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:
Manuscript in Gaelic containing a collection of the religious poems of Tadhg Óg Ó Huiginn (died1448), written chiefly by Eoghan Carrach Ó Siaghail.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.29
Scope and Contents
A collection of the religious poems of Tadhg Óg Ó Huiginn written chiefly by Eoghan Carrach Ó Siaghail (folio 6 recto). Eoghan Carrach is the scribe of a poem in Bodleian MS. Laud Misc. 615, page 129, and of Franciscan MS. A 8, written for Niall Óg Ó Néill during 1532-1545 (Dillon, Mooney and de Brún, ‘Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the Franciscan Library, Killiney’, page 16; cf. Plummer ‘On the colophons and marginalia of Irish scribes’, page 17). The manuscript was completed...
Dates:
[Before 1449.]
Manuscript in Gaelic containing medical and religious text, with encomiastic verse.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.25
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written in the following hands.1. Text, folios 1-2, 23-24. Formal, often unusually large for a medical hand; bold, strongly seriffed.2. Relieves hand 1 at intervals, folios 1-2, 23; distinguishable by its crooked ‘s’.3. Text, folio 24 recto, column b, line 1-end. Small.4. Text, folios 3-22. Ovoid ‘d’. Changes style (notably ‘g’) and ink at folio 18; a face is amusingly drawn in the initial 'D' here, almost the only decoration...
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Manuscript in Gaelic containing mythological verse.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.19
Scope and Contents
A manuscript beautifully written by a single hand, large with distinctive ‘g’, strongly seriffed. Each poem begins with a large illuminated capital, and there is much decoration besides; colouring is red. There are marginalia in later hands: ‘Amen dico vobis’ (folio 3 recto); ‘olc an litir sin agad a Eogain’ (folio 5 verso, of Adv.MS.72.1.2, folio 86 verso); ‘Ag so leabar………Briain(?) ull(?)’. The contents are as follows.About 25 quatrains, acephalous and...
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
Manuscript in the hand of George Crabbe : lines copied from "Paradise Lost", Book V, by John Milton., 1780-1832.
Item
Identifier: MS.42124
Scope and Contents
The manuscript runs, with omissions, from line 120, "That what in sleep thou didst abhor to dream", to line 659, "Is heard no more in Heaven; he of the first".
The manuscript would appear to have been a part of a larger manuscript; or, perhaps, to have been extracted from a notebook.
Dates:
1780-1832.
Manuscript leaf of part of William Edmondstowne Aytoun, "Bothwell".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8433
Dates:
1856.
Manuscript, lettered 'M.S.S. ST. ALBANS 1768' on the spine., 1768.
Item
Identifier: MS.2805
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains simple problems in arithmetic (folio 1), and songs, ballads, election verses, etc., mostly associated with St Albans (folio 108).
Dates:
1768.
Manuscript material of David Livingstone, additional to MSS.10707-10756: Letters, manuscripts, maps, and other papers of and concerning David Livingstone, being the material formerly stored in the David Livingstone Centre at Blantyre, Lanarkshire.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20314-20316
Dates:
1849-1873.
Manuscript narrative poem, "Days of Chivalry, or Adelaide and Ethelbert" by John Clark.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11766
Scope and Contents
Illustrated with watercolours.
Dates:
circa 1830-1840.
Manuscript, nineteenth century, of 'Ishqnama-i Gulbadan o Naunihal', the loves of Naunihal and Gulbadan, a Dakkani (Urdu) poem composed by Ahmed Ali, circa 1200 A.H. (1785 A.D.)., Circa 1785.
Item
Identifier: MS.5784
Scope and Contents
The poem is a complete versification of the popular Indian romance. It is written in double columns with six illuminated drawings.
Dates:
Circa 1785.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts from the library at Newbattle Abbey.
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Two manuscripts from the library at Newbattle Abbey: Persian astrological calendar, probably 19th century; and a manuscript of the 'Ishqnama-i Gulbadan o Naunihal' (The loves of Naunihal and Gulbadan), circa 1200 A.H. (1785 A.D.).
Manuscript notebook of short poems by Agnes Mure Mackenzie., [Circa 1919.]
Item
Identifier: MS.9192
Dates:
[Circa 1919.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts and typescripts of, and notes for, historical and literary works, speeches, and broadcasts, together with correspondence, of Agnes Mure Mackenzie, Commander of the British Empire, Master of Arts, Doctor of Letters, Doctor of Laws (1891-1955).
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Dramatic works, short stories and poetry of Agnes Mure Mackenzie.
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Poetry of Agnes Mure Mackenzie.
Manuscript of a commentary by Michael Miniclardi on 'De consolatione philosophiae' by Boethius.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.3
Scope and Contents
The main text ends on folio 221 verso. Folio 222 contains 30 hexameters on Boethius (incipit 'Floruit hic doctor clarusque Boetius autor'). Folios 223-228 recto contain an 'exortatio' 'ad honorem dei et sanctorum apostolorum petri et pauli', written by Miniclardi in 1444. Folio 228 verso-230 verso contain, in a different hand, a draft speech against Q Ligarius (defended by Cicero in his extant speech 'Pro Ligario'), presumably a school exercise; interlinear corrections are possibly by...
Dates:
1443.
Manuscript of ‘A handful of earth’ by William Soutar., 1936.
Item
Identifier: MS.8581
Dates:
1936.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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 ’A handful of earth’ by William Soutar.
Manuscript of 'A Melodrama' in verse by Ruthven Todd., 1933.
Item
Identifier: MS.26827
Manuscript of a poem, 'A hunt in dreamland' by Henry De Vere Stacpoole., 1890.
Item
Identifier: MS.4875
Manuscript of a poem "Addressed to the Purveyor of the Latest Byron Scandal", by an unidentified author., 1869.
Item
Identifier: MS.42602
Manuscript of a poem of John Caulfield, "The Triumph of Love".
File
Identifier: Acc.8046
Scope and Contents
With a letter of Thomas Blacklock to Caulfield.
Dates:
circa 1774.
Manuscript of a poem of John Copland, "St Andrews".
Item
Identifier: Acc.6754
Scope and Contents
In a binding by James Scott.
Dates:
circa 1776.
Manuscript of a poem, 'The consecration of Westminster Abbey' by Aubrey De Vere., 1878.
File
Identifier: MS.4790
Manuscript of a poem, 'The honeyhaired ladye' by Jean Morison Campbell Miller Morison., ?2nd half of 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.4850
Dates:
?2nd half of 19th century.
Manuscript of a poem titled, 'Paris' by Ruthven Todd., 1940.
Item
Identifier: MS.26890, folio 1
Manuscript of a revised version of ‘Conflict’ by William Soutar., [1931, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.8569
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains a few typescript folios, and is of a later version of the text than that in MS.8568.
Dates:
[1931, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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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Manuscripts and typescripts of different versions of ‘Conflict’ by William Soutar.
Manuscript of a selection of poems of Forbes MacGregor, "Four Gates of Lothian", selected and introduced by Alastair Mackie.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7449
Dates:
1979.
Manuscript of an apparently unpublished poem, 'A small water party' by Edward Bradley ('Cuthbert Bede'). , 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.4766
Manuscript of an apparently unpublished poem, 'Carlyle' by Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley., 1881.
Item
Identifier: MS.4864