Clark MS 1982.002 | Manuscript Verse Miscellanies

Title	Miscellany Poems : containing various kinds of Poetry collected from the most Eminent Poets With some Originals never publish'd. /By Eliz. Munbee, Vol. ye 3d.
Archive	Clark Library
Call Number	Clark MS 1982.002
Complete	Yes
Description	Elizabeth Munbee, 1745. 16 poems. Miscellaneous collection of poems by popular poets like Samuel Wesley, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and Nicholas Rowe.
Format	Octavo
Book Size	18.1 cm x 12 cm
Filled Page Count	182 pages
Item Count	16
Poem Count	16
Periods	1731-1760
First Line Index	No
Digitized	Yes
Region	Suffolk
Additional Genres
Print Sources
Major Themes	Animals, pets Courtship, marriage Nature Public affairs Satire - political Satire - social Major themes prominent among the manuscript contents in alphabetical order.
Minor Themes	Alcohol, other beverages, t... Death, afterlife Domestic life Other themes of interest among the manuscript contents in alphabetical order.
Links	calisphere.org
Bibliography
Citation	“Clark MS 1982.002.” Manuscript Verse Miscellanies, 1700–1820, edited by Betty A. Schellenberg, Simon Fraser University, https://mvm.dhil.lib.sfu.ca/manuscript/212. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
Created	2019-09-04 1:13:44 PM
Updated	2023-07-20 3:53:28 PM

Contributor	Role
Elizabeth Munbee	Primary compiler

First Line	Context
Careful Observers may foretel the Hour	pp. 54–59 Local title: A Description of a City Shower. Attributed author: n/a Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: n/a
Despairing, beside a clear Stream	pp. 162–167 Local title: Colin's Complaint. Attributed author: n/a Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: Followed by "The Scullion's complain" ("By ye side of a great Kitchen fire..") a popular parody of Colin's Complaint.

First Line

Context

pp. 54–59

Local title: A Description of a City Shower.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

pp. 162–167

Local title: Colin's Complaint.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: Followed by "The Scullion's complain" ("By ye side of a great Kitchen fire..") a popular parody of Colin's Complaint.

Feature	Note
Author attributions	Rare.
Binding	Post-bound. Page widths uneven; poems continue across gatherings of slightly different sizes. Original binding was contemporary calf. Subsequently re-bound in marbled paper boards with vellum spine.
Decorations - hand-drawn	Many decorative headers above titles; decorations at the ends of poems – all hand-drawn. Often verging on drawings, but they don't seem to illustrate the poem.
Hands	Single, fair and neat.
Original poetry	Unlikely. The title claims there is original poetry, but the only item not attributed in the First Line Index is the Corinthians paraphrase.
Page layout	Paginated.
Title page	Title page: "Miscellany Poems : containing various kinds of Poetry collected from the most Eminent Poets With some Originals never publishd. / By Eliz. Munbee, Vol: ye 3d." Also a motto on the titlepage: “Ransack[ing] rich Book, glean[ing] all ye good you find …" then "MDCCXLV."