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"Cinquant [sic] Octonaires sur la vanité et inconstance du monde, dediez a tresillustre seigneur le conte de Shrewsbury, pour ses estrennes l'an 1607", being a calligraphic copy of the verses by Antoine de la Roche Chandieu, first published anonymously in ‘Les Cantigues du Seigneur de Maisonfleur’.
Item
Identifier: MS.25240
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written in a variety of calligraphic hands and is decorated throughout with paintings of flowers, birds and insects. The pages containing Octonaires XVII, XXXI and XXXVIII are missing.The original title page and the dedication to the Earl of Shrewsbury have been cut out and pasted onto the verso of folio i and the inside of the front cover respectively.There are a number of later drawings and notes, including records of births of members...
Dates:
[1586, or before]-19th century.
Designs for book decorations, stage sets and garden buildings by William McLaren.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11560
Scope and Contents
Includes a sketchbook, specimans of calligraphy and printed books designed or decorated by McLaren.
Dates:
1943-1968.
'Poetical Souvenir and Cabinet of Music and Drawing: Andrew Kippen, Edinburgh, 1840' containing poetry, mottoes, songs with music, and drawings of Scottish scenery, finely written in a variety of calligraphic hands.
Item
Identifier: MS.8934
Scope and Contents
The choice of shorter poems and the type of ornament suggests some affinity with the work of James Cargill (see MSS.8931-8932), of which it presents a considerable refinement.
Dates:
1840.