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 82 Collections and/or Records:
Notebook of Adam Gifford, Lord Gifford: volume XXIV., 2nd half of 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.8.2
Dates:
2nd half of 19th century.
Notebook of Adam Gifford, Lord Gifford: volume XXVI., 2nd half of 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.8.4
Dates:
2nd half of 19th century.
Notebook of Edwin Muir., 1956-1957.
Item
Identifier: MS.19965
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains a draft for the broadcast 'Revisiting Orkney' (folio 1); 'The ballads' published in ‘The New Statesman’, 53 (1957), pages 174-175 (folio 39 verso); reviews of work by Christopher Logue, C A Trypanis and Anna Kavan (folios 55, 96 verso); a translation from Kafka (folio 70 verso); and articles on 'Story and novel' (folio 30), Christopher Logue (folio 53), contemporary poetry (folio 61), ballads (folios 67, 90 verso) and 'The thirties' (folio 87 verso).
Dates:
1956-1957.
Notebook of Willa Muir containing verses and notes on ballads and witchcraft., Mid 20th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.19702
Dates:
Mid 20th century.
Notebook of William Edmondstoune Aytoun containing three prose translations from German and Latin, part of a political dialogue, various notes and fragments, and forty-four poems., [Circa 1836.]
Item
Identifier: MS.4917
Scope and Contents
Of the poems, the following were published in “Blackwood's Magazine”: a translation of 'The twenty-second book of the Iliad', May 1839 (folio 14); four poems published as 'Ballads from the Romaic', May 1840 (folios 29 verso, 30, 122, 122 verso); 'The burial march of Dundee', April 1843 (folio 110); 'Who'll buy my Cupids', July 1844 (folio 56); a poem published as 'Magus Muir', November 1847 (folio 127); two versions of 'The widow of Glencoe', December 1847 (folios 69, 107); 'Edinburgh after...
Dates:
[Circa 1836.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Blackwood Papers: part of the literary archives of the firm of William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.
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Letters and papers of William Edmondstoune Aytoun, which, on his death, came into the hands of John Blackwood as his executor.
Notes and drafts of articles, and other papers of Edwin Muir., 1934-1956, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.19662
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Notes for lectures on poetry and the corrected typescript of a lecture, 'Poetry and Criticism', undated. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Notes on ballads, undated. (Folio 39.)
(iii) Book reviews, 1934, 1950. (Folio 43.)
(iv) Corrected typescripts of 'Revisiting Orkney', a broadcast given in 1956. (Folio 45.)
(v) Corrected typescript of chapters 1-3 of ‘The mighland Mystery', an unfinished detective novel. It is written on the back of the typescript of part of Willa and Edwin...
Dates:
1934-1956, undated.
'Notes for revision of Posthumous Ballads' by Sir Alexander Gray., 1959.
Item
Identifier: MS.26013
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Sir Alexander Gray translated a number of Danish and German ballads into Scots verse.
Dates:
1959.
Notes for sermons, a copy of a spurious ballad, and a letter of the North British Railway to the Incorporation of Tailors of Canongate., 1782, 1846.
File
Identifier: MS.2211
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Notes for sermons, probably preached by the Reverend Robert Walker at Cramond, 1782. (Folio 1.)(ii) A copy of the spurious ballad of "Jock o' Milk", endorsed by David Herd, 'Fragment of an Old Scots Ballad, about 1342'. Perhaps made in 1802; see ‘Letters of Sir Walter Scott’, Centenary Edition (Edinburgh, 1932), volume i, pages 140-141, 142. This is perhaps the ballad mentioned in William Smellie, ‘Account of the Institution and...
Dates:
1782, 1846.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Miscellaneous smaller manuscripts, single letters, small collections, etc., now made up into volumes, the property of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
Notes, undated, of Sir Alexander Gray on ballads, chiefly from 'Danmarks gamle Folkeviser' by S H Grundtvig., Early 20th century-mid 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.26012
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Sir Alexander Gray translated a number of Danish and German ballads into Scots verse.
Dates:
Early 20th century-mid 20th century.
'Old airs, collected and written down by George Riddell. Begun in 1903’., 1903.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.3042-3043
Scope and Contents
108 airs, with many of which the words of one verse are given. To some, George Riddell has added a note stating where he obtained the melody.
Dates:
1903.
'Old airs, collected and written down by George Riddell. Begun in 1903, book I', containing airs 1-84., 1903.
File
Identifier: MS.3042
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
108 airs, with many of which the words of one verse are given. To some, George Riddell has added a note stating where he obtained the melody.
Dates:
1903.
'Old airs, collected and written down by George Riddell. Begun in 1903, book II', containing airs 85-108., 1903.
File
Identifier: MS.3043
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
108 airs, with many of which the words of one verse are given. To some, George Riddell has added a note stating where he obtained the melody.
Dates:
1903.
Papers collected by Sir Walter Scott dealing with Scottish history and antiquities, chiefly copied from official records and other sources, with some facsimiles., 17th century-early 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.901
Scope and Contents
The subjects include the Scottish Regalia (folio 1), the Archers of the Guard (folio 21), the use of Lord Drummond’s executioner by the Town Council of Perth in 1706 (folio 140), the Porteous Riots (folio 143), the Lee Penny (see the ‘Talisman’) (folio 159), Highland traditions, supplied by Dr Mackintosh Mackay (folio 167), and Galloway traditions, chiefly Covenanting, with two ballads (folio 179). The excerpts from records regarding festivities, wapenschawing, etc., (folios 19, 35, 45, 50)...
Dates:
17th century-early 19th century.
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.
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Miscellaneous material, literary, antiquarian, topical, etc., chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
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Material concerning antiquarian matters chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott.
Papers collected by the Rymour Club, chiefly containing material not printed in the ‘Miscellanea’., ?19th century-?early 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3768
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Two sets of corrections to T G Stevenson's 'Sempill ballates’, with notes (folio 1);(ii) Popular rhymes (folio 17), with a girls' singing-game (folio 28) and a skipping-rope rhyme (folio 29);(iii) Children's rhymes and a game (folio 30);(iv) Proverbs and sayings (folio 47);(v) Stories (folio 57);(vi) Miscellaneous verse and prose (folio 64), including copies of five poems of Henry Scott...
Dates:
?19th century-?early 20th century.
Papers of Dr Robert Anderson, 1799-1808, undated, including copies of ballads and other poems, printed and in manuscript, and a copy of a letter, 1808, of the Archbishop of Canterbury., 1799-1808, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1001, folios 61-82
Dates:
1799-1808, undated.
Papers of the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale concerning public affairs., 1702-1711, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.14498
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Memorial, [1703], for Dr Richard Waddell, Archdeacon of St. Andrews (folio 1);(ii) Report, 1704, of the Commissioners for Examining the Public Accounts (folio 5);(iii) ‘Ane abreviat of the customes from November 1702 to November 1704' (folio 17);(iv) Representation, 13 June 1704, of the Duke of Queensberry and the Earl of Cromarty to the Queen on behalf of Sir Andrew Forrester (folio 19);(v) Copy of...
Dates:
1702-1711, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Papers of individual members of the family of Hay of Yester.
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Papers of the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale.
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Papers of the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale concerning public affairs.
Part of a ballad on the battle of Flodden., ?17th century-early 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.6.1(v), folios 70-88
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
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-early 18th century.
Part of a Gaelic grammatical treatise (written in the traditional character) giving the paradigms of a number of nouns and verbs., 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.1745
Scope and Contents
Among several citations from bardic verse are one from Tadhg Dali Ó Huiginn (died circa 1591), and one from a poem by Eoghan Mac an Bhaird (died 1609) on the death of Ruaidhri Ó Domhnaill, Earl of Tirconnel, which took place in Rome in 1608.
Dates:
17th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts: part of a Gaelic grammatical treatise, a chronicle of the Kings of Scotland, and answers of John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol, to certain interrogatories put to him concerning his negotiations with Spain for the marriage of Charles I.
Photostats of parts of 'Adversaria', a commonplace-book of Sir Walter Scott., 1796.
File
Identifier: MS.2232
Scope and Contents
The following sections of the book are reproduced:(i) Poem on Cater Thun, beginning, 'Cold the wild blast that chills thy brow', 5 May 1796 (folio 1);(ii) 'To a Lady', lines beginning, 'For thee from Time's slow mouldering hold' (folio 3);(iii) Lines beginning, 'Farewell my dear Jamie, ah take my farewell', with the refrain, 'Lochaber no more' (folio 4);(iv) 'Elegy on Shenstone', beginning, 'Listless laid beneath a willow' (folio 5);...
Dates:
1796.
Poems, ballads, epigrams, etc., some in Scots, with the title-page: 'Trifles light as Air. By Johnnie Grotts. Nemo onmibus horis sapit. 1806'., 1806.
File
Identifier: MS.2787
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Many of the manuscripts contain notes, indexes, etc., by George Neilson.
Dates:
1806.
Songs of David Stephen., Early 20th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.22160-22162
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the compositions appear to be unpublished.
Dates:
Early 20th century.
'Street songs and ballads' by G Foxton Ferguson containing printed and manuscript keyboard settings in various hands tipped and pasted in with a number of settings written on some of the original leaves, chiefly undated., 1911-1918, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.22135
Scope and Contents
The title is taken from folio 1.
The manuscript settings are dated between 1911 (folio 17 verso) and 1918 (folio 20), but most, and all the printed settings, are undated.
The settings at folios i verso and 25 are pasted inside the front and back covers respectively.
Dates:
1911-1918, undated.
Typescript 'Lyrics and ballads by Pittendrigh Macgillivray, written during the year 1936', (Edinburgh)., 1936.
File
Identifier: Acc.3501/22
Typescripts and corrected proofs of collections of poetry., 1927-1929.
File
Identifier: MS.27483
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Typescript, with a few manuscript corrections, of Lady Margaret Sackville, ‘Romantic ballads’ (Edinburgh, 1927) (folio 1); (ii) Typescript of Sir Alexander Gray, 'Gossip’ (Edinburgh, 1928) (folio 13); (iii) Two sets of page-proofs of Marion Angus, ‘The singin' lass’ (Edinburgh, 1929) (folio 35); (iv) Page-proofs of Robert Crawford, ‘In quiet fields’ (Edinburgh, 1929) (folio 87).
Dates:
1927-1929.