Elegies.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poems, especially funeral songs or laments for the dead.
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Copy of verses by the Rev Dr Adam Drummond on the death of his son at the Battle of Brandywine, North America, 1777.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12833
Dates:
circa 1800.
Elegiac verses and funeral sermons on Jean Smith, by her husband the Reverend John Bonar.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7614
Scope and Contents
With decorative penwork.
Dates:
1737.
Elegies and eclogues of Petrus Lotichius the younger.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.32
Dates:
17th century.
`Inscriptiones funebres virorum doctrina, probitate, virtute, clarorum, qui hoc aevo decessere`, compiled by Sir Robert Sibbald, being a collection of funerary inscriptions and elegies of Scots, some composed by Sibbald himself, with a few other poems.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.14
Dates:
Circa 1715.
Jacobite Papers.
File
Identifier: Acc.3412
Scope and Contents
Includes letters, correspondence, printed pamphlets and poems, proclamations and newspaper cuttings.
Dates:
1645-1891.
Lectures on Aristotle delivered by Robert Balfour at the College of Guyenne, Bordeaux.
File
Identifier: MS.2236
Scope and Contents
The lectures, which are not the same in form as Robert Balfour's printed works, were delivered 'in Gimnasio Aquitanico' (folio 307 verso), and deal with Aristotle's logic in general, and particularly with Porphyry's 'Introduction' (folio 2); 'Categories' (folio 42); 'De Interpretatione' (folio 87); 'Prior Analytics' (folio 109 verso); 'Posterior Analytics' (folio 128); 'Topics' (folio 158); 'Sophistici Elenchi' (folio 176); 'Physics', I-V (folio 185); 'De Coelo', I-II, IV (folio 245); De...
Dates:
1587-1590.
Manuscript containing poems of William MacMurchy.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.2
Dates:
1748, 1806, undated.
Manuscript, probably written by Giovan Marco Cinico, of the Latin translation by Francesco Griffolini (formerly attributed to Francesco Accolti) of the spurious letters of Diogenes and Phalaris.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.10
Scope and Contents
The volume is now confused and imperfect, but it is clear that originally there were two compilations: Diogenes with prefatory material (sections (i), (ii), (v), (vi)), and Phalaris with prefatory material (beginning lost, sections (iv), (iii)). The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Elegy dedicating the translation of Diogenes to Pius II, beginning `Ad uaticani praeclara palatia petri` (folio 1).(ii) Title of the translation of Diogenes (folio 3...
Dates:
2nd half of 15th century.
Manuscript translation, 1971, into Scots by J K Annand of Pierre de Ronsard, "Elegie sur le Despart de la Royne Marie Retournant a` son Royaume d`Escosse" (1561).
Item
Identifier: Acc.5190
Dates:
1971.
Military testimonial in favour of Lieutenant Thomas Patrick Ballingall, MC, Machine Gun Corps, and his discharge papers.
File
Identifier: Acc.12902
Scope and Contents
Includes a copy of "Peary: In Memoriam" an elegy on the death in action of James Pearson, late of George Watson`s [Boys] College. Edinburgh, [by G. N. Ballingall].
Dates:
1915.
Papers and translations collected by the Highland Society of Scotland Ossian Committee and its successor the Committee on Celtic Literature.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.16
Scope and Contents
The source material and translations are variously endorsed or annotated by Henry Mackenzie, Donald Mackintosh, and Ewen MacLachlan.The contents are as follows.(M 1). Notes by John Francis Campbell, dated 25 November 1872. (Folio 1.)(i) Cover, probably for folios 12-22, 24-33. Bears hands of Ewen MacLachlan and Mackintosh MacKay. Cf. Adv.MS.73.2.10, folio 207. (Folio 2.)(M 2). Ossianic fragments with some corresponding passages from James...
Dates:
[1794, or after]-1872, undated.
Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.14
Scope and Contents
Mackintosh MacKay was a native of the Reay Country, the son of Captain Alexander MacKay of Duard Beg. In 1828 William Forbes Skene, then nineteen, was sent by his father, at Sir Walter Scott’s recommendation, to study Gaelic with him at Laggan. MacKay had then just finished his work on the Highland Society of Scotland’s Dictionary.The contents are as follows.(i) (John Mackechnie, number 1). A note recording the return of Adv.MS.72.1.33, pages 41-42, formerly here, to...
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
Part of Sir John Sinclair’s general correspondence on Gaelic matters.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.14
Dates:
1807-1824.