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Contents leaf and pages 25-360 of the 3rd or 4th edition of “The queen's wake” by James Hogg (Edinburgh, 1814 or 1815); with autograph corrections and additions by the poet which were incorporated into the 5th edition of 1819.
Copies, 17th century, of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall`s renderings in Latin verse of the Psalms and the Song of Solomon.
The original was probably written after 1616, since it includes a dedicatory poem to Charles I as Prince of Wales.
Copies, 18th century, of the Poetic Edda and other poems.
Copies, 18th century, of the Poetic Edda and other poems.
Copies, 18th century, of the Poetic Edda and other poems.
Copies, late 18th-century, of poems, 1769-1774, and undated, of Henry Erskine, with a few corrections by the author.
There is a list of contents on folio 1.
Copies of miscellaneous papers.
Copy, 17th century, of `The Life, Araignment, and Death of the famous and learned Sir Thomas More Knight, sometimes Lord Chauncellor of England. Together with his Vision`.
Copy, 17th century, of ‘The Theatre of the Scotish Kings’ by Alexander Garden, written circa 1625.
Copy, 1820, of verse, `Prophecies by Sundrie authors some wherof knowen and ther names affixed, others not knowen, but many of them old and currant thro the isle of Great Brittane. Collected and faithfully written by John Gordon of Gillichoudie, 1711`. In several cases the original dates of the Prophecies are given, and range from 1399 to 1688.
There are two copies, in different hands, of a prophecy by Mr Bickerhead, a priest, dated 1679, folios 3 and 8.
The first Prophecy is ascribed to two authors, Sir James Galloway and John Napier of Merchiston, the mathematician. None of the poems appear to have been published.
Copy, late 17th century, of `De jure prelationis Nobilium scotie or A Memoriall of the evidents and writs produced ... before the Comissioners ... anent the precedency and prioritie of dignitie [1606]`, incorporating additional information up to 1667.
The text is followed by a list of titles of the nobility and other related material (folio 34 verso), and verses and notes on the history of Aberdeen (folio 45). An 18th-century hand has added a list of dates of the patents of Scottish nobles (folio 52).
Copy, late 17th century, of part I of Samuel Colvil`s ‘Mock poem, or Whiggs supplication’ (London, 1681).
There were several editions of the poem, of which the preface to the first was signed S.C. In this manuscript, a later hand has added the full name to the initials. The manuscript shows a number of variations from the printed text, including some omissions and additions.
Copy of autograph manuscript of poem, "Highland Laddie" by James Hogg.
Copy of John Marchfield, "Ballads and Poems" (London, 1913), with manuscript poem of Marchfield on the flyleaf.
Copy of sermons and religious verse written by James Cuninghame of Barns, a Quietist preacher and Jacobite.
The poems and sermons have for headings the date and place of composition; among the places mentioned are Edinburgh, Stirling, Kilsyth, Glasgow and Aberdeen.
The manuscript is written in a fair hand, and some gaps have been left where the copyist could not read the original.
The original pagination, lacking pages 100-179, is faulty.
Corrected manuscript and printed version of poem of David Morrison, "Sterk Vision".
Corrected manuscript and typescript drafts of 19 poems of Roderick Watson.
Corrected manuscript and typescript drafts of 190 poems of Duncan Glen.
Corrected manuscript and typescript drafts of poems and a play of David Morrison.
Corrected manuscript of a poem of George MacDonald, "Christmas 1876".
Corrected manuscript of an article, undated, and manuscript, 1948, of a verse from "Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica", both of Hamish Henderson.
Corrected manuscript of poem of Iain Crichton Smith, "Returning Exile".
With typescript of the poem.