Author attributions
Frequency of attribution of poems to a named author (whether in title or as a separate by-line; whether or not that attribution is correct or verifiable). Attribution frequency is described as: regular (approx. 75% or more); frequent (approx. 50-75%); occasional (25% or more, but less than one-half), rare (some attributions, but fewer than 1/4 of the poems); never (no attributions). Pseudonymous attributions (e.g. "by a Lady") are not included, but initials are.
If possible, where author attributions normally appear (eg. in the title, at the end of the poem, etc.).
Manuscript | Note |
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Beinecke Osborn c110 | Never. |
Beinecke Osborn c111 | Rare. |
Beinecke Osborn c116 | Regular. |
Beinecke Osborn c130 | Regular. |
Beinecke Osborn c135 | Never. |
Beinecke Osborn c138 | Frequent (4/7). |
Beinecke Osborn c139–142 | Regular; sometimes in the Table of Contents when not with the poem itself. |
Beinecke Osborn c143 | Never. |
Beinecke Osborn c147 | Never. |
Beinecke Osborn c149 | Occasional. |
Beinecke Osborn c150 | Occasional. |
Beinecke Osborn c152 | Regular. |
Beinecke Osborn c153 | Frequent; commentary provides attributions of numerous items to "Amynta," who is Hannah Wakeford. |
Beinecke Osborn c154 | Rare. |
Beinecke Osborn c156 | Occasional. Some items associated with William, George, Eliza Huddesford of Oxford. |
Beinecke Osborn c157 | Frequent. Many poems copied from journals and magazines with their sources and dates identified. Note next to one of the poems that they "were given to me by the author Sneyd Davies," accompanied by a pasted-in newspaper clipping of his death. |
Beinecke Osborn c162 | Occasional; first poem is by "Mr. B--y," and the third is addressed to him as the author of first poem. |
Beinecke Osborn c163 | Occasional. |
Beinecke Osborn c165 | Regular. |
Beinecke Osborn c167 | Rare. |
Beinecke Osborn c169 | Never. |
Beinecke Osborn c170 | Regular. Often at the end of an item, name(s) written diagonally. |
Beinecke Osborn c172 | Never. |
Beinecke Osborn c175 | Rare; a few attributions as part of a title, e.g. Pope's Works; other attributions seem fictional or pseudonymous. |
Beinecke Osborn c176 | Occasional. |
Beinecke Osborn c179 | Rare. |
Beinecke Osborn c180 | Regular; indicated by the title page and cross-references to sources. |
Beinecke Osborn c186 | Occasional, sometimes quite elaborate. |
Beinecke Osborn c187 | Never. |
Beinecke Osborn c189 | Occasional. |
Beinecke Osborn c193 | Regular. |
Beinecke Osborn c241 | Occasional. |
Beinecke Osborn c258 | Regular, by initials. |
Beinecke Osborn c265 | Occasional; later addition of references to Pope and Swift miscellany of 1731. |
Beinecke Osborn c341 | Regular, often by surname. |
Beinecke Osborn c343 | Rare. |
Beinecke Osborn c351 | Yes, regular (all poems except those in the Miscellaneous section). The sections organised by author include the attribution as part of the section title and do not repeat the author next to the title of each individual poem. |
Beinecke Osborn c360 (1/3) | Occasional. |
Beinecke Osborn c360 (2/3) | Occasional. |
Beinecke Osborn c376 | Frequent. |
Beinecke Osborn c382 | Rare. |
Beinecke Osborn c391 | Frequent. |
Beinecke Osborn c481 | Occasional. |
Beinecke Osborn c536 | Never. |
Beinecke Osborn c548 | Frequent. |
Beinecke Osborn c563 | Rare, though most of the material seemingly original. |
Beinecke Osborn c570 | Rare. |
Beinecke Osborn c591 | Occasional. |
Beinecke Osborn c651 | Occasional. |
Beinecke Osborn c688 | Rare. |
Beinecke Osborn c82 | Frequent. |
Beinecke Osborn c83 | Occasional across all volumes. |
Beinecke Osborn c90 | Frequent, often as part of the header. Some print sources also attributed. |
Beinecke Osborn c91 | Rare. |
Beinecke Osborn d226 | Frequent. |
Beinecke Osborn d233 | Regular. |
Beinecke Osborn d256 | Presumably regular or frequent given the attributions to personal acquaintances, and the number of featured authors listed in the catalogue description. |
Beinecke Osborn d258 | Frequent. |
Beinecke Osborn d267 | At least occasional given the examples provided in the catalogue description. |
Beinecke Osborn d447 | Rare. |
Beinecke Osborn d49 | Regular. Original poetry generally marked with initials and frequently with a location and date. Also occasional source attributions, including to a manuscript source, the "Crewe Hall Album." Author attributions almost always appear as part of the title. |
Beinecke Osborn d492 | Never. |
Beinecke Osborn d494 | Seemingly frequent or occasional from the catalogue description, a few poems signed only with initials, others attributed to members of Charles James Fox's circle. |
Beinecke Osborn d512 | Rare; only one author attribution (in volume two). |
Beinecke Osborn d69 | Occasional. As the catalogue states, the poems "mostly unattributed, with some attributed to Maria Banks (Woodley) Riddell two of which are dated 1789, and some attributed to 'W' and to 'L.'" Having said that, the other (unattributed) poems are presumably by the compiler, so they may not have felt the need to sign them. A couple of the poems are said to be inspired by stories from Anne Grant's Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland (1811). |
Beinecke Osborn d80 | Mostly poems unattributed. |
Beinecke Osborn d93 | Never. |
Beinecke Osborn fc124 | Occasional; many original poems are attributed to Mary Cornwallis and her family, but many attributions are also scratched out by the compiler or neglected entirely. |
Beinecke Osborn fc130 | Rare. |
Beinecke Osborn fc132 | Regular; many popular poets, notably popular female poets. |
Beinecke Osborn fc135 | Frequent. |
Beinecke Osborn fc183 | Frequent. |
Beinecke Osborn fc185 | Rare. More than none, less than all (catalogue mentions some anonymous items but gives no indication how many are unattributed). |
Beinecke Osborn fc205 | More than none, less than all given that two poems in the catalogue description are singled out as "anonymous." |
Beinecke Osborn fc51 | Occasional (probably around half). When authors are attributed, it is either as part of the title or at the end of the poem. |
Beinecke Osborn fc58 | Rare. |
Beinecke Osborn fd32 | Unclear from catalogue description, but certainly print source attributions. |
Bodleian MS Eng. poet. c. 9 | Regular; if author unknown or pseudonymous, the journal source and the pseudonymous name are generally given. |
Bodleian MS Eng. poet. d. 189 | Frequent or occasional. |
Bodleian MS Eng. poet. d. 47 | Rare; but titles often reference the author (by pseudonym) and who they are addressing (by pseudonym). |
Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 109 | Regular. |
Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 111 | Regular; four unattributed items seem to be by the compiler. |
Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 18 | Frequent. |
Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 28 | Frequent or occasional; many of the early items presented without attribution, whether by the main individuals or by others; in general attributions are provided once the Bate sequence begins; poems from that point on seem to be by the compiler or her friends in most cases. |
Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 39 | Regular; author and/or source generally indicated in abbreviated form after poem title. |
Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 40 | Occasional; more frequent when items are attributed to his own social circle. |
Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 47 | Rare. |
Bodleian MS Eng. poet. f. 28 | Regular, each item signed some variation of Mary Allanson. |
Bodleian MS Harding b. 41 | Frequent; mostly Dibdin, with some printed songs which indicate who sang them rather than who wrote them. |
Bodleian MS Mont. e. 13 | Rare, some as part of title. |
Bodleian MS Mont. e. 14 | Regular; in some cases where author is not known to compiler, indication of source. |
British Library Add. MS 28102 | Never, although the heading on p. 196 implies all the poetry was by Ashley Cowper. |
British Library Add. MS 29981 | Rare, if ever. |
British Library Add. MS 37684 | Frequent; generally appears next to the title of each poem. |
British Library Add. MS 58802 | Frequent. For the most part regular, but less towards the end of the book. |
British Library Add. MS 59656 | Regular, but all indicated by initials alone. |
British Library Add. MS 75569 | Frequent, as part of the title. |
Chawton House 2622, MAN LOF | Regular. |
Chawton House 4946, MAN WIL | Regular; since all original poetry however, attributions are frequently implied rather than explicitly stated. |
Clark MS 1948.003 | Regular; nearly every poem is also captioned with information about its source (including volume and page numbers). |
Clark MS 1956.002 | Rare, except when translating a French work (gives title and author of source). |
Clark MS 1968.002 | Rare; one Pope and one Shakespeare. |
Clark MS 1976.014 | Rare; primarily for series by famous writers such as Pope or Garrick, usually as part of the title. Sometimes inaccurate. |
Clark MS 1982.001 | Regular. The compiler is scrupulous about attributing author and/ or source, including for the recipes. |
Clark MS 1982.002 | Rare. |
Clark MS 1983.001 | Rare. |
Clark MS 1983.002 | Never. |
Clark MS 1984.001 | Regular; seemingly whenever the author is known. With the exception of many of the hymns, almost all the poetry is attributed. |
Clark MS 1984.004 | Regular; though sometimes just the print source, not the author’s name. |
Clark MS 1986.003 | Regular; author or source identified regularly, though not always correctly. |
Clark MS 1987.001 | Rare; mostly of the form of “by a lady” unless the poet is very well known, like Lyttelton – but even Gray’s cat poem is not attributed. |
Clark MS 1993.001 | Occasional or rare; not many for the satiric items, which is typical for early eighteenth-century political poetry; exceptions include Mrs. Sansom; Pack; Francis Hawes himself. |
Clark MS 1994.001 | Regular. Many poems signed "Mary Woodyeare," "Mary Tibbits," or "MW." Other poems at the end of the volume attributed to "Dr. Drake" or "Francis Drake." |
Clark MS 2000.005 | Regular. Items very clearly designated as the compiler's poems; in one case co-authored, in another case possibly by his daughter or sister, Miss S—(vol. 3). |
Clark MS 2008.023 | Vol. 1: Frequent; also occasional indications of print sources for anonymous or pseudonymous works. Vol. 2: Occasional. Vol. 3: Frequent at the beginning, then it drops off. |
Clark MS 2010.030 | Regular; all Pope, as indicated by title page. |
Clark MS 2015.014 | Frequent or occasional; if part of the title. Many items necessarily unattributed. |
Clark MS 2019.001 | Rare; a few are part of the header’s contextualization and there is one signature of initials. |
Clark MS 2019.032 | Rare. |
Clark MS 2019.038 | Never. |
Folger MS M.a.103 | Occasional; normally as part of the title. |
Folger MS M.a.104 | Regular; often initials (e.g. J.H., I.H.B., T.N.). Normally at the end of the poem. |
Folger MS M.a.110 | Regular; often part of item heading. |
Folger MS M.a.116 | Occasional; most signed or initialed by Williams so difficult to tell, thou these marks are seemingly an indication of copying, not authorship. |
Folger MS M.a.142 | Frequent or occasional, but not well-organised. |
Folger MS M.a.15 | Frequent, generally as part of the header. |
Folger MS M.a.160 | Regular or frequent. |
Folger MS M.a.162 | Occasional or rare. |
Folger MS M.a.163 | Rare. |
Folger MS M.a.164 | Regular. |
Folger MS M.a.165-166 | Frequent. |
Folger MS M.a.169 | Occasional, including some newspaper sources. |
Folger MS M.a.170 | Occasional. |
Folger MS M.a.174 | Rare; if attributed, in header of the poem. |
Folger MS M.a.179 | Regular. |
Folger MS M.a.180 | Occasional or rare. |
Folger MS M.a.181 | Occasional; generally well known authors, references to periodical sources. |
Folger MS M.a.182 | Occasional; some in header or at the end of the poem, some added at a later date. |
Folger MS M.a.183 | Rare. |
Folger MS M.a.185 | Occasional. |
Folger MS M.a.186 | Rare, but most poems seem to be original. |
Folger MS M.a.187 | Never. |
Folger MS M.a.231 | Occasional, as part of the title. |
Folger MS M.a.53–58 | Frequent, some seemingly inserted later. |
Folger MS M.b.13 | Occasional or rare. |
Folger MS M.b.21 | Occasional; often given on transcription page when absent from the index. |
Folger MS M.b.23 | Regular; simply the name at the end of the piece. Anecdotes often unattributed. |
Folger MS N.b.3 | Regular; two attributed commendatory letters, and the rest of the work is original to the compiler—though not individually attributed, this is understood from the preface. |
Folger MS W.a.103 | Frequent or occasional, mostly as part of title. |
Folger MS W.a.118 | Regular or frequent; some even note how the compiler acquired the items. |
Folger MS W.a.119 | Regular or frequent; unattributed items are very short extracts only; otherwise, author or source seem to be given. |
Folger MS W.a.271 | Frequent, most often in headers. |
Folger MS W.a.86 | Occasional; at the end of items. |
Houghton MS Am 1013 | Regular, but incorrect for 2/3 items. |
Houghton MS Am 1369 | Regular, and for the majority of the volume twice for each item—once at the beginning and again at the end, with the addition of place (Harvard Uni) and date of composition. |
Houghton MS Am 1894 | Never. |
Houghton MS Am 1894.1(1) | Never. |
Houghton MS Am 1919 | Never. |
Houghton MS Am 910 | Rare; only four items. |
Houghton MS Eng 1280 | Regular; if she doesn't remember or know the author, she'll make a guess. |
Houghton MS Eng 1323 | Rare. |
Houghton MS Eng 569.63 | Occasional; if included, most often as part of the title or by initials at the end of the poem. |
Houghton MS Eng 584 | Regular. |
Houghton MS Eng 606 | Rare. |
Houghton MS Eng 611 | Frequent; plus occasional source attributions. |
Houghton MS Eng 614 | Occasional/ frequent with occasional/ frequent source annotations, frequently including date of publication and page numbers. Sometimes the compiler notes his source, and then adds later publications of the same item later. |
Houghton MS Eng 680 | Rare. |
Houghton MS Eng 687 | Frequent. |
Houghton MS Eng 768 | Frequent, often as part of the title. |
Houghton MS Eng 926 | Frequent. |
Houghton MS Hyde 35 (4) | Regular because all original. |
Houghton MS Hyde 35 (5) | Frequent, with many unattributed items presumably by Piozzi. |
Huntington MS 106 | Rare. |
Huntington MS 29165 | Regular. |
Huntington Stowe Vol. III | Frequent. Author attributions mostly written across from the title on the right side of the page, sometimes (increasingly towards the end of the manuscript) at the end of the item. |
Leeds Brotherton Lt 100 | Frequent; frequent source attributions as well. |
Leeds Brotherton Lt 103 | Occasional; often as part of the title. |
Leeds Brotherton Lt 104 | Regular; rare until f. 81, but these are all the poems original to Pinnell, then other attributions are regular. |
Leeds Brotherton Lt 106 | Occasional; include some source attributions. |
Leeds Brotherton Lt 11 | Never. |
Leeds Brotherton Lt 110 | Occasional, and sometimes incorrect. |
Leeds Brotherton Lt 119 | Frequent; approximately 60/87 items. Names indicated by title and initials only. |
Leeds Brotherton Lt 12 | Altogether frequent; occasional in first hand section, though female authors named regularly in poem headers; regular in the second hand section. Print source and date attributions also frequent in second hand. |
Leeds Brotherton Lt 123 | Rare, though the first few items (all longer poems, up to p. 55) are attributed. |
Leeds Brotherton Lt 15 | Rare. |
Leeds Brotherton Lt 20 | Regular; though lots of the Pope items are unattributed for some reason. |
Leeds Brotherton Lt 24 | Occasional. |
Leeds Brotherton Lt 35 | Rare, and some false. |
Leeds Brotherton Lt 36 | Regular, since poems by the same author are grouped together, and the first poem by any new author is always attributed, the rest seem to be assumed. Only the two poems in the second hand are fully unattributed. |
Leeds Brotherton Lt 45 | Frequent; many poems attributed, but not all, even when the author is now known. |
Leeds Brotherton Lt 53 | Rare; though he frequently implies his own authorship, almost no other authors are ever attributed. |
Leeds Brotherton Lt 61 | Regular; only three unattributed items. Most attributions include a detailed source attribution (including page numbers, and sometimes publication date). |
Leeds Brotherton Lt 93 | Rare; generally not attributed unless as part of the title. |
Leeds Brotherton Lt 99 | Frequent; also many references to print sources. |
Leeds Brotherton Ltq 51 | Occasional; some original items initialed, the print sources of Edward the Second noted, and items frequently dated, but author attributions less common. More importance is given to the year of composition (even when not an original piece) than the author. |
Princeton Taylor no. 87 | Occasional. |
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 515 | Rare. Two attributions in titles. |
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 523 | Yes, but rare. |
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 549 | Regular; also includes regular source attributions. Attributions typically appear at the end of an item in the bottom right-hand corner of the last page. |
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 551 | Regular, including two source attributions (to the Spectator). |
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 553 | Occasional. Note the list at the end of the Table of Contents of "Most of the Authors from whom these Poems were collected."
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UChicago Library Codex Ms. 556 | Rare. Essentially none, one reference to another miscellany and another to an author identified as A.M. |
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 557 | Frequent. |
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 558 | Rare. |
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 558 | Yes, rare. |
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 581 | Frequent; includes frequent source attributions and occasionally notes the format of the source text (4to, 12mo, etc.). |
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 636 | Frequent, though mainly by initials. |
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 639 | Frequent. |
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 69 | Yes, occasional. |
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 757 | Occasional. |