Elegies.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poems, especially funeral songs or laments for the dead.
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
Copy of verses by the Rev Dr Adam Drummond on the death of his son at the Battle of Brandywine, North America, 1777.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12833
Dates:
circa 1800.
Elegiac verses and funeral sermons on Jean Smith, by her husband the Reverend John Bonar.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7614
Scope and Contents
With decorative penwork.
Dates:
1737.
Elegies and eclogues of Petrus Lotichius the younger.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.32
Dates:
17th century.
`Inscriptiones funebres virorum doctrina, probitate, virtute, clarorum, qui hoc aevo decessere`, compiled by Sir Robert Sibbald, being a collection of funerary inscriptions and elegies of Scots, some composed by Sibbald himself, with a few other poems.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.14
Dates:
Circa 1715.
Jacobite Papers.
File
Identifier: Acc.3412
Scope and Contents
Includes letters, correspondence, printed pamphlets and poems, proclamations and newspaper cuttings.
Dates:
1645-1891.
Lectures on Aristotle delivered by Robert Balfour at the College of Guyenne, Bordeaux.
File
Identifier: MS.2236
Scope and Contents
The lectures, which are not the same in form as Robert Balfour's printed works, were delivered 'in Gimnasio Aquitanico' (folio 307 verso), and deal with Aristotle's logic in general, and particularly with Porphyry's 'Introduction' (folio 2); 'Categories' (folio 42); 'De Interpretatione' (folio 87); 'Prior Analytics' (folio 109 verso); 'Posterior Analytics' (folio 128); 'Topics' (folio 158); 'Sophistici Elenchi' (folio 176); 'Physics', I-V (folio 185); 'De Coelo', I-II, IV (folio 245); De...
Dates:
1587-1590.
Manuscript containing poems of William MacMurchy.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.2
Dates:
1748, 1806, undated.
Manuscript, probably written by Giovan Marco Cinico, of the Latin translation by Francesco Griffolini (formerly attributed to Francesco Accolti) of the spurious letters of Diogenes and Phalaris.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.10
Scope and Contents
The volume is now confused and imperfect, but it is clear that originally there were two compilations: Diogenes with prefatory material (sections (i), (ii), (v), (vi)), and Phalaris with prefatory material (beginning lost, sections (iv), (iii)). The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Elegy dedicating the translation of Diogenes to Pius II, beginning `Ad uaticani praeclara palatia petri` (folio 1).(ii) Title of the translation of Diogenes (folio 3...
Dates:
2nd half of 15th century.
Manuscript translation, 1971, into Scots by J K Annand of Pierre de Ronsard, "Elegie sur le Despart de la Royne Marie Retournant a` son Royaume d`Escosse" (1561).
Item
Identifier: Acc.5190
Dates:
1971.
Military testimonial in favour of Lieutenant Thomas Patrick Ballingall, MC, Machine Gun Corps, and his discharge papers.
File
Identifier: Acc.12902
Scope and Contents
Includes a copy of "Peary: In Memoriam" an elegy on the death in action of James Pearson, late of George Watson`s [Boys] College. Edinburgh, [by G. N. Ballingall].
Dates:
1915.
Miscellaneous legal papers, elegies and poems., 1596-17th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2935
Scope and Contents
The papers include reports of Justiciary Court trials, 1596-1639 - some not in Robert Pitcairn's ‘Criminal Trials’ (Bannatyne Club, 1833) (folio 5); notes of decisions of the Lords of Council and Session, 'by my cussine' Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall and by Thomas Veitch, Advocate, 1619-circa 1650 (folio 37); elegies on ministers, seventeenth century (folio 63); and poems, chiefly Royalist and Jacobite (folio 74).
Dates:
1596-17th century.
Papers and translations collected by the Highland Society of Scotland Ossian Committee and its successor the Committee on Celtic Literature.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.16
Scope and Contents
The source material and translations are variously endorsed or annotated by Henry Mackenzie, Donald Mackintosh, and Ewen MacLachlan.The contents are as follows.(M 1). Notes by John Francis Campbell, dated 25 November 1872. (Folio 1.)(i) Cover, probably for folios 12-22, 24-33. Bears hands of Ewen MacLachlan and Mackintosh MacKay. Cf. Adv.MS.73.2.10, folio 207. (Folio 2.)(M 2). Ossianic fragments with some corresponding passages from James...
Dates:
[1794, or after]-1872, undated.
Papers obtained by William Forbes Skene from the Reverend Mackintosh MacKay of Laggan (1800-1873).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.14
Scope and Contents
Mackintosh MacKay was a native of the Reay Country, the son of Captain Alexander MacKay of Duard Beg. In 1828 William Forbes Skene, then nineteen, was sent by his father, at Sir Walter Scott’s recommendation, to study Gaelic with him at Laggan. MacKay had then just finished his work on the Highland Society of Scotland’s Dictionary.The contents are as follows.(i) (John Mackechnie, number 1). A note recording the return of Adv.MS.72.1.33, pages 41-42, formerly here, to...
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
Part of Sir John Sinclair’s general correspondence on Gaelic matters.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.14
Dates:
1807-1824.
Personal papers and photographs of Michael Roberts., c1900s-2015.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13860/2-13b
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, chiefly elegies and personal satires, and Jacobite political satires, and a few other documents, Scottish and English, chiefly of the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century., 1644-1821, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2092
Scope and Contents
Several of the papers are in the hand of Robert Mylne.
Dates:
1644-1821, undated.
Poems, chiefly undated odes and elegies., 1777, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.6389
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
There is also some correspondence of the Seaforth family, Henry's son, Joshua Henry, having married Helen, daughter of Lord Seaforth.
Dates:
1777, undated.
Printed Gaelic battle song and elegy on the death of Rev. Dr. Alexander Irvine., ca. 1804 and 184
Item
Identifier: MS.14877
Scope and Contents
A folder of miscellaneous material, containing:[Anonymous]. A printed battle song headed "Brostuchadh cogaidh do chlannuibh Gaidheal 'sna bliannuibh 177-8, 1803-4 nuair a thug na Francaich ionnsuidh air Breatuinn agus Eirinn; agus fa leath do 'n Lochraidh-dheonach. Air fonn, 'O cuir a nall am bodach.'" Begins ''S mithich dusgadh, chlanna-Gaidheal, / 'S buill a' chatha ghlacadh dana.' 25 stanzas of 4 lines, with a refrain of 4 lines beginning 'O Chlanna-Gaidheal chugnuibh, / I...
Dates:
ca. 1804 and 184
‘The secret history of the revolution in a missive from the Earl of Balcarras to King James the Seventh… att Paris’, 1688-1690.
Item
Identifier: MS.14792
Scope and Contents
On page 117 there is an ‘Elogie upon the Viscount of Dundee by Doctor Pitcairn’ in Latin with an English translation.
Dates:
1688-1690.
Treatises on Oriental languages, chiefly in the hand of Robert Melvill., 17th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.1940
Scope and Contents
The volume includes a Hebrew grammar (folio 1); 'Linguae Chaldaicae brevis institutio' (folio 23); Syriac and Hebrew vocabularies (folios 27 verso, 30 verso); "Solomon's Song resolved" (folio 44); Oriental alphabets (folio 95); 'A Manuduction to the utter porch of the Arabick Grammar Schoole' (folio 97 verso); 'Chronologia sacra' (inverted folios 139 verso-135 verso, 122 verso-104, 88 verso-83 verso); also Latin elegies on persons associated with Fife and Kinross (inverted folios 133-131)...
Dates:
17th century.