Epitaphs

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...

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English translation of an epitaph for Joseph Black, undated.

Contents The epitaph, attributed to Demosthenes, consists of twenty-seven couplets. It is preceded by a prose introduction which begins on f. 40v with the words Demostes autem phyllosophus post magni A(lexandri) deectum maximum de ipsius gestis et morte composuit codicem and ends with praebendo etiam nobis exemplum ut elationem superbie reppellamus.The verses begin on f. 40v with the words En ego...

Contents The epitaph, attributed to a philosopher called Dotomeus, consists of thirty hexameters is preceded by a prose introduction which begins on f. 39v with the words Post mortem siquidem augustissimi Alexandri macedonis dominator orbis sive mundidictus estet Rex Regum and ends on f. 40r with Scripsit itaque dotomeus in piramida huiusmodi versus.The verses are introduced by a rubric on f. 40r: ...

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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.

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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.