Clark MS 1976.014

• Primary compiler

  Possibly also a Major author.

• Major author

• Major author

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pp. 51–53

Local title: Ode on the Death of a fav'rite Cat, Drown'd in a Tub of Gold Fishes. 

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

p. 54

Local title: A Pipe of Tobacco.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

p. 114

Local title: The humble Wish

Attributed author: Arabella Moreton

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

pp. 93–94

Local title: On Miss Harvey Being a Day Old

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

pp. 70–71.

Local title: Verses by Mr. Littleton on the Death of his Lady.

Attributed author: Mr. Littleton.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: Some changes of words, so either someone has written this into the book from memory, it's from a variant source, or careless copying. 

p. 115

Local title: The Answer

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: First line: Nature to thy Wish has given...

Other: Following Morton's "The humble Wish." 

p. 79

Local title: An Ode to Willm Putney Esqr.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

pp. 124–127

Local title: On the Day of Judgment.

Attributed author: the Earl of Roscommon.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

pp. 82–87.

Local title: The OWL by a Young Lady.

Attributed author: a Young Lady. 

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

pp. 18–21

Local title: Verses made by a young Lady the Day she was Eighteen.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

p. 40

Local title: A Receipt to Make Love.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

Rare; primarily for series by famous writers such as Pope or Garrick, usually as part of the title. Sometimes inaccurate. 

Pre-bound paperbook. Many blank pages. One or more pages may be torn out at the beginning of the volume.

Loose hinges and some loose pages. 

Original vellum.

Front and back endpapers torn with traces of red sealing wax.

Two consecutive hands. Switch of hands in the Table of Contents and the writing of titles seems to occur at the second item on p. 66, but in the hand copying the actual poems, the switch occurs on p. 70 [this suggests that (decorative) titles would be written in later in some miscellaneous verse manuscripts].

Some mold staining to blank pages at the end of the volume.

Page torn out in the middle of the blank section of the book, so used for scrap paper.

Most titles changed and many lines altered, suggesting that much of this compilation may have been written from memory. 

Double rules generally at the ends of poems.

Headers sometimes give words in a bold/ heavily inked print format; all lettering is printed and main words bolded in the second section.

Sources quite varied, even though there are blocks of poems by a single author—the compiler seems to have gathered material from diverse sources and organised them according to author, theme etc.

Maybe. Poems in the second hand seem to alternate between identifiable poems and obscure poems with no First Line Index hits.

Paginated (up to p.130).

Double rules after headers.

Yes, on preliminary pages. 

Yes.