Leeds Brotherton Lt 11

Title Untitled
Archive Brotherton Library
Call Number Leeds Brotherton Lt 11
Complete Yes
Description

Smyth family of Heath, ca. 1710–1806.

This entry concerns only pp. 1-239 which consists of two hands, the second replacing the first but adopting the first hand's format. The second hand is also responsible for the index. All in all, however, the book is a sequence of at least six single-hand compilations.

173 items.

Political satire (Tory perspective), Oxford affairs, Wakefield-area affairs.

Format Quarto
Book Size
Filled Page Count 145 pages
Item Count 45
Poem Count 43
Periods
First Line Index Yes
Digitized Yes
Region
Additional Genres Prose
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

Leeds Brotherton Lt 11.” Manuscript Verse Miscellanies, 1700–1820, edited by Betty A. Schellenberg, Simon Fraser University, https://mvm.dhil.lib.sfu.ca/manuscript/291. Accessed .

Created 2019-09-04 1:13:45 PM
Updated 2023-07-25 11:32:03 AM
First Line Context
Clio, behold this charming Day

pp. 256–259

Local title: An ode to Harry Foxe upon the Dutchess of Manchester marrying -- Hussey, an Irish man. 

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

Cries Celia to a reverend Dean

p. 248

Local title: An epigram.

Attributed author: Anonymous.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: "Cries Celia to a learned dean"... instead of "reverend."

Other: n/a

Despairing, beside a clear Stream

pp. 185–187

Local title: Colin's Complaint.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

From Me, Dear Charles, inspir’d with Ale

pp. 190–192

Local title: From Will. Tonstall in the Marshalsea to Charles Wogan in Newgate. Tune, To all the ladies, etc.

Attributed author: Will. Tonstall.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variant: n/a

Other: n/a

Goddess of golden dreams, whose magic pow'r

pp. 287–291

Local title: Castle building.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

In Charles the Second’s Golden Days

pp. 240–242.

Local title: Vicar of Bray on ye Clergy.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

Remote from Liberty and Truth

pp. 257–277

Local title: An ode to William Pulteney Esq. 

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

Thee, Mary, with this Ring I wed

pp. 304–305.

Local title: A gentleman on the late anniversary of his wedding day presented his wife with a ring & the following lines.

Attributed author: A gentleman.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

Where the loveliest expression to features is join'd

pp. 295

Local title: To Mrs Crewe.

Attributed author: Ch: Fox.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: Followed by the Answer on p. 296.

Feature Note
Author attributions

Never.

Binding

Post-bound. No blanks; spine title suggests it was bound by someone else as part of a larger collection of manuscripts. 

Spine lettered “XXVI” and “A.BP MARGETSON WILL & MISCELL: POEMS.”

Eighteenth-century panelled calf.

Hands

Two consecutive; six hands total, but this database entry concerns only the first two. First hand is very calligraphic. The second hand adopts the formatting of the first.

Indications of use

Successive entries suggest book was passed on as a useful record of something, perhaps a personalised anthology. 

Spine label suggests the volume was bound by someone as part of a larger collection of manuscripts. 

Item formatting

Horizontal lines seperating items.

Running titles written across the top margin.

Original poetry

Perhaps the first nine poems, which are not in the FLI. 

Ownership mark

Bookplate of John Smyth of Heath.

Page layout

Paginated (both sides of the page).

Heavy line ruled across the top and down the left margin of each page.

Carefully compiled; writing is spacious.

Table of Contents

Index by the second hand (pp. 345–350).