Chronograms.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Phrases, sentences, or inscriptions in which certain letters, usually distinguished by size or other means from the rest, express by their numerical values a date, year, or epoch when added together.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscript,1589, of a poem by Jacob Jacobsen Wolf in honour of the marriage of James VI and Anne of Denmark; with a printed work, 'Cenotaphium illustrissimo principi ac Domino Friderico II' (Rostochij, S. Myliander, 1588).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.29
Scope and Contents
Manuscript, probably written in Denmark, containing a complete copy of Jacob Jacobsen Wolf's wedding poem to King James VI and Princess Anne of Denmark. Harsting suggests that this manuscript is Wolf's original version of the Latin text and is written in his hand, in a humanistic script.The verses are written across the spread of two pages, from the verso of one leaf to the recto of the next. The manuscript was written in 1589, and Harsting suggests late November to...
Dates:
1589.
Single letters and documents., 1510-19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2208
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Letter, attributed to circa 1590, of John Gordoun to Patrick Bruce, Leith, with a modem transcript. ‘Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland’, volume v, page 11. (Folio 1.)(ii) Eighteenth-century copy of Sir Thomas Wortley's inscription at Wharncliffe, 1510. (Folio 4.)(iii) Letter, 31 August 1582, signed by several of the Ruthven Raiders, to John Erskine of Dun, summoning him to Stirling. Smellie, William,...
Dates:
1510-19th century.
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.