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Drummond, William, 1585-1649 (Poet)

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Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:

Alexander, William. Doomesday or the Great day of the Lords Judgement, Early 16th century

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Identifier: De.4.72
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This volume contains William Alexander's poem Doomesday or the Great day of the Lords Iudgement. There are four stanza of eight lines each to a page and the text breaks off at the end of the second stanza of the "Fifth Hour".

Dates: Early 16th century

Anderson, Henry. Ad serreniss, Late 16th to early 17th century

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Identifier: De.1.11/3
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This is the poem "Ad sereniss. potentissimumque regem I. 6 ... Iunias 1580 panegyris" by Henry Anderson of Perth.

Dates: Late 16th to early 17th century

Anderson, Henry. Amaryllis ingrata, Late 16th to early seventeenth century

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Identifier: De.1.11/1
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Two copies of Henry Anderson's poem "Amaryllis ingrata". Each done in a different hand.

Dates: Late 16th to early seventeenth century

Anderson, Henry. Musarum querimonia, Late 16th to early 17th century

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Identifier: De.1.11/2
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Two copies of Henry Anderson's poem "Musarum querimonia". Each done in a different hand.

Dates: Late 16th to early 17th century

Author catalogue, POEMS-Z, Nairn Drummond, 17th -18th century

 Item — Volume EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/1/Da.1.4
Identifier: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/1/Da.1.4
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'Bibliotheca Edinburgena publica, sive index alphabeticus authorum operumque.' 3rd volume of 3. Bound in at the end of this volume are the printed catalogues of the Drummond donation (1627) and the Nairn bequest (1678).

Dates: 17th -18th century

Baston, William. Villielmi Bastone A[ ] in Bellum de Banockburne. Carmen, Late 16th to early 17th century

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Identifier: De.3.19
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This volume contains a copy of William Baston's poem on the Battle of Bannnockburn, with some other verses on Bannockburn. Baston was an English friar and poet that Edward II brought north with him to write a poem commemorating his expected triumph over the Scots. Baston was captured and Robert the Bruce decided that his ransom should be a poem celebrating the Scots victory.

Dates: Late 16th to early 17th century

Bound Volume titled "Scottish Manuscripts from The Drummond Collection 1572-1618", 1572-1618

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Identifier: De.1.12
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Bound Volume titled "Scottish Manuscripts from The Drummond Collection 1572-1618", 1572-1618.

Dates: 1572-1618

Daniel, Samuel. Hymens Triumph, 1614 or 1615

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Identifier: De.3.69
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This volumes contains a play written by Samuel Daniel, the English poet and historian, for the marriage of Robert Ker, Lord Roxburghe to Jean Drummond. This manuscript, which had Daniels dedicatory verse to "the Ladie of Roxborough", was probably a presentation copy. It also contains corrections and insertions in Daniel's own hand.

Dates: 1614 or 1615

Drummond, from a portrait by Cornelius Jansen; Hawthornden from an original drawing, 1 May 1841

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Identifier: Coll-10/2/98
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Drummond, from a portrait by Cornelius Jansen; Hawthornden from an original drawing. Wood engraving with letterpress. 1 May 1841. Johnson, Cornelius, 1593–1661, Artist; Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), Publisher.

Published in: Penny Magazine, 1 May 1841.

Dates: 1 May 1841

[Facsimile of sonnet 'Damon to Alexis' in Drummond's hand, with accompanying letter dated 26 May 1622], 1857

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Identifier: Coll-10/2/100
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[Facsimile of sonnet 'Damon to Alexis' in Drummond's hand, with accompanying letter dated 26 May 1622]. Lithograph. 1857. Drummond, William, 1585-1649, Author; Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Publisher; Laing, David, 1793-1878, Editor.

Published in: Archaeologia Scotica, vol. 4 (1857).

Note: Numbered: 'Vol IV, Plate VIII'. Accompanies Laing's article 'A Brief Account of the Hawthornden Manuscripts …'.

Dates: 1857