British Library Add. MS 70494

Title Poems on Several Occasions
Archive British Library
Call Number British Library Add. MS 70494
Complete Yes
Description

Soame Jenyns, 1729.

Presentation copy of Beinecke Osborn c147, only slightly different contents. Poems written for Margaret Cavendish Harley, her father, Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, and her circle of friends. 

18 items.

Flattery, panegyric. 

Format Folio
Book Size 25.6 cm x 19 cm
Filled Page Count 56
Item Count 18
Poem Count 18
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
Citation

British Library Add. MS 70494.” Manuscript Verse Miscellanies, 1700–1820, edited by Betty A. Schellenberg, Simon Fraser University, https://mvm.dhil.lib.sfu.ca/manuscript/350. Accessed .

Created 2020-02-13 2:15:15 PM
Updated 2024-02-10 4:34:29 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

f. 9

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

f. 28 

Local title: To the Same. With a Watch, which she borrow'd to hang at her Beds-head. 

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

Whilst well-wrote lines our wond'ring eyes command

f. 23

Local title: To the Same [Chloe]. In Answer to a Letter wrote in a very fine Hand. 

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

White as her hand fair Julia threw

f. 34

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
Binding

Decorative red morocco with gilt page edges.

Decorations - hand-drawn

Calligraphic titles and words.

Hands

Single decorative hand, possibly that of a copyist. 

Indications of use

Intended as a gift to Margaret Cavendish.

Some annotation, adjustment of wordings and titles to indicate that this is a collection preserved by Jenyns or given to someone other than its original addressees/recipients

Original poetry

Yes, all Soame Jenyns' poetry.

Ownership mark

Welbeck Abbey bookplate.

Dedicated to Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley, afterwards Duchess of Portland, 1729.

Page layout

Yes (fifty-four pages beginning with the title page). 

Very generous use of white space.

Table of Contents

Yes, at the end.

Title page

Yes: "Poems on Several Occasions."