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Video recording of T S Law poetry reading.
Video tape of a recording of a poetry reading by Joy Hendry, Norman MacCaig, William Neill and Iain Crichton Smith.
Includes letters of Valda Grieve, Brian Merriken Hill, Henry Mair, William Neill and Jim C Wilson.
‘Vinum aqua macerandum - poema heroicum' by Marcus Antonius Valentinus de Chantrayne.
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).
"Virgil's Æneis", translated into Scottish verse by Gavin Douglas (Edinburgh, 1710); the glossary is heavily annotated by John Jamieson.
There are some notes by O K Schram inside the front cover concerning this edition of Gavin Douglas's text.
‘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’.
Volume compiled by Robert Pitcairn consisting of printed and some manuscript items of and concerning Archibald Pitcairne.
Volume consisting chiefly of caricatures, 1875-1879, by Lord Archibald Campbell, son of the 8th Duke of Argyll.
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.
Volume containing `Annales Skalholtini, 70-1430`, varia on Icelandic history, 18th century, and Icelandic poems, late 18th century.
Volume containing copies of two accounts of the family of Dunbar.
Volume containing the Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda and other poems, written by Jonas Egilson.
Volume containing verse and prose, chiefly Jacobite and satirical.
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.
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.
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.
Volume of historical and literary works, 13th century, written in England in the early 14th century.
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.
Volume of miscellaneous letters and a poem of Robert Louis Stevenson, together with letters of Sir Sidney and Lady Colvin concerning Stevenson.
The letters are unpublished unless otherwise stated.
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.
Volume of poetry, 1858-1862, of Corporal William Beattie Hadden, 42nd Royal Highland Regiment (The Black Watch), in India.
Volume of Robert Burns’ poems, in manuscript, undated, by an unknown transcriber.
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'.
Volume of unpublished poetry by Henry Murray Scott, a relative of the 4th Duke of Atholl.
Volume of verses, by various writers, all amateur and some possibly juvenile.
War diaries of Lt David Black Barclay, Royal Artillery, in North Africa and Italy.
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.