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:
'Genealogie of the wholl Nobility of Scotland ... since ye reign of K. Orbred ye It.... By H. R. by comand of HMK’., 1685.
File
Identifier: MS.2108
Scope and Contents
'Hugh McKy' appears as owner of the book on folios 1, 187 verso, 190 verso; 'Hu: Rose' on folio 1.The account of the nobility is followed by lists of officials in the same hand (folio 175). In another hand is a poem (folio 185), 'Lowe and honour, or the lowers fairweell to Calista being sent from see in the latte engagement agst the Duth to his mistris under the name of Armeda wt ye Ladys deploring and ingenuous ansr to a new sad air much in request or the tune of the Tirrant hes...
Dates:
1685.
Genealogies and other matter relating to the Richardson family, bound up with 'The Late John Richardson', by Lord Moncrieff, extracted from the 'North British Review', December 1864., 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3992
Genealogies of Scottish families, copied by Robert Mylne.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.8
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) The compilation by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh (see Adv.MS.34.3.19) copied from a manuscript of 1685 or later, with some additional material taken from ‘The Great historical geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary’ (page 1).(ii) Genealogical material taken partly from Camden, Dugdale and other historians (page 395).(iii) Verses on the death of William, 6th Earl of Douglas (page 480)....
Dates:
1685, or later.
General correspondence of Christopher Murray Grieve., 1929-1981, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27152-27155
Scope and Contents
The writers include friends of Christopher Murray Grieve, ‘Hugh MacDiarmid’, publishers, and literary agents. While some of the letters discuss his work or reflect his political affiliations, many are requests to use his poems, or invitations to give speeches. In some cases, MacDiarmid used the backs of the letters for notes and drafts of poems.
Dates:
1929-1981, undated.
General correspondence of Sydney Durward Tremayne, chiefly about poetry., 1947-1986, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26702
Scope and Contents
The writers, who sometimes enclosed poems in their letters, include Norman MacCaig, Frederick Pratt Green and Sylvia Seeker.
Dates:
1947-1986, undated.
‘Gentle shepherd’ by Allan Ramsay, being pages 307-382 of his ‘Poems’, volume 2, with marginal notes in the hand of Allan Ramsay the Younger.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.5.15
Scope and Contents
The intention was to republish the Scots text with an Italian translation (the latter already in existence), see folio 6. No Italian translation seems to be recorded.The notes consist of: the addition of title and dedication; the deletion of W H`s dedicatory verses; an amplification of the note of the scene, a few changes in the text, mostly orthographical, except for the final verses, which are completely recast; and the general comment (folio 6), `This edition has too many...
Dates:
1728 or after.
George Campbell Hay, Verse translations of two Gaelic songs into English
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Identifier: Acc.13628
Scope and Contents
Single sheet containing two verse translations of Gaelic songs: 1. "Verses to Alasdair Mac Colla", beginning "Too long have I lain as a man sleeping", being a translation of an anonymous 17th-century Scottish Gaelic song o Alasdair Mac Colla, beg. `Is fhad tha mis ann am chadal`, printed first in John Gillies`s Gaelic song collection (Perth, 1786), pp. 85-86. 2. "An Capaillín Bán", from the Irish Gaelic, beg. "My woe and distree! `tis death has the merciless...
Dates:
1940
German manuscript, 18th or 19th century, possibly poetry., 18th century-19th century.
Item
Identifier: Acc.3591/14
Dates:
18th century-19th century.
Glenmasan manuscript (Ulster cycle).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.3
Scope and Contents
It may be said in summary that the manuscript appears to be a product of a school conducted by An Giolla Riabhach Ó Cléirigh and Dubhthach Ó Duibhgeannáin, and that it circulated for a hundred years and more in Cowall. The Reverend William Campbell’s formalised note at page ii, giving the place Glenmasan and the date 1268, has provided the name by which it is generally known. In view of the difficulty Campbell experienced in the 1760s or 1770s in writing the date at page 29, one is entitled...
Dates:
ca. 1500.
Glenriddell Manuscripts: copies of poems, letters, etc., of Robert Burns, compiled by the poet, 1791-1793, for presentation to Robert Riddell of Glenriddell.
Series
Identifier: MSS.86-87
Dates:
4th quarter of 18th century.
Glossary of Gaelic terms connected with ‘music, poetry, dancing and oratory’ compiled by Angus Fraser., [1855, or after.]
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.6
Scope and Contents
The volume was made in Glasgow as an account book. A number of leaves are excised at the beginning. Folio 90 is additional. The contents are as follows.(i) Additional notes. (Folio 1 recto.)(ii) Glossary Mi-Fhonnmhor – Ur-Theagasg. (Folio 4 recto.)(iii) Specimens of Gaelic verse scanned according to music. (Folio 75 recto.)(iv) Duncan MacDougall. “Nis o’n thainig na h-eoin as na seomraichean balbh”, 12 quatrains. With note. (Folio...
Dates:
[1855, or after.]
‘Grammaticae Latinae Institutiones’, part I, by Thomas Ruddiman (Edinburgh, 1725), interleaved with autograph notes of Ruddiman., 1725.
File
Identifier: MS.767
Dates:
1725.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Ruddiman collection, consisting of manuscript-books and notes of Thomas Ruddiman, Keeper of the Advocates’ Library from 1730 to 1752, chiefly in Ruddiman’s autograph.
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‘Grammaticae Latinae Institutiones’ by Thomas Ruddiman (Edinburgh, 1725 and 1731), interleaved with autograph notes of Ruddiman.
Grangerised and annotated copy of ‘Hamewith’ (Aberdeen, 1900) by Charles Murray., 1900-1908, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.27259
Scope and Contents
The insertions are chiefly cuttings of reviews, with a few printed poems, 1900-1908, undated.
Dates:
1900-1908, undated.
Greek poetry; a volume consisting of three printed books, with manuscript notes and annotations in Latin in an 18th-century hand.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.8.4
Scope and Contents
The printed books are:(1) Reiske, Johann J. ‘Anthologiae Graecae a Constantino Cephala conditae libri tres’, 2 parts (Leipzig, 1754);(2) an unidentified Ανθόλγια;(3) Μόσχου καὶ βιῶνος εἰδὐλλια, edited by A van Meetkercke (Bruges, 1565). The first part of (1) (except the preface) has been interleaved and several leaves have been added at the end of (2). On these leaves, on the last page of (3), and on the lower paste-down are manuscript...
Dates:
1565, 18th century.
'Hamilton Cause', eight four-lined stanzas on the verdict in the Douglas Cause, in which the Duke of Hamilton was a claimant, endorsed., 1767.
Item
Identifier: MS.98, folio 29
Dates:
1767.
Hardback A4 notebook of Don Paterson, annotated 'V. early, circa [19]88-[19]89', containing draft poems., Circa 1988-1989.
File
Identifier: Acc.12689/1
Scope and Contents
Many folios are loosely inserted into the notebook. These include photocopies of typescripts of final versions of many of the poems published in 'Nil nil'.
The notebook may have been used originally for stock-control in a bookshop.
Dates:
Circa 1988-1989.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Literary papers of Don Paterson, including notebooks, manuscripts and typescript drafts of poetry, prose and drama.
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Poetry files and poetry notebooks of Don Paterson.
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Poetry files of Don Paterson relating mainly to the published anthologies.
Holograph manuscripts of Allan Ramsay.
Series
Identifier: MSS.804-805
Dates:
[1721, or after-1728, or after.]
Holograph poem titled 'The Marrow Ballad' by Allan Ramsay, apparently unpublished., 1738.
Item
Identifier: MS.1030, folio 6
Dates:
1738.
Holograph poems, and 'The secret of the heather ale', a tale, 1892, by Neil Munro., 1892, [1931, or before].
File
Identifier: MS.816
Dates:
1892, [1931, or before].
Holograph 'Poems', by Alfred Noyes., [1930, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.815
Scope and Contents
The poems are preceded by a letter to John Buchan, 1930.
Dates:
[1930, or before.]
Holograph ‘Poems’, by Sir Henry Newbolt., Late 19th century-early 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.814
Scope and Contents
The poems are preceded by a note, undated, to John Buchan.
Dates:
Late 19th century-early 20th century.
House-painter's notebook of Robert Garioch Sutherland's father, later used by Sutherland for notes and copies of poems from ‘Scottish Chapbook’ and other publications., 1927-1928.
Item
Identifier: MS.26582
Hymns of Dugald Buchanan., ca. 1760
Item
Identifier: MS.14852
Scope and Contents
A small booklet of 10 folios, 18.8 x 11.7 cm. It contains two hymns of Buchanan, who is not identified as the author, and a fragment of another song. Formerly Acc.2152/3. The two hymns by Buchanan are in the hand of Rev. Donald MacNicol, while the fragment is possibly in a different, unidentified hand. On the relationship between the versions of Buchanan's hymns with manuscripts of the same texts found in McLagan MS Gen 1042/20 and 1042/4, Glasgow University Library, see Donald Meek,...
Dates:
ca. 1760
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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The MacNicol collection, comprising Gaelic songs and other papers collected by the Reverend Donald MacNicol, minister of Lismore, and his son Dugald MacNicol, with some added papers and listings of later owners and users of the collection.
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Gaelic songs and verse.
Hymns of Dugald Buchanan and songs of unidentified poets., ca. 1760
Item
Identifier: MS.14851
Scope and Contents
The booklet contains versions of three hymns of Buchanan, who is not identified as the poet, and a few other items. On the relationship between the versions of Buchanan's hymns with manuscripts of the same texts found in McLagan MS Gen 1042/20 and 1042/4, Glasgow University Library, see Donald Meek, 'Dugald Buchanan (1716-68): the poet, the translator, and the manuscript evidence. The Canna Lecture 2016' (Scottish Gaelic Texts Society 2019), esp. pp. 20-25. Formerly...
Dates:
ca. 1760
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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The MacNicol collection, comprising Gaelic songs and other papers collected by the Reverend Donald MacNicol, minister of Lismore, and his son Dugald MacNicol, with some added papers and listings of later owners and users of the collection.
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Gaelic songs and verse.
Iain Crichton Smith, translations from Sorley MacLean's 'Dain do Eimhir', ca. 1970
File
Identifier: Acc.13916/18
Scope and Contents
Verse translations by Iain Crichton Smith of a selection of poems of Sorley MacLean's 'Dain do Eimhir' (I-IV, VIII, XIV, XVII-XXIV, XXVII-XXXV, XXXVII, XLII-XLIII, XLV, XLVIII-L, LII, LIV-LV, LVII (3 versions). Iain Crichton Smith's translations were published in 1971.
Dates:
ca. 1970