Epitaphs.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Inscriptions on sepulchral monuments in the memory of those buried in the tomb or grave. (AAT) Collections of copies of epitaphs in general. Collections from a particular place are indexed also under the place. Epitaphs of a particular person go under the name of the person. (NLS).
Found in 56 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of and concerning Sir Walter Scott., [?1622-?1844], undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1583
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Writings and notes of Sir Walter Scott, chiefly in his autograph. They include letters to James Bailey, 1812, 1817, 1825, with Bailey's annotations, 1837; fragments of the essay on Pepys published in the ‘Quarterly Review’ for March 1826; two drafts of an address from the Magistrates and Freeholders of Selkirkshire to the House of Commons (see the 'Journal', 7-10 March 1831); a draft letter on the political situation, undated; epitaphs on Colonel...
Dates:
[?1622-?1844], undated.
Poems, epigrams, epitaphs, etc., in William Drummond's hand, chiefly of his own composition, with some copies of the work of other writers., First half of 17th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2062
Scope and Contents
One portion is entitled 'An addition to the poemes of W.D., 1620' (folio 1).
Dates:
First half of 17th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Hawthornden Manuscripts: original papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler, secretary to Queen Anne, consort of James VI.
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Manuscripts of William Drummond of Hawthornden.
Poems (including occasional, political, and love poems), songs and epitaphs., Early 17th century-18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.17799
Scope and Contents
The great majority of the works are of the eighteenth century; but the earlier ones include one each by Andrew Melville (folio 1) and Arthur Johnston (folio 3), both apparently unpublished.
Dates:
Early 17th century-18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Academic and literary papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Transcripts, eighteenth century, of two chronicles and an epitaph., 1429-1527, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2780
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Verse chronicle, 1429-1496, of Georges Chastellain and Jean Molinet. See J A Buchon, 'Collection des chroniques nationales françaises’ (Paris, 1824-1828), volume xli, page xxxix, where a somewhat different version is given. (Page 1.)(ii) Verse chronicle, 1492-1527, of Nicaise Ladam. Apparently not the work listed by A Molinier, "Les Sources de l’histoire de France des origines aux guerres d'Italie (1494)" (Paris, 1901-1906), volume v,...
Dates:
1429-1527, undated.
Two epitaphs probably by William Hamilton of Bangour.
File
Identifier: Acc.11631
Dates:
1742 and undated.
Volume of miscellaneous papers concerning genealogy and religion which belonged to Robert Mylne, the antiquary.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.1.1
Scope and Contents
Sections (i), (ii), (v), and (vi) are written by Mylne himself; (iii) and (iv) by another late-seventeenth- or early-eighteenth-century hand; the last addition in (vi) is by an eighteenth-century hand. Sections (i), (ii), (iii)-(iv), and (vi) originally had separate paginations: Mylne has overwritten these in paginating throughout. An instruction to his binder survives on folio 75. There is the beginning of an index on folios 177-178, deleted and with the note that `the index is in loos...
Dates:
1st quarter of 15th century-1st half of 18th century.