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 of "Olaf's son", books X-XVI, 'first version', by George Donald Valentine., [1936, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.5190
Dates:
[1936, or before.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Poetry of George Donald Valentine in manuscript and typescript.
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Manuscripts and typescripts of "Olaf's son" by George Donald Valentine.
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Manuscripts of "Olaf's son", 'first version', undated; and 'Medea in Love', 1941-1942, by George Donald Valentine.
Manuscript of "Olaf's son", books XI-XVI, 'revised', by George Donald Valentine., [1936, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.5193
Dates:
[1936, or before.]
Manuscript of "Olaf's son", books XVII-XXIII, by George Donald Valentine., [1936, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.5194
Dates:
[1936, or before.]
Manuscript of "Olaf's son", 'revised', by George Donald Valentine., [1936, or before.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5192-5194
Manuscript of Ossianic poems written by various anonymous hands from recitation of Archibald Fletcher (born circa 1734), Achallader, Argyll.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.24
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is watermarked 1798, and is described by John Francis Campbell (‘Leabhar na Feine’, page xvi) ‘as genuine a bit of folk lore as any in the world’.Archibald Fletcher’s affidavit, sworn before Archibald Menzies, Justice of the Peace, in Edinburgh, 1801, is printed in the Ossian Report, Appendix, page 270. It lists the tradition-bearers from whom he learned the poems. Menzies states that Fletcher could write his name, but was unable to read the manuscript, which is...
Dates:
[1798, or after.]
Manuscript of part I of an apparently unpublished poem, 'Nature and art' by Alexander Peterkin., Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.4862
Scope and Contents
Included in the manuscript are 'Notes and illustrations' to the verses and a prefatory note.
Dates:
Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
Manuscript of poem of Hercules Rollock, "De Peste Edinburgi Grassante, anno 1585".
File
Identifier: Acc.4373
Scope and Contents
With contemporary copy, signed by Rollock.
Dates:
circa 1585.
Manuscript of poem of Iain Crichton Smith, "The Ladder of Experience".
Item
Identifier: Acc.5983
Dates:
circa 1950-circa 1973.
Manuscript of poem of James Hogg, "The White Rose of Scotland".
Item
Identifier: Acc.9701
Dates:
circa 1834.
Manuscript of ‘Poems in Scots’ by William Soutar., [1935, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.8580
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is accompanied by a duplicate in typescript of the major poem 'The Auld Tree' and the part of the glossary relating to it.
Dates:
[1935, or before.]
Manuscript of 'Quest' by William Soutar., [Before 1944.]
Item
Identifier: MS.8603
Dates:
[Before 1944.]
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 typescripts of selected sets of poems of William Soutar, apparently intended for publication.
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Manuscript and incomplete typescript of ‘Earth’, and manuscript of ‘Quest’, by William Soutar.
Manuscript of religious verse in Gaelic.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.14
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains an early ‘pot’ watermark. The scribe unknown, but his hand bears family resemblance to that of some Ó Siaghails, e.g. Eoghan Carrach. ‘Saltair’ format, i.e. written along the page, 1 quatrain per line, with single unrelated quatrains at foot of many pages; at folios 1 verso and 5 verso-10 recto these are followed by the date 1582. As manuscript dating this appears consistent with text and watermark. There are many corrections to the text in what appears to be the...
Dates:
1582.
Manuscript of Ronald Stevenson song cycle, "A Child`s Garden of Verses".
Item
Identifier: Acc.10278
Scope and Contents
Makes use of Robert Louis Stevenson poems.
Dates:
1985.
Manuscript of 'Selected poems' by William Soutar., [Before 1944.]
Item
Identifier: MS.8604
Dates:
[Before 1944.]
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 typescripts of selected sets of poems of William Soutar, apparently intended for publication.
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Manuscript and typescript of ‘Selected poems’ and manuscript of ‘Selection of Scots verses’ by William Soutar.
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Manuscript and typescript of 'Selected poems' by William Soutar, of which all the poems have been published.
Manuscript of 'Selection of Scots verses' by William Soutar., [Before 1944.]
Item
Identifier: MS.8606
Scope and Contents
With the exception of 'The Proposal', 'Wiseness', 'The Visitation', and 'Lethendy Kirk', all the poems are published.
Dates:
[Before 1944.]
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 typescripts of selected sets of poems of William Soutar, apparently intended for publication.
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Manuscript and typescript of ‘Selected poems’ and manuscript of ‘Selection of Scots verses’ by William Soutar.
Manuscript of 'Songs of Aphrodite by the Lady Margaret Sackville, June, 1913'., 1913.
File
Identifier: Acc.3501/4
Dates:
1913.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Works and correspondence of James Pittendrigh MacGillivray.
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Papers of Lady Margaret Sackville and of James Pittendrigh Macgillivray.
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Manuscript copies of letters of Lady Margaret Sackville to James Pittendrigh Macgillivray; with a manuscript of her ‘Songs of Aphrodite’.
Manuscript of the 1933 edition of ‘Seeds in the wind’ by William Soutar., [1933, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.8571
Dates:
[1933, 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 ‘Seeds in the wind’ by William Soutar.
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Manuscript and typescripts of the 1933 edition of 'Seeds in the wind' by William Soutar.
Manuscript of the 'Bartasias' of Adrian Damman de Bystervelt, a translation of 'La premiere sepmaine' of Guillaume de Saluste du Bartas.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.10
Scope and Contents
This manuscript was probably written in Scotland and can be dated to 1596. It is the work of Adrian Damman and contains his translation of the 'Sepmaine' of Guillaume de Saluste du Bartas, which is dedicated to King James VI by his 'cliens devotissimus'. The work comprises seven books, each of which is preceded by an 'argumentum'. There is a running header designating the division of each book in the upper margin.This manuscript is a fair copy which was probably meant for the...
Dates:
1596
Manuscript of `The Battle of Sherra-moor` by Robert Burns, annotated by James Currie.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13039
Dates:
circa 1790.
Manuscript of the complete works of Catullus, written in the Italic bookhand of Lodovico Regio of Imola.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.2
Scope and Contents
The text embodies a considerable number of readings apparently otherwise unknown; some of these are clearly errors, others if emendations display great metrical ignorance, but some are of superior quality and of these a few are normally ascribed to scholars of the 16th century and later. See ‘Scriptorium’, volume 37, pages 122-125.The title page is surrounded by a border of cherubs, vases, etc., in red, purple, green, and gold, on a red ground; a coat of arms at the foot,...
Dates:
1495.
Manuscript of 'The dead Achilles', an apparently unpublished translation by Sir Theodore Martin of the poem 'Der tote Achill' by Conrad Meyer., Circa 1898.
Item
Identifier: MS.4848
Manuscript of the dramatic poem, 'Sweet Largie Bay' by Robert McLellan., 1955.
Item
Identifier: MS.26431
Manuscript of the 'Epistolae ex Ponto' by Ovid, written in Italy.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.5
Scope and Contents
i.4-5 and iv.14-15 are not separated. At the end occur the verses '(E)xpers naso modi' etc., printed from Breslau MS. R.109 folio 349, in 'Catalogus codicum latinorum classicorum qui in Bibliotheca Vrbica Wratislaviensi adservantur', page 76.Subscription, folio 74 verso: 'Explicit liber ouidij de po(n)to. Mcccclxxº [x]iiiº decimo KL.April.'Space has been left for initials, which have not been added. Written in a competent humanistic bookhand. There are a few later...
Dates:
1470.