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 the `Fasti` by Ovid., Late 12th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.13(i), folios 1-47
Scope and Contents
Verses 305-472 (two folios) and 726 to the end (more than one gathering) are lost.
The text agrees mostly with A (Vatican, cod.Reginae 1709, 10th century), but shares some errors with U (Vatican lat.3262, 11th century), D (Munich lat.8122, 11th century), and G (Brussels MS.5369-5373, 12th century). Occasional interlinear and marginal notes.
The initials of books are alternately in blue and red.
Dates:
Late 12th century.
Manuscript of the final published version of ‘Brief words’ by William Soutar., [1935, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.8579
Dates:
[1935, 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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Typescript and manuscript of ‘Brief words’ by William Soutar.
Manuscript of `The Life and Tragedy of the roiall Lady Mary, late Queene of Scotts. Together with the speeches and accidents at her Execution in Fotheringham Castell the 8th day of February 1586`.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.3
Scope and Contents
The poem is preceded by a dedicatory letter from John Woodward to James Douglas, `one of his Majesties Secretaries for Scottland` (folio 2). Dr Lohmann attributes the authorship of the poem to Woodward, but it is probable that his name is included because he had the manuscript copied for presentation. Adv.MS.33.7.14 contains a similar dedication by him. Dr Lohmann identifies Douglas as Sir James Douglas of Spott, but he may have been the youngest brother of Archibald Douglas of Whittinghame...
Dates:
17th century.
Manuscript of 'The Luggie' by David Gray., [1861, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.8464
Scope and Contents
Apart from several omissions in the manuscript, folios 1-15 constitute a fair copy of pages 3-56 of ‘The Poetical Works of David Gray’, a few of the missing passages being later added on folios 17-23. On folios 15-17 there is a section which does not appear in the printed text of 'The Luggie', but is included in the works of David Gray as a separate poem, entitled 'The Love-Tryst'.
Dates:
[1861, or before.]
Manuscript of the poem 'Sealwear' by Edwin Morgan., 1966.
Item
Identifier: MS.27494
Scope and Contents
This is one of fourteen copies written out in booklet form by Edwin Morgan, with the imprint 'Gold Seal Press', Glasgow. Morgan invented the Gold Seal Press for this booklet.
Dates:
1966.
Manuscript of 'The Queen's tragedy. An historical poem in five acts', an apparently unpublished work by Agnes Strickland., [Circa 1833].
Item
Identifier: MS.4877
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, baron court laws, burgh and guild laws, and some other legal texts, some in Scots, written by George Cuyk (later clerk of the Privy Seal) in 1528.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.11
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is incomplete at the end.The contents are as follows:(i) `The baroun Lawis. Modus tenendi curias` in 61 chapters (modern numbering), in Scots (folio 2). The explicit is followed by four lines, beginning `Haec faciunt causas festis tractare diebus` (‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page xvi).(ii) `Regiam Maiestatem` in 4 parts of 212 continuously numbered chapters (36, 74, 34, and 68 in each part) with table at the beginning (folio...
Dates:
14th century-early 17th century.
Manuscript of the Regiam Maiestatem, statutes, Leges Portuum, forest laws, Quoniam attachiamenta, burgh and guild laws, and other smaller legal texts, some in Scots.
Item
Identifier: MS.21246
Scope and Contents
The manuscript was written by two hands in the second half of the fourteenth century, with one slighly later addition (section (i)) and fifteenth-century additions (sections (ii), (x) etc.). In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the volume had East Fife connections.The contents are as follows.
(i) Styles of writs, brieves, etc., in 107 chapters. The majority belong to the reign of Robert II. (Folio 2.)
(ii) An alphabetical index to the volume, 15th century. (Folio 17...
Dates:
2nd half of 14th century-15th century.
Manuscript of the revised and enlarged 1943 edition of ‘Seeds in the wind’ by William Soutar., [1943, or before.]
File
Identifier: MS.8575
Scope and Contents
Attached to this manuscript are fourteen poems, possibly intended for inclusion. Eight of these appear in 'Collected Poems', while the remaining six appear to be unpublished.
Dates:
[1943, 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.
Manuscript of the section ’Lyrics in English’ of ‘Collected poems’ by William Soutar., [Before 1944.]
Item
Identifier: MS.8594
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 signed typescripts of published poems of William Soutar.
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Manuscripts and incomplete typescripts of sections of ‘Collected poems’ by William Soutar.
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Manuscripts of the sections ’Whigmaleeries’ and ‘Lyrics in English’ of ‘Collected Poems’ by William Soutar.
Manuscript of the section ’Lyrics in Scots’ of ‘Collected poems’ by William Soutar., [Before 1944.]
Item
Identifier: MS.8591
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 signed typescripts of published poems of William Soutar.
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Manuscripts and incomplete typescripts of sections of ‘Collected poems’ by William Soutar.
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Manuscript and incomplete typescript of the section ’Lyrics in Scots’ of ‘Collected poems’ by William Soutar.
Manuscript of the section ‘Theme and variation’ of ‘Collected poems’ by William Soutar., [Before 1944.]
Item
Identifier: MS.8595
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 signed typescripts of published poems of William Soutar.
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Manuscripts and incomplete typescripts of sections of ‘Collected poems’ by William Soutar.
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Manuscript and incomplete typescript of the section ‘Theme and Variation’ of ‘Collected Poems’ by William Soutar.
Manuscript of the section ’Whigmaleeries’ of ‘Collected poems’ by William Soutar., [Before 1944.]
Item
Identifier: MS.8593
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 signed typescripts of published poems of William Soutar.
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Manuscripts and incomplete typescripts of sections of ‘Collected poems’ by William Soutar.
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Manuscripts of the sections ’Whigmaleeries’ and ‘Lyrics in English’ of ‘Collected Poems’ by William Soutar.
Manuscript of 'The Song of the Tower' by William Sydney Graham, a poem dedicated to Sven Berlin, with a pencil portrait of Graham by Berlin., 1946.
File
Identifier: MS.26020
Manuscript of "Thus spak Antony frae the Tomb o' Kings" by Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1952.
Item
Identifier: MS.26125
Manuscript of 'Under the Eildon tree', with the title 'Deirdre, a Lament in XX Cantos’ by Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1947.
Item
Identifier: MS.26164
Dates:
1947.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Literary and other papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith.
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Manuscript and typescript of ‘Under the Eildon tree’ by Sydney Goodsir Smith.
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Manuscripts of 'Under the Eildon tree', with the title 'Deirdre, a Lament in XX Cantos’ by Sydney Goodsir Smith.
Manuscript of 'Under the Eildon tree', with the title 'Deirdre, a Lament in XX Cantos’ by Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1947.
Item
Identifier: MS.26165
Dates:
1947.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Literary and other papers of Sydney Goodsir Smith.
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Manuscript and typescript of ‘Under the Eildon tree’ by Sydney Goodsir Smith.
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Manuscripts of 'Under the Eildon tree', with the title 'Deirdre, a Lament in XX Cantos’ by Sydney Goodsir Smith.
Manuscript of William Strang, "A Book of Giants", with extra drawings and poetry.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8552
Dates:
1896.
Manuscript poem, eight postcards and a photograph of George Ramage, Lance Corporal, Gordon Highlanders.
File
Identifier: Acc.11982
Dates:
circa 1920-1927.
Manuscript poem of Robert Burns, "Answer to a Tiviotdale Farmer`s Wife`s Epistle".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7748
Scope and Contents
Containing textual variations from the version published in James Kinsley`s edition of "The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns".
Dates:
1787.
Manuscript poem of Robert Burns, "Kind Sir I`ve Read your Paper through".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8252
Dates:
? 1790.