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:
Small collections of letters and papers, and some transcripts from manuscripts made with the permission of the owners of the originals.
File
Identifier: MS.1758
Dates:
1645-1936, undated.
Song possibly by Dugald MacNicol, and a Gaelic translation of 'Auld Robin Gray'., 1779, 1816
Item
Identifier: MS.14853
Scope and Contents
A folder containing loose sheets of various sizes as follows:[? MacNicol, Dugald]. Song headed "Oran air fonn 'Moch 'sa mhaddin dé dònah' &c". 4 stanzas of 8 lines and one stanza of 6 lines, in praise of Inveraray and surroundings, beginning 'Coirm na taca sheo 'n uridh / Bha mi mullach Stron Shira'. At head of title: 'O. Island St. Lucia 15 Nov. 1816.' Probabossibly in the hand of Dugald MacNicol, and composed by him. Formerly Acc.2152/5. Folio 1.Letter, 1779,...
Dates:
1779, 1816
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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The MacNicol collection, comprising Gaelic songs and other papers collected by the Reverend Donald MacNicol, minister of Lismore, and his son Dugald MacNicol, with some added papers and listings of later owners and users of the collection.
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Gaelic songs and verse.
Songs, airs from oratorios, minuets, etc., written out at the end of an imperfect copy of ‘Lessons on the practice of singing, with an addition of the church tunes, in four parts, and a collection of hymns ; canons, airs and catches, for the improvement of beginners', by Cornforth Gilson (Edinburgh, 1759).
Item
Identifier: MS.633
Scope and Contents
On the first end-paper and on the fly-leaves (folios i, ii) there are quotations of poetry about music. The date of the manuscript is probably not much later than the date of publication of the book.
Dates:
[1759, or after.]
'Songs and verses' by Lady Frances Anna Maria Elliot and Mary, Countess of Minto., 1839.
File
Identifier: MS.12837
‘Sonnet 21’ by William Shakespeare, 1609, written, 1959, by Tom Gourdie., 1609.
Item
Identifier: MS.20765, folios 244-245
Dates:
1609.
Sound recording, "A Child`s Garden of Verses", by Robert Louis Stevenson, narrated by John Cairney and Alannah O`Sullivan (Edinburgh: REL Records, 1986).
Item
Identifier: Acc.10545
Dates:
1986.
Sound recording of [from insert] "A Bonnie Fechter: Alexander Scott, 1920-1989" (Glasgow: Scotsoun, 1990).
Item
Identifier: Acc.10116
Dates:
1990.
Sound recording of "Merry Matanzie", a selection of poems by William Soutar, read by Alex McCrindle (Glasgow: Scotsoun, 1989).
Item
Identifier: Acc.9962
Dates:
1989.
Specimens of copperplate handwriting written out for his parents by William Prichard.
Item
Identifier: MS.8929
Scope and Contents
A group of samples of handwriting was submitted half-yearly, at Christmas and mid-summer, when the boy was at Watford Academy, and subsequently (1828 onwards) at Prospect House Academy, Bushey. The texts consist of religious and educational maxims, and poems.
Dates:
1826-1831, 1833.
'Specimens of penmanship written by Thomas Watson, 180 West Regent St., pupil of Mr. John MacPherson, Master of the Writing and Book-keeping Department, Collegiate and Commercial Academy, Garnet Hill, Glasgow, Session 1850-51.'
Item
Identifier: MS.8933
Scope and Contents
The texts, written out in an ornate copperplate hand, are chiefly poetic excerpts.
Dates:
1850-1851.
Specimens of Richard Porson's English and Greek writing., 1804.
Item
Identifier: MS.1030, folio 44
Dates:
1804.
Speeches and verses of various members of the Pantheon Society, an Edinburgh debating club; and papers concerning the activities of James Graham, quack doctor.
File
Identifier: MS.9834
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Speeches and verses, 1780-1792, undated, of various members of the Pantheon Society. Unlike societies of literati such as the Select Society, the Pantheon opened its meetings to non-members, charging from sixpence upwards for admission, and drew large audiences - see J A Fairley, 'The Pantheon: an old Edinburgh debating society', in ‘Book of the Old Edinburgh Club’, volume i (1908), pages 47-75, and D D McElroy, ‘A century of Scottish clubs’ (privately...
Dates:
1780-1792, undated.
'Spicelegia Antiquitatis Græcae; sive ex veteribus poætis Græcis deperditis fragmenta, collecta a J.C.D.C.A., 1755', volume II., 1755.
Item
Identifier: MS.2152
Dates:
1755.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Fragments of the Greek poets, collected by John Callander of Craigforth.
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'Spicelegia Antiquitatis Græcae; sive ex veteribus poætis Græcis deperditis fragmenta, collecta a J.C.D.C.A., 1755', volumes II-V.
'Spicelegia Antiquitatis Græcae; sive ex veteribus poætis Græcis deperditis fragmenta, collecta a J.C.D.C.A., 1755', volume III., 1755.
Item
Identifier: MS.2153
Dates:
1755.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Fragments of the Greek poets, collected by John Callander of Craigforth.
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'Spicelegia Antiquitatis Græcae; sive ex veteribus poætis Græcis deperditis fragmenta, collecta a J.C.D.C.A., 1755', volumes II-V.
'Spicelegia Antiquitatis Græcae; sive ex veteribus poætis Græcis deperditis fragmenta, collecta a J.C.D.C.A., 1755', volume IV., 1755.
Item
Identifier: MS.2154
Dates:
1755.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Fragments of the Greek poets, collected by John Callander of Craigforth.
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'Spicelegia Antiquitatis Græcae; sive ex veteribus poætis Græcis deperditis fragmenta, collecta a J.C.D.C.A., 1755', volumes II-V.
'Spicelegia Antiquitatis Græcae; sive ex veteribus poætis Græcis deperditis fragmenta, collecta a J.C.D.C.A., 1755', volume V., 1755.
Item
Identifier: MS.2155
Dates:
1755.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Fragments of the Greek poets, collected by John Callander of Craigforth.
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'Spicelegia Antiquitatis Græcae; sive ex veteribus poætis Græcis deperditis fragmenta, collecta a J.C.D.C.A., 1755', volumes II-V.
'Spicelegia Antiquitatis Græcae; sive ex veteribus poætis Græcis deperditis fragmenta, collecta a J.C.D.C.A., 1755', volumes II-V., 1755.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2152-2155
Spiritual poetry of Anna Nic Fhearghais (Ann Ferguson), Auchnafad, Kintyre.
Item
Identifier: MS.14987
Scope and Contents
A volume of spiritual songs by Anna Nic Fheargais (Ann Ferguson), daughter of Duncan Ferguson (1775-1803), and wife of Duncan MacMillan, farmer in Auchnafad between Tayinloan and Clachan, Kintyre.
Dates:
ca. 1820-1850.
Spiritual verse in Gaelic by John Maclean.
Item
Identifier: MS.29901
Scope and Contents
Volume undated, but almost certainly compiled to serve as printers` copy for the first edition of Maclean`s spiritual poetry, printed in Glasgow in 1835.
Contains 26 poems, all religious except the last.
Dates:
Circa 1834.
State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volume 12: papers, 1636-1641 (chiefly 1637-1639), undated., 1636-1641, undated (mostly 1637-1639).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.1.1 [xii]
Scope and Contents
These are primarily documents concerning the controversy over the Service Book, the National Covenant, and ensuing events.
Dates:
1636-1641, undated (mostly 1637-1639).
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
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State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volumes 1-13: letters and papers on various topics.
State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volume 13: papers., ?1639-1641, undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.1.1 [xiii]
Scope and Contents
Documents concerning political events, especially the Scots army at Newcastle and affairs in the English Parliament. Some printed ballads and letters to Sir James Balfour are included.
Dates:
?1639-1641, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of state papers of the reigns of James VI and Charles I made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
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State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volumes 1-13: letters and papers on various topics.
State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volume 31: miscellaneous letters and papers., 1586, 1605-1620, undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.1.14 [xxxi]