Poetry.
Found in 2789 Collections and/or Records:
Verses on the fall of Troy, in 88 lines, beginning `Pergama flere volo fato danais data solo`. The title `Versus de excidio troie` is added in a later hand.
Sections iv-vii are in the same hand. Folios 33 verso-34 verso are blank. There are a few pen drawings of faces in the margins.
Fragments of a 13th-century contents list from a collection of sermons have been used as binding strips; other fragments from the same source are in Adv.MS.18.2.4 and 18.4.5.
Video recording of T S Law poetry reading.
Video tape of a recording of a poetry reading by Joy Hendry, Norman MacCaig, William Neill and Iain Crichton Smith.
Includes letters of Valda Grieve, Brian Merriken Hill, Henry Mair, William Neill and Jim C Wilson.
`Vigil of Old Age: Poems` by Ólafr Gunnlaugsson., 1776.
Note by F Magnusson: `No. 47. Exemplar unicum existens. Titulus ipse manu filii ejus celeberrimi Eggerhardi Olavii est exaratus`.
‘Vinum aqua macerandum - poema heroicum' by Marcus Antonius Valentinus de Chantrayne.
At the end ‘Cecinit Marcus Antonius Valentinus de Chantrayne’.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.190) includes the reference: (Ao.5.1).
"Virgil's Æneis", translated into Scottish verse by Gavin Douglas (Edinburgh, 1710); the glossary is heavily annotated by John Jamieson.
There are some notes by O K Schram inside the front cover concerning this edition of Gavin Douglas's text.
‘Viriadas do Doutor Isac de Sequeyra Samuda, medico Lusitano e Socio da Real Sociedade de Londres, Obra posthuma digesta, corrigida, e conclusa pelo Doutor Jacob de Castro Sarmento, medico Lusitano do R. E. Ros medicos de Londres, que aofferece ao D. Juaõ V. Rey de Portugal’.
Volume compiled by Robert Pitcairn consisting of printed and some manuscript items of and concerning Archibald Pitcairne.
Volume consisting chiefly of caricatures, 1875-1879, by Lord Archibald Campbell, son of the 8th Duke of Argyll.
Volume containing a letter of Lord Byron to Sir John Bowring, 1824; four letters concerning Byron, 1824 and 1828; and a manuscript of his last poem.
Volume containing `Annales Skalholtini, 70-1430`, varia on Icelandic history, 18th century, and Icelandic poems, late 18th century.
Volume containing copies of two accounts of the family of Dunbar.
Volume containing fair copies of poems in the hand of Margaret Loudoun., 1803-1809.
Margaret Loudoun's pencilled signature, dated 1809, is at folio i. (Some of the poems, at folios 28 verso and 42 verso, and possibly at folios 5 verso and 8, are addressed to her.) The poems, several of which are by (or a few, to) Francis Jeffrey are dated between 1793 and 1809: the leaves are watermarked 1803. A leaf has been cut out between folios 19 and 20.
Volume containing manuscript poems of Lord Byron and some letters of various correspondents; with a manuscript catalogue relating to manuscripts and correspondence of Lord Byron., ?1811-1831, undated.
Volume containing manuscripts of miscellaneous early poems of Lord Byron., 1807-1811.
Volume containing the Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda and other poems, written by Jonas Egilson.
Volume containing verse and prose, chiefly Jacobite and satirical.
The longer pieces include 'The Tragedie of Glenco', 'Proelium Gilliekrankianum', 'Bellum Bothwellianum', 'Tarquin and Tullia', and Dr Archibald Pitcairne's 'Assembly' and 'Babell'.
There is a recipe for stomach-ache on folio x verso.
Volume entitled 'Celtic music', compiled by David R Robertson, a mercantile clerk in Dundee, consisting of pipe tunes, poems, notes and memoranda, extracts from published sources, letters from correspondents interested in Gaelic culture, and some press cuttings and photographs.
Volume entitled 'Come Lasses and Lads', containing fair copies of poems by William H Hamilton, apparently compiled with a view to publication, probably after 1921., [?1902-?1919.]
Volume entitled 'La Messe des Morts and other poems', containing fair copies of poems by William H Hamilton., 1902-1919.
Volume entitled 'Scotch Ballads. Materials for Border Minstrelsy', chiefly containing ballads sent to Sir Walter Scott when he was collecting material for his ‘Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border’, but with, in addition, many other poems and songs, ancient and modern, English and Gaelic., 1800-[1832].
Volume of Gaelic songs in the hand of Dugald MacNicol, son of Rev. Donald MacNicol., ca. 1816
Volume of genealogies and poems in the hand of Robert Mylne, engraver, son of the writer and antiquary of the same name (see folio 82), with a few additions by his father.
Volume of historical and literary works, 13th century, written in England in the early 14th century.
Sections iv-vii are in the same hand. Folios 33 verso-34 verso are blank. There are a few pen drawings of faces in the margins.
Fragments of a 13th-century contents list from a collection of sermons have been used as binding strips; other fragments from the same source are in Adv.MS.18.2.4 and 18.4.5.