Scots language
Subject
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Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
Poem quotations likened to Miss Beatson, 1867
Item
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
Printed book So Late into the Night: Fifty Lyrics by Sydney Goodsir Smith, with proofs and enclosed newspaper clippings, 1946-1952
Item — Box CLX-A-1702
Identifier: Coll-1848/21-0029
Scope and Contents
Printed book entitled So Late into the Night: Fifty Lyrics by Sydney Goodsir Smith, containing lyrics and verses in Scots, published in 1952, London. Book dedicated to Peter Russell by Sydney Goodsir Smith. Also includes proofs and two articles from The Scots Review, one entitled "Synthetic Analysis by Sydney Goodsir Smith" dated December 1946, and one entitled "In Defence of 'Lallans'" also by Goodsir...
Dates:
1946-1952
Res.5.10 Female resident, 60 yrs, separated, corporation tenant, female interviewer, 20 November 1961
Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S3/4/2/5/10
Scope and Contents
INTVEE has ten grown up children, two live with her. She has been on National Assistance since her husband left her over ten years ago. She speaks warmly of the NAB and says they have always been helpful and civil. She grew up in Newhaven, her father was killed in the First World War. She says her grandfather told her stories about Burke and Hare's activities in Leith and how someone would shout out "all clear" when raiders came to the local burial ground. Her present house is a five...
Dates:
Other: 20 November 1961
Six letters and legal manuscripts dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, March 1583-1669
File
Identifier: Coll-1383/1/3
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts from March 1583 to 1669: mixture of ecclesiastical, legal and personal letters and receipts.
Ane letter from Mr John Welsh sometyme minister at Ayr bot wes deposed. (For opposing the king's supremacy of the church, 1605)
Copy of speech made to Privy Council by a newly commissioned minister, 30 August 1669
MS relating to lands in possession of son of Earl of...
Dates:
March 1583-1669
Various additions, mostly Scots verse, early 16th century
part
Identifier: MS 205/Scots
Contents
This entry contains details of the later additions to this manuscript, most of which are in Scots verse, that have been added to the fly-leaves and blank pages. They seem to have been added in the early 16th century.f. ir (first fly-leaf, recto): Pen trials and inscriptions, including Johannes purde est presb[yteru]m and Preceptor coleis...
Dates:
early 16th century