Leeds Brotherton Lt 61

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pp. 1–3

Local title: The City Showr.

Attributed author: Swift.

Adaptation: n/a

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Other: Source attributions: "ap. Tatler. 239. Vol. 4. p. 215. vid. Pres. vol. 4. p. 1. ap. Miscell. Octob. 1710 p. 406."

pp. 27–30.

Local title: Winter/ To the Earl of Dorset, from Copenhagen. March. 9. 1709.

Attributed author: Phillips.

Adaptation: n/a

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Other: Source attribution: Tatler. 12. Vol. 1. p. 9.

pp. 40–43.

Local title: Few happy Matches.

Attributed author: Watts.

Adaptation: n/a

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Other: Source attribution: Watts. Hor. Lyr. l. 2. p. 224. 171. [note that this is the same source attribution at the end of the The bee (ie. the source of this Content item's transcription.)] 

f. 29r-v

Local title: On a girdle

Attributed author: n/a

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pp. 5-15

Local title: The Ladle

Attributed author: Prior. Poems p. 125

Adaptation: n/a

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f. 5r-7v, 9r-13r 

Local title: The Progress of Poetry

Attributed author: n/a

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pp. 23–28.

Local title: MESSIAH A Sacred Eclogue in imitation of Virgil's Pollio.

Attributed author: n/a

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Regular; only three unattributed items. Most attributions include a detailed source attribution (including page numbers, and sometimes publication date).

Pre-Bound stitched notebook with pictorial cover. (thirteen blank pages after the final page of book two).

Print pictorial cover of “WILLIHELLIMUS HENRICUS Ye IIID Prince of Oringe borne November ye 14 1650.”

Single, with one poem in another hand pp. 7–21.

Fair copy manuscript with no edits or crossouts.

Lack of binding and "A Catalogue of the Books I have” of only four books suggests a socially humble compiler, although the list could also be incomplete. If not, perhaps copying from borrowed books and an example of an aspirational book. Note that Solomon Lowe published an English grammar in 1737 and Latin grammar in 1724, the latter of which went into at least two editions. The fourth book on the list is Lowe’s Sententiae pueriles or the fundamental rules of syntax illustrated by Latin examples and English excercises (1722). If this book was compiled c. 1715, this list would necessarily be a later addition.

Ink spill visible from p. 28 of the first section all the way to the last page and inside-back-cover of the manuscript, where the spill is seemingly concentrated. This could also be a bookworm burrow.

Very neat.

No dividing lines between items or under titles, just a bit of space. The items are clearly seperated and easy to tell apart though, given the regular use of titles, and attributions at the end of each item.

Divided into two books, pp. 1–33 and pp. 34, [5]–46.

"James Gollop/ Sir I have the orders about" written on the first page of the manuscript in the compiler's handwriting. 

Paginated (in the upper corner; pagination is not always visible because it was written in such a small font and the edges of the pages are worn; someone else has added pagination by folio below the compiler’s pagination).

Items begun one after another, even if there’s only room for a couple of lines at the bottom of the page eg. book 2 p. 33.

Comfortable, relaxed use of space, ie. not jamming anything to try and fit on a particular page, which suggests the book was copied one page after another, rather than out of order.