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:
Microfilm of manuscript concerning the offices of a herald.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.791
Dates:
1st half of 16th century.
Microfilm of manuscript containing a significant collection of Gaelic bardic verse, particularly the poems of Tadhg Dall Ó hUiginn.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.499
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Microfilm of manuscript containing Irish tales and verse.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.478
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Microfilm of manuscript containing poems in Latin, apparently autograph, by Mark Alexander Boyd and later poems and personal information on members of the family of Boyd of Penkill and Trochrig.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1160
Dates:
1585-1617.
Microfilm of manuscript containing poems in Latin, apparently autograph, by Mark Alexander Boyd and later poems and personal information on members of the family of Boyd of Penkill and Trochrig.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.940
Dates:
1585-1617.
Microfilm of manuscript of ‘Meteora’ by Cleomedes and ‘Phaenomena’ by Aratus.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.472
Dates:
[Circa 1290.]
Microfilm of manuscript of Persius, Avianus, etc. from Thorney Abbey.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.486
Dates:
Late 11th century.
Microfilm of manuscript of the complete works of Catullus, written in the Italic bookhand of Lodovico Regio of Imola.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.364
Dates:
1495
Microfilm of 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: Mf.Sec.MSS.902
Dates:
2nd half of 14th century-15th century.
Microfilm of manuscript, probably from Normandy, of the complete works of Horace.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.837
Dates:
11th century-early 12th century.
Microfilm of manuscript produced in 1488, the 'Wallace' of Blind Hary; and, manuscript produced in 1489, 'The Brus' of John Barbour.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.63
Dates:
1488, 1489.
Microfilm of manuscript produced in 1589, a poem in honour of the marriage of James VI and Anne of Denmark, by Jacob Jacobsen Wolf.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1126
Dates:
1589.
Microfilm of manuscripts, chiefly notes and poems, of George Sibbald of Rankeillour, or in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.358
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Extracta de Cronicis Scotiæ Quæ ad Historiam civilem pertinent’, late 17th century-1st quarter of 18th century, in the hand of Sir Robert Sibbald (Adv.MS.15.2.1);"Observationes collectæ ex Libro cui titulus est ‘extract ex Chronicis Scotiæ'. Hic notantur ea quæ Historiano Ecclesiasticam pertinent”, late 17th century, being notes of Sir Robert Sibbald chiefly on ecclesiastical history, from various sources. (Adv.MS.15.2.2);'Canon sive...
Dates:
17th century-1st quarter of 18th century.
Microfilm of manuscripts of Statius, Virgil, Ovid and Claudian.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.534
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Two originally separate manuscripts, 12th century-13th century, of Statius and Virgil, bound together from at least the late 14th century, when the volume was in the Library of Dover Priory (Adv.MS.18.5.12);
Two originally separate manuscripts, late 12th century-13th century, of the ‘Fasti’ by Ovid and of major poems of Claudian, the former of which belonged to Leicester Abbey, bound together from at least the 16th century (Adv.MS.18.5.13).
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
Microfilm of manuscripts of three Middle-English texts: 'Liber maundevyle'; the poem 'Sir Cleges'; and, 'De regimine principum' by Thomas Hoccleve.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.238
Dates:
15th century.
Microfilm of miscellaneous notes and drafts of poems by William Edmondstoune Aytoun, written in a diary for the year 1860., [?1860.]
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.943
Microfilm of ‘M.S. West Highland Tales Vol. V’, being mainly a continuation of the scripts and editorial material for inclusion in ‘Popular Tales of the West Highlands’, volume 3.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1583
Dates:
1860-1861.
Microfilm of notebook containing works on musical theory, psalm tunes, miscellaneous recipes and a poem.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.126
Dates:
[Circa 1754.]
Microfilm of notebook three of Robert Garioch Sutherland., 1956-1968.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.823
Microfilm of notebooks, 1934-1940, and a journal, 1943, of William Soutar., 1934-1940.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1133
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Notebook, 1937-1940, of William Soutar entitled ‘Verses in Scots’ (MS.8634), 76 frames;
Journal, 1943, of William Soutar entitled ‘Diary of a dying man’ (MS.8669), 29 frames;
Notebook, 1934-1935, of William Soutar containing Scots vocabulary (MS.8674), 73 frames.
Dates:
1934-1940.
Microfilm of notebooks of Robert Garioch Sutherland, containing drafts of poems, notes on harmony, Italian grammar and vocabulary, notes from Sutherland's reading, and other miscellaneous material.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.823-824
Dates:
1943-1968.
Microfilm of notes in “Jamieson's dictionary of the Scottish language", revised edition (Paisley, 1912), notebooks and a journal of William Soutar.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1132-1133
Dates:
1912-[Before 1944].
Microfilm of original manuscript of ‘Marmion’ by Sir Walter Scott.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.166
Dates:
[1808, or before.]
Microfilm of original manuscript of ‘Marmion’ by Sir Walter Scott.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.449
Dates:
[1808, or before.]
Microfilm of papers of Edwin Muir.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.464
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Copy of ‘First poems’ (London, 1925) by Edwin Muir, with numerous manuscript corrections and notes, [1925, or after], by the poet (MS.19651);
Copy of ‘Chorus of the newly dead’ (London, 1926) by Edwin Muir, with Muir's corrections, [1926, or after] (MS.19652);
Manuscript and typescript drafts and fair copies of poems, [?1942-?1959], by Edwin Muir (MS.19653);
Notebook, 1947-1948, of Edwin Muir (MS.19663).
Dates:
[1925, or after-?1959.]