Clark MS 1984.001

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Folio: n/a

Local title: Part of Geo: Lyttletons celebrated Monody on the Death of his lady.

Attributed author: Geo: Lyttleton.

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Other variants: A line of dashes signifies the omission of the first part, then it begins with Thou plaintive Muse whom o’er his Laura’s urn/ Unhappy Petrach call’d to mourn...

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Local title: Cotton's Fireside.

Attributed author: Cotton.

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p. 16.

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Attributed author: n/a

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Local title: Written at Midnight in a ThunderStorm.

Attributed author: Mrs. Carter.

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Local title: An Elegy by the Revd Mr Mason of York on the Death of his Wife who died whilst drinking a Glass of Water at Bristol Wells.

Attributed author: Revd Mr Mason.

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pp. 144–147

Local title: On the last Judgement: A Translation of the Church Hymn beginning thus—Dies Iræ, Dies Iræ.

Attributed author: the Earl of Roscommon.

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Regular; seemingly whenever the author is known. With the exception of many of the hymns, almost all the poetry is attributed.

Post-Bound. Binding made-up of gatherings created separately; seven clearly distinguishable gatherings.

Original full calf with paper overlays. Backstrip defective.

Printed poem "Night" pasted-in on inside front cover. 

Single.

Wool or hair or some other fibre stuck into top of pp numbered 95 and 96.

Possibly later annotations – for example on the page numbered 43.

The book has been written tête-bêche (written from both ends of the volume inwards toward the middle, with the text in one half the volume rotated 180° relative to the other half).

Mottos after the "Night" poem could be considered a sort of title page, followed by a blank verso. 

There is something like a signature device on some pages. 

Paginated (by the compiler, but in multiple paginations, suggesting poems were perhaps written into different gatherings, then bound together. Begins with pp. 42-173 [interrupted by pp. 1-[8] – wove paper insertion]; then continues with 2 unnumbered pages + 8 pages of unnumbered index + 10 pages unnumbered; then shifts to reverse orientation; no consistent numbering for this ambigraph section).

Yes, in the middle of the book.

The Index records items from the first section of the book (the Hymns section), including the first 41 pp. which are missing. 

Alphabetical listing by first lines.