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Scots language

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW

Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:

28.230 Male, Single, 35-44 yrs, Stammering, March 1947

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/27
Scope and Contents

"Funny little man with a speech defect which he overcomes by talking very slowly; odd and reserved, very shy, seems very badly proportioned but not deformed. He is working as a clerk. An incomer, came north to avoid the bombing. Sergeant confirms that he is a queer wee jeeger."

Dates: Other: March 1947

Bound manuscript entitled "A Collection of choice Songs English and Scots In Two Parts", compiled by John Robinson

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2081
Content Description This is a bound collection of Scottish and English popular songs and ballads assembled and transcribed by John Robinson, an alumnus of Appleby Grammar School, who later served as Member of Parliament for Westmoreland.The volume is divided in two parts: part one, "Chiefly English", starts on p. 1, and ends on p. 74. The very first poem, entitled "Dedication", is taken from Scottish bookseller-poet Allan Ramsay's Tea-table miscellany:...
Dates: 1765

Collection of 65 Scottish charters and other documents, from 1402 to 1699, in Latin and Scots, some with seals

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1242
Scope and Contents The collection of 65 Scottish charters and documents, on vellum and paper, is composed of the following: Charter between Alexander, Abbot of Scone, entirely in Early Scots, on vellum, dated 21 August 1402, 270mm. by 160mm., with the suspended complete wax seal of Katherine Paxton. Charter of Robert Logy, burgess of Perth, to Andrew Charters, of lands in Perth, in Latin, on vellum, dated...
Dates: 1402-1699
f. 10r
f. 10r

Collection of Original Letters and Verses of Robert Burns, 2nd half of the 18th century

 Item
Identifier: La.III.586
Scope and Contents

Collection of original letters and verses by Robert Burns.

Dates: 2nd half of the 18th century

Facsimiles of Scottish Charters and Letters prepared by Sir William Fraser

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1418
Scope and Contents

The facsimile charters are loose and are numbered at rear from 1 to 288. A few are missing, and these are, nos: 37, 50, 89, 110-111, 136-137, 151, 211, and 233.

Dates: 1094-1844

Letters (1973-1982) from Hamish Henderson to Michael Sharp

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-1264
Identifier: Coll-1492
Scope and Contents 1 x letter - from Henderson, on School of Scottish Studies headed paper, to Sharp - 15 July 1973 - Content on: having 'fractured my elbow a month ago'; plans to go 'up to Aberdeenshire today to do some recording'; and, possible meeting with Sharp 'on Saturday or Sunday' and 'the Staff Club for a drink'. 1 x letter - from Henderson, on School of Scottish Studies headed paper, to Sharp - 26 July 1973...
Dates: 1973-1982
f. 7r: Start of the Book of Hours
f. 7r: Start of the Book of Hours

MS 42: Composite manuscript including two texts, 15th century

 Item
Identifier: MS 42
Contents Contains two texts bound together, in two main hands.ff. 1r-6r: Kalendar, probably connected with Rochester.ff. 7r-130r: Book of Hours, featuring the Hours of Saint Ninian, and prayers inserted by Scottish hands.The texts are described separately under MS 42/ff. 1r-6r and MS 42/ff. 7r-130r. Writing The primary hand is a Gothic hand, with laterally compressed letters. Most...
Dates: 15th century

Papers of Hamish Henderson

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1438
Scope and Contents The papers of Hamish Henderson consist of letters, journals, article off-prints, newsletters, notebooks, printed work, miscellaneous ephemera and photographs, books, School of Scottish Studies material, along with fragments of poems and songs, some unpublished. There are also articles, scripts and essays which had been sent by others to Henderson. Henderson's correspondents include many of the 20th century's leading folk singers, musicians, and scholars, political figures and...
Dates: 1900-2002

Papers of Professor R.L.G. Ritchie

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-93
Scope and Contents

The papers of Professor Ritchie consist mainly of material relating to a projected work on the French element in Scots. The collection is composed of general and introductory material, notes on purely Scots words, material on phonology, a glossary, a bibliography, and unworked notes on French loanwords and personal names. There is also material on Arthurian studies.

Dates: circa 1916

Poem quotations likened to Miss Beatson, 1867

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/77
Scope and Contents

Poem quotations likened to a Miss Beatson [possibly Margaret or Elizabeth Beatson, the daughters of the minister of Barraigh/Isle of Barra] 'Miss Beatson is like Word[sworth]'s A rosebud by a mossy stone, Half hidden from the eye...Or - A mossy rosebud down you know, Just op'ning fresh & bonnie...But more beautiful than either...is Oss[ian] Bha sgeimh mar sholaist ga h-eud eud (sic), Bha ceuma mar cheol nan dan.'

Dates: 1867