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Manuscripts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to handwritten documents, and may also be used to distinguish certain documents from published or otherwise printed documents, as in the cases of typed personal letters or a typescript from which printed versions are made.

Found in 6567 Collections and/or Records:

Poems by Olaf Gunnlaugson.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.3.14
Scope and Contents

Note by F Magnusson: `No. 41. Olai Gunnlogii Reliqua Poemata Majora præter Speculum Temporis. Autographum unicum.`

Dates: Undated.

Poems in Scots of the Reverend James Melville, minister of Kilrenny, mostly on religious themes

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.7
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Sonnets and short poems, some relating to Andrew Melville, written in 1610 and 1611 (folio 1). (ii) Copy of Hugh Broughton`s pamphlet `A Petition to the Lords to examine the religion and cariage of R. Ban[croft] Archbishop. Anno.1608` (folio 12).(iii) `A Preservative from Apostasie or the Song of Moses ... translated out of Hebrew and put in metre first shortly neere the text and than more at large...
Dates: 1606-1611.

Poems of Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid' published as ‘Sangschaw’., [1925, or before], undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.27001
Scope and Contents

The papers include an early list of contents (folio 1), some typescripts (folio 2), and an undated manuscript copy, possibly made in the 1960s (folio 4). The copy does not include the foreword by John Buchan or the opinions on Hugh MacDiarmid's poetry, but is otherwise complete.

Dates: [1925, or before], undated.

Poems of --Drummond of Balloch, apparently unpublished.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.11
Scope and Contents

The volume is principally made up of the long poem `Phyllis. In four sections`, but only the first two sections appear. Two other poems, `Riddles` (folio 66 verso) and `Aenigmatum Centuria altera` (folio 78) complete the manuscript.

There is an inscription on the flyleaf: `Conditur exigua Lepidus Ballocus in Urna/ Cui natura parens, sorsque noverca fuit.’

Dates: 18th century.

Poems of Ólaf Gunnlaugsson.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.21.8.10

Poems of Ólafr Gunnlaugsson.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.21.4.12

Poems of Ólafr Gunnlaugsson.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.21.7.11

Poems of Ólafr Gunnlaugsson.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.21.8.7-21.8.8

Poems of Ólafr Gunnlaugsson.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.8.12

`Poesies Diverses`; three satirical poems in French, the second of which is addressed to `Drummond`., 1753.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.20.6.2(vii), folios 163-172
Scope and Contents

The folios have been misbound, and the correct order should be folios 163, 167-172, 164-166.

Dates: 1753.

Poetic Edda.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.2.5

Poetry notebooks and other papers of Robert Crawford (1877-1931).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26023-26026
Scope and Contents

Robert Crawford, who was a miner in Ayrshire and later in Stirlingshire, published three collections of poems and also wrote philosophical essays.

Dates: 1920-1931, undated.

Poetry of Alastair Reid., 1953-1981, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27446-27457
Scope and Contents

Alastair Reid both wrote poetry himself and translated work by Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges and others. MSS.27446-27448 contain his own poems, and MSS.27449-27457 his translations.

Dates: 1953-1981, undated.