UChicago Library Codex Ms. 522 | Manuscript Verse Miscellanies

Title	Untitled
Archive	University of Chicago Special Collections and Research Center
Call Number	UChicago Library Codex Ms. 522
Complete	Yes
Description	Eliza Pettigrew, 1778 - ca. 1796. 108 items. Themes of friendship; Quakerism; anti-slavery; many friendship poems addressed to Eliza by A. Strangman.
Format	Quarto
Book Size	19.5cm x 15.5cm
Filled Page Count	191
Item Count	108
Poem Count	99
Periods	1761-1790 1791-1820
First Line Index	No
Digitized	No
Region	Derbyshire Leeds, West Yorkshire Taplow, Buckinghamshire
Additional Genres	anecdotes, letters, prophecies
Print Sources
Major Themes	Friendship 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	“UChicago Library Codex Ms. 522.” Manuscript Verse Miscellanies, 1700–1820, edited by Betty A. Schellenberg, Simon Fraser University, https://mvm.dhil.lib.sfu.ca/manuscript/412. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
Created	2023-08-16 2:26:17 PM
Updated	2023-09-07 11:33:20 AM

Contributor	Role
Eliza Pettigrew	Primary compiler
A. Strangman	Major author

First Line	Context	Print Source
Forc'd from home, and all its pleasures,	Pg. 5 Local title: untitled Attributed author: unattributed Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: n/a	Unknown
Thee, Mary, with this Ring I wed	Pg. 12 Local title: untitled Attributed author: unattributed Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: n/a	Unknown

First Line

Context

Print Source

Pg. 5

Local title: untitled

Attributed author: unattributed

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

Unknown

Pg. 12

Local title: untitled

Attributed author: unattributed

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

Unknown

Feature	Note
Binding	Pre-bound. Accounting book with ruled columns at page edges and alphabetical guide notches at the beginning of the book. Full green stained vellum with blind-tooled borders; red sprinkled edges.
Decorations - printed	Pasted-in prints on front and back inside covers.
Hands	Single, except for occasional items by two different hands.
Indications of use	Pasted-in prints on front and back inside covers. Final 3 lines of text erased at the bottom of p. 50; also a note earlier re: a poem being unfinished.
Page layout	Pagination by original compiler. Items occasionally separated by a rough horizontal line. New poems often indicated by date of entry.