Folger MS M.a.110

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Local title: On Domestic Happiness from the Fire-Side an Ode.

Attributed author: Cotton

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Local title: Epistle of Monimia to Philocles.

Attributed author: Lord Hervey. 

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pp. 273–276.

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Regular; often part of item heading.

First 19 leaves are slightly narrower than those of the rest of the book.

Handwritten marking on spine, perhaps says "Misc P[oems]"

Original vellum— can see skin speckling and three gathering stitches.

Single, but appearance varies a bit (though formation of letters remains the same)

Titling of extracts according to subject suggests that this book was intended to be used as a commonplace book of poetry. So does the (abandoned) thumb-tab index.

Simple horizontal line separating items and sections taken from same items.

Most sections were assigned a title by the compiler related to their topic, giving the book a sense of commonplacing. As the compiler ran out of space, they stopped giving a title to each section, instead writing “From the Same” in the right-hand margin of the final line of each excerpt.

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).

First 20 pages were saved for the index with alphabetical tabs, but instead has been used for last recorded poems. Tabs for XY and Z remain, but the margins are trimmed off by about ½ inch, removing the earlier letters of the alphabet.