Beinecke Osborn c170 | Manuscript Verse Miscellanies

Title	Untitled
Archive	Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Call Number	Beinecke Osborn c170
Complete	Yes
Description	Anonymous, ca. 1712. 15 items. Comic and satirical poems, often political; items directly related to political issues of late reign of Queen Anne. Original productions of the Oxford-Winchester school circle.
Format	Quarto
Book Size	20cm x 16cm
Filled Page Count	36 pages
Item Count	15
Poem Count	15
Periods	1701-1730
First Line Index	Yes
Digitized	No
Region	Hampshire Oxford, Oxfordshire Oxfordshire Winchester, Hampshire
Additional Genres
Print Sources
Major Themes	Humour, wordplay Public affairs Satire - political Major themes prominent among the manuscript contents in alphabetical order.
Minor Themes	Local interest Other themes of interest among the manuscript contents in alphabetical order.
Links	firstlines.folger.edu
Bibliography
Citation	“Beinecke Osborn c170.” Manuscript Verse Miscellanies, 1700–1820, edited by Betty A. Schellenberg, Simon Fraser University, https://mvm.dhil.lib.sfu.ca/manuscript/48. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
Created	2019-09-04 1:13:44 PM
Updated	2023-07-19 4:29:22 PM

Contributor	Role
[Anonymous]	Primary compiler Potentially a Major author.

Feature	Note
Author attributions	Regular. Often at the end of an item, name(s) written diagonally.
Binding	Pre-bound notebook. Single gathering with stitching at p. 24 and p. 25. Strong sense of margins and gutters. Marbled paper wrapper.
Hands	Single.
Indications of use	Pen trials on front page and also on back inside cover and last page. Seems to be the record of a group of schoolfriends writing between Oxford and Winchester College.
Item formatting	Pattern of loops under titles and at ends of poems.
Original poetry	Yes, probably entirely.