Leeds Brotherton Lt 36 | Manuscript Verse Miscellanies

Title	Untitled
Archive	Brotherton Library
Call Number	Leeds Brotherton Lt 36
Complete	Yes
Description	Anonymous, ca. 1715. 72 items. Essentially the "greatest hits" of Finch, Granville, and Waller, with some Pope thrown in.
Format
Book Size
Filled Page Count	116 pages
Item Count	72
Poem Count	72
Periods	1701-1730
First Line Index	Yes
Digitized	Yes
Region	[Unknown]
Additional Genres
Print Sources
Major Themes	Conduct, morality Courtship, marriage Love Satire - social Women Major themes prominent among the manuscript contents in alphabetical order.
Minor Themes	Death, afterlife Nature Visual arts Other themes of interest among the manuscript contents in alphabetical order.
Links	firstlines.folger.edu www.literarymanuscriptsleeds.amdigital.co.uk.proxy.lib.sfu.ca
Bibliography
Citation	“Leeds Brotherton Lt 36.” Manuscript Verse Miscellanies, 1700–1820, edited by Betty A. Schellenberg, Simon Fraser University, https://mvm.dhil.lib.sfu.ca/manuscript/297. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
Created	2019-09-04 1:13:45 PM
Updated	2023-07-25 11:37:25 AM

Contributor	Role
[Anonymous]	Primary compiler Likely female given the women-centred, pastoral, love-poetry contents.
Anne Kingsmill Finch	Major author
George Granville	Major author
Edmund Waller	Major author

First Line	Context
As some fond virgin, whom her mother's care	pp. 74–75. Local title: On a young Lady's leaving the Town after the Coronation. Attributed author: Mr. Pope. Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: n/a
How gaily is at first begun	ff. 1–2r Local title: Life's Progress Attributed author: Lady Winch— Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: n/a
Sure of Success, to You I boldly write	f. 6r-v Local title: A letter to the same person. October 21, 1690. Attributed author: Countess of Winchilsea Adaptation: n/a Other variants: A letter to Daphnis Other: n/a
That, which Her slender Waist confin'd	f. 22r Local title: On a girdle Attributed author: n/a Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: n/a
What art thou, Spleen, which everything dost ape?	ff. 2r–4v Local title: Spleen: a pindarick poem Attributed author: n/a Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: n/a

Feature	Note
Author attributions	Regular, since poems by the same author are grouped together, and the first poem by any new author is always attributed, the rest seem to be assumed. Only the two poems in the second hand are fully unattributed.
Binding	Pre-bound paperbook. No blanks, writing never swallowed by the spine, adjusted to fit page width. The additions in the second hand also suggest a pre-bound book that had space remaining after the primary compiler’s portion was completed. Modern sheep gilt, antique style.
Hands	Single, with two poems added later in another hand ff. 53–59.
Indications of use	f. 23r an entire piece crossed-out. Addition of two poems at end in a different hand – using available blank space at a later date, seemingly mid-century.
Item formatting	Simple lines under titles and between items; second hand does dashes between items. Very simple presentation.
Organization	Organized into sections by author, though not labelled as such – could mean that the book is compiled from single-author volumes or miscellanies organized into sections of these author’s works. The two poems in the second hand do not follow this system.
Page layout	Very little white space and pages are filled entirely. New items typically begun on a new page if half or more of the last page is full. Paginated (in folios on the top right of every verso, and in pages from pp. 1–77, but pagination missing from what would be pp. 78–118. pp. 9–10 are absent, though no sign of tear-out. Numbering begins again with second mid-century hand).