, 30 verso); "Solomon's Song resolved" (folio 44); Oriental alphabets (folio 95); 'A Manuduction to the utter porch of the Arabick Grammar Schoole' (folio 97 verso); 'Chronologia sacra' (inverted folios 139 verso-135 verso, 122 verso-104, 88 verso-83 verso); also Latin elegies on persons associated with Fife and Kinross (inverted folios 133-131)...
Dates:
17th century.