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 16 Collections and/or Records:
13th-century manuscript of the 'Metamophoses' of Ovid, written in France, with numerous contemporary and later interlinear and marginal glosses.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.8
Scope and Contents
The initials of each book are alternately blue and red. There are numerous contemporary and later interlinear and marginal glosses. In the lower margins of folios 81 verso-87 is written in a 14th-century hand a hymn to the Virgin in French, in 97 verses, beginning 'Dame resplendissant roine gloriose' ( ‘Répertoire d`incipit de prières en ancien français’, number 330; attributed to Gautier de Coinci). In the lower margin of folio 112 verso is written `Aue Maria, bene dicamus` with music above...
Dates:
Late 13th century.
Book of United Presbyterian hymn tunes of the Rev. Dr Hugh Aird, Brechin, with associated material.
File
Identifier: Acc.13951
Content Description
Book of hymn tunes, with a label reading "Hugh Aird 1839" pasted onto the inside front cover. The book contains ca. 80 tunes, without texts, of the United Presbyterian Church. The tunes are arranged for four voices, and a contents list is found at the front. Paginated by the scribe 1-100, followed by 19 blank pages. With a photograph of the Rev. Hugh Aird, ?ca. 1890, and a printed obituary entitled "In Memoriam. Rev. Hugh Aird, M.A., D.D., Brechin."
Dates:
1839-1895
Collection of sacred religious hymns and verses.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.17
Scope and Contents
The hymns and verses are by William Lighton, Robert Sandeman, William Sandeman, J.G?, and others whose initials are given.
Dates:
1741-1742.
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’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3709-3712
Dates:
Late 18th century-1927, undated.
Manuscript music-book, containing ballads, dances, and pianoforte pieces, hymns, and vocal exercises and scales.
File
Identifier: MS.3282
Scope and Contents
The music-book is made up of pages watermarked 1794.
The volume contains ballads, dances, and pianoforte pieces from Scotland and various European countries (passim), hymns (folios 22 verso-31), and vocal exercises and scales (folios 22, 32 verso-33 verso, 70-71 verso). Among the more extended pieces are extracts for pianoforte from Méhul's 'Jeune Henri' of 1797 (folio 67 verso), and from an opera 'Paul and Virginia', possibly that produced in London in 1800; and 'Favourite dances at...
Dates:
?1794-1813.
Manuscript of the Gaṇapatisūkta, a hymn to Ganapati or Ganesha, the God of Wisdom, and Śāntisūtra, a hymn of atonement.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.13.2.13
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is in Devanāgarī script.The contents are as follows:(i) Gaṇapatisūkta (Hymn to Ganapati or Ganesha, the God of Wisdom).
Side margins drawn in red, daṇḍas highlighted in red, accents marked in red, incipit daubed with red (all marks of a carefully prepared and valued manuscript). No colophon.(ii) Śāntisūtra (Hymn of Atonement).
No margins or colouring. Colophon (folio 21 verso): ॥ oṃm ॥ śrīkṛṣṇārpaṇam astu ॥ cha (6 times) [that is, a...
Dates:
Undated.
Manuscripts from Blairs College Library.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.221
Dates:
1177, 15th century-1924.
Microfilm of assorted music, and notes on music and songs, chiefly Scottish.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.295
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Notes, 1826-1827, of Lady John Scott on music, and songs, chiefly Scottish (MS.842);
Airs, 1824, chiefly of ballads, also of marches, etc., dedicated to Sir Walter Scott by Andrew Blaikie (MS.1578);
Copies of songs, dances, and other tunes, arranged for violin, made by members, relatives, and friends of the family of Brown, residing at Linkwood, Elgin, late 18th century (MS.3378).
Dates:
Late 18th century-1827.
Microfilm of French manuscript of Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.708
Dates:
Late 13th century.
Music books and papers of Robert Moir (died 1869), who was President of the Edinburgh Church-Music Society and subsequently Conductor of Music at St Magnus' Cathedral, Kirkwall.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21772-21775
Dates:
1511-19th century.
Papers of the Reverend David Thomas.
File
Identifier: Acc.9863
Scope and Contents
Includes:
journal, 1904, of a visit to Australia, with an edited typescript
volume of hymns, undated
photograph, undated, of "Old Scotch Collegians" in Melbourne
Dates:
1904 and undated.
Photocopies of a collection of music books.
Series
Identifier: MSS.21777-21783
Scope and Contents
Most of the music books are of unknown ownership but all may be of northern Scottish provenance. They are all undated but appear to belong to the first half of the nineteenth century.
Dates:
1st half of 19th century.
Religious commonplace book, of the Napier family, containing, "A copy of some familiar letters which passed between intimate friends, as they were written from the originall's for the transcriber's private use".
Item
Identifier: MS.3008
Scope and Contents
The items are numbered, and there is a list of contents at the beginning and end.Most of the letters, which cover the period 1721-1781, with a few of 1707, are addressed by Archibald Napier of Bowhopple, Minister of Kilmadock, the transcriber's grandfather (see number 61), and his son, Thomas Napier of Greenhill, watchmaker in Glasgow, to Archibald Napier, apothecary in Edinburgh, and other members of the family. There are also copies of letters of other writers, hymns, sermons,...
Dates:
1707, 1721-1781.
Small collections of letters and papers, and some transcripts from manuscripts made with the permission of the owners of the originals.
File
Identifier: MS.1758
Dates:
1645-1936, undated.
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.
Collection
Identifier: MSS.14850-14864
Scope and Contents
A collection of Gaelic songs and associated papers, brought together by the Rev. Donald MacNicol (1735-1802), minister of Lismore, and continued by his son Dugald (b. 1791), an army officer. The Gaelic songs are from a range of periods and include Ossianic verse, waulking songs and songs by contemporaries of the collectors, such as Dugald Buchanan, Donnchadh Bàn Macintyre and Seumas Mac Gille-Sheathanaich (Shaw). The Ossianic verse was published in John Francis Campbell's 'Leabhar na...
Dates:
1752-ca. 1900 and undated, with most of the material dating from the later 18th and early 19th century.
Theological works of St Bernard of Clairvaux and others, probably from a Cistercian house.
File
Identifier: MS.9153
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) The 'De consideratione' of St Bernard. Printed by J P Migne in ‘Patrologia Latina’, volume clxxxii, 727-808. (Folio 2 verso).(ii) Four sermons of St Bernard on Luke I, 26-38. Printed in ‘Patrologia Latina’, volume clxxxiii, 55-88. (Folio 85).(iii) Hugh of St Victor, 'Soliloquium de arrha animae'. The prologue and 'confessio’ are in a shorter version than that printed in ‘Patrologia Latina’, volume clxxvi, 951-970. (Folio...
Dates:
13th century.