Epitaphs
Subject
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
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
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
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