Epigrams.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to short satiric poems or any similar pointed sayings.
Found in 34 Collections and/or Records:
9th-century French manuscript containing all of the epigrams of Martial., 9th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.1
Scope and Contents
The script is Caroline minuscule, with headings in rustic capitals, and also square capitals on a display page, folio 80 verso (beginning of book xi). Written by several hands in a French scriptorium north of the Loire in the second half of the 9th century. There are a few later marginal notes. On the lower side of the front pastedown is French writing in a 16th-century cursive hand.
Dates:
9th century.
Collection of epigrams, songs, copies of letters and documents, etc., relating to current events in France., 1712-1730.
File
Identifier: MS.160
Dates:
1712-1730.
Collection of papers put together in the mid-nineteenth century by J.B., 1747-early 19th century, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.20767, folios 118-216
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(a) Letters to Robert Chalmers, solicitor, Edinburgh, from his niece Katherine Forbes Crauford, 1768; from the portrait painter Anne Forbes and her mother and sister, 1772-1773, concerning her work in London and including a list of portraits by her; from the Countess of Dumfries, 1788, and from David Rae (later Lord Eskgrove), undated, concerning admission to the Select Society (folio 118);
(b) Epigram, 1747, on, and letter and poems, 1770-1777, undated, of, Mrs...
Dates:
1747-early 19th century, undated.
Collection of sayings and anecdotes entitled 'Collectanea Apophthegmatum', compiled by Lauchlan McIntosh.
File
Identifier: MS.9612
Scope and Contents
The entries are collected chiefly from classical sources and are arranged, alphabetically as far as possible, under an alphabetical sequence of headings. The collection is followed by a description of Jerusalem before its destruction by Vespasian (folio 130), a descriptive list arranged alphabetically of the places mentioned in the Old Testament, with their distances from Jerusalem in English miles (folio 138), and a similar list of the places mentioned in the New Testament, preceded by...
Dates:
1646.
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.
Commonplace book containing epigrams, anecdotes, and quotations from religious writers., [Circa 1635-circa 1637.]
Item
Identifier: MS.5788
Dates:
[Circa 1635-circa 1637.]
Commonplace book of Nina, Countess of Minto, consisting of literary works and notes on contemporary politics., 1861-1872.
Item
Identifier: MS.19460
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) The Moon's Story - A Dream of 1849 (folio 1); (ii) Recollections of a conversation with Lord John Russell at Pembroke Lodge, 1848 (folio 8); (iii) Recollections of Woburn, 1856, being notes from a conversation with Francis, Duke of Bedford (succeeded 1872) (folio 13); (iv) Notes of conversations with Lord John Russell from the journal of Nina, Countess of Minto, 1863-1872 (folio 35); (v) Epigram on Sir Sidney Smith by John, 4th Marquess Townshend, undated.
Dates:
1861-1872.
Copies of translations, epigrams, etc., many ascribed to R L Edgeworth and about the family., 1793-1817.
File
Identifier: MS.2721
Dates:
1793-1817.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts collected by George Neilson, Glasgow, author of ‘Trial by combat’ (Glasgow, 1890) and joint-editor of the ‘Acta Dominorum Concilii, 1496-1501’ (Edinburgh, 1918).
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Commonplace-books, etc., of Richard Lovell Edgeworth of Edgeworthstown and his family, with some notes in pencil ascribing names, dates, etc., to poems.
'Cursory Remarks' by Theophilus Swift and other material, supplied by Matthew Weld Hartstonge and others, concerning Sir Walter Scott’s ‘Life and works of Jonathan Swift’., 1808-1817.
File
Identifier: MS.882
Dates:
1808-1817.
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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Materials for works written or edited by Sir Walter Scott.
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Letters and documents concerning Sir Walter Scott's 'The works of Jonathan Swift’.
Diary for 1778, containing epigrams, anecdotes, epitaphs, etc., 1778.
Item
Identifier: MS.5789
French manuscript, 9th century, containing all of the epigrams of Martial; with a binding, 13th century, in which the manuscript was previously bound.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.18.3.1-18.3.1(a)
Dates:
9th century, 13th century.
Jacobite papers collected by Sir Henry Steuart, titled, 'M.S.S. Jacobite I'., 1623-1744, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.1695
Dates:
1623-1744, undated.
Manuscript and typescript of 'Epigrams' by William Soutar., [Before 1944.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8599-8600
Dates:
[Before 1944.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Scots poet William Soutar.
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Manuscripts and typescripts of poems of William Soutar.
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Manuscripts and typescripts of selected sets of poems of William Soutar, apparently intended for publication.
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Manuscripts and typescripts of ‘Over the goompa gu’ and ‘Epigrams’ by William Soutar.
Manuscript of ‘Epigrams’ by William Soutar., [Before 1944.]
Item
Identifier: MS.8599
Dates:
[Before 1944.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Scots poet William Soutar.
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Manuscripts and typescripts of poems of William Soutar.
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Manuscripts and typescripts of selected sets of poems of William Soutar, apparently intended for publication.
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Manuscripts and typescripts of ‘Over the goompa gu’ and ‘Epigrams’ by William Soutar.
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Manuscript and typescript of 'Epigrams' by William Soutar.
Manuscript, written in England in the late 11th century, containing the satires of Persius, the fables of Avianus, and miscellaneous poetry and other works.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.12
Scope and Contents
Most of the leaves are palimpsest, but the underwriting is illegible; it may be from the same manuscripts as that in Adv.MS.18.7.8 (pricking from the original manuscript survives on folios 3+6, 9, 16+23, 17+22, 26+29, 34+35, in one or both edges of the text-frame; the width of the ruled area was 172 millimetres in folios 3+6, 17+22, 26+29, 192 millimetres in folio 9.). See 'Notice et extraits d'un manuscrit d' Edinbourg', 33 and what follows.The contents of the manuscript are as...
Dates:
Late 11th century.
Manuscripts and typescripts of selected sets of poems of William Soutar, apparently intended for publication., [Before 1944.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8597-8606
Scope and Contents
Many of the poems appear individually in William Soutar's published works, while the remainder are apparently unpublished.
Since, in MSS.8599-8603, there are a considerable number of unpublished poems, they have been indicated by an asterisk in the contents lists which Soutar compiled for these volumes.
Dates:
[Before 1944.]
Manuscripts, undated, of epigrams, riddles, aphorisms, and 'Vocable verses' by William Soutar., [1917-1942.]
File
Identifier: MS.8616
Dates:
[1917-1942.]
Microfilm of French manuscript containing all of the epigrams of Martial, and of the Auchinleck manuscript.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
French manuscript, 9th century, containing all of the epigrams of Martial (Adv.MS.18.3.1);
Auchinleck manuscript, 1st half of 14th century, a compilation of Middle English verse, including romances and religious and historical pieces (Adv.MS.19.2.1).
Dates:
9th century, 1st half of 14th century.
Microfilm of manuscript of Persius, Avianus, etc. from Thorney Abbey.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.486
Dates:
Late 11th century.
Microfilm of poems, epigrams, epitaphs, etc., in the hand of William Drummond of Hawthornden, chiefly of his own composition, with some copies of the work of other writers.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.80
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Microfilm of two 11th century manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.9
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, late 11th century, of Persius, Avianus, etc. from Thorney Abbey (Adv.MS.18.6.12);
Palimpsest, made up of at least five English manuscripts of the 8th to 11th centuries, overwritten in England in the late 11th century and belonging to Thorney Abbey (Adv.MS.18.7.8).
Dates:
8th century to 11th century.
Miscellaneous manuscript and typescript poems of William Soutar, many apparently unpublished., 1917-1942, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8609-8625
Notebook of William Edmondstoune Aytoun, originally labelled on the spine, 'Hocus Pocus, 1834-1837', containing epigrams, poems and unfinished verses., 1834-1837.
Item
Identifier: MS.4916
Scope and Contents
Most of the volume (folios 10-70, 115 verso-152 verso) is taken up with a draft of a verse drama on Richard Coeur de Lion, which was apparently unpublished (see also MS.4915). The remainder of the volume contains sixteen shorter complete poems, of which the following were published in “Blackwood’s magazine”: 'The minstrel's curse' (folio 96), 'The Count of Greiers' (folio 98), 'The castle by the sea' (folio 99 verso), 'Midnight music' (folio 100 verso) in March 1836; 'The Dream' (folio 99),...
Dates:
1834-1837.
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.
Notebook, undated, of William Edmondstoune Aytoun, containing epigrams and verses, all apparently unpublished., Mid 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.4918
Dates:
Mid 19th century.
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.