Theme: Latin poetry
Items in Latin, which may or may not be presented in translation also.
Beinecke Osborn c110
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Bishop Worth, ca. 1730s.
11 Latin poems, 13 English poems.
Betty Careless and Dryden-themed poems.
Beinecke Osborn c149
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Anonymous, ca. 1780.
15 items.
Approximately half Latin poetry + four Shenstone poems and one tribute to Shenstone.
Shenstonian pastoral; university poetry.
Beinecke Osborn c176
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Anonymous, 1728.
79 items.
Primarily witty poetry, both high and low; some serious political and moral poems.
Beinecke Osborn c193
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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.
Beinecke Osborn c241
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Richard Chaloner Cobbe, ca. 1753.
Thick boards seemingly worn by use.
67 items.
Seems reflective of an Oxford circle of male poets.
Latin poetry, bawdy satire, and poems about women.
Beinecke Osborn c481
Title | Select and Miscellaneous Poems, Scraps, Mottos &c.
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John Freeman Milward Dovaston, 1773 and later.
Separate title page at the end for Odes by Thomas Gray.
75 poems, many original.
A mix of English and Latin poems and mottos with a particular interest in classical figures and religious belief.
Bodleian MS Eng. poet. d. 189
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Anonymous Oxonian, 1790s.
Some items possibly marked for copying.
214 poems.
Lots of Latin poetry, and English poetry with Greek titles.
Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 111
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Reginald Heber, ca. 1788–1789.
Very plain book.
18 poems.
Commemoration of people and events in the Brent River area.
British Library Add. MS 37684
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William Taylor of South Weald, ca. 1730.
61 poems.
Miscellaneous poetry collection including many Latin and Jacobite-related poems, in addition to original poetry. Irregular folio numbering suggests a post-bound compilation.
Clark MS 1982.001
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E.L.T. Bale, ca. 1730–1740 (possibly begun as early as 1710s though).
This entry concerns the poetry end of the manuscript only.
48 poems.
Poems from popular periodicals, a few Latin poems, and a series of Horatian odes versified in English.
Clark MS 1984.004
Title | A common place book.
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Thomas Trigg, 1785.
Attributes print sources of most poems.
54 poems.
Quite a few extracts of blank verse from Shakespeare plays, Latin poetry. The compiler seems to rely on a lot of anthologies of extracts .
Folger MS M.a.110
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H. Watkins, ca. 1730s–1775.
245 items.
Broad range of subject matter, but generally serious poetry.
Houghton MS Eng 606
Title | Poems, tracts & memoirs / collected by J. Rolfe
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J. Rolfe, 1700.
67 poems.
Primarily religious material.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 53
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Benjamin Coles, 1740–1741.
This manuscript is entirely devoted to poetry, whereas Lt 24, by the same compiler, is a more mixed book. This book was intended as a gift to his brother.
40 items.
Largely religious and/or Latin poetry.
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 639
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Richard Porson, ca. 1780.
Includes a second section of bound-in separates with its own Table of Contents.
75 poems in the first section + 52 in the second.
Jacobite- and Cambridge-related material.
Beinecke Osborn c111
Title | Anecdota 1700.
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Anonymous, ca. 1700.
Tie binding.
66 items.
Largely political satire.
Beinecke Osborn c135
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Philip Yorke 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, ca. 1756. Principal figure in Yorke-Grey coterie.
12 items—11 original or local poems, 1 Latin paste-in.
Sonnets.
Beinecke Osborn c157
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Anonymous; perhaps Thomas Siw---, ca. 1750–1781.
Two sections: a poetry compilation and a commonplace miscellany (ca. 1813–1835)—this entry pertains only to the first section.
96 items.
Interest in women’s self-assertion, poems by Cambridge men, and Latin and Greek. Sources often identified as manuscripts or magazines.
Beinecke Osborn c167
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Anonymous, ca. 1744.
20 items.
Hymns, verse prayers, and prose meditations.
Beinecke Osborn c169
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Anonymous graduate of King's School, Canterbury and student at Cambridge University, ca. 1760s.
7 items.
Most items related to King's School and Cambridge, seemingly all original.
Beinecke Osborn c189
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Anonymous, ca. 1705.
195 items.
Songs, political satire, poems on death, and bawdy poetry.
Beinecke Osborn c265
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Anonymous, ca. 1730.
Additions and annotations possibly by a second hand in 1730s.
39 items.
Centred on Swift and Pope, with a few items about them by others, and a few additional satires.
Beinecke Osborn c360 (1/3)
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Gabriel Lepipre, ca. 1744–45.
252 poems.
Mostly sociable verse, especially arising out of interactions with women, and public affairs.
Beinecke Osborn c591
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John Sandys, 1753-1759.
Manuscript exercise book containing 26 items, related to the compiler's social circle at Eton college. Includes elegies, occasional poems, and translations.
Beinecke Osborn c688
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Anonymous, 1783–1792.
Lyrical, narrative and occasional verse.
Bodleian MS Eng. poet. e. 40
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Gabriel Lepipre, ca. 1750.
246 poems.
Good example of miscellany as autobiography; also includes lots of epitaphs.
Clark MS 1983.001
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J. Andrew, ca. 1778–1789.
691 items, 576 poems.
All epigrams.
Clark MS 1984.001
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Anonymous, 1735–1812.
Written tête-bêche.
137 poems.
Primarily devotional poetry and Methodist hymns.
Folger MS M.a.104
Title | A Collection of Poems by Several Hands
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Charles Plumptre ca. 1730.
79 poems.
Includes school exercises; some poems possibly from friendship circle that includes John Hoadly and Isaac Hawkins Brown; could be connected with Newcombe’s school in Hackney; satires on women; poems by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
Folger MS M.a.160
Title | A Collection of Poems from Various Authours. JB
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John Brewster, ca. 1770–ca. 1810.
130 poems.
Frequent epitaphs, poems on death.
Folger MS M.a.162
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Anonymous, ca. 1799-1803.
Ambigraph volume with poetry beginning at one end and prose anecdotes, mainly biographical, at the other. This listing pertains only to the poetry end of the manuscript.
288 poems.
Miscellaneous and short poems, mostly extracts, epitaphs, and epigrams.
Folger MS M.a.165-166
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Anonymous, seemingly ca. 1755.
Second volume seems to be organized thematically, with blank leaves left to be filled in later on the same theme (a good example of an organizational system in progress).
82 items.
Initially focused on high-profile writers of the turn of the century, though the second volume contains mid-century work.
Folger MS M.a.169
Title | Collectanea quadam Nugalia
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J. Wright, ca. 1700–ca. 1715.
Apparently owned and used by William Bromley immediately after the composition of the book by J. Wright.
100 items, 65 poems.
Very mixed book, containing extracts, poems, epitaphs, anagrams, antiquarian notes, satiric poetry etc.; Lots of recorded info re: languages, mathematics, etc.; Jacobite-related material.
Folger MS M.a.174
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Anonymous, 1724–1728.
109 poems.
Almost entirely early eighteenth-century poetry. Many contemporary satirical pieces, and items from Mist's Weekly Journal.
Folger MS M.a.185
Title | Miscellanies in Prose and Verse Vol: 1
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Folger MS M.a.187
Title | A Collection of Poetry
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Anonymous (probably from Scotland), 1737–ca. 1740.
415 poems
Many religious/devotional poems.
Folger MS M.b.13
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Anonymous, ca. 1773-1806.
Crowded, no margins, looks more like a commonplace book than a usual poetry miscellany.
361 poems.
Enormous amount of material compiled over many years roughly chronologically.
Houghton MS Eng 1280
Title | Poems on several occasions with introductory [...]
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Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi, 1810–1814.
Five volumes for her adopted nephew, but only the first three are primarily poetry, and therefore considered manuscript verse miscellanies.
Largely original occasional poems accompanied by prose biographical material and information about the circumstances of each item's composition.
Houghton MS Eng 611
Title | I: "A collection of poems and various fragme [...]
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Rev. Thomas Austen, 1760.
Three volumes, only the first two of which are manuscript verse miscellanies, and therefore included in this entry.
768 poems.
A real variety of contents. The first volume revolves around poems about various natural elements and experiences of country life. The second volume
Houghton MS Eng 692
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Thomas Ingoldsby (also known as Richard Harris Barham), 1808.
Poems, paraphrases, epigrams, and conundrums in English, French, Greek, and Latin.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 104
Title | Poems of various kinds by the late Revd. Pet [...]
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Anonymous compilation of poems by Peter Pinnell, ca. 1749–1790.
59 items.
Example of a one-author collection followed by a short section of poems by different authors.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 106
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Anonymous, ca. 1745–1780.
An example of a collection that includes print paste-ins, perhaps added at a a later date onto the blank pages.
90 items, 48 poems.
Post-1745 Jacobite-related material.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 12
Title | Miscellany Poems 1728
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George Scott, 1728–1779.
Consecutive hands (George Scott is the second hand) seemingly linked by a Miss Verney who becomes Mrs. Bowes, then a Miss Bowes in part two.
99 items.
The first section contains quite a few poems by women; the second half sees a shift to copying newspaper items, many of which are attributed.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 123
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Anonymous, ca. 1700.
This entry concerns the first 150 pages only (before the first change in hand).
100 items.
Thematic groupings involving passage of time, ephemerality of life, solitude, religion, kings, etc.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 15
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Anonymous, 1723, with a few later additions in 1740s.
153 poems.
Mostly seventeenth-century poetry, typically very short poems with thematic titles. Lots of verses on classical Greek figures.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 35
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Anonymous, ca. 1713–1740.
91 items.
Mostly anti-Whig, anti-Hanoverian political satire; Jacobite-related material.
Leeds Brotherton Lt 99
Title | Old Songs & other Poems.
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Anonymous, ca. 1770–1790.
Very good example of attributions of magazine sources.
117 items.
The first half is a very eclectic mix with many epitaphs, Latin doggerel, riddles, prose pieces, etc. interspersed with the poems. The second compiler seems primarily interested in jokes, parodies, quirky items. An apparent interest in Oxford-related items.
Princeton Taylor no. 87
Title | Poems and Songs upon Several Occasions.
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Joshua Peart, 1726.
256 poems.
A large eclectic book with a special concentration of pastoral poems and songs, political satire and other poems about politicians, and humorous poems; also contains multiple poems about alcohol and tobacco.
UChicago Library Codex Ms. 581
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Anonymous, ca. 1769–1790.
152 poems.
Bound-with The New Bath Guide (1766).
Celebrity-centred manuscript verse miscellany, with a particular focus on Samuel Johnson, Hester Thrale Piozzi, David Garrick, Peter Pindar, and Horace Walpole.