Poetry.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Literary and oral genre rooted in the compressed and cogent imaginative awareness or associations of experiences, ideas, or emotional responses and arranged under an organized criterion of meaning, conscious and unconscious expression, symbolism, formal or informal pattern, sound, and rhythm. The genre encompasses narrative, dramatic, satiric, didactic, erotic, and personal forms. (AAT) All poetry, except ballads, was indexed under this heading in the published catalogues. (NLS) .
Found in 2772 Collections and/or Records:
Thomas Lyle, "Scottish Mosses".
Item
Identifier: Acc.5615
Scope and Contents
Presented to Robert Ker, with a letter and poem of Lyle.
Dates:
1852.
Three documents, some in verse, concerning the families of Learmonth of Dairsie and Balcomie, Fife.
File
Identifier: Acc.10940
Dates:
circa 1620-1651.
Three manuscripts relating to Field-Marshal George Wade, bound in one volume, apparently that formerly in the Junior United Service Club.
File
Identifier: MS.3076
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Poem by a Scottish author, describing the roads, bridges, etc., built by Wade in the Highlands and referring to the manners and resources of the country, 1737. It is followed by notes on allusions and meanings of words, and preceded by a preface in which the author discusses the difficulty which a Scottish writer finds in composing English poetry. It is quoted by J B Salmond, ‘Wade in Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1938), page 204. (Folio 1.)...
Dates:
1737-1744.
Three poems by David Macbeth Moir, with copious notes., [Circa 1831.]
File
Identifier: MS.6521
Scope and Contents
One of the poems, 'The lunatic of love', is a greatly enlarged version of a poem published in “Blackwood's Magazine", October 1831, under the title "The lunatic's complaint". The others seem to have remained unpublished. There is also a poem (folio 132 verso) entitled 'A spirit voice', subscribed 'Δ', but written in Mrs Moir's hand, and untraced.
Dates:
[Circa 1831.]
Three poems in manuscript and a note in Efik., N.d.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4886/12
Three poems in the autograph of Allan Ramsay, and doubtless of his composition, beginning: 'About the moneth, Sir, of September'; 'Chloe an amourous youth desired'; 'A Knave of Trump when Catch ye play'.
File
Identifier: MS.510
Dates:
18th century.
Three poems in the autograph of James Hogg: 'In Memory of Mr. Robert Anderson', enclosed in a letter to Anderson's father, Adam Anderson; 'Good Night and Joy'; and 'Mary Gray'., 1828.
File
Identifier: MS.3112, folios 278-281
Dates:
1828.
Three volumes, containing much of David Macbeth Moir's poetry, and the last part of John Galt's novel ‘The last of the lairds’, with related material.
Series
Identifier: MSS.6520-6522
Dates:
1822-1849.
Three volumes of photocopied literary papers of Major Neil Macleod, Royal Artillery, of Waternish, Isle of Skye and Dalkeith.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12321
Scope and Contents
Volume 1: Gaelic verse; volume 2: remarks on the Books of Genesis, Exodus and Revelation; volume 3: reminiscences of his life.
Dates:
2nd half of 19th century.
Three volumes of poems of Alexander Ross, Schoolmaster at Lochlee in Angus, and author of ‘Helinore: the Fortunate Shepherdess’ (Aberdeen, 1768).
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.18A-C
Scope and Contents
The poems are mainly of a religious nature and written in English, with the exception of ‘The Fortunate Shepherd or the Orphan’, which is in Scots.
Dates:
?1753-1782.
'Tom: 2d of the juvenile poetic works of John Black’, containing drafts of verse dramas and other poems including fragments of ‘The Falls of Clyde, or the fairies’ by John Black, minister of Coylton.
File
Identifier: MS.14233
Scope and Contents
According to a note inside the back cover, John Black was aged from 15 to 19 when he wrote the verses (1793-1797). There are a number of pen and ink and watercolour sketches.
Dates:
1797-1798.
Topographical and other works.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.22
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Scotia illustrata sive Theatrum Urbium, Arcium, Monasteriorum et aedium quarundam illustrium in Scotia`, circa 1692. The Latin text by Sibbald intended for John Slezer`s ‘Theatrum Scotiae’. It is very different from the published text which Slezer had had translated without Sibbald`s authority. The preface is in Slezer`s hand, and each entry is signed by both Sibbald and Slezer. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copy of William Harvey`s...
Dates:
Circa 1692-1709, and undated.
'Traitors for the camp, or the death of the king [James I]. A melodramatical tragical poem in three parts' by George Wilson., 1830-1831, 1853.
Item
Identifier: MS.14238
Scope and Contents
A note on folio 134 states that the drama was originally written in 1830-1831, but was revised and augmented in 1853.
Dates:
1830-1831, 1853.
Transcript by Charles Sharpe of ‘XII. mery jests, of the wyddow Edyth’ by Walter Smith., 1573.
File
Identifier: MS.16491
Scope and Contents
This is a transcript of the 1573 edition (STC 22870). The earlier edition (STC 22869.7), also extremely rare, was published in 1523.The transcript, which is careful to the point of copying the printer’s ornaments, is written on sheets watermarked 1824.Tipped in (folio iii) is a letter, 1841, to Charles Sharpe from a firm agreeing to undertake the production of work, but this does not appear to have taken place.A note by David Laing written on a fragment of...
Dates:
1573.
Transcript by John Dougall, 1821, from the Harley manuscript, ‘The Morall fabillis of Esope’ by Robert Henryson, schoolmaster of Dunfermline.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.5
Scope and Contents
A modern transcript from the Harleian MS.3865. Prefixed are five leaves of notices respecting the manuscript and the transcriber John Dougall, London, 1821.
Dates:
1571, 1821.
Transcript copy, late eighteenth century, of ‘De hortorum cultura’, book III, by Josephus Mylius, and other poems.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.37
Scope and Contents
‘De Hortorum Cultura, libri III. Josephi Misii Voltalinæ, ad Isabellam Sociam. Brixiæ apud vimentium Sabium, M.D.LXXIII’.
Dates:
1574.
Transcript, early 19th-century, of 'The Passioun of Crist' by Walter Kennedy, from British Library Arundel MS 285, folios 6-46.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.2
Scope and Contents
The transcript has been corrected in another contemporary hand.
Dates:
16th century.
Transcript made by Ewen MacLachlan of the Book of the Dean of Lismore.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.3.3
Scope and Contents
Manuscript in the hand of Ewen MacLachlan, Aberdeen, entitled ‘An t-Easpaig’ - presumably because it contains the work of the Dean of Lismore, whom MacLachlan calls (page 1) “Easpuig Leasmòr”. This is valuable, as being MacLachlan’s original Book of the Dean of Lismore transcript, subsequently (but not always accurately) copied by himself and others. (See Adv.MS.72.3.6). It does not strictly follow the order of the original, but the order in which MacLachlan found it easiest to read the...
Dates:
1st quarter of 19th century.
Transcript titled ‘The Gododdin’ by the Reverend John Williams Ab Ithel (1811-1862).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.19
Dates:
[1852, or after.]
Transcription by John Cam Hobhouse of Lord Byron's poem, 'The Conquest'., 1823, or after.
Item
Identifier: MS.42294
Scope and Contents
This is an undated manuscript copy, in the hand of John Cam Hobhouse, of the poem of Lord Byron entitled 'The Conquest', originally written in 1823.
Dates:
1823, or after.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts.
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Papers of and concerning John Cam Hobhouse.
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Manuscripts by John Cam Hobhouse, with related proofs.
Transcription, circa 1894, of the minute books of the Edinburgh Skating Club, 1784-1893., 1784-1893.
File
Identifier: MS.24643
Scope and Contents
A copy of the membership list follows the transcription (folios 141-148), with later additions up to the elections of 1939 (folio 148), and Directions and Inventory copied from the Minute Book for 1784-1888. Miscellaneous verses are transcribed from both original books at folios 158-172.
Dates:
1784-1893.
Transcripts and notes, I, early 20th century, partly typewritten, concerning the ‘Forty-five., 1685-1700, 1745-1747, 1802.
File
Identifier: MS.298
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Memorandum in the handwriting of Murray of Dollerie regarding the fate of his son Anthony, present at the battle of Culloden, 1746. (Folio 1.)(ii) ‘Memorial for the Lord Braco to the Lord Advocate’, 1747. (Folio 4.)(iii) Correspondence of Lord Lewis Gordon and others with Mr Harry Milne, factor to Duff, the Laird of Drummuir, and other documents relating to the payment of levy-money to Prince Charles Edward, 1745-1746....
Dates:
1685-1700, 1745-1747, 1802.
Transcripts in the autograph of the Reverend Dr Thomas Ross of James Macpherson`s Gaelic manuscripts of the Ossian poems., 3rd quarter of 18th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.73.4.1-73.4.3
Dates:
3rd quarter of 18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Transcripts made by the Reverend Dr Thomas Ross (later Minister of Lochbroom) of James Macpherson`s Gaelic manuscripts of the Ossian poems, together with the Latin translation by Robert Macfarlane, made for the edition published by the Highland Society of London in 1807.