Manuscript poems

A collection of verses by various writers of the first half of the 18th cent., including items by Jonathan Swift and others of his contemporaries in Ireland. Copied by various hands.

Among the identified poems by Swift are:
P. 50. An answer.
Pp. 71-109. Cadenus and Vanessa.
Pp.109-110. An inventory.
Pp. 111-116. Horace. Lib I, Ep. 7 to the Earl of Oxford.
Pp.117-122. The journal [The country life].
Pp.123-126. On a storm.
P.126. On the clergy of Chester.
P.127. On Kemp, the innkeeper.
*102. Drapiers Hill.
*103-106. Molly Mog.

The following may be mentioned:
Pp. *163-66. Hort (Josiah) [1674?-1751]. Receipt for a running Thrush in a horse. In verse.
Pp.*71-73. Montagu (Lady Mary Wortley) [1689-1762]. The cure for love.
Pp.60, 61. Philips (Ambrose) [1675?-1749]. A supplication for the Hon. Miss Carteret in the small-pox (1725).
Pp. *111-112. Pope (Alexander) [1688-1744]. Upon the Hon. Lady Mary Worthy.
Pp. *130, 131. - A receipt for a Soop to Dean Swift.
Pp. *152, 153. - On Mr. Addison.

There are other poems by Francis Bindon [ -1765] (Pp. 31, *117), Patrick Delany [1685?-1768] (Pp. 49, 52, 128), James Sterling [fl. 1730] (Pp. 62, 64, 66, 67, *158), Sir William Yonge [Young] [ -1755] (Pp. *70, *172).

Some of the verses are dated 1725 or 1726.

c. 1730

1 volume pp. 25-167 + pp. 68-175 + 1 l. 4to. 20 × 15 1/2 cm. Original panelled calf binding. Lettered on the spine 'Manuscript Poems'. Pp. 1-24, 141-154 of the first pagination, and pp. 97-100 of the second are wanting: p. 130 of the same is doubled. In the notes below the second pagination is marked thus*.

Purchased 1899.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

An armorial book-plate pasted inside the upper cover has been almost entirely defaced.