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 1258 Collections and/or Records:
Video recording of T S Law poetry reading.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12208
Dates:
2nd half of 20th century.
Video tape of a recording of a poetry reading by Joy Hendry, Norman MacCaig, William Neill and Iain Crichton Smith.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12310
Scope and Contents
Includes letters of Valda Grieve, Brian Merriken Hill, Henry Mair, William Neill and Jim C Wilson.
Dates:
circa 1982-2003.
‘Vinum aqua macerandum - poema heroicum' by Marcus Antonius Valentinus de Chantrayne.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.34
Scope and Contents
At the end ‘Cecinit Marcus Antonius Valentinus de Chantrayne’.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.190) includes the reference: (Ao.5.1).
Dates:
Late 17th century-18th century.
"Virgil's Æneis", translated into Scottish verse by Gavin Douglas (Edinburgh, 1710); the glossary is heavily annotated by John Jamieson.
Item
Identifier: MS.14240
Scope and Contents
There are some notes by O K Schram inside the front cover concerning this edition of Gavin Douglas's text.
Dates:
1710, [1808, or before.]
‘Viriadas do Doutor Isac de Sequeyra Samuda, medico Lusitano e Socio da Real Sociedade de Londres, Obra posthuma digesta, corrigida, e conclusa pelo Doutor Jacob de Castro Sarmento, medico Lusitano do R. E. Ros medicos de Londres, que aofferece ao D. Juaõ V. Rey de Portugal’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.15
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is without a date, but written in England before the year 1760. This posthumous work is a Portuguese poem, comprising 13 books, in stanzas of 8 lines. The author, Isaac de Sequeyra Samuda, Doctor of medicine, was elected June 27th, and admitted as a member of the Royal Society, London, October 24th 1724; and died in 1743. The cantennator of the poem, Dr Jacob de Castro Sarmento, also was a Fellow of the Society, having been elected in February 1729. He died September 14th...
Dates:
?18th century.
Volume compiled by Robert Pitcairn consisting of printed and some manuscript items of and concerning Archibald Pitcairne.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.7.17
Scope and Contents
The items of manuscript interest consist of presentation and other notes (numbers 26, 112), a poem (91) and a letter, 1711 (108), of Archibald Pitcairne; poems by Thomas Kincaid and Allan Ramsay (89, 92) and a poem (90) and notes in other contemporary hands (4, 5, 32, 45, 95, 102, 109); and notes and extracts (2, 3, 6, 39, 46a, 70, 88, 92a, 95a, 102a, 104) in Robert Pitcairn`s hand, and a copy by him, dated 1825, of a decreet of the Privy Council in favour of Archibald Pitcairne, 1700 (111)....
Dates:
1700, 1711.
Volume consisting chiefly of caricatures, 1875-1879, by Lord Archibald Campbell, son of the 8th Duke of Argyll.
File
Identifier: MS.7195
Scope and Contents
John Francis Campbell of Islay, Gaelic scholar and government official, George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, and Lord Colin Campbell, Member of Parliament for Argyll, are frequently featured. The volume includes an answer to a petition, ?1681, by the Earls of Erroll and Strathmore, and a list of debts, 1681, due by Archibald Campbell, Marquess of Argyll. There are also two letters of Lord Archibald Campbell, one of J F Campbell of Islay, and a Gaelic poem, 1685, on Archibald, 9th...
Dates:
1681-1879.
Volume containing a letter of Lord Byron to Sir John Bowring, 1824; four letters concerning Byron, 1824 and 1828; and a manuscript of his last poem.
File
Identifier: Dep.238- is now Acc.8766.
Dates:
1824, 1828.
Volume containing `Annales Skalholtini, 70-1430`, varia on Icelandic history, 18th century, and Icelandic poems, late 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.2.9
Dates:
18th century.
Volume containing copies of two accounts of the family of Dunbar.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.3.2
Scope and Contents
(i) `A short account of the noble and ancient Family of Dunbar. Writen, A[?] 1744.` The writer deals with the origin of the family, the family of Dunbar and March descended from the Earls of Northumberland, the families of Dundas and Home, the Dunbars of Cumnock and Mochrum, the Dunbars Earls of Moray, the Dunbars of Westfield and their branches, and the armorial bearings of the Dunbars, and adds genealogical trees of the family of Dunbar and March, of the Earls of Home and Marchmont, and of...
Dates:
1554, 1744.
Volume containing the Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda and other poems, written by Jonas Egilson.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.6.7
Dates:
1750-1753.
Volume containing verse and prose, chiefly Jacobite and satirical.
File
Identifier: MS.3807
Scope and Contents
The longer pieces include 'The Tragedie of Glenco', 'Proelium Gilliekrankianum', 'Bellum Bothwellianum', 'Tarquin and Tullia', and Dr Archibald Pitcairne's 'Assembly' and 'Babell'.
There is a recipe for stomach-ache on folio x verso.
Dates:
Late 17th century-early 18th century.
Volume entitled 'Celtic music', compiled by David R Robertson, a mercantile clerk in Dundee, consisting of pipe tunes, poems, notes and memoranda, extracts from published sources, letters from correspondents interested in Gaelic culture, and some press cuttings and photographs.
File
Identifier: MS.22164
Scope and Contents
The title is taken from folio 1, a vellum leaf.Some items found loosely enclosed have been tipped or pasted in.The work consists of an introduction (folio 6) preceded by prefatory poems (folio 2), and eight sections: Old highland airs (folio 39), Clan tunes (folio 90), Jacobite airs (folio 131), Battle tunes (folio 159), Laments (folio 209), Old Scottish airs (folio 223), Army tunes (folio 244) and General marches (folio 276).There are two unrelated items:...
Dates:
1911-1912.
Volume of genealogies and poems in the hand of Robert Mylne, engraver, son of the writer and antiquary of the same name (see folio 82), with a few additions by his father.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.24
Scope and Contents
The following dates of writing are given: 15 September 1712 (folio 2), 10 April 1713 (folio 76), 13 November 1712 (folio 80).The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `The Pourtrait of True Loyalty exposed in the Family of Gordon, without interruption to this present year of God, 1691. With a copious relation of the siege of the Castle of Edinburgh in the year 1689. By W.S. An. 1691.` The original manuscript of this work, which was in Blairs College, Aberdeen...
Dates:
1338, circa 1670-1732.
Volume of historical and literary works, 13th century, written in England in the early 14th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.9
Scope and Contents
Sections iv-vii are in the same hand. Folios 33 verso-34 verso are blank. There are a few pen drawings of faces in the margins.
Fragments of a 13th-century contents list from a collection of sermons have been used as binding strips; other fragments from the same source are in Adv.MS.18.2.4 and 18.4.5.
Dates:
14th century.
Volume of miscellaneous letters and a poem of Robert Louis Stevenson, together with letters of Sir Sidney and Lady Colvin concerning Stevenson.
Series
Identifier: MS.8790
Scope and Contents
The letters are unpublished unless otherwise stated.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1873-1893, 1921.
Volume of poems containing principally 'Lyndha, a Grecian tale', in four cantos, in the hand of J Lyell, Dollar, followed by four poems on biblical and classical subjects in another hand, all apparently unpublished.
File
Identifier: MS.7182
Dates:
1840.
Volume of poetry, 1858-1862, of Corporal William Beattie Hadden, 42nd Royal Highland Regiment (The Black Watch), in India.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13781
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous poetry and other writings by William Beattie Hadden, Corporal in the 42nd Royal Highland Regiment (the Black Watch), Lucknow, March 1858. Contains poems on various subjects, many regarding the author`s home in Scotland, other on his acquaintances, reflections on life, and general thoughts and opinions, such as `Lines on leaving India`, and `Lines on woman`s virtue`. A later note from 1862 places Hadden in Dugshai [Dagshai], in the foothills of the Himalayan mountains, and...
Dates:
1858-1862
Volume of Robert Burns’ poems, in manuscript, undated, by an unknown transcriber.
File
Identifier: MS.6302
Scope and Contents
The text appears to have been copied from the subscribers' edition of ‘Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect’ (Edinburgh, 1787). Between pages 36 and 37 is inserted a newspaper cutting giving an explanation of two lines in the second stanza of 'Death and Doctor Hornbook'.
Dates:
[1787, or after.]
Volume of unpublished poetry by Henry Murray Scott, a relative of the 4th Duke of Atholl.
File
Identifier: Acc.13130
Scope and Contents
Three soft-cover notebooks, bound in one volume, containing poems, drafts of poems and some translations probably by Henry Murray Scott. The first notebook has entries dating from 31 October 1827 to 26 March 1828, some of the poems were written in Hanau, Germany, (page 1); the second notebook dates from 29 March to 14 November 1828 (page 90); the third notebook dates from 24 November 1828 to 26 June 1832 (page 156). The three notebooks are numbered and sequentially paginated, possibly by a...
Dates:
1827-1832.
Volume of verses, by various writers, all amateur and some possibly juvenile.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12706
Dates:
circa 1850.
War diaries of Lt David Black Barclay, Royal Artillery, in North Africa and Italy.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12181
Scope and Contents
Accession includes:
1. sketchbook, 1943-1944,
2. an earlier volume of poetry written by Barclay,
3. Barlcay`s wartime record kept by his wife, Annie.
Dates:
1943-1948.
"War Work", a collection of manuscript poems of Gavin Ewart.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10527
Dates:
1939-1942.