UChicago Library Codex Ms. 553

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pp. 251–253

Local title: A Description of a City Shower.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

pp. 211–213

Local title: A description of the winter at Copenhagen.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

p. 192

Local title: A Song.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

p. 360

Local title: The Ladle

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

Occasional.

Note the list at the end of the Table of Contents of "Most of the Authors from whom these Poems were collected."

Post-bound. Book is completely full; all of the pages except for the Table of Contents look like they've been folded into four columns and then unfolded; very wide margins.

Reverse calf over boards with blind-tooled panelling. Covers are broken off.

Single.

Note the list of authors at the end of the Table of Contents, which seems to suggest the compiler expected other people to read the book.

“Finis July ye 30^th. 1717” at the end of the last poem; “Finis August ye. 6^th. Finis 1717” at the end of the Table of Contents, which would suggest the Table of Contents was put together after the compiler had finished copying the poems.

Clean copy with very few editorial markings; almost certainly a presentation book.

Lines between items.

Lines under titles.

Some thematic development throughout the book. The manuscript begins with a significant amount of poems about (often satirising) women and marriage, with more religious satire, interest in classical themes, public affairs, literature, and theatre later on.

Very wide margins (though unruled). Generous use of white space though no blank pages.

Paginated by the compiler (top centre of each page).

Yes; five pages at the end of the book. This includes a unique list “of Most of the Authors from whom these Poems were collected” at the end (seemingly in place of author attributions in the Table and throughout the manuscript).