Beinecke Osborn c147

Title Poems on Severall Occasions
Archive Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Call Number Beinecke Osborn c147
Complete Yes
Description

Soame Jenyns, 1730.

19 items.

Perhaps a retained copy of poems written for Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, his daughter Margaret Cavendish Harley, and her circle of friends (presentation copy is British Library Add. MS 70494).

Flattery, panegyric.

Format Octavo
Book Size 24cm x 15cm
Filled Page Count 72 pages
Item Count 19
Poem Count 19
Periods
First Line Index Yes
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

ODNB article: Ronald Rompkey, Soame Jenyns (1984).

Citation

Beinecke Osborn c147.” Manuscript Verse Miscellanies, 1700–1820, edited by Betty A. Schellenberg, Simon Fraser University, https://mvm.dhil.lib.sfu.ca/manuscript/34. Accessed .

Created 2019-09-04 1:13:44 PM
Updated 2023-07-19 4:19:21 PM
First Line Context
Julia once struck me with a Ball of Snow

p. 55

Local title: The snowball from Petronius Afranius. 

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: First line: "White as her hand, fair Julia threw..."

Other: n/a

The tuneful throng was ever beauty's care

p. 35

Local title: `To the right honourable the Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley' 

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

Whilst half asleep my Chloe lies

p. 49 

Local title: Given to a lady with a watch which she borrowed to hang at her bed's head

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

Whilst well-wrote lines our wond'ring eyes command

p. 9

Local title: `To [a lady in town after leaving the country], in answer to a letter, wrote in a fine hand' 

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

White as her hand fair Julia threw

p. 55-56

Local title: The Snowball from Petronius Afranius 

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: One of two snowball poems by Jenyns

Feature Note
Author attributions

Never.

Binding

Pre-bound paperbook. Book is filled, but lines stay well away from gutter. Contents compile presentation poems to various individuals.

Page-edges coloured red.

Full sheep, gilt decoration.

 

Hands

Single.

Indications of use

A group of pages folded over, probably accidentally.

Original poetry

Yes, all written by Soame Jenyns for Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, and his daughter Margaret Harley Bentinck, and her circle of friends. Afterwards published in Dodsley’s Collection 1748, Jenyns poems 1752, Dodsley’s Museum, etc.

Page layout

Generous white space.

Paginated.

Table of Contents

Yes, at the end.

Title page

Yes: "Poems on severall occasions" followed by a Latin motto.