Beinecke Osborn c176 | Manuscript Verse Miscellanies

Title	Untitled
Archive	Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Call Number	Beinecke Osborn c176
Complete	Yes
Description	Anonymous, 1728. 79 items. Primarily witty poetry, both high and low; some serious political and moral poems.
Format	Octavo
Book Size	16cm x 10cm
Filled Page Count	188 pages
Item Count	79
Poem Count	79
Periods	1701-1730
First Line Index	Yes
Digitized	Yes
Region	[Unknown]
Additional Genres
Print Sources
Major Themes	Bodily functions Conduct, morality Humour, wordplay Latin poetry Public affairs Satire - social Major themes prominent among the manuscript contents in alphabetical order.
Minor Themes	Animals, pets Classical themes Death, afterlife Imitation, parody Music, song, opera Solitude, loneliness, retir... Theatre, drama Visual arts Other themes of interest among the manuscript contents in alphabetical order.
Links	firstlines.folger.edu collections.library.yale.edu
Bibliography
Citation	“Beinecke Osborn c176.” Manuscript Verse Miscellanies, 1700–1820, edited by Betty A. Schellenberg, Simon Fraser University, https://mvm.dhil.lib.sfu.ca/manuscript/51. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
Created	2019-09-04 1:13:44 PM
Updated	2023-07-19 4:31:15 PM

First Line	Context
A Man of Wisdom may disguise	pp. 72–79. Local title: A Tale. Attributed author: Mr Taylor. Adaptation: n/a Other variants: First line: A Man of Learning may Disguise... Other: n/a
Hear all you Friends to Knighthood	p. 4. Local title: A ballad on Sr Wm Morgan losing the badge of his order. Attributed author: n/a Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: First line: ...Friends of Knighthood...
Indulgent Nature to each Kind bestows	p. 62. Local title: On the bursers Butting Down a fine row of Trees. Attributed author: n/a Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: Errors crossed-out and corrected — possibly transcribed from memory at first?
Little Girl in swadling Cloaths	p. 69 Local title: On Lord Hervey's daughter, a month old, in imitation of Phillips' Attributed author: n/a Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: n/a
O thou, who labour'st in this rugged Mine	p. 55 Local title: Verses written by Mrs. Cowper, in her Brothers Coke Upon Littletoon. Attributed author: Mrs. Cowper. Adaptation: n/a Other variants: n/a Other: n/a
When Tadloe walks the Streets, the Paviours Cry	p. 7 Local title: On Mr. Taplow, a very fat gentleman. Attributed author: Abel Evans. Adaptation: n/a Other variants: First line: "When Taplow walks the streets, the paviers cry..." Other: n/a

Feature	Note
Author attributions	Occasional.
Binding	Pre-bound paperbook. Compiler writes to the outer edge of pages, but leaves a generous inner margin. Calf binding with gilt trim.
Hands	Single.
Indications of use	Damage to sides of first two pages, possibly chewed by rodents. End pages also quite worn, potentially much thumbed. p. 38/39 cut out, but pagination continuous, so ripped out early. Some corrections, but most seem made at the point of copying; a few titles/words corrected.
Item formatting	Half lines under final few words of each item. Some especially decorative item titles.
Organization	At the end of the book: "Finis. Vivant Rex. Et Regina. Virtus clara Eternaque habetur. August ye 3^rd. Ann: Dom: 1728." Some clusters seem either generic (epilogues and prologues) or author-oriented (Hoadly, William Taylor), but in general, the compiler seems to enjoy sharp contrasts between the high serious and the low.
Ownership mark	In red ink on the Table of Contents: "A. E. 17."
Page layout	Book quite tightly written. Paginated.
Table of Contents	Yes, at the beginning.