Hymns. Songs.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Songs of praise in honor of gods, countries, famous people, or other objects of high esteem, especially settings of metrical strophic nonbiblical texts intended to be sung at religious services.
Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:
Book of hours according to the Use of Rome, written in France., [Circa 1500.]
Item
Identifier: MS.1903
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary (folio 1);(ii) Hours of the Holy Cross (folio 51);(iii) Hours of the Holy Ghost (folio 54);(iv) Penitential Psalms (folio 57); Litany (folio 67);(v) Office of the Dead (folio 73); Sequences of the Gospels (folio 98); Eight Verses of St Bernard (folio 102);(vi) Prayers, 'Obsecro te' (folio 104) and 'O intemerata' (folio 108); 'Les sept ioies principales de...
Dates:
[Circa 1500.]
Book of hours, according to the Use of Rome, written in northern France., Late 15th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.6130
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Calendar in French in red and black; added in black in a later hand at the end of March are Saints Dennis [sic], Patrick and Grizel, in English (folio 6);(ii) Hours of the Cross (folio 18);(iii) Hours of the Holy Ghost (folio 26);(iv) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary (folio 31);(v) Office of the Dead (folio 92);(vi) Penitential Psalms and Litany (folio 132);(vii) 'Obsecro te'...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Book of hours, according to the Use of Rouen., Late 15th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.6129
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Calendar in French in gold, red and blue; entries in gold include Saints Eloi (25 June), Martial (3 July) and Romain (23 October) (folio 1);(ii) Sequences of the Gospels (folio 13);(iii) 'Obsecro te' and 'O intemerata' (folio 18);(iv) Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The office of Nones is incorrectly described as Vespers (folio 25);(v) Penitential Psalms and Litany (folio 72);(vi) Hours...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Commonplace-book, containing moral discourses, maxims, 'devices', and verse, including hymns and 'bouts-rimés', chiefly in French, but also in Latin and German., Late 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.1882
Scope and Contents
Some pieces are described as being 'par moi-même'; others are copied from other authors. The sentiments are Protestant. Several of the poems are in honour of persons belonging to the reigning houses of Saxe-Weimar, Saxe-Gotha, and Brandenburg; the works from which extracts are given include those of Madam and Mademoiselle Deshoulières, Tavernier, and Gregorio Leti. From these references, the manuscript seems to have been written at the end of the seventeenth century. The first leaf of the...
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Commonplace book of Robert Edward., [?1635-?1670.]
Item
Identifier: MS.9450 [Manuscript]
Scope and Contents
The book originally belonged to Robert Edward's father, Alexander, a Dundee merchant, and a business account dated 1622 is on folio 1. The volume chiefly consists of songs, psalms, notes, and instrumental items, several of which appear twice or with parts separated, scraps on the history of music, and poetical items alone. Many of the pieces are of Scottish origin but English and Continental composers appear, as well as both pre- and post-Reformation music.The...
Dates:
[?1635-?1670.]
Family magazines and other papers of Olive Wyon., 1901, 1927, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.5261/1-6
Dates:
1901, 1927, undated.
Fragment of a music book of Robert Moir containing settings of hymns for solo, alto, tenor and bass, copied from hymn books and other printed sources published between 1855 and 1863, as well as from much earlier sources., 1511-1863, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.21774
Scope and Contents
The music book is lacking both covers, and leaves after folios 17, 18 and 31. Folios 30 and 31 have been cut from the binding, whilst folio 22, which contains additional verses, is tipped in.
Dates:
1511-1863, undated.
Gaelic songs and verse., 1752-1823 and undated
Series
Identifier: MSS.14851-14857
Scope and Contents
Gaelic songs assembled by Rev. Donald MacNicol and his son Dugald, containing Ossianic poetry, versions of the spiritual songs of Dugald Buchanan, and songs of Donnchadh Bàn Macintyre and other poets contemporary with the collectors, not all of them identified. Most of the material is in the form of single sheets or sheets folded into small booklets. With a few items of correspondence.
Dates:
1752-1823 and undated
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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The MacNicol collection, comprising Gaelic songs and other papers collected by the Reverend Donald MacNicol, minister of Lismore, and his son Dugald MacNicol, with some added papers and listings of later owners and users of the collection.
Hymn of 'Fountain of being', containing words and music., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.5261/6
Hymns of Dugald Buchanan., ca. 1760
Item
Identifier: MS.14852
Scope and Contents
A small booklet of 10 folios, 18.8 x 11.7 cm. It contains two hymns of Buchanan, who is not identified as the author, and a fragment of another song. Formerly Acc.2152/3. The two hymns by Buchanan are in the hand of Rev. Donald MacNicol, while the fragment is possibly in a different, unidentified hand. On the relationship between the versions of Buchanan's hymns with manuscripts of the same texts found in McLagan MS Gen 1042/20 and 1042/4, Glasgow University Library, see Donald Meek,...
Dates:
ca. 1760
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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The MacNicol collection, comprising Gaelic songs and other papers collected by the Reverend Donald MacNicol, minister of Lismore, and his son Dugald MacNicol, with some added papers and listings of later owners and users of the collection.
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Gaelic songs and verse.
Hymns of Dugald Buchanan and songs of unidentified poets., ca. 1760
Item
Identifier: MS.14851
Scope and Contents
The booklet contains versions of three hymns of Buchanan, who is not identified as the poet, and a few other items. On the relationship between the versions of Buchanan's hymns with manuscripts of the same texts found in McLagan MS Gen 1042/20 and 1042/4, Glasgow University Library, see Donald Meek, 'Dugald Buchanan (1716-68): the poet, the translator, and the manuscript evidence. The Canna Lecture 2016' (Scottish Gaelic Texts Society 2019), esp. pp. 20-25. Formerly...
Dates:
ca. 1760
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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The MacNicol collection, comprising Gaelic songs and other papers collected by the Reverend Donald MacNicol, minister of Lismore, and his son Dugald MacNicol, with some added papers and listings of later owners and users of the collection.
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Gaelic songs and verse.
Hymns, with tunes, in an album, apparently of the late eighteenth century., Late 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.3709 [Cwn.1026]
Dates:
Late 18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscript material in the collection of printed Bibles, psalters, hynm-books, etc., of William Cowan, editor of the ‘Church Hymnary’, and author of ‘The bibliography of the book of common order and psalm book of the Church of Scotland, 1556-1644’.
Letter, 1832, poems and hymns of the Reverend Horatius Bonar., 1832, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1758, folios 56-74
Miscellaneous educational, cultural and literary papers of the Chalmers family of Auldbar., 1758-1867.
File
Identifier: MS.15508
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Papers concerning the classical, literary and historical education of Patrick Chalmers (died 1824) (folio 1);
(ii) Notes of Patrick Chalmers, Advocate, on Roman law (folio 31);
(iii) Papers concerning the legal career of Patrick Chalmers, including his admission papers to the Inner Temple (1758) and the Faculty of Advocates (1762-1763; admitted 1764) (folio 54);
(iv) Miscellaneous classical exercises (folio 76);
(v) Testimonials in favour of, and academic...
Dates:
1758-1867.
Miscellaneous papers of Sir Charles Dalrymple found loosely enclosed in his journals (MSS.25568-25629), 1861-1916, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.25631
Scope and Contents
With one letter to John Adam Fergusson, 1908.
Dates:
1861-1916, undated.
Music book containing dances, songs, and hymns, in various hands., [Circa 1814.]
Item
Identifier: MS.5781
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection consists of manuscripts on a wide variety of subjects, many copied from manuscript or printed works, and chiefly dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Among them are some account-books, diaries, and other manuscripts of family interest (including a few concerning the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, father of the 6th Marchioness of Lothian), but very few letters.
Dates:
[Circa 1814.]
Music book of Robert Moir containing psalms, hymns in four-part harmony, songs and exercises, copied from printed sources published between 1853 and 1861., 1853-1861.
Item
Identifier: MS.21772
Scope and Contents
Leaves have been cut out after folio 2, and folio 3 has been mutilated. Folios 10 and 12, which contain additional verses, are tipped in.
Dates:
1853-1861.
Music book of the daughters of James Douglas containing songs from various countries and some hymns., Early 19th century-mid 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.21794
Scope and Contents
The music book is apparently lacking both covers.
Compositions by Mary Douglas are at folios 5-6 verso and by James Douglas of Cavers at folio 19.
Dates:
Early 19th century-mid 19th century.
Music book, undated, of Robert Moir containing hymn tunes, some in simple treble notation, songs, some of which are in settings for voice and keyboards, and exercises, all apparently copied from published sources., 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.21773
Scope and Contents
Leaves have been torn out after folios 2 and 4. Folios 10 12, 14 and 16, which contain additional verses, are tipped in.
Dates:
19th century.
Notebook of Evelyn Stewart-Murray containing Gaelic songs and hymns copied from the McLagan collection., 1888.
Item
Identifier: MS.14884
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains an inscription on the first leaf: ‘from the Manuscripts of the late Revd James McLagan Blair Athole; and lent to P.C. [i.e. Paul Cameron?] by his grandson, the Revd L.C. MacLagan Wedderburn F.C. Madderty May 24 1888 P.C. June 26. 1888. E.S.M.’The last two folios are tipped in at the back and probably copied from a different source.The notebook contains the following.(i) James McLagan (?). ‘Failte Adhail’. 12 double quatrains, beginning “'N uair...
Dates:
1888.
Notebooks of Evelyn Stewart-Murray containing copies of Gaelic songs and hymns., 1888, 1890.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14884-14885
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Gaelic manuscripts of Lady Evelyn Stewart-Murray (1868-1940), third daughter of John James Hugh Henry Stewart-Murray, 7th duke of Atholl (1840-1917). Having learned Gaelic in her youth, she collected 240 Gaelic folk tales in Perthshire (the manuscripts now held in Blair Castle), and also left behind notebooks of Gaelic songs and other Gaelic material. The contents are as follows.MS.14884. Songs copied from McLagan Collection; small collection of hymns...
Dates:
1888, 1890.
Notes of Lady John Scott on music, and songs, chiefly Scottish., 1826-1827.
File
Identifier: MS.842
Scope and Contents
The contents nclude a hymn by James Hogg beginning, “Blessed be Thy name for ever”, “Lucy’s Flittin’” by William Laidlaw, “The Spottiswoode's Quick March”, and “The Spotys-woode's Coronach”.
Dates:
1826-1827.
Order of Gaelic service, printed., 12 February 1933
File
Identifier: Acc.13865/12
Scope and Contents
Printed order of service, entitled 'Glasgow University Bute Hall. Order of Gaelic Service 12 February 1933 at 3 p.m.' 4 pp. The preacher was the Rev. Charles MacKinnon, minister of St. Paul's Outer High Church, Glasgow; Rev. John Mackechnie and Mr Roderick Smith, member of the Ossianic Society, are listed as readers. Contains the texts of four Gaelic hymns.
Dates:
12 February 1933
Photocopy of a music book of Elizabeth Hickton, Rothes, containing dances and a few hymn tunes., 1st half of 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.21781
Scope and Contents
Elizabeth Hickton's name is recorded on folio 3.
Dates:
1st half of 19th century.
Photostat of 'A hymn for divine music for soprano and continuo' by William Croft, with realization of figured bass by Celia Bizony, as performed in the National Library of Scotland during the Edinburgh Festival of 1958., [1958, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.8494, folios 273-275
Dates:
[1958, or before.]