Beinecke Osborn c91

Title The Helicon Bag
Archive Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Call Number Beinecke Osborn c91
Complete Yes
Description

Anonymous schoolmistress (possibly named Eliza), 1788.

61 items.

Frequent references to the material having been written for schoolchildren or for occasions such as weddings and departures of friends.

Format Quarto
Book Size 20cm x 16cm
Filled Page Count 359 pages
Item Count 61
Poem Count 54
Periods
First Line Index Yes
Digitized No
Region
Additional Genres Charts and tables, Prose letters
Print Sources
Major Themes

Major themes prominent among the manuscript contents in alphabetical order.

Minor Themes

Other themes of interest among the manuscript contents in alphabetical order.

Links
Bibliography
Citation

Beinecke Osborn c91.” Manuscript Verse Miscellanies, 1700–1820, edited by Betty A. Schellenberg, Simon Fraser University, https://mvm.dhil.lib.sfu.ca/manuscript/16. Accessed .

Created 2019-09-04 1:13:44 PM
Updated 2024-10-09 2:33:27 PM
First Line Context
Hark! my gay friend, that solemn toll

p. 73

Local title: On the death of a boy a pupil of the author's till his death.

Attributed author: Thomas Stevens, Baptist Minister.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: Seemingly incomplete. Last line is "To perfect freedom and her native skies."

Other: n/a

Feature Note
Author attributions

Rare.

Binding

Contemporary half sheep, broken. 

Decorations - hand-drawn

First page has what seems to be hand-drawn devices with mottos: "The Helicon Bag and A tout le monde."

Poems are copied with large, decorative lettering for titles up to second section.

Six numbered tables: the muses, explorers of New World, regions of Italy, seas of the world, etc.

Hands

Single up to p. 331 where there is a note: "Those which follow have been added at various times." 

Indications of use

"Original Poems" written at the top of p. 1. 

p. 331 note "Those which follow have been added at various times" indicates items that were copied into the book after the primary's compiler's compilation. This includes seven extra poems and six numbered tables, plus a final poem pasted onto the inside back cover in a tissue/onion skin paper.

Frequent references to these materials being written for schoolchildren or for occasions such as weddings and departures of friends.

Original poetry

Yes, likely most, judging from the title "Original poems" and First Line Index results.

Page layout

Paginated.

Table of Contents

Yes.

Includes a “lost” item in its alphabetical list, with no page number for the item – i.e. the alphabetical Table of Contents was likely written out before the book was compiled.