Poetry.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Literary and oral genre rooted in the compressed and cogent imaginative awareness or associations of experiences, ideas, or emotional responses and arranged under an organized criterion of meaning, conscious and unconscious expression, symbolism, formal or informal pattern, sound, and rhythm. The genre encompasses narrative, dramatic, satiric, didactic, erotic, and personal forms. (AAT) All poetry, except ballads, was indexed under this heading in the published catalogues. (NLS) .
Found in 1529 Collections and/or Records:
Autograph album, lettered on the spine 'Ch. Hutcheson. Sketches', probably Charles Hutcheson, a well-known Glasgow citizen, a member of the Society of Dilettanti, who died in 1860., [1824, or after.]
Item
Identifier: MS.2731
Scope and Contents
The album contains copies of verses, children's drawings, sketches of marine subjects by Charles Hutcheson himself, and other material. The watermark date is 1824.
Dates:
[1824, or after.]
Autograph album of Mary Borthwick, inscribed 1894, containing several entries of verse and drawings, 1895-1900., 1894-1900.
Item
Identifier: MS.10464
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A E Borthwick (1871-1955), a son of William H Borthwick of Crookston, studied art in Edinburgh and Paris from 1890 to 1896, after which he enlisted in the ranks and helped to raise the Scottish Sharpshooters, 70th company of the XVIII Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry. He served in the Boer and First World Wars, retiring from the army in 1919 as honorary Staff Captain. As a member of the Royal Academy he specialised in portraits and subjects of a religious genre, his best-known work being...
Dates:
1894-1900.
Autograph manuscript of 'Crathie Church', an apparently unpublished poem by Sir Edwin Arnold., 1894.
Item
Identifier: MS.9588
Autograph manuscript of 'Najine', an apparently unpublished poem by Sir Edwin Arnold., 1896.
Item
Identifier: MS.9589
Autograph manuscript, undated, of 'Ship-logs', an apparently unpublished poem by Sir Edwin Arnold., [Circa 1895.]
Item
Identifier: MS.9590
Autograph manuscripts of poems of James Pittendrigh Macgillivray., Undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.3501/15-17
Bannatyne Manuscript: the draft manuscript., 1568.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.1.1.6 (1 of 2)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
George Bannatyne, a student at St Andrews, and a merchant burgess of Edinburgh, wrote the manuscript in the last three months of 1568, when an outbreak of plague in Edinburgh compelled him to refrain from work; see his colophon on folio 375. The year is also given on page 1 and folios 97, 290, and 298; on folio 290 it was originally written 1565 and on folio 298 1566, but these must be slips of the pen.Some forty authors are represented; those with most poems are William Dunbar,...
Dates:
1568.
Bannatyne Manuscript: the main manuscript., 1568.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.1.1.6 (2 of 2)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
George Bannatyne, a student at St Andrews, and a merchant burgess of Edinburgh, wrote the manuscript in the last three months of 1568, when an outbreak of plague in Edinburgh compelled him to refrain from work; see his colophon on folio 375. The year is also given on page 1 and folios 97, 290, and 298; on folio 290 it was originally written 1565 and on folio 298 1566, but these must be slips of the pen.Some forty authors are represented; those with most poems are William Dunbar,...
Dates:
1568.
Black and white drawing and print copy of Pauline Bewick, also containing signed typescript of the poem 'Pictures', by Eiléan Ni Giuilleánain [cat. no.55]., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.8845/18
Scope and Contents
The glass has been removed from the frame.
Dates:
Undated.
Black and white drawing and signed typescript of the poem 'Punishment', by John Behan, framed in glass [cat. no.126]., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.8845/45
Book, 'Broad bay, poems and photographs' (Morning Star Publications, 1997) by Ian Stephen., 1997.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 35(1)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The box is covered in tartan.
Dates:
1997.
Book of acrostics of the Honourable George Francis Stewart Elliot., 1867-1868.
Item
Identifier: MS.19472
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
George Francis Stewart Elliot was the son of Gilbert, 2nd Earl of Minto.
Dates:
1867-1868.
Book of collected poems of Cecilia Combe., 1815.
Item
Identifier: MS.7465
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
MSS.7443-7445 are written in German, having been delivered on George Combe's tour in Germany in 1842.
The phrenological reports (MSS.7452-7455) comprise the phrenological measurements of many persons, both well-known and obscure, with reports and descriptions of their mental capabilities and weaknesses.
The papers of Cecilia Combe contain a selection of literary efforts, diaries of tours, and the usual memoranda and inventories kept by nineteenth-century housewives.
Dates:
1815.
Book of poetry., Mid 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/380
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates:
Mid 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis families.
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Forbes Family Papers.
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Forbes Family Notebooks.
Book, 'Suid an t-Eilean, there goes the island', edited by Ian Stephen. Gaelic and English poetry from Lewis and Harris. , 1993.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 35(2)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The box is covered in tartan.
Dates:
1993.
Booklet containing Gaelic songs, about half of them Ossianic., 1769
Item
Identifier: Acc.2152/11
Scope and Contents
Small unbound octavo booklet, 18 leaves. In the hand of Rev. Donald MacNcol. Signed on the front page, 'Donald McNicol'. Dated 1769 on folio 2 recto. The first page gives a contents list of titles.
Contains 13 Gaelic songs, 7 of which are Ossianic. Among the non-Ossianic songs is 'Cha b' e tùchan a' chnatain' by Robert Campbell, Forsair Choire an t-Sìth.
The contents are listed in Mackechnie, 'Catalogue of Gaelic manuscripts', vol. 1, page 330.
Dates:
1769
Booklet containing Gaelic songs, including a version of 'Là a' siubhal slèibhe dhomh' by Lachlann Mac Theàrlaich Òig., second half of the 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Acc.2152/10
Scope and Contents
A small unbound octavo booklet, 16 leaves. Undated. In the hand of Rev. Donald MacNicol. The first page contains a contents list of titles, and is signed 'Donald McNicol' at the bottom.
Contains a collection of 9 songs in Gaelic. Listed in Mackechnie, Catalogue of Gaelic manuscripts', vol. 1 page 329.
Dates:
second half of the 18th century.
Booklet, 'Elements', containing a poem by Brian Johnstone and artwork by Kyra Clegg., Undated.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 33(3)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The box is covered in tartan.
Dates:
Undated.
Booklet, 'Notebook, Mesostic Laboratorium, poems composed on the names of scientists', by Alec Finlay., 2007.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 36(4)
Scope and Contents
Item is edition of one thousand copies.
Dates:
2007.
Booklet of poems, "Robie Gow's Prison" (Aberdeenshire Council) by Stuart B Campbell., 1996.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 17(3)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The box is covered in tartan.
Dates:
1996.
Booklet of poems, 'Settler' (Aberdeenshire Council), by Ian Morrison., 1996.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 17(2)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The box is covered in tartan.
Dates:
1996.
Booklet, 'Spirit - Locks', containing six songs for a seeress. Poems and text by Kathleen Jamie. Artwork and design by Kyra Clegg., Undated.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13227 Box 33(4)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The box is covered in tartan.
Dates:
Undated.
Box of the Reverend William Matheson, containing collections of 18th-19th century papers., 1707-1870.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.9711 Box 1(1-5)
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Concern Gaelic language and literature, and the family and general history of Lewis and Harris, North and South Uist and Wester Ross.
Dates:
1707-1870.
Bundle of papers from the library at Duns Castle, Berwickshire, including correspondence of and relating to the Earls and 1st Duke of Roxburghe, a letter and poems of Dr Archibald Pitcairne, and a document relating to Patrick Miller of Dalswinton., 1668-1796, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3582, folios 52-100
Dates:
1668-1796, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers in the process of Sir Robert Spottiswoode, Lord New Abbey; papers from the library at Duns Castle, Berwickshire; and papers of James Balfour of Pilrig, director of the Darien Company.
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Papers in the process of Sir Robert Spottiswoode, Lord New Abbey; papers from the library at Duns Castle, Berwickshire; and papers of James Balfour of Pilrig, director of the Darien Company.