Beinecke Osborn c570

Title Poems
Archive Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Call Number Beinecke Osborn c570
Complete Yes
Description

Anonymous Jacobite, ca. 1714–1745.

4 volumes, 291 items.

Manuscript collection of Jacobite political satires and poems on public affairs.

Format
Book Size 21cm
Filled Page Count 184 pages + 173 pages + 219 pages + 167 pages = 743 pages
Item Count 291
Poem Count 291
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

Beinecke Osborn c570.” Manuscript Verse Miscellanies, 1700–1820, edited by Betty A. Schellenberg, Simon Fraser University, https://mvm.dhil.lib.sfu.ca/manuscript/396. Accessed .

Created 2022-08-03 2:03:30 PM
Updated 2023-07-20 1:28:14 PM
First Line Context
As Nero Laughing saw the flames consume

p. 33

Local title: Nero the second.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

From Me, Dear Charles, inspir’d with Ale

vol. 1, p. 148

Local title: A ballad from a prisoner in the Marshallsea, to another at Newgate.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

From happy Climes where Vertue never dyes

p. 116

Local title: Cato's Ghost.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

God prosper long our gracious King,/ Now sitting on the Throne

p. 102

Local title: On New Year's Day.

Attributed author: Supposed by Mr. Cibber.

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

I love with all my heart/ The Tory party here

p. 117

Local title: The reverse: to be read two ways.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

In Charles the Second’s Golden Days

vol. 4, pp. 14–16

Local title: The true Turn Coate, or, the Vicar of Bray.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: First line: In Charles the Seconds Days...

Other: n/a

The Devils were brawling at Burnet's descending

p. 8

Local title: Hell's Holiday. Bishop Burnet died 17 March 1714.

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: n/a

Feature Note
Author attributions

Rare.

Binding

Pre-bound, multiple paperbooks. Compiled over time; writing is never swallowed by gutter; various use of space; tear-outs to final volume.

Original vellum, ruled boards.

Catchwords

Yes, regular.

Hands

Single, with the exception of one poem in vol. 2.

Indications of use

Annotation on verso of front flyleaf: "Satirical Poems written after the death of Queen Anne on the coming in of the House of Hanover."

Seemingly composed over a moderate or extended period of time given divergences in ink and spacing, as well as the catalogue's estimated dating.

Occasional explanatory footnotes.

p. 105 cross-out (of The Norfolk Ballade).

At least four pages torn out at the end of vol. 4.

Item formatting

No lines between items or under titles.

Titles are written in a larger font than verses.

Organization

"Finis" at the end of the last poem in each volume.

Page layout

Paginated. 

Size of the writing and the margins differ greatly; varying use of white space.

Table of Contents

Yes; at the beginning of vol. 1 and the ends of vols. 2–4. Interestingly, these Tables of Contents feature the beginning of the first line as well as the title of nearly every item.