Beinecke Osborn d267 | Manuscript Verse Miscellanies

Title	Untitled
Archive	Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Call Number	Beinecke Osborn d267
Complete	Yes
Description	Anonymous, 1805 or later. 71 items. Primarily sentimental entries, poems on such subjects as sorrow, love, and exile, and copies of letters and verses relating to Major John André and Anna Seward.
Format	Quarto
Book Size	16.9cm x 20.8cm
Filled Page Count	93 pages
Item Count	69
Poem Count	67
Periods	1791-1820
First Line Index	No
Digitized	No
Region
Additional Genres	Prose eulogy, Prose letters
Print Sources
Major Themes	Literature Love Passions, Sentiments Solitude, loneliness, retir... Major themes prominent among the manuscript contents in alphabetical order.
Minor Themes	Nature Other themes of interest among the manuscript contents in alphabetical order.
Links	hdl.handle.net
Bibliography
Citation	“Beinecke Osborn d267.” Manuscript Verse Miscellanies, 1700–1820, edited by Betty A. Schellenberg, Simon Fraser University, https://mvm.dhil.lib.sfu.ca/manuscript/110. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
Created	2019-09-04 1:13:44 PM
Updated	2023-12-15 10:13:29 AM

Contributor	Role
[Anonymous]	Primary compiler

Feature	Note
Author attributions	At least occasional given the examples provided in the catalogue description.
Binding	7 gatherings can clearly be seen along the spine, seemingly of 12 leaves each. Quarter calf over marbled paper boards. In poor shape.
Hands	Single dominant hand, with a few other hands appearing near the end.
Item formatting	Horizontal lines divide items, stylized to be thicker in the middle. No other decorative features.
Original poetry	Possibly a poem titled "The birch," "by the late Revd. T. Wilson, many years Head Master of the Free Grammar School at Clitherol Lancashire."
Page layout	Paginated throughout, even through large middle section left otherwise blank.