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Epitaphs

 Subject

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Common-place book of S. H., with poems, epitaphs etc, from various sources, c. 1809-1810

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1683
Scope and Contents Small quarto, 43pp, in the original marbled paper covered wrappers. There are pieces written by Mason, and by Thomson. Others are taken from the Edinburgh Magazine and the Morning Post. Titles include, 'A Fragment', 'To a Lady on her Birthday', 'On a Lady who died in Childbirth 1778', 'The parting Lover', 'Woe', 'An inscription on the tomb of one Margaret Sect who died at Selkirk 12 miles from Newcastle 1728', and 'On Conjugal...
Dates: 1809-1810
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

English translation of an epitaph for Joseph Black, c 1799

 Item
Identifier: Coll-16/V/124
Scope and Contents

English translation of an epitaph for Joseph Black, undated.

Dates: c 1799
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Joseph Black and family / Correspondence of Joseph Black V: Family Letters

Epitaphs, monumental verses, and related correspondence and printed genealogies of the Calderwoods of Polton, Steuarts of Allanton and Coltness and the Denhams of Westshield, undated

 File
Scope and Contents

Epitaphs, monumental verses and related correspondence, nineteenth century and printed genealogies of the Calderwoods of Polton, Steuarts of Allanton and Coltness and the Denhams of Westshield, undated.

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Coltness Papers / Box list / MS 2291

Melville, Andrew. Epitaphium Alexandri Arbuthneti & Thomam Smetoniam duo nostrae gentis lumina, Late 16th - early 17th century

 piece
Identifier: De.1.12/13
Scope and Contents

This is an epitaph by the Scottish scholar, theologian and religious reformer, Andrew Melville for Alexander Arbuthnot. And a second epitaph by Melville for Arbuthnot, and Thomas Smeaton, Scottish minister and Principal of Glasgow University.



Dates: Late 16th - early 17th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts from the William Drummond of Hawthornden Collection / Bound Volume titled "Scottish Manuscripts from The Drummond Collection 1572-1618"