Clark MS 1982.001

• Primary compiler

pp. 76–78.

Local title: Pope's Universal Prayer.

Attributed author: Pope.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

pp. 50–58

Local title: Chevy Chase.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

p. 71

Local title: To Dean Swift, wt. a Book of clean Paper.

Attributed author: Lord Orrery.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

Regular. The compiler is scrupulous about attributing author and/ or source, including for the recipes.

Speckled calf with plain lines around outer edges.

Paper used to build up back cover board.

Yes, for poems continuing beyond the page.

Single. The volume contains many entries made at least partially in short-hand. 

Use of shorthand suggest this was perhaps viewed as a private book (for eg. used in the case of Chevy Chase ballad, seemingly either to speed up copying of 54 stanzas or because of satiric material). 

Note on p. 68 claims manuscript transmission of poem from Elizabeth Rowe. Other manuscript transmissions indicated in other endnotes. 

One or more pen strokes to mark ends of poems.

Titles sometimes written a bit larger than the rest of the text, but not uniformly done.

Divided into poetry and commonplace (recipes, prose notes on natural history, etc., with a couple of poems) ends – compiler clearly distinguishing by genre. Note that just as the commonplace end contains a couple of poems (perhaps written into its endpapers later), so the poetry end, towards the end of the section, contains 5 pp. of cooking and medical recipes—possibly a compiler error.

Volume flipped and last 82 pages written upside down.

Inscribed "E.L.T. Bale" on p. 1, with note "Jan. 21st 1730/31 about 3 a clock in ye after-noon my son was born, and about ten at night he died."

Poetry end paginated (up to p. 48, but p. 21 skipped); commonplace end unpaginated.

Unrelated black-letter printed document on paste-downs.