Bodleian MS Eng. poet. d. 189

Title Untitled
Archive Bodleian Library
Call Number Bodleian MS Eng. poet. d. 189
Complete Yes
Description

Anonymous Oxonian, 1790s.

Some items possibly marked for copying.

214 poems.

Lots of Latin poetry, and English poetry with Greek titles.

Format Folio
Book Size 30.9cm x 19.8cm
Filled Page Count 186 pages
Item Count 214
Poem Count 214
Periods
First Line Index No
Digitized No
Region
Additional Genres
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

Bodleian MS Eng. poet. d. 189.” Manuscript Verse Miscellanies, 1700–1820, edited by Betty A. Schellenberg, Simon Fraser University, https://mvm.dhil.lib.sfu.ca/manuscript/138. Accessed .

Created 2019-09-04 1:13:44 PM
Updated 2023-07-20 2:05:47 PM
First Line Context
A Knife, dear Girl, cuts Love, they say

p. 103. 

Local title: Verses to a Lady.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: Crossed out. 

I am monarch of all I survey

p. 13

Local title: Verses supposed to be written by Alex:r Selkirk, during his solitary abode in the Island of Juan Fernandes.

Attributed author: Wm. Cowper.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

Poor melancholy bird—that all night long

p. 180

Local title: Sonnet to a Nightingale.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: crossed-out. 

The rose had been wash'd, just wash'd in a shower

p. 137

Local title: The Rose.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

When e'er the cruel hand of death

p. 181

Local title: Ode One ye Breaking of a China Quart Mug belonging to the Buttery of Lincoln College, Oxford.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: Includes latin motto: Amphora non meruit Iam pretiosa mori.

Other: n/a

Why mourns my friend! why weeps his downcast eye?

p. 159.

Local title: Elegy by Shenstone.

Attributed author: Shenstone.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

Feature Note
Author attributions

Frequent or occasional.

Binding

Re-bound. Modern binding.

Book originally quite worn, judging from condition of first few pages—may not have been bound in anything permanent.

Hands

Single.

Indications of use

Interim book with materials seemingly copied into some other book(s) subsequently (p. 84 – note: “Copy this”; others have “This” written on them, which also might be a mark for copying. Sometimes items have both “This” marked and an “x” – could be crossed out after copied?)

Many school exercises. 

Item formatting

Frequent flourishes at ends of items.

Original poetry

Maybe; some poems with no First Line Index hits, for example p. 158 "On Throwing By An Old Coat," and school exercises.

Ownership mark

Pencilled note on damaged flyleaf: "[?] if the chief portion is not written by William Cowper when a Student.”

Page layout

Paginated (retrospective by the compiler).

Paper has ruled outside margins.