Beinecke Osborn fc124

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p. 78

Local title: Curious Epitaph at Dalkeith, Edinburghshire, Scotland. To the Memory of Margaret Scot, who died 1788.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: First line: "Stop, passenger, until my life you read..."

Other: This is a print insert but the source publication is not specified.

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.

Pre-bound paperbook. Signs of print and manuscript inserts, as well as uneven pagination and excised pages.

Full parchment. 

Pasted on the first flyleaf: two watecolor drawings of birds, signed Q.H. Pasted inside back cover: two watercolor drawings of birds, drawn by "John Harris, aged 14, 1822."

The volume also contains many drawings, including a detailed pencil drawing of a peacock, chicken, and turkey; a pen sketch of Duns Scotus accompanied by a humorous poem; and a small series of colored sketches labeled "Drawn by Caroline when a little girl on hearing a conversation upon the powers of the absorbent vessels in the human frame."

p. 2 three strips of colored braided paper.

Single.

p. 1 note next to the bird drawings: “These were the occupations of dear Quarles Harris during a long & suffering illness, which carried him to the grave at the age of fourteen— 1817—"

Clear editorial notes, i.e. not a clean copy (e.g., p. 3, 15, 55, 68, 86, etc.)

Some of the print inserts seem to be covering up text (e.g., p. 4, 7, 8, 54, etc.)

Miscellaneous additions, e.g., p. 41 pencil drawing of a house’s layout; p. 54 scrap of what appears to be a journal entry; p. 89 a letter (with the mark of a red seal) pasted-in.

Family book—contains poetry and drawings by a number of the compiler's children.

No standard lines after titles or between items; no stanza numbers. Items are back-to-back if not pasted on top of each other.

The manuscript begins and ends with two bird drawings by Quarles Harris.

Yes; plenty of original poetry by Mary Cornwallis and her family, largely occasional (more specifically, birthdays).

Items attributed to Mary Cornwallis, a few annotations towards the end of the manuscript initialed "MC."

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.

Many newspaper clippings have been pasted into the volume. Most of the clippings are of poetry; other items include epitaphs; notices of the death of Princess Charlotte; and news of the royal family.