Table of Contents

Yes, an index at the end.

Yes, at front.

Yes, at the end of each volume. Contains occasional corrections, but seems to have been made as the book was compiled.

Headings “A” (for author) and “P” (for page) in c.139 and c.140.

Yes, at the end.

Yes, partial index at the end for pages 1–45.

No, but there might originally have been one at the end.

Yes, at the beginning on an unnumbered page.

Yes, at the beginning. 

Yes; six unnumbered pages for “The Contents,” including back cover (actually a kind of index, listing items more or less by subject).

Yes, at the beginning of the manuscript.

4 pages, at the start of the volume. 

Yes, on the front flyleaf, though it does not list the individual poems, but rather the sections of the manuscript (e.g., Extracts from Mr: West's Pindar, Poems by the Earl of Roscommon...)

Yes, reverse-orientation at the end. Numerical (not by page number), and beginning with CXCV so at least one page missing.

Yes, at beginning of volume.

Yes, at the end, though it is followed by a few more items and the Odes by Thomas Gray.

Yes; at the beginning of vol. 1 and the ends of vols. 2–4. Interestingly, these Tables of Contents feature the beginning of the first line as well as the title of nearly every item.

After item 163, a Table of Contents from an earlier notebook is inserted.

Yes.

Includes a “lost” item in its alphabetical list, with no page number for the item – i.e. the alphabetical Table of Contents was likely written out before the book was compiled.

The volume contains a partial list of titles, which includes several not featured in the collection.

Yes, until page 49, then discontinued.

Yes, for the last two sections, at the beginning of each respective section.

No, but a typed list of the contents is laid-in to volume one. 

Index by page number.

Yes, three pages following the title page.

Yes, sixteen page index at the beginning of the manuscript.

Yes, titled "The Index" at the end of the book in Hand 2.

Yes, index which contains numerous items that have been cut out of the book.

Yes, at the beginning of the book. 

Yes.

Yes, at the beginning, pp. i, 1–4.

Index spills onto inside front cover, so it was seemingly added after, and the compiler hadn't left enough space.

Yes, at the end; some of these items are now missing. Items are numbered rather than listed by page.

Yes, at the end of each volume. Each a true index, in alphabetical order.

Third index in third hand.

Not for the poetry section (which this database entry is concerned with).

Yes, after the title page at the beginning of the book.

Yes, two—one at the beginning of the volume and one at the end. Titles vary between each Table and only the second Table has recorded the correct page numbers for every item (though the page numbers in the first Table are also mostly correct).

Yes, at the beginning, written onto a heavier endpaper.

Yes, at the end.

Notebook 1 yes. Notebooks 2–3 no. 

Yes, an alphabetical index at the end of the manuscript. Sometimes topical rather than titles. 

Yes, "Index" at the end goes to p. 93. Poems in the second hand are included in the index, but poems in the third hand are not.

Yes; on p. 41 for first part; on p. 174 for second part.

Yes, on preliminary pages. 

Yes, in the middle of the book.

The Index records items from the first section of the book (the Hymns section), including the first 41 pp. which are missing. 

Alphabetical listing by first lines. 

Yes, an alphabetical index immediately following the title page. Entries are a mixture of titles, authors, subjects, somewhat arbitrarily.

Yes, for each volume – at the ends of volumes 1-3, at the beginning of volume 4.

Yes, at the end of the book. Omits the final poem, which was written in another hand. 

First 20 pages were saved for the index with alphabetical tabs, but instead has been used for last recorded poems. Tabs for XY and Z remain, but the margins are trimmed off by about ½ inch, removing the earlier letters of the alphabet.

Yes.

Yes, titled "Index" but actually a Table of Contents.

No; but there is a list of Shakespeare plays in pencil in another hand at the end of the manuscript. 

No but 4 blank leaves at start of vol. 1, perhaps left for a table of contents and never completed. 

Yes, labeled index, but in fact a table of contents; at the very end, goes to very last page.

Yes, at the end of the manuscript. Does not include opening prose piece on poetry.

Yes, on first five pages of manuscript.

No but pp. 213-4 lists “Solutions, Of the Riddles, Charades, Anagrams etc." 

At the end; pp. 186 (recto, title), then 183-[185], but these are duplicate numbers, since the preceding text numbering has gone up to 186; final poem pasted in over last page of index, which is again numbered 184.

Entries are per page (if multiple poems appear on an individual page) so some refer to several items in abbreviated forms. 

Yes, a Table of Contents labeled "INDEX" featuring quite complete titles.

Yes.

Yes, at the beginning of the book; gives item and folio number.

Alphabetical index on first leaf.

Yes, at the start of each volume.

Labeled "Contents" but actually alphabetical indexes. 

Yes, but incomplete.

Alphabetical tabs at beginning, seemingly used mostly for genre headings such as “Charade,” “Riddles,” though also used for more varied entries, such as under “O” for odes as well as other sorts of titles — seems to be an attempt to organize poetry compilation in a commonplace book format, adapting a blank book for that purpose by cutting alphabetical tabs. 

Yes, an index on the inside back cover.

Yes, at the front of each volume.

Yes, at the beginning of the manuscript with both page and item number.

Yes, though probably the least useful Table of Contents on this database. Titled "Explanation," p. 177.

Yes, at the beginning of the volume in Cumberlege's hand.

Yes, for both hands' sections, but seemingly in a third eighteenth-century hand.

Vol. 1 no, vol. 2 yes, at the beginning, and possibly in another hand. Includes full list of items from first section, and only says “at t’other End, skeletons of Forsters’s sermon & Beveridge’s Thesaurus—from the beginning of ye other End. to p. 94” about the ambigraph section. 

Yes, on the back of the title page, but it does not list all the items. 

Volume 1 yes, volume 2 no.

Yes, an index on pp. 179–181.

Yes. The original Table of Contents (up to p.3) is missing many items that have been added to the bottoms of the pages or inserted in gaps between original items; but the rest of p. 3 and its verso contains many or all of these added items, not in the page order, so they were presumably added to the Table of Contents as gaps in the book were filled in.

Index by the second hand (pp. 345–350). 

Yes, a six page index at the end of the volume which includes all items.

Yes, at the end of the manuscript, in both hands: first hand pp. 1–52, second hand pp. 53–end (ie. completes the index including some of the first hand's entries).

Yes, at the end of the manuscript. Complete and accurate.

Not as such, but there is an “Explanation of the Names made Use of in the Pastorals,” which is in the format of a table of contents - (name of person, place, flower, river, etc. followed by page number, organised in order of appearance and subdivided by pastoral). So a reader can easily determine on what page each pastoral begins and ends from this table. This is after the title page, the account of Virgil’s life, and the Addison on Dryden poem at the front of the manuscript; it includes only the Pastorals.

Yes, on pp. 116–­117 of the PDF (unpaginated in the manuscript), after the center flyleaves which introduce the pp. 1-104 section.

The Table of Contents only includes the items in the remainder of the manuscript (primarily prose). These page numbers are not always accurate, especially because items are sometimes copied on non-consecutive pages given the sporadic, disorganized nature of this manuscript’s compilation. The list is not entirely in ascending numerical order.

Yes, index to pp. 1–245. 

Yes, at the front of manuscript. Includes both the miscellany and biographical sections.

Yes; includes both parts of the volume so created by the second compiler.

Yes; there is a lengthy alphabetical index at the beginning of the manuscript.

None.

No.

The alphabet is written out one letter at a time across the first 26 pages of volume 1, but no contents are listed (i.e., only the intention of an index).

Yes, after the title page. Does not include the last item.

Yes; five pages at the end of the book. This includes a unique list “of Most of the Authors from whom these Poems were collected” at the end (seemingly in place of author attributions in the Table and throughout the manuscript).

Yes, at beginning. 

Appears at beginning of manuscript. 

Yes; an Index at the end of the book.

Yes, two: at the beginning for the first part of the book and towards the middle of the second section.

No.