Riddles.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Puzzling questions or statements worded so as to exercise one's ingenuity in answering or discovering their hidden meaning.
Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:
Album labelled, 'Letters &c. from 1791 to 1796 from George Ellis, Esq., to his [half-] sister Elizabeth Lindsay, afterwards Mrs. Schutz', but really a commonplace-book, containing poems, riddles, etc., of Ellis and others., 1791-1796.
Item
Identifier: MS.2907
Scope and Contents
Poems ascribed to George Ellis occur on folios 16 verso-20, 28 verso-39 verso. A list of letters of Ellis to Miss Lindsay, found loose, has been pasted on to folio 1. The name 'E. Lindsay' appears on folio ii verso and that of 'Aug. Schutz' on folio 26 verso.
Dates:
1791-1796.
Album of verses, riddles and drawings.
Item
Identifier: MS.10783
Scope and Contents
Most of the entries are dated from 1825 to 1828, and some were made at Newcastle- upon-Tyne. The book belonged to the donor's grandmother, Mrs Elizabeth Russell Davison, of the Wilson family of Roxburghshire.
Dates:
1822-1853.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Book of conundrums of Cecilia Combe., Early 19th century-mid 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.7464
Dates:
Early 19th century-mid 19th century.
Book of riddles and anagrams calligraphically written and decorated in watercolours by Isabella Gordon, Auchlunies.
Item
Identifier: MS.24639
Dates:
1816.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Book of riddles compiled by Barbara Hay-Makdougall, daughter of Sir Henry Hay-Makdougall of Makerstoun., 1806.
Item
Identifier: MS.8112
Commonplace book containing poems, household and medical recipes, riddles and notes, written in several hands.
Item
Identifier: MS.14275
Scope and Contents
Folios 1-20 contain a collection of verses, most of which are dated 1789.
Dates:
1783-1828.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Commonplace book of Donald Mackay, 1848, containing miscelleanous texts including medical prescriptions, texts of religious instruction, songs partly with music, and Gaelic songs, partly composed by Mackay himself.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14338
Content Description
Commonplace book dated 1848, paginated by the scribe 1-732, 781-790, blank after page 727. A leather label pasted onto the front paste-down reads "Donald McKay 1848". The scribe was possibly the Rev. Donald Mackay (1829-1910), a native of Creich, Sutherland, minister of various parishes including Paisley and Nova Scotia. From 1848-1853, around the time of writing of the commonplace book, he was schoolmaster in Ullapool. If Mackay's identity could be confirmed, this time scale might explain...
Dates:
1848.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Commonplace book of George Lewis Augustus Douglas containing "jeus d'esprit", poems, anecdotes, riddles and drawings., 1799, 1808, 1819, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.10363
Dates:
1799, 1808, 1819, undated.
Corrected typescript of ‘Riddles in Scots’ by William Soutar., [1937, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.8584
Dates:
[1937, or before.]
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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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 signed typescripts of published poems of William Soutar.
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Manuscript and corrected typescript of ‘Riddles in Scots’ by William Soutar.
Diary and account-book of the Reverend Dr Robert Douglas, minister of Galashiels, of a trip to Buxton, Matlock, and Llangollen, 10 June-21 August 1795, with miscellaneous poems and riddles., 1795.
File
Identifier: MS.9754, folios 7-25
Scope and Contents
There is also a copy of a commentary on the diary with extracts from it, compiled by T Craig-Brown, and published in ‘The Border magazine’, June 1918, with a related letter, 1918.
Dates:
1795.
Law book compiled by James Blair of Ballindean, Writer in Perth.
Item
Identifier: MS.5898
Scope and Contents
Law book compiled by James Blair of Ballindean, Writer in Perth (folio 28), and subsequently belonging to Robert Blair, Writer in Errol (folio 176 verso).The contents are as follows.(i) Style-book of Scots Law forms based on examples collected in and around Perth (folio 5); preceded by two indices (folios 1 verso, 3).(ii) Latin verses, 1683, entitled 'Carmina auditu digna', possibly written by James Blair. (Folio 92.)(iii) Recipes for dyeing...
Dates:
1682-1683.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Letters and postcards of William Soutar to Mairi Campbell Ireland., 1934-1943, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.19327
Scope and Contents
The subject matter is primarily contemporary poetry and literature, but William Soutar also mentions Mairi Campbell Ireland's own writing and broadcasting, and includes verses and riddles.
Dates:
1934-1943, undated.
Manuscript and corrected typescript of ‘Riddles in Scots’ by William Soutar., [1937, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8583-8584
Manuscript of ‘Riddles in Scots’ by William Soutar., [1937, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.8583
Dates:
[1937, or before.]
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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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 signed typescripts of published poems of William Soutar.
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Manuscript and corrected typescript of ‘Riddles in Scots’ by William Soutar.
Manuscripts, undated, of epigrams, riddles, aphorisms, and 'Vocable verses' by William Soutar., [1917-1942.]
File
Identifier: MS.8616
Microfilm of manuscript of Persius, Avianus, etc. from Thorney Abbey.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.486
Dates:
Late 11th century.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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.
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
Miscellaneous manuscript and typescript poems of William Soutar, many apparently unpublished., 1917-1942, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8609-8625
Dates:
1917-1942, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of the Douglas family of Springwood Park., 1790-1904, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.8114
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Certificates of registration of births, baptisms, marriages, and deaths, 1828-1864. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Masonic and military certificates, and passports, 1847-1878. These include a passport to Venezuela and a certificate issued to Sir George H Scott-Douglas on a visit to the Holy Land. (Folio 17.)
(iii) School reports of Sir George Brisbane Douglas, 1867-1872. (Folio 26.)
(iv) Recipes, chiefly for puddings, 1790, undated. (Folio 57.)
(v) Prayers,...
Dates:
1790-1904, undated.
‘Tales from the people of Sutherland’: stories, beliefs, riddles, etc., collected by Miss Charlotte Louisa Dempster., 1859.
File
Identifier: MS.2140
Scope and Contents
The volume contains entries by various writers, including John F Campbell of Islay, by whom there is an index (folio 2) and a sketch (folio 184).
Dates:
1859.
Typescripts, undated, of epigrams, a series of riddles, and 'Vocable verses' by William Soutar., [1917-1942.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8623-8624
Typescripts, undated, of epigrams, a series of riddles, and 'Vocable verses' by William Soutar., [1917-1942.]
File
Identifier: MS.8624
Dates:
[1917-1942.]
Found in:
Archives and Manuscripts
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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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Miscellaneous manuscript and typescript poems of William Soutar, many apparently unpublished.
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Typescripts, undated, of epigrams, a series of riddles, and 'Vocable verses' by William Soutar.