Epistles.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Literary genre taking the form of letters, usually of a literary, formal, or public nature. Examples are the epistles in the Biblical New Testament.
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
"Leyden's poems, &c. MS", collected by the Reverend James Morton., 1794-1837, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3383
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Copies of poems of John Leyden, including some not published in collected editions of his works. (Folio 1.)(ii) Writings in Leyden's hand: note on the magical books of Michael Scott (folio 71 verso); prose fragment, 'The Sexton' (folio 72); fragments of two poems in Scots, namely, one on the death of a sexton, signed 'J.L., Banks of Teviot', and a verse epistle to the printer of the ‘British Chronicle’ (folio 73); fragment of...
Dates:
1794-1837, undated.
Manuscript, fifteenth century, of the earlier Wycliffite translation of the Epistles of St Paul., 1409.
Item
Identifier: MS.6127
Scope and Contents
The Epistle to the Romans begins on the bottom half of folio 1. The top half of the folio contained the end of Acts, now erased, over which has been written in a cursive, sixteenth-century hand, 'All thepisties of Paule apostle followen writen 1409 into English'; in the margin the date 1209 is added, presumably a misreading of the indistinct date in the inscription.The latter part of the Prologue to the Epistle to the Romans is missing, as in British Library Egerton MS.618,...
Dates:
1409.
Poem, titled, 'Epistle to a Lady on the Advantages of Literature to the Fair Sex'., December 1806.
Item
Identifier: MS.12832
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
As well as material of inherent literary or intellectual interest, the papers in this section, deriving from various members of the family, provide a record of entertainment and leisure in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Dates:
December 1806.
Poems and verse epistles addressed to or about Sir Walter Scott., 1812-1832.
File
Identifier: MS.922
Dates:
1812-1832.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
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Accounts of Sir Walter Scott and other documents relating to him.
Transcript, [circa 1879], of ‘Cantus, songs and fancies to three, four or five parts’ by John Forbes, including an original sheet of part of the 'Epistle dedicatory'., 1682.
File
Identifier: MS.21745
Translation into English of 'The Mattins and Laudes for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday in Holy Week' (those for Saturday are missing) with a 'Dedicatory Epistle to y[e] Queen of France' signed 'J.N.C.', Late 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.2765
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Many of the manuscripts contain notes, indexes, etc., by George Neilson.
Dates:
Late 17th century.