Page layout

Lefthand margins ruled in pencil up to p. 41.

Paginated.

Paginated (majority of the book is blank, and pages are numbered only as far as they are filled).

Generous white space.

Paginated (in original hand pp. 1-103; then p. 104 by another hand).

Generous use of page.

Paginated (retrospective; up to p. 43).

Wide margins and fairly generous use of white space.

Paginated (vols. 2–3 only).

Unpaginated (pencilled-in folios likely by a cataloguer).

Generous white space.

Paginated.

Paginated.

Dry-ruling of margins adjusted to item; however, there are cases of corrections (e.g. omitted line).

Pagination (retrospective).

Fairly generous use of white space.

Paginated (probably in the second hand, Hillhouse).

In part one, ruled lines down left-hand margins.

Rules can be very close to margin when lines are long.

Paginated (up to p. 228, then the next page is numbered 230, no pagination after this).

Double red-ruled margins.

Not much white space.

Paginated (except for three blank pages at the end of the manuscript).

Pencilled rules to keep lines of poetry straight.

Paginated.

No blank space between poems. 

Paginated (except for one blank leaf at the beginning and two at the end).

Book quite tightly written.

Paginated.

Paginated (retrospective; sideways item that is now p. 41 is numbered “45” in original hand).

Paginated (pagination ends at p. 76, with p. 87 marked later, but in fact it is p. 86).

Items are numbered.

Pages filled completely, even when only the title can fit at the bottom of the page.

Paginated.

Very crowded pages.

Paginated (220 pages originally paginated, then 3 additional pages paginated later by the same hand).

Unpaginated.

Paginated.

Poems generally entered continuously, but when very close to the bottom of the page, may use multiple horizontal lines to fill it in. 

Unpaginated.

Ruled margins around each filled page and a few blank ones after the first filled section.

Unpaginated.

Paginated.

8 pages containing 5 poems before page 1 unpaginated. 

A graceful arabesque divides items occurring on same page.

Conservative use of space (all pages fully filled). 

Pencil margins on the left-hand side.

Comfortable use of space (no cramming).

Paginated by the compiler.

Unpaginated, but numbered items—frequent skips ie. 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13… unexplained.

Unpaginated.

Items are but numbered, with frequent skips ie. begins with 13 (glued to last page of ToC), skips from 26 to 34 with pages cut out between; sometimes partial page cut out, as items 42 & 43 at top of page

Items numbered.

Makes ostentatious use of white space, with every item occupying a column on the left-hand side of the page and a wide red-ruled margin on the right-hand side (about 6.5 cm wide) – which is used for annotations at various points. 

Paginated.

The first verse miscellany section is paginated 1–81, which is not the complete section.

Paginated. 

Not overcrowded, but most pages are full.

Hand-drawn horizontal lines between items.

Writing is quite crowded.

Paginated. 

Size of the writing and the margins differ greatly; varying use of white space.

Most items have some sort of header. 

Lots of white space.

Generous use of white space enhances readability. 

Small page marks. 

Some double ruled lines at ends of items, particularly in the middle section.

Very neat.

Many pages divided into ruled segments depending on length of items and of lines.

Most pages oriented with binding on left, but some, especially lengthy ones, are oriented to have the lines run along the binding.

Most items have a double ruled line at end; ruled lines also divide items on the page, so most items are contained within their own textbox.

Very little blank space; poems are back-to-back and the pages are dense.

Unpaginated.

Items are numbered, seemingly after the poems were copied (the ink is darker, and they are seemingly inserted into blank spaces).

In general, quite a lot of white space on pages.

Poems often continue onto the next page.

Paginated.

Paginated.

Fairly generous use of space including some blank pages between items.

No pagination. 

Very plain. No header or footer rules; pages are filled but not crowded.

No pagination.

Paginated throughout, even through large middle section left otherwise blank.

Width of margins varies (e.g., p. 188 compared to 189).

Fairly liberal use of white space.

Paginated (1–342, 351, 356, 337–339, 360–367).

Some traces left of erased pencil lines. Perhaps the compiler wanted or needed a guide for his writing.

Paginated up to 139 by folio (recto side only).

Paginated.

Unpaginated.

Paginated.

Generous use of space; new items begun on new pages.

Paginated 9–99.

No rules, very crowded pages. Items are often on-top of each other.

Paginated, but only up to about p. 126, and up to p. 126 the pagination is irregular and often inconsistent, perhaps because of excisions.

Paginated 45–80 (but pages 59–80 are blank).

Paginated 1–223, [5].

Rare footnotes.

Full but not crowded pages.

Paginated by the compiler—"Page —".

Paginated.

Freehand horizontal scalloped line between items.

Only the first 3 pages of items are paginated.

Paginated.

Generous use of space, very wide margins.

Pencil margins, increasingly clear towards the middle and end of the manuscript.

Paginated except for the final two pages.

Red ruled margins up to p. 105.

The first hand is more generous with space than the second, occasionally skipping entire pages between poems.

Filled pages lightly ruled to guide writing.

Paginated (by the compiler, though not continuous now given excisions).

Paginated (retrospective by the compiler).

Paper has ruled outside margins.

Paginated (by the compiler, in folios, beginning with the first poetry item).

Paginated (ninety-nine pages paginated by the compiler beginning after the Table of Contents up to end of the filled portion of the book).

A lot of white space, given the blank verso sides as well.

Paginated, though only the pages paginated 5–30 (by the compiler) remain. 

Paginated (up to p. 312).

Paginated.

Paginated (pagination skips from p. 50 to p. 60).

Pages quite crowded.

Every page has red or brown-red ruled margins in the form of a box within which the poetry is entered.

Paginated (begins anew at the start of each volume).

Paginated (in folios, including blanks).

Clear margin rules on every page.

Paginated by the compiler.

Most pages are completely full; poems are almost always copied back-to-back.

Paginated by the compiler, corrected to folios by a later cataloguer.

Paginated (by the compiler ff. 1-77 beginning with first page of poetry – these numbers correspond with Table of Contents; cataloguer has renumbered folios 1-64 beginning with Table of Contents; both include the final 2 endpapers, which have poetry written on them).

Yes (fifty-four pages beginning with the title page). 

Very generous use of white space.

Paginated.

Notebooks 1–2 paginated in folios, notebook 3 unpaginated. 

Notebook 1: Generous use of space, plenty of half-pages left blank.

Notebook 2: All of each page used, never a blank half-page.

Notebook 3: More closely written. 

Paginated (pp. 1-140 paginated, p. 141 and 2 pp of index not paginated).

Poems begun immediately one after another even if only space enough for one line.

Paginated by one of the compilers up to p. 93, then no pagination. Index also ends with this item.

Paginated.

Endings of poems in the first few pages sometimes written sideways onto the page.

Paginated (up to p.130).

Double rules after headers.

Poetry end paginated (up to p. 48, but p. 21 skipped); commonplace end unpaginated.

Paginated.

Paginated (pp. 1 and 3 numbered, but poetry begins on p. 5; paginated up to p. 159, entries continue up to p. 167, including on what seem to be two endpapers).

Every page divided into two columns. No items go beyond the end of a column or page – carefully fitted to the available space.

Paginated (by the compiler, but in multiple paginations, suggesting poems were perhaps written into different gatherings, then bound together. Begins with pp. 42-173 [interrupted by pp. 1-[8] – wove paper insertion]; then continues with 2 unnumbered pages + 8 pages of unnumbered index + 10 pages unnumbered; then shifts to reverse orientation; no consistent numbering for this ambigraph section).

Paginated (by the compiler beginning after the index).

Paginated (by the compiler; pagination skips from p. 90 to p. 100 with no sign of pages removed, unless it was an entire gathering).

Paginated (by the compiler up to p. 101; ambigraph end unpaginated). 

Paginated (by the compiler). 

Vol. 1: Paginated (by the compiler).

Vol. 2: Paginated (by the compiler, but only up to p. 7).

Vol. 3: Paginated (by the compiler, up to p. 160).

Vol. 4: Unpaginated (only pp. 1–2 paginated by the compiler).

Paginated (by the compiler, up to p. 346).

Paginated up to p. 155.

Paginated (by the compiler; no unpaginated pages though many are blank). 

Pencilled lines to guide writing.

Ruled in red on lefthand margins throughout.

Poems fill entire pages, leaving very little white space.

Paginated (some errors, though there must also be some cutouts, given the number of leaves are an odd number. Pagination begins on the verso of f. 20).

Ruled left-hand margins that seem to be a feature of the book.

Paginated up to 162 with some errors (148 filled pages). 

Paginated (in extreme outer edges of pages, at least in the first half of book, but some numbers seem to have been trimmed off in binding).

Margins ruled-in in pencil.

Generous use of white space.

Unpaginated (except for pencil pagination pp. 1–20).

Lots of white space.

Red-ruled vertical line marking the inside margin of each page at the Chesterfield/poetry end of the manuscript, and the outside margin for entries from the other end of the manuscript. This line is consistent throughout, even on blank pages, so the book must have been purchased with these margins. 

Paginated except for six unnumbered pages at the beginning of the book.

Paginated. 

Paginated.

Hand-ruled left-hand margins.

At the beginning of the book, two-column leaves show marks of folding down the middle to divide page.

Paginated (up to f. 230 in the compiler’s hand; leaves 225-30 are blank).

Left hand margins ruled, including some leaves beyond where entries end.

Paginated.

Impressions of six points on every recto page and outer margin rulings, possibly from a device for guiding lines. These guidemarks disappear after vol. 3.

Earliest pages of book more spacious; otherwise crowded, no margins, looks more like a commonplace book than a usual poetry miscellany.

Paginated.

Triple-ruled margins (seem to be hand-drawn, since slight variations in line joins).

Lots of white space.

Paginated (by the compiler, in the margins).

Margin rules in ink.

Paginated.

Ruled margins in red, some margin glosses - these rulings continue throughout the book, after entries and pagination stop (perhaps part of the book when bought, if designed for the recording of satirical poetry).

Another red line added in on pp. 24-7 for French Version of Prince of Wales’s letter to father. 

Frequent ruled lines (though not perfectly straight), seemingly added by the compiler. 

Regular margin rule on the left side of the page (for both the recto and verso), seemingly added by the compiler. 

First page and last page are crowded, all other pages are more comfortably full. 

Paginated.

Pages are filled; new items are started on the same page as the previous item when there is space enough for at least a few lines.

Paginated (beginning with the Introduction).

New items frequently begun at the very bottom of pages ie. rarely begin on a new page all of their own.

Irregular, curved lines (decorative?) between the end of a line of text and the edge of the page.

Paginated (in the top left-hand corner, and in the format "P.[#]."

Paginated. 

Poems and annotations sometimes written sideways in order to fit them on the page.

Pages sometimes completely full with text, but increasingly (as the poetry section goes on) liberal with blank space, occasionally leaving half a blank page after the end of an item.

Paginated up to the final item. 

Paginated (both sections, pp. 1–167 and 1–30 with one overlapping page paginated as both p. 167 and p. 30). 

Paginated (both volumes and both sections of vol. 2. Seemingly paginated as the manuscripts were filled in because pp. 82–83 which are written in another hand are paginated in that hand as well).

Paginated. 

Paginated. 

Volume 1 is paginated (on every verso page); volume 2 in unpaginated.

Paginated (top-center of each page). 

The writing in the manuscript gets less condensed and straight-lined as the book progresses. 

Paginated.

Left-hand margins in red ink.

Paginated (but in segments that do not accord).

Liberal use of paper/ space eg. p. 36: where another stanza could easily fit at the bottom of the page, the compiler chose to continue the poem on the proceeding page instead. 

Paginated (in folios; from f. 48v, pagination is written from the back of the book inwards and upside down; f. 1v is also upside down).

Some pages are filled to the edges, eg. f. 71, and some have plenty of leftover space, eg. f. 63. The use of space is inconsistent.

Paginated (in folios).

Mostly unpaginated (ff. 1–9 paginated in ink [possibly by the compiler; this is the entirety of the first item], but the rest is paginated in pencil, probably by an archivist).

Paginated (by the compiler, in the first section of the book).

Paginated (both sides of the page).

Heavy line ruled across the top and down the left margin of each page.

Carefully compiled; writing is spacious.

Paginated (by the compiler, in folios, beginning after the title page. 69 paginated folios, followed by 4 unpaginated folios. The versos of ff. 1–31 are paginated incorrectly, to create a sequential pagination that matches the opposite page in the same opening; for example, 1v is paginated 2, 2v paginated 3, and so on. The other versos, ff. 32–69, are unpaginated).

Paginated (in folios by Capell). 

Paginated (by the compilers, seemingly as they went along because the handwriting of the pagination switches at the same time as the text’s handwriting does).

If over half the page is full, the first hand begins the new item on the following page. The second hand begins most items one after another, not on a new page.

Ruled left-hand margins (throughout the manuscript, though likely all done at once because they are indistinguishable in the two sections).

Paginated.

Bordered pages, with pagination and catchwords outside the borderlines.

Neatly numbered stanzas.

Paginated (in pages at the top-outside corner).

Paginated (by the compiler; the first 7 and last 3 filled pages are unpaginated).

Paginated (pagination begun anew for each Virgil section of the manuscript: so five paginated pages after the title page, followed by the Explanation of Names [unpaginated], then Virgil’s pastorals are paginated 1–40, Virgil’s georgics and the miscellaneous section are paginated 1–140).

In the Virgirl sections, new items always begin on new pages. In the Miscellany section, new items continue on the same page when space allows.

Paginated (by Coles: pp. 3–208 + pp. 105–118 + [10 pages] + TofC + [13 pages] + pp. 4–104 + pp. 209–212 + p. 118).

Paginated.

When the lines of an item are short enough, a vertical line divides the page in two and the stanzas are copied on both the left and right side, eg. pp. 54, 119, perhaps as a way of making the most of the space?

Items frequently begun back-to-back; occasionally new items begin on a new page, but this compiler really utilized the space they had.

Very little white space and pages are filled entirely.

New items typically begun on a new page if half or more of the last page is full.

Paginated (in folios on the top right of every verso, and in pages from pp. 1–77, but pagination missing from what would be pp. 78–118. pp. 9–10 are absent, though no sign of tear-out. Numbering begins again with second mid-century hand).

Paginated.

Ruled margins.

Pages neatly but closely written.

Omitted lines sometimes written vertically in margins – eg pp. 14-15.

Paginated (pp. 1–82, then pagination begins again for the biographical section, pp. 1–47, and continues past that section, pp. 48–70, to the end of the manuscript, excluding the flyleaf). (Pages 51–52 of the second section are missing, likely torn out, not a pagination error, because p. 53 continues an item not on p. 50).

Thick, decorative striped borders on pp. 57–58b.

Paginated (in the upper corner; pagination is not always visible because it was written in such a small font and the edges of the pages are worn; someone else has added pagination by folio below the compiler’s pagination).

Items begun one after another, even if there’s only room for a couple of lines at the bottom of the page eg. book 2 p. 33.

Comfortable, relaxed use of space, ie. not jamming anything to try and fit on a particular page, which suggests the book was copied one page after another, rather than out of order.

Paginated (all in the same hand, possibly by the first/ primary compiler, but after ff. 32v and 33 were cut out).

Paginated (by the compiler on the verso side, but numbered in folios by a cataloguer on the rectos. Compiler’s pagination jumps from 197 to 200).

Plenty of white space.

Pencilled margins throughout, eg. p. 83, though sometimes ignored, eg. p. 107. In the first section (Edward the Second), margins are generously large, and occupy about ¼ of the page, leaving lots of empty space. They are thinner in the other sections, leaving more room for text and less blank space on the pages, eg. p. 131.

Frequently numbered stanzas.

Paginated (by the compiler. p. 158 is paginated 190, which is to say there’s a jump from p. 157 to p. 190, and pagination continues from 190 to the end of the manuscript, with what would otherwise be the correct pagination noted in pencil below the compiler’s pagination).

Paginated by the compiler as folios. 

Pagination by original compiler. 

Items occasionally separated by a rough horizontal line. 

New poems often indicated by date of entry. 

Generous use of space.

No margins or header/footer rules.

Paginated (though the last four pages of volume two are unpaginated, likely because they were a later addition by another hand).

Paginated up to p. 69 of 73.

Very wide margins (though unruled). Generous use of white space though no blank pages.

Paginated by the compiler (top centre of each page).

Pagination by compiler. 

Pagination by compiler up to p. 255, then discontinued until p. 264. 

Paginated by folio.

Evidence of pencil margins.

Paginated by the compiler.

Unpaginated.

Not a decorative book; the filled pages are comfortably so with no margins or embellishments.

First section paginated by the compiler; second section irregularly paginated.

p. 15 is quartered, with one poem transcribed across the top half of the page and one across the bottom; pages more frequently divided into columns and quartered in the second section.

At least half of items are copied only on the recto sides of the leaves.

New items generally begin on new pages

Partially paginated by Church (up to p. 28 of 105).