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:
Satirical and genealogical manuscripts, written in the late eighteenth century., 16th century-18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.5721A
Scope and Contents
The contents are follows.(i) 'Historia y papeles de el Duende Politico', 1735-1736, possibly by Manoel Freire de Silva. It consists of satires on contemporary politics in verse and prose, including an attack on the economic policy of Don José Patiño, chief Secretary of State. (Folio 1.)(ii) 'Vida del sutil critico Duende de Madrid', Manoel Freire de Silva. A biography of him was published in Madrid in 1788. (Folio 144.)(iii) 'Pequeña Pieza Jocoseria...
Dates:
16th century-18th century.
School reports, essays, and poems of John B S Haldane and Naomi M M Mitchison., 1899-1907.
Item
Identifier: Acc.4549/2
Dates:
1899-1907.
Schoolbook of James Fowler, Strathpeffer, containing instructions and problems in arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry and the construction of sundials, and a translation of the ‘Iliad’, book 3.
Item
Identifier: MS.14284
Scope and Contents
A few miscellaneous notes and poems have been added in a 19th-century hand.
Dates:
1780.
Schoolbook, transcribed in the early 12th century, containing notes and glosses (in Latin and German) on authors studied in schools and other texts which could be used in teaching.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Juvenal, 'Satires': citations with commentary in alphabetical order of keyword, incipit 'Maior auaritie patuit'. (i.88). (Folio 1.)(ii) Lucan, 'Civil War': introduction and citations with and without commentary from books 1-6 and 9, incipit 'Lucanii sum(m)a utilitas e(st) i(n) topog(ra)phia'. (Folio 5 verso.)(iii) Philosophical notes, possibly connected to Porphyry's introduction to Aristotle's 'Analytica...
Dates:
Early 12th century.
‘Scotlands warneing crying, Englands trumpets blowing and Irelands alarme beating for preventing deserved wrath and threatned judgements’, in verse.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.12
Scope and Contents
A number of the psalms in metre as used in the Kirk of Scotland as interspersed, written about the year 1700.
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Scots verse dedicated to the Duchess of Gordon, probably Jane Gordon.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8293
Dates:
18th century.
Scottish Poetry Library Audio Recordings Collection.
Collection
Identifier: UNLS042
Scope and Contents
A collection of audio recordings from the Scottish Poetry Library consisting of various live performances and published recordings.
Dates:
1967-2008, or before.
Scrapbook compiled by Charles C and Robert H Maconochie, concerning members of the Faculty of Advocates.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6359
Scope and Contents
Including legal verses and caricatures.
Dates:
circa 1892-circa 1932.
Scrapbook containing a water-colour painting of primulas, a poem entitled 'Lines to Agnes' by 'B.W.', and scraps of paper bearing designs of flowers and birds, apparently of French origin., ?19th century-?early 20th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.6346
Scope and Contents
The watercolour painting is on folio 14.
Dates:
?19th century-?early 20th century.
Scrapbook of John Blackwood Greenshields., 1679-1888, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.19769
Scrapbook of John Blackwood Greenshields., 1789-1895, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.19770
Scrapbooks of correspondence and papers of Alexander MacDonald ("Gleannach").
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13587
Scope and Contents
Alexander MacDonald ("Gleannach", 1860-1928) is the author of `Story and Song from Loch Ness-side` (Inverness 1914) and of a Gaelic poetry collection of his own, `Còinneach `us Coille` (Inverness 1895). After the appearance of his poetry collection he continued to contribute songs composed or edited by himself to newspapers, but these were not subsequently collected into a second volume. He also wrote a large number of articles on Gaelic- and Highland-related matters in journals...
Dates:
1878-ca. 1925
Scrapbooks of John Blackwood Greenshields., 1679-1895, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19769-19770
Scope and Contents
The scrapbooks contain letters, circulars, verse, press-cuttings, burgess-tickets, stamps, bank-notes, and miscellaneous papers of and relating to the Greenshields family. In particular, the scrapbooks reflect John Blackwood Greenshield's interest in antiquarian matters and local politics.
Dates:
1679-1895, undated.
Scripts collected by Robert Garioch Sutherland of three programmes in the series 'The Living Poet' broadcast on BBC Radio 3., 1978.
File
Identifier: MS.26625
Scope and Contents
The poets are John Heath-Stubbs (folio 1), Donald Davie (folio 21) and P J Kavanagh (folio 42).
Dates:
1978.
'Season of Calcutta', a translation in verse from the Sanskrit by Horace Hayman Wilson, undated, and verses 1812-1813, undated, addressed to the 1st Earl of Minto by various Europeans., 1812-1813, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.11723
Dates:
1812-1813, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Baronet, 1st Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto relating to India and the Far East.
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Correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto, chiefly as Governor-General of India.
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Miscellaneous correspondence and papers of the 1st Earl of Minto as Governor-General of India.
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Miscellaneous papers and letters concerning the 1st Earl of Minto.
Second volume of the ‘Legacy book’ compiled for General Sir James Steuart of Coltness and Westshield by his aunt (possibly Elizabeth Steuart), consisting of reflections in verse chiefly on religious topics., 1790-1794.
Item
Identifier: MS.20264
Scope and Contents
The first volume is missing.
Most of the entries were written in 1793, with a few written in 1792 and 1794. Almost all are written in the hand of James Steuart's aunt.
Pasted in at the front of the volume is an engraving, 1790, of Selina, Countess of Huntingdon.
Dates:
1790-1794.
‘Select remains of the ancient popular poetry of Scotland’ (London, 1822) by David Laing, interleaved, with considerable manuscript alterations in the author's hand., 1822.
Item
Identifier: MS.4812
Selected letters and poems of Robert Burns from the Library of Honresfield House., 1781-1795.
File
Identifier: MS.50701
Scope and Contents
LettersAinslie, RobertLetter, 29 May 1787, of Burns to Robert Ainslie with news of his travel. Folios 1-2.Ballantine, JohnLetter, 13 December 1786, of Burns to John Ballantine on his Edinburgh patrons. Folios 3-4.Burnes, WilliamLetter, 27 December 1781, of Burns to his father, William Burnes, on his ill-health and future prospects. Included is the title page of the catalogue of the sale of the manuscript and description...
Dates:
1781-1795.
Selected manuscripts of Sir Walter Scott from the Library of Honresfield House., 1796-1832.
Series
Identifier: MSS.50702-50705
Selections of Italian prose and verse with translations into English by John Purves., 1921.
Item
Identifier: MS.15665
Dates:
1921.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of John Purves (1877-1961), reader in Italian at Edinburgh University from 1938 until his retirement in 1947.
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Notebooks chiefly of John Purves.
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Notebooks of John Purves concerning Italian literature.
Sermons and literary works of the Dunlop family., 1687-1856, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9270-9273
Dates:
1687-1856, undated.
Sermons and other papers, 1694-Early 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.20496
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Three sermons on Deuteronomy 32.6, dated 22-28 September, 28 September-5 October, and 12-19 October, 1712, preached at Callander in August and September, 1713, and at Airth on 16 August, 1724. The preacher has not been identified with certainty. The name Sanderson is written at the foot of folio 1. The only possible Church of Scotland minister of that name is Joseph Sanderson, minister of Alves, 1703-1727, and of Elgin, 1727-1733. Labelled ‘RH’. (Folio...
Dates:
1694-Early 18th century.
Sermons or other devotional writings, 1853, in the language of Old Calabar, by the Reverend William Anderson., 1832, 1853..
File
Identifier: MS.3112, folios 289-295
Scope and Contents
Also includes a copy made by the Reverend William Anderson in 1873 from a poem on the Reform Bill written on a corn-box in a stable in 1832 (folio 294).
Dates:
1832, 1853..
Seven corrected manuscript and typescript drafts of poem of W Price Turner, "Fable for Love".
File
Identifier: Acc.4797
Dates:
1968.