Clark MS 2015.014
| Title | Epitaphs. |
|---|---|
| Archive | Clark Library |
| Call Number | Clark MS 2015.014 |
| Complete | Yes |
| Description | Rae family, ca. 1800. 151 pages. Collection of epitaphs from gravestones and published sources. |
| Format | Octavo |
| Book Size | 17.8cm x 10.5cm |
| Filled Page Count | 151 pages |
| Item Count | |
| Poem Count | |
| Periods | |
| First Line Index | No |
| Digitized | Yes |
| Region | |
| Additional Genres | Prose quotations |
| 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 |
“Clark MS 2015.014.” Manuscript Verse Miscellanies, 1700–1820, edited by Betty A. Schellenberg, Simon Fraser University, https://mvm.dhil.lib.sfu.ca/manuscript/229. Accessed . |
| Created | 2019-09-04 1:13:44 PM |
| Updated | 2023-07-20 4:02:28 PM |
| Contributor | Role |
|---|---|
| Mrs. Debroux | |
| Elizabeth Sophia Rae |
|
| James Rae |
|
| First Line | Context |
|---|---|
| Stop, passenger! until my life you read | |
| Take, holy earth, all that my soul holds dear |
| Feature | Note |
|---|---|
| Author attributions | Frequent or occasional; if part of the title. Many items necessarily unattributed. |
| Binding | Bound in eighteenth-century tree calf, rubbed, spine cracked but binding still intact. "Epitaphs" on spine. |
| Hands | Single, consistent and neat nineteenth-century hand (with the exception of one comic epitaph at the end of the written text, which appears to be in the same hand as the later inscription on the front free endpaper). |
| Indications of use | Clear intention signified by the opening framing of quotations from Johnson, Gray, and Beattie – the definition of epitaph and some general sentiments on the act of memorialization. Marks of a series of owners suggest it was valued as a keepsake, and family memento. |
| Ownership mark | On front free endpaper: "Rae, Walton House" in early nineteenth-century hand. "Eastry, Kent" and "Mrs. Debroux" in pencil in a later hand. Paper embossed with armorial (possibly Rae family). Notation on blank page near the end of the volume indicates that the book was purchased from David Low "8/6/54." |