Sonnets.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Poems consisting of 14 decasyllabic lines, often in a rhyming scheme. The sonnet form is considered to be of Italian origin, appearing in the 13th century in Sicily, after which it spread to Tuscany, where Petrarch perfected the form with his Canzioniere, a series of 317 sonnets to his idealized love, Laura. The Petrarchian sonnet has historically been the most widely used of the form, although the Elizabethan form (3 quatrains, with a final rhyming couplet) is also common.
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.33.1.1-33.1.15
Scope and Contents
The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.
Dates:
1548-1641.
‘[Gospel Sonnets] or Spiritual Songs’, in the autograph of the Reverend Ralph Erskine, preceded and followed by matter in shorthand.
File
Identifier: MS.1015
Scope and Contents
Two versions of part vi, chapter v, section 1, ‘In heavenly quires a question rose’, are given (folios 119, 122).
Dates:
Early 18th century-mid 18th century.
Letters, 1914-1941, of Lord Alfred Douglas to William Sorley Brown, editor of the ‘Border standard’, concerned chiefly with the publication of Douglas's articles, poems and speeches; with several drafts of letters chiefly written to newspapers for publication.
File
Identifier: MS.9925
Scope and Contents
Also included are a number of newspaper-cuttings, 1915-1936, undated, by or about Lord Alfred Douglas, and the manuscripts, 1915, undated, of three sonnets. "All's well with England", 'Winston Churchill' and 'A Christmas sonnet', all apparently unpublished.
Dates:
1914-1941.
Letters written to William Marwick, chiefly in his capacity of Editor of the 'Ruskin Reading Guild Journal’, afterwards ‘Igdrasil’.
File
Identifier: MS.2984
Scope and Contents
Most of the letters are from W G Collingwood and relate to Ruskin and his works, 1888-1890; some deal with attacks made on Ruskin by R T Hamilton Bruce in the ‘Scots Observer’, 1889 (folios 20-38). Two undated sonnets of Collingwood are included (folio 115). Other letters are written by the Honourable Roden Noel, 1890 (folios 89-92), and Henry Stephens Salt, 1891 (folio 103), regarding their contributions to the 'Ruskin Reading Guild Journal'; by Roger Casement, at Creek Town, Old Calabar,...
Dates:
1888-1893.
Microfilm chiefly of photographs and prints of works of Phoebe Anna Traquair.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.915
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Photographs of and printed articles concerning murals of Phoebe Anna Traquair, [1890-1948] (MS.8123);
Illuminated manuscript, 1895-1897, by Phoebe Anna Traquair of ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (MS.8127);
Collotype prints of an illuminated manuscript, 1890-1892, by Phoebe Anna Traquair of ‘In Memoriam’ by Alfred Tennyson (MS.8128).
Dates:
[1890-1948.]
Microfilm of romance of the lovers Pamphilia and Deiphebo.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.846
Dates:
Early 16th century.
Microfilm of sonnet, 1927, written by W W Peploe on the flyleaf of his ‘Memories and illusions’ (Edinburgh, 1906).
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1116
Dates:
1927.
Microfilm of Sonnet, 1927, written by W W Peploe on the flyleaf of his ‘Memories and illusions’ (Edinburgh, 1906).
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1084
Dates:
1906, 1927.
'Monarchicke tragedies’ (London, 1607) by William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, containing an autograph sonnet of William Drummond of Hawthornden to Alexander, and marginal notes, marking parallel passages chiefly from Sir Philip Sydney’s ‘Arcadia’.
File
Identifier: MS.1692
Dates:
[1607, or after.]
Poems of Henry Mackenzie, author of ‘The man of feeling’, chiefly in his autograph.
File
Identifier: MS.569
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) ‘On the laying the Foundation of the High School of Edinburgh, 24th June, 1777’ (folio i);(ii) ‘Winter Hymn’ with a note, 26 January 1829 (folio 2);(iii) ‘Morning Hymn’, endorsed, ‘Written out 1825, composed chiefly in a dream at Canaan Lodge [Edinburgh] one beautiful morning in August, 1825’; two copies (folio 4);(iv) ‘Ink loquitur’, endorsed, ‘(Impromptu) to Steuart of Allantoun, the translator of Sallust, who...
Dates:
1777-1829, undated.
Sonnet, 1927, written by W W Peploe on the flyleaf of his ‘Memories and illusions’ (Edinburgh, 1906).
Item
Identifier: MS.10329
Dates:
1906, 1927.
Sonnet of Robert Burns on the death of Robert Riddell of Glenriddell.
File
Identifier: Acc.14170
Dates:
1794.