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 two 11th century manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.9
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, late 11th century, of Persius, Avianus, etc. from Thorney Abbey (Adv.MS.18.6.12);
Palimpsest, made up of at least five English manuscripts of the 8th to 11th centuries, overwritten in England in the late 11th century and belonging to Thorney Abbey (Adv.MS.18.7.8).
Dates:
8th century to 11th century.
Microfilm of two calligraphic manuscripts of Esther Inglis.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1388
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Vne estreine pour tres illustre et vertueuse dame la Contesse de Bedford’, calligraphic manuscript, 1606, by Esther Inglis (Acc.11624);"Cinquant [sic] Octonaires sur la vanité et inconstance du monde, dediez a tresillustre seigneur le conte de Shrewsbury, pour ses estrennes l'an 1607", being a calligraphic copy of the verses by Antoine de la Roche Chandieu, first published anonymously in ‘Les Cantigues du Seigneur de Maisonfleur’, [1586, or...
Dates:
[1586, or before]-19th century.
Microfilm of two Gaelic manuscripts of William MacMurchy (died circa 1778) of Campbelltown in Kintyre.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.979
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: A collection of proverbs and other matter, written circa 1759 by William MacMurchy (Adv.MS.72.2.12); A collection of poetry written by William MacMurchy, many of his own composition (Adv.MS.73.2.2).
Dates:
[?circa 1759.]
Microfilm of typescripts of poems, [1922-1929],; and, synopses, [1932-1934], of intended publications of James Leslie Mitchell, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon’.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1121
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: Typescripts of poems, [1922-1929], of James Leslie Mitchell, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon’ (MS.26058); Synopses, [1932-1934], of intended publications of James Leslie Mitchell, ‘Lewis Grassic Gibbon’ (MS.26060).
Dates:
[1922-1934.]
Microfilm of various Gaelic manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1390
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Gaelic manuscript, 15th-16th century, containing Irish pedigrees (Adv.MS.72.1.6);Manuscript, 14th century-15th century, containing tales of destruction in Gaelic (Adv.MS.72.1.8);Gaelic manuscript of MacDougall genealogy, 17th century (Adv.MS.72.1.9);Medical manuscript, 14th century-15th century, in Gaelic (Adv.MS.72.1.13);Medical manuscript, 15th century-16th century, in Gaelic consisting of two independent layers,...
Dates:
14th century-?16th century.
Microfilm of various works of Ovid, written by Nicolas Crabel at Padua in 1448-1449, with additions of the later 15th and 16th centuries.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.790
Dates:
1448-16th century.
Microfilm of volume of poems of Alexander Ross, schoolmaster at Lochlee in Angus.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2096
Dates:
[?1753-?1754.]
Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reel 5., 1658-1812.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1317
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Miniature portrait of Marjory Fleming, inscribed on a label on the back of the case 'Pet Marjory, from her sister Miss Fleming, 1880' (MS.1096);Diaries, [before 1812], of Marjory Fleming (MSS.1097-1099);Letters and poems of Marjory Fleming; letters of her mother, and of her cousin Isabella Keith, 1811-1812, undated (MS.1100);'Extracts from Mrs. Fielding's journal while we were abroad together in 1781', made by the Honourable...
Dates:
1658-1812.
Microfilm of Women's Language and Experience. Part 4. Reels 1-16 (Adam Matthew).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1312-1328
Dates:
Mid 17th century-1937.
Microfilm of Nineteenth Century Literary Manuscripts. Part 4. The correspondence and papers of J G Lockhart from the National Library of Scotland. Reels 1-18 (Adam Matthew).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1294-1311
Dates:
[?1812-?1854.]
Microfilm of Nineteenth century literary manuscripts. Part 4. The correspondence and papers of J G Lockhart. Reel 17., [?1758-?1854.]
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1310
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Letters, undated, of Sir Walter Scott and his family and of John Gibson Lockhart, with several anonymous letters, verses and other fragments addressed to or collected by Scott's mother (MS.1558);
Notebooks, undated, of John Gibson Lockhart (MSS.1623-1624);
"Ladies’ Album" (Edinburgh, undated), in which are pasted caricatures of persons, some of which are probably by John Gibson Lockhart (MS.1625);
Scrap-book, containing caricatures, some dated 1813, and...
Dates:
[?1758-?1854.]
Microfilm of Nineteenth century literary manuscripts. Part 4. The correspondence and papers of J G Lockhart. Reel 18., [1817, or before]-1859.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1311
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Letters, 1849-1859, of John Gibson Lockhart, William Ewart Gladstone, Lord Brougham, and others, addressed chiefly to the Reverend Whitwell Elwin, on matters relating to the 'Quarterly Review' (MS.2262);
Poems, [1824, or after], of John Gibson Lockhart, in his hand: 'Farewell to the Year', from a German ‘Taschenbuch’ of 1828, and 'To the Virgin' and 'Prayer', from the Spanish (MS.3995);
Manuscript and corrected proof, [1819, or before], of the 'Postscript...
Dates:
[1817, or before]-1859.
Microfilm of photographs of the leaves of the Glenquoich visitors' book containing the names of friends and relatives who visited the Ellices' estates at Invergarry during the late summer and autumn of each year from 1846 to 1863.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.568 (formerly Mf.MSS.13)
Dates:
1846-1863.
Mid-14th century manuscript of the ‘Roman de la Rose’, written in two stages by Guillaume de Lorris, circa 1230, and Jean de Meun, circa 1270
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.6
Scope and Contents
The first author, Guillaume de Lorris, wrote, circa 1230, a courtly allegorical poem of about 4000 verses, which sought to be an ‘art of love’, and which was continued, circa 1270, by Jean de Meun, who added about 17000 verses in a very different style and ideological frame. The whole opus is one of the most important literary works of the late Western Middle Ages, its influence upon the world of literature running until late in the Renaissance. This encyclopaedia of love (which also, in the...
Dates:
Mid-14th century.
‘Minor Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley’ (London, 1858), annotated by David Gray, with lists of quotations in his hand on the back endpapers., 1858.
File
Identifier: MS.8481
Minute and account book of the Perth Incorporation of Hammermen., 1518-1744.
Item
Identifier: MS.19239
Scope and Contents
This volume was started in 1584 and all entries of earlier date are noted to have been copied out of an "auld buik".
The contents are as follows.
(i) Admission of William Lander, book binder and parchment-maker, Perth, 1584 (folio 1);
(ii) Pious verses addressed to the Incorporation, 1584 (folio 1 verso);
(iii) Minutes and accounts, 1518-1744 (folio 2);
(iv) Fragment of early music (folio 268).
Dates:
1518-1744.
Minute book covering general and special meetings of the Edinburgh Skating Club and latterly giving some seasonal reports., 1784-1888.
Item
Identifier: MS.24641
Scope and Contents
A few newspaper cuttings and menus for Club Dinners have been pasted in to the minute book (folios 1-96). Additional material includes occasional verses, further menus and illustrations, and an Appendix listing the membership between 1778-1939 (folios 103-107), Directions for the Club Officer (folios 109-110), an Inventory of Club property (folios 111-112), Directions for the Watchmen, (folios 112-113), and Club Rules (folio 114).
Dates:
1784-1888.
Miscellanea of William Skeoch Cumming., Early 15th century-1927, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9803-9807
Dates:
Early 15th century-1927, undated.
Miscellaneous and chiefly undated family papers (mainly late seventeenth and early eighteenth century) of the Marquesses of Tweeddale., Late 17th century-early 18th century, 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.7108
Scope and Contents
The papers include: prescriptions made by Sir Edmund King for the lst Marquess; theological notes in the hand of the 2nd Marquess; "Giornale dell' Antichità e rarità di Roma. 6 Febraro 1720"; poems, lists of books and of plants, etc. There are also some nineteenth-century notes concerning Lord Charles Hay.
Dates:
Late 17th century-early 18th century, 19th century.
Miscellaneous articles and lecture notes of Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson., [Circa 1895]-1947, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.9321
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Manuscript lecture notes, undated, on the subject of 'Lesser Elizabethan Dramatists, Beaumont and Fletcher' (folio 1);(ii) Manuscript notes for a lecture entitled 'Pope and Tennyson', delivered to the Aberdeen Clerical Society, circa 1895; dated by Sir Herbert Grierson in 1944 (folio 13);(iii) Manuscript notes, undated, on Charles Dickens; possibly material gathered for a lecture or article (folio 76);(iv)...
Dates:
[Circa 1895]-1947, undated.
Miscellaneous collection, chiefly Gaelic or of Gaelic interest, apparently from the library of the Reverend A J Macdonald, Minister of Killearnan.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3781-3784
Scope and Contents
The earliest item is dated 1673, but the bulk of the material consists of copies made in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Dates:
1673-early 20th century.
Miscellaneous collection of letters and other papers of Sir Walter Scott and his contemporaries.
Series
Identifier: MS.786
Dates:
1791-1850, undated.
Miscellaneous collection of letters and other papers relating to Ossianic poetry.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3408-3410
Dates:
18th century-1872, undated.
Miscellaneous documents and letters.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.35
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Papers connected with the reduction of the process of forfeiture of George Gordon, Earl of Huntly, William Douglas, Earl of Angus, and Francis Hay, Earl of Errol, 1597. See also Ch.B.40, and ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, volume iv, pages 124-130. (Folio 1.)(ii) Mock petition to the Lords of Session, in verse, beginning:`The Humble Petition of Mr Robert Cook,Having lost all His Means in following his...
Dates:
1597-1752.