Beinecke Osborn c360 (2/3)

Title Commonplace book
Archive Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Call Number Beinecke Osborn c360 (2/3)
Complete Yes
Description

Gabriel Lepipre, 1753. The second in a series of three volumes. 

Format Quarto
Book Size 21.3 x 16.5 cm
Filled Page Count
Item Count
Poem Count
Periods
First Line Index Yes
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

Beinecke Osborn c360 (2/3).” Manuscript Verse Miscellanies, 1700–1820, edited by Betty A. Schellenberg, Simon Fraser University, https://mvm.dhil.lib.sfu.ca/manuscript/422. Accessed .

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Updated 2024-02-10 4:30:23 PM
First Line Context Print Source
Hail, happy bride! for thou art truly blest

Local title: 'Written Extempore, by Lady Mary Wortly Montague'

Unknown
Feature Note
Author attributions

Occasional.

Binding

Vellum-covered boards, decorative vine-pattern tooling around page edges.

Spine is quite elaborate, reads: M.S. Selections by Col G. Lepipre/ 1753/ III.

Marbled endpapers. 

Catchwords

Used consistently when poems go beyond bottom of page

Hands

Single.

Organization

Titled on spine: ‘A.B. Selections by Col G. Lepipre/ 1753/ III.’

Poems recorded on the recto side of the page with versos left blank or used for annotations and other notes.

Often uses loose thematic groupings for items.

Page layout

Unpaginated.

Items are but numbered, with frequent skips ie. begins with 13 (glued to last page of ToC), skips from 26 to 34 with pages cut out between; sometimes partial page cut out, as items 42 & 43 at top of page

Table of Contents

Yes, at beginning of volume.