Folger MS M.a.231

Title Untitled
Archive Folger Shakespeare Library
Call Number Folger MS M.a.231
Complete Yes
Description

Anonymous, ca. 1750. 

36 items.

Chiefly epigrams and satirical verse.
Format Quarto
Book Size 18cm x 14.5cm
Filled Page Count 36 leaves
Item Count 36
Poem Count 36
Periods
First Line Index No
Digitized No
Region
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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

“Folger MS M.a.231.” Manuscript Verse Miscellanies, 1700–1820, edited by Betty A. Schellenberg, Simon Fraser University, https://mvm.dhil.lib.sfu.ca/manuscript/251. Accessed .

Created 2019-09-04 1:13:45 PM
Updated 2023-07-25 11:06:29 AM
First Line Context
Asses milk, half a pint, take at seven, or before;

pp. 63–64.

Local title: Advice to a Lady in Autumn.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a
Two or three Dears, and two or three Sweets

p. 3

Local title: A Receipt for Courtship.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a
Feature Note
Author attributions

Occasional, as part of the title. 
Binding

Pre-bound paperbook. There are some leaves beyond where the entries end, the rest of the book being entirely blank; writing goes right to outer edges of the pages, but no evidence of trimming.

Tooled leather binding from the period; no label on spine.
Hands

Single.
Indications of use

Cut out pages (eight pages after p. 6, also pp. 27–30). 
Item formatting

Horizontal lines (sometimes double-ruled) at ends of poems.
Page layout

Left hand margins ruled, including some leaves beyond where entries end.
Table of Contents

Alphabetical index on first leaf.