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Autograph working manuscript of William Douglas Home "Now Barabbas..., Act I".
Contains verses by the author.
Bannatyne Manuscript: a collection of some 400 poems, mostly Scottish, compiled and written by George Bannatyne.
Bhagavadgītā (The Song of the Holy One), a philosophical poem, forming part of the epic poem Mahābhārata.
Bible, written in France.
Book of autographs begun by Catherine E Moir, wife of David Macbeth Moir, 1829, and continued by her daughter Anne Mary Milligan, 1853, and her grandson, George Milligan, biblical scholar, 1872.
'Carmen paschale' by Coelius Sedulius; an Italian, possibly Florentine, manuscript, with the title 'De actibus prophetarum et toto Christi salvatoris cursu’.
Catalogue (in two volumes) and valuation of the library of Alfred Shepherd, Writer to the Signet.
With a manuscript poem on the origins and early history of Britain.
‘Christian. Spiritual Poems on Several Subjects, Relating to the conduct of providence and cases of the soul. In four parts. Part I’, by James Meikle, a surgeon of Carnwath, probably written between 1750 and 1780.
As explained by the author in his Preface to the Reader, the poems were written over a period of many years, with additions and revisions being made at later dates. This first part contains 101 poems, only a few of which are dated.
According to ‘The Life of James Meikle’, it was Meikle`s intention to publish the poems in four volumes, but for various reasons, publication never took place.
Chronicles and historical works, written in England.
Collection of English pasquils, mostly anonymous, but some attributed to John Dryden, Andrew Marvell and others.
The poems were written, according to the dates in the margin, mainly between 1676 and 1687 and are copied in several hands.
Collection of genealogical material on various Scottish families and items of historical interest copied by Robert Mylne, the antiquary, in the late 17th or early 18th century.
Collection of holograph manuscripts of authors of the early 20th century.
Collection of miscellaneous poems, some of which relate to Scottish affairs, written mainly before the Restoration.
On the flyleaf is written "Incept. March 23 1652/3".
The poems are written in two different hands and at the rear of the volume there are several pages written in cypher or shorthand.
Collection of romances and religious material, mostly in verse, written in the North Midlands by Richard Heeg with some items by James Hawghton and additions in other hands.
Collection of Scottish pasquils in the hand of Sir James Balfour of Denmilne.
Collection of Scottish poems and Jacobite songs.
The majority of the poems are anonymous but there are two by Allan Ramsay, one by Jonathan Swift, and one attributed to Colley Cibber. Several of the other poems have been printed and some appear in ‘First Line Index of English Poetry’. A list of these poems is inserted at the beginning of the volume.
Apart from the poems there are several pages written in a cypher and folios 71-73 contain dressmaking accounts, dated 1722-1729, in a different hand.
Collection of Scottish poems and satirical verse.
The first 70 folios are in manuscript while the latter half of the volume consists of a collection of printed broadsides of the 18th century. Several of the manuscript items appear in print and a list of them is inserted at the beginning of the volume.
Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
`Coloquy betwixt Philander and Silvia` and other Scottish poems, mainly satirical.
All the poems are apparently unpublished.