Ballads.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Songs with rhyming verse and a narrative; also, slow, romantic songs (AAT). For all ballads of the kind collected by Child. Include Jacobite ballads, which will also be indexed under 'Jacobites'. The individual ballads of a group which is indexed as a group should either be mentioned individually in the catalogue description or be listed in the volumes (NLS).
Found in 126 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscript, lettered 'M.S.S. ST. ALBANS 1768' on the spine., 1768.
Item
Identifier: MS.2805
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains simple problems in arithmetic (folio 1), and songs, ballads, election verses, etc., mostly associated with St Albans (folio 108).
Dates:
1768.
Manuscript music-book, containing ballads, dances, and pianoforte pieces, hymns, and vocal exercises and scales.
File
Identifier: MS.3282
Scope and Contents
The music-book is made up of pages watermarked 1794.
The volume contains ballads, dances, and pianoforte pieces from Scotland and various European countries (passim), hymns (folios 22 verso-31), and vocal exercises and scales (folios 22, 32 verso-33 verso, 70-71 verso). Among the more extended pieces are extracts for pianoforte from Méhul's 'Jeune Henri' of 1797 (folio 67 verso), and from an opera 'Paul and Virginia', possibly that produced in London in 1800; and 'Favourite dances at...
Dates:
?1794-1813.
Manuscripts, 1850, 1869, of two slightly different versions of the ballad 'The Cantie Carlie', with correspondence and notes, 1869, 1885.
File
Identifier: MS.5292
Scope and Contents
The ballad is said to have been composed by the Reverend Gavin Mitchell, circa 1767.
Dates:
1850, 1869, 1885.
Manuscripts and typescripts of Sir Alexander Gray's translation of and introduction to ‘The Marsk Stig cycle’, with a letter of Gray explaining the different stages in the work., 1955.
File
Identifier: MS.26009
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Sir Alexander Gray translated a number of Danish and German ballads into Scots verse.
Dates:
1955.
Manuscripts of various poems by James Logie Robertson., 1875.
File
Identifier: MS.4865
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Manuscript, 1875, of "Lord William's wooing. A Scottish ballad" by James Logie Robertson (folio 1);
(ii) Manuscripts, ?1875, of two apparently unpublished poems, 'Our country quarters' and 'Gloria Mundi', by Robertson (folio 4).
Dates:
1875.
Material relating to ‘The poems and ballads of Schiller’, translated by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer, 1st Baron Lytton., 1844, 1851.
File
Identifier: MS.4824
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Manuscript, 1851, of the preface to 'The poems and ballads of Schiller', second edition (folio 1);(ii) Dismembered copy of pages 1-232 of volume ii of the first edition, heavily corrected for the second (folio 16);(iii) Manuscripts of 'The cranes of lbycus' and a portion of 'The victory feast', corresponding to pages 127-139 of volume i of the first edition (folio 132);(iv) Manuscripts of 'Farewell to the reader'...
Dates:
1844, 1851.
Materials for works written or edited by Sir Walter Scott., 1762-[1832].
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.877-882
Dates:
1762-[1832].
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and documents of Sir Walter Scott and of John Gibson Lockhart, formerly in the possession of Major-General Sir Walter Maxwell Scott, Baronet of Abbotsford, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order.
Microfilm of a collection of ballads and songs made for ‘Popular ballads and songs’ by Robert Jamieson., [1806, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.15557 [Mf.MSS.52]
Dates:
[1806, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Microfilms of a copy made by Allan Ramsay the elder from the Bannatyne manuscript of 'Satyre of the thrie estaitis' by Sir David Lindsay; and of a collection of ballads and songs made for ‘Popular ballads and songs’ by Robert Jamieson.
Microfilm of assorted music, and notes on music and songs, chiefly Scottish.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.295
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Notes, 1826-1827, of Lady John Scott on music, and songs, chiefly Scottish (MS.842);
Airs, 1824, chiefly of ballads, also of marches, etc., dedicated to Sir Walter Scott by Andrew Blaikie (MS.1578);
Copies of songs, dances, and other tunes, arranged for violin, made by members, relatives, and friends of the family of Brown, residing at Linkwood, Elgin, late 18th century (MS.3378).
Dates:
Late 18th century-1827.
Microfilm of correspondence of Henrietta Rhodes concerning the ballad 'Oh Nanny wilt thou gang with me' by Thomas Percy, including printed texts of the ballad and the music for it and manuscripts of poems in imitation of it.
Item
Identifier: MS.15522 [Mf.MSS.2]
Dates:
1801, [1801, or after.]
Microfilm of eight ledgers of Alasdair Gray, containing work notes for stories, poems, plays, and his last novel, with draft of letters and many diary entries.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2061-2062
Dates:
1945-2008.
Microfilm of four ledgers of Alasdair Gray., 1945-2008.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2062
Microfilm of Leyden Song Book, a collection of songs, instrumental pieces, and psalms, possibly compiled by Williane Stirling, with later additions.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.230
Dates:
[Circa 1639.]
Microfilm of original manuscript of "The Ship o' the Fiend", a ballad for Orchestra, Opus 5, composed by Hamish MacCunn., [1888, or before.]
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1292
Microfilm of original manuscript of "The Ship o' the Fiend", a ballad for Orchestra, Opus 5, composed by Hamish MacCunn., [1888, or before.]
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1345
Dates:
[1888, or before.]
Microfilm of "The Ship o' the Fiend" and a setting of James Hyslop’s poem “The Cameronian's dream”, by Hamish MacCunn.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1292-1293
Dates:
[1888, or before, ?1890.]
Microfilm of three Gaelic manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.654
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, 17th-18th century, of bardic fragments, containing a strong element of MacMhuirich poetry (Adv.MS.72.2.2);
Donald Smith’s Irish miscellany, [circa 1798] (Adv.MS.72.3.2);
Part of a Gaelic grammatical treatise, 17th century, (written in the traditional character) giving the paradigms of a number of nouns and verbs.(MS.1745).
Dates:
17th century-[circa 1798].
Microfilm of three notebooks, undated, of William Motherwell, the first containing 'The crust of comfort being a short treatise expressly written for the instruction and edification of Old Maids by Jacob Ebenezer Jogtrot B.A. of Brazen Nose College Oxford', the other two miscellaneous poems, copies of ballads, and other notes.
Item
Identifier: MS.15546 [Mf.MSS.25] MISSING
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Microfilm of two manuscripts of ballads collected by Mrs Anne Brown, wife of the minister of Falkland.
Item
Identifier: MS.15550 [Mf.MSS.29]
Scope and Contents
One ballad was given by Anne Brown to William Tytler in 1783, the other to Alexander Fraser Tytler in 1800; both were used by Sir Walter Scott for ‘The minstrelsy of the Scottish Border’, but only the latter was available to Francis J Child for his ‘The English and Scottish popular ballads’ (see volume 5, page 397).
Dates:
18th century.
Microfilm of vocal score of the setting by Hamish MacCunn of “The Cameronian's dream”, opus 10, a ballad for baritone solo, chorus and orchestra, by James Hyslop., [?1890.]
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1293
Microfilm of vocal score of the setting by Hamish MacCunn of “The Cameronian's dream”, opus 10, a ballad for baritone solo, chorus and orchestra, by James Hyslop., [?1890.]
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1343
Microfilm of vocal scores of settings by, and an original manuscript of, Hamish MacCunn.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1343-1345
Dates:
[1888, or before-before 1891.]
Miscellaneous documents apparently from the library of the Reverend A J Macdonald, Minister of Killearnan., 17th century-early 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3784
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Gaelic texts of a tale and two songs (folio 1);(ii) Letters, notes, and texts of Gaelic poems from the Lochaber area, sent by the Reverend John Walker Macintyre, Minister of Kilmonivaig, to the Reverend A J Macdonald in 1911 (folio 6);(iii) Copies, made in 1897, of seventeenth-century papers belonging to the Earls of Antrim (folio 29);(iv) A letter and two documents relating to the Macdonalds of Sleat,...
Dates:
17th century-early 20th century.
Miscellaneous historical and topographical tracts, copied in the 17th and early 18th centuries.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.6.1(i)-(xv)
Scope and Contents
There is a list of contents (folio i) in the same 19th-century hand which drew up the contents list in Adv.MS.22.2.10.
Dates:
17th century-circa 1754.
Miscellaneous items of and concerning the Ker family including poetry, drawings and school exercise books., 1653-1826, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.5459
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Two political ballads, and complimentary verses to Sir Andrew Ker, 1676, and to Lord Jedburgh, undated (folio 1);(ii) Minutes of Bedrule kirk session, 1653-1654, recording attempts to choose a new minister (folio 6);(iii) Five school exercise-books, circa 1820-1821; two (both signed St Clair) contain a Latin poem on William Tell and notes on Greek history respectively, and the three others contain notes on Euclid (folio...
Dates:
1653-1826, undated.