Beinecke Osborn c193 | Manuscript Verse Miscellanies

Title	Untitled
Archive	Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Call Number	Beinecke Osborn c193
Complete	Yes
Description	Stephen Barrett, 1770-1794. Gift from Cuthbert Wilson with a presentation poem. 45 items. Original poems in Latin and English, mostly by Barrett, including school exercises; translations by Barrett of early modern and eighteenth-century English poems into Latin.
Format	Octavo
Book Size	19cm x 13cm
Filled Page Count	149 pgs.
Item Count	45
Poem Count	45
Periods	1761-1790 1791-1820
First Line Index	Yes
Digitized	No
Region	Ashford, Kent Kent London, Middlesex Middlesex Oxford, Oxfordshire Oxfordshire
Additional Genres
Print Sources	Gentleman's Magazine
Major Themes	Education Friendship Latin poetry Major themes prominent among the manuscript contents in alphabetical order.
Minor Themes	Classical themes Conduct, morality Death, afterlife Friendship Illness Imitation, parody Literature Other themes of interest among the manuscript contents in alphabetical order.
Links	firstlines.folger.edu
Bibliography	Times Literary Supplement 1953 Oct 9, p. 652
Citation	“Beinecke Osborn c193.” Manuscript Verse Miscellanies, 1700–1820, edited by Betty A. Schellenberg, Simon Fraser University, https://mvm.dhil.lib.sfu.ca/manuscript/58. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
Created	2019-09-04 1:13:44 PM
Updated	2023-07-19 4:35:46 PM

Contributor	Role
Stephen Barrett	Primary compiler Major author Recipient The blank paperbook being a gift from Cuthbert Wilson.

First Line	Context
Has not my Friend transported run	pp. 1–7. Local title: To my Friend the Reverend Mr. Barrett with a Paper Book. Attributed author: C: Wilson. Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: Presentation poem.
My Time, O ye Muses, was happily spent	p. 146 Local title: The following song, inserted in the Spectator, was written by John Byrom on Miss Betty one of the daughters of the great Dr. Bentley. Attributed author: John Byrom. Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: n/a
Thou Pow'r supreme, by whose Command I live	p. 42 Local title: Eliza on her own birthday. Attributed author: Eliza. Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: n/a

First Line

Context

pp. 1–7.

Local title: To my Friend the Reverend Mr. Barrett with a Paper Book.

Attributed author: C: Wilson.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: Presentation poem.

p. 146

Local title: The following song, inserted in the Spectator, was written by John Byrom on Miss Betty one of the daughters of the great Dr. Bentley.

Attributed author: John Byrom.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

p. 42

Local title: Eliza on her own birthday.

Attributed author: Eliza.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

Feature	Note
Author attributions	Regular.
Binding	Pre-bound paperbook. 119 blank pages; Reference in opening poem "this fair Book with gaudy Coat" suggests a per-bound notebook. Speckled calf binding with gilt decorations. Gilt foredges. Marbled endpapers.
Hands	Single, except for presentation poem glued (not bound) into the book.
Indications of use	Silk bookmark.
Item formatting	Use of a kind of triangular flourish at the end of the final line of some poems.
Organization	Opening organization around poem accompanying gift of this book.
Original poetry	Majority of the poems by Barrett.
Ownership mark	First poem’s reference to the book as a gift.
Page layout	Unpaginated.