Beinecke Osborn c189
| Title | Untitled |
|---|---|
| Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
| Call Number | Beinecke Osborn c189 |
| Complete | Yes |
| Description | Anonymous, ca. 1705. 195 items. Songs, political satire, poems on death, and bawdy poetry. |
| Format | [smaller than a quarto] |
| Book Size | 13cm x 8cm |
| Filled Page Count | 223 |
| Item Count | 195 |
| Poem Count | 195 |
| Periods | |
| First Line Index | Yes |
| Digitized | Yes |
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| 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. |
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| Bibliography | |
| Citation |
“Beinecke Osborn c189.” Manuscript Verse Miscellanies, 1700–1820, edited by Betty A. Schellenberg, Simon Fraser University, https://mvm.dhil.lib.sfu.ca/manuscript/57. Accessed . |
| Created | 2019-09-04 1:13:44 PM |
| Updated | 2023-07-19 4:35:14 PM |
| Contributor | Role |
|---|---|
| [Anonymous] | |
| Katherine Fowler Philips | |
| Matthew Prior | |
| Charles Sackville | |
| John Wilmot |
| First Line | Context |
|---|---|
| Julia once struck me with a Ball of Snow |
p. 51. Local title: One, who fell in love with Julia, at her throwing A ball of snow at him. Attributed author: n/a Adaptation: n/a Other variants: First line: "A ball of stiffen'd rain from Julia flew." Other: n/a |
| Feature | Note |
|---|---|
| Author attributions | Occasional. |
| Binding | Full calf. Spine has probably been repaired. |
| Decorations - hand-drawn | "On a skeleton sitting on a pile of dead men's bones" is illustrated by a pen drawing. |
| Hands | Single. |
| Indications of use | A few notes, possibly later but in the same hand and may simply be a change of ink. |
| Item formatting | Pages with multiple items may have strokes to mark the end of each. No space between items. |
| Organization | Many pages written sideways, depending on the length of lines, it seems. |
| Original poetry | Maybe; unattributed items from the manuscript were mostly attributed in the First Line Index, but not all; there could be a few originals. |
| Ownership mark | Later note written on an endpaper: The author’s initials seem to be “W.P.” and the date of the manuscript circa 1700. |
| Page layout | Very crowded pages. Paginated (220 pages originally paginated, then 3 additional pages paginated later by the same hand). |