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:
Verses and copies of verses by John MacCulloch, geologist and his daughter, Frances.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10051
Dates:
1802-1872.
Verses by Philip, chancellor of Paris (died 1236), beginning `Centrum capit cerculus quod est maius cerculo`., Before 1237.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.9(ii), folios 31 verso-32 recto
Verses by William Allen entitled "Up with the Banner of Scotland".
Item
Identifier: Acc.12823
Dates:
4th quarter of 19th century.
Verses by William Widdrington, whose signature occurs at intervals., 1697-1704.
File
Identifier: MS.2794
Scope and Contents
Some of the verses are addressed to W Widrington's wife Elizabeth, who died in 1672 (page 14); some to his friends, especially Samuel Burroughs, Newmarket, to whom he presented the book.
Dates:
1697-1704.
Verses described as 'fresh from the brains of R Heber and Mr Wilmot' regarding the return of Queen Caroline to England., [?1820.]
Item
Identifier: MS.1030, folio 53
Dates:
[?1820.]
Verses of James Boswell, beginning, "Madam, 'Tis true you plac'd me at your board"., ?1767.
Item
Identifier: MS.3648, folios 106-108
Scope and Contents
The verses were probably addressed to the Countess of Stair in May 1767 (see the letter of Frederick A Pottle, appended).
There is also a note, undated, on Boswell by Thomas Park.
Dates:
?1767.
Verses of Sir Henry Yule, Geologist, inspired by a portrait of Gladstone in the Grosvenor Gallery., 1885.
File
Identifier: MS.1704, folios 83-84
Dates:
1885.
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.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.9(vii), folio 60
Video recording of T S Law poetry reading.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12208
Dates:
2nd half of 20th century.
Video tape of a recording of a poetry reading by Joy Hendry, Norman MacCaig, William Neill and Iain Crichton Smith.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12310
Scope and Contents
Includes letters of Valda Grieve, Brian Merriken Hill, Henry Mair, William Neill and Jim C Wilson.
Dates:
circa 1982-2003.
`Vigil of Old Age: Poems` by Ólafr Gunnlaugsson., 1776.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.8.7
Scope and Contents
Note by F Magnusson: `No. 47. Exemplar unicum existens. Titulus ipse manu filii ejus celeberrimi Eggerhardi Olavii est exaratus`.
Dates:
1776.
‘Vinum aqua macerandum - poema heroicum' by Marcus Antonius Valentinus de Chantrayne.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.34
Scope and Contents
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).
Dates:
Late 17th century-18th century.
"Virgil's Æneis", translated into Scottish verse by Gavin Douglas (Edinburgh, 1710); the glossary is heavily annotated by John Jamieson.
Item
Identifier: MS.14240
Scope and Contents
There are some notes by O K Schram inside the front cover concerning this edition of Gavin Douglas's text.
Dates:
1710, [1808, or before.]
‘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’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.15
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is without a date, but written in England before the year 1760. This posthumous work is a Portuguese poem, comprising 13 books, in stanzas of 8 lines. The author, Isaac de Sequeyra Samuda, Doctor of medicine, was elected June 27th, and admitted as a member of the Royal Society, London, October 24th 1724; and died in 1743. The cantennator of the poem, Dr Jacob de Castro Sarmento, also was a Fellow of the Society, having been elected in February 1729. He died September 14th...
Dates:
?18th century.
Volume compiled by Robert Pitcairn consisting of printed and some manuscript items of and concerning Archibald Pitcairne.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.7.17
Scope and Contents
The items of manuscript interest consist of presentation and other notes (numbers 26, 112), a poem (91) and a letter, 1711 (108), of Archibald Pitcairne; poems by Thomas Kincaid and Allan Ramsay (89, 92) and a poem (90) and notes in other contemporary hands (4, 5, 32, 45, 95, 102, 109); and notes and extracts (2, 3, 6, 39, 46a, 70, 88, 92a, 95a, 102a, 104) in Robert Pitcairn`s hand, and a copy by him, dated 1825, of a decreet of the Privy Council in favour of Archibald Pitcairne, 1700 (111)....
Dates:
1700, 1711.
Volume consisting chiefly of caricatures, 1875-1879, by Lord Archibald Campbell, son of the 8th Duke of Argyll.
File
Identifier: MS.7195
Scope and Contents
John Francis Campbell of Islay, Gaelic scholar and government official, George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, and Lord Colin Campbell, Member of Parliament for Argyll, are frequently featured. The volume includes an answer to a petition, ?1681, by the Earls of Erroll and Strathmore, and a list of debts, 1681, due by Archibald Campbell, Marquess of Argyll. There are also two letters of Lord Archibald Campbell, one of J F Campbell of Islay, and a Gaelic poem, 1685, on Archibald, 9th...
Dates:
1681-1879.
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.
File
Identifier: Dep.238- is now Acc.8766.
Dates:
1824, 1828.
Volume containing `Annales Skalholtini, 70-1430`, varia on Icelandic history, 18th century, and Icelandic poems, late 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.2.9
Dates:
18th century.
Volume containing copies of two accounts of the family of Dunbar.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.3.2
Scope and Contents
(i) `A short account of the noble and ancient Family of Dunbar. Writen, A[?] 1744.` The writer deals with the origin of the family, the family of Dunbar and March descended from the Earls of Northumberland, the families of Dundas and Home, the Dunbars of Cumnock and Mochrum, the Dunbars Earls of Moray, the Dunbars of Westfield and their branches, and the armorial bearings of the Dunbars, and adds genealogical trees of the family of Dunbar and March, of the Earls of Home and Marchmont, and of...
Dates:
1554, 1744.
Volume containing fair copies of poems in the hand of Margaret Loudoun., 1803-1809.
File
Identifier: MS.23226
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1803-1809.
Volume containing the Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda and other poems, written by Jonas Egilson.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.21.6.7
Dates:
1750-1753.