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Subject Source: Sss
Scope Note: Created For = CW

Found in 195 Collections and/or Records:

List of songs and stories including a cure and rhyme, 29 January 1875

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/129
Scope and Contents

List of songs and stories, probably the repertoire of John MacInnes, aged 70 years, Stadhlaigearraidh/Stilligarry, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist. In the midst of a list is a note which reads 'An lus mor = crocha na mna sith - good for rheumatism' and a rhyme beginning 'Diluain Dirdoin thig gruag'.

Dates: 29 January 1875

List of words and accompanying couplet, 1894

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/178
Scope and Contents

List of words and accompanying couplet which read 'Cugram = , Gigean thom, Geigean = , Breumar an teighe, 'S geugean no fo thighe.'

Dates: 1894
Livre de Raison p. 382-383: French folk songs, and illustrations representing a townswoman from Dover and an oyster seller from Granville (top), and a couple from Castile, Spain (bottom)
Livre de Raison p. 382-383: French folk so...

Livre de Raison (Commonplace book)

 Collection — Box CLX-A-354
Identifier: Coll-1854
Content Description This outlandish and colourful manuscript volume is an exceptional resource to understand and study French popular culture in the late 18th-early 19th centuries. Its contents are extremely varied, and include poems, oracles, lyrics of popular songs, proverbs and maxims, recipes, legal document templates, a formulary of letters, calendars, little stories and anecdotes, an account of Napoleon's return to France after his exile on Elba, and a dictionary for the interpretation of dreams. It...
Dates: c 1820-1830

Magistri Andrea Melvini. Epigramma in aram Regiam., Early 17th century

 piece
Identifier: De.1.12/11
Scope and Contents

An epigram by the Scottish scholar, theologian and religious reformer, Andrew Melville. Under the epigram is a note stating that the epigram was written in Andrew Melville's hand, and was given to "me" in London in 1609.

Dates: Early 17th century

Melville, Andrew. A. Melvinus H. R[ollo]co, Late 16th to early 17th century

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Identifier: De.1.12/14
Scope and Contents

This is a poem by the Scottish scholar, theologian and religious reformer, about the lawyer, poet and master of Edinburgh grammar school Hercules Rollock.

Dates: Late 16th to early 17th century

Melville, Andrew. Epitaphium Alexandri Arbuthneti & Thomam Smetoniam duo nostrae gentis lumina, Late 16th - early 17th century

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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

Name which reads 'Binneach nam beann', c1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW119/61
Scope and Contents

Name which reads 'Binneach nam beann' [Melodious One of the Mountains].

Dates: c1872

Note about Fenian placenames with associated verse and vocabulary, c1866

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW104/13
Scope and Contents Note, probably collected from Alexander MacKenzie, Uisgebhagh/Uiskevagh, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula, about Fenian placenames with associated verse and vocabulary. MacKenzie states that Gleann na Tullach is in Polliu [Gleann Tùlacha and Poll-iù/Poolewe, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty], that Diarmaid's grave is there and that his two white dogs were buried with him one at each foot. On top of the hill there is a place called 'Suicheachan Fhinn' and on the north side of this is Gleann-na-Muic...
Dates: c1866

Note about Gaelic poetry, William Ross's muse and accompanying verse, c1873

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW105/19
Scope and Contents

Note about Gaelic poetry and its elegance; William Ross's muse, Marion Ross; and accompanying verse beginning 'Ciod an fhuaira tha shuas 'sa bhein'. The pencil text on folio 83r is very faded and difficult to read. A transcription of the text is available.

Dates: c1873