Scots language
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW
Found in 45 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
Scope and Contents
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
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
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
Correspondence with F. G. Scott, with enclosed poems, 1932-1957
Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-2124/1/2
Scope and Contents
Ff. 1-2: Letter from Hugh MacDiarmid to F. G. Scott dated 22/07/1932.
Ff. 3-5: Letter from Hugh MacDiarmid to F. G. Scott dated 24/10/1932.
Ff. 6-8*: Letter from Hugh MacDiarmid to F. G. Scott dated 19/10/1939.
Ff. 9-10: Letter from Hugh MacDiarmid to F. G. Scott dated 20/11/1939.
Ff. 11-16: Letter from Hugh MacDiarmid to F. G. Scott dated 07/09/1940. Includes a manuscript text of "Auld Reekie", 5 ff., pencil.
F. 17: Letter from...
Dates:
1932-1957
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
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.
Bibliography of texts read. Schema for...
Dates:
circa 1916