Bodleian MS Eng. poet. d. 47

• Primary compiler

  Possibly the compiler, based on the reference to Mrs. Davis as Delia in the poem on old age.

• Owner

  Signature of Frances Lidwell at the top of the title page.

  Role otherwise unknown. 

f. 25

Local title: n/a

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: Last line: Fools read, and take me for your pains. 

Other: n/a

p. 100.

Local title: On a Bursar of a College cutting down the Trees.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: First line: Indulgent nature on all things bestows...

Other: n/a

Rare; but titles often reference the author (by pseudonym) and who they are addressing (by pseudonym). 

Pre-bound paperbook. Gilt page edges, generous use of white space, use of verso pages to add some final items.

Re-bound later, modern binding.

Single.

Key to coterie pseudonyms on final page. Poem "The Amicables” contains indications of characters, figures, professions, and ages of the male characters.

Poems frequently reference members of a circle or network centred around Kidlington in Oxfordshire, various Oxford Colleges, and Leicestershire. 

Single red horizontal rule under titles.

Double rule between items.

Stanza numbers, speakers’ names, etc., also in red.

Items entered only on the recto side of page, but use of verso pages to add fourteen final items, mostly on the early or final pages.

Yes; almost all original, as indicated by title page and headnotes to poems, but the First Line Index identifies four authored by others: Erasmus Darwin/ Anna Seward; Waller; J. Cooper; Queen Charlotte.

Signature of Frances Lidwell at top of title page.

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

Yes, at the beginning of the book. 

Yes: "Lusus Seniles Or Trifles to kill Time in Confinement and Old Age." 

Also features a motto.