72 A bold intruder with a brazen face hou01423c00013 MS Am 1177, 2 A bold virago, stout and tall hou01423c00136 MS Eng 1132, 5 A bone, God wot, sticks in my throat, without I have a draught hou01423c00001 MS Eng 1503 (3), vol.
8 A beautiful creature with her parents did dwell hou01423c00478 MS Eng 1471, v, 117v A beauty smoother than an ivory plain hou01423c00007 MS Eng 686, 65 A beauty smoother than the ivory plain hou01423c00007 MS Eng 686, 72v A beauty's birthday, heaven and earth hou01423c00205 MS Eng 723.1 (4) A bed of roses! Castlereagh's in fun hou01423c00021 MS Eng 569.65, 35v A Belgian Hanks of noted rank (incomplete) hou01423c00428 MS Eng 612, ii, 56v A better mason than Lammikin hou01423c00500 MS Eng 1486 (3), 60 A bill upon my grave I see hou01423c00035 MS Eng 247.5, 32 A bitter death, a suffocating death (incomplete) hou01423c00144 MS Eng 1274, ch. Search in HOLLIS or OASIS by call number to retrieve these descriptions.Ī baker in the town o' Ayr hou01423c00445 MS Eng 1491 (3), 12 A band of gypsies all in a road (incomplete) hou01423c00455 MS Am 2349, xxvii, 825 A barren soil where nature's germs confined (incomplete) hou01423c00144 MS Eng 1274, ch.
The index has not been maintained.Īll items described in this index are cataloged in detail in individual records in HOLLIS or in other collection finding aids in OASIS. This index includes manuscripts in the Library's collection that were cataloged at the time Peter Seng compiled it (about 1980). For bound but unfoliated manuscripts, Seng himself counted the foliation. For loose leaves, the location of a verse within a manuscript cannot be specified. However, some Houghton manuscripts are not foliated. For example, "A Belgian Hanks of noted rank (incomplete) MS Eng 612, ii, 56v" means that a partial extract, beginning with that line, will be found in volume ii, folio 56v of MS Eng 612. The remaining number indicates the folio, folder, or page in that manuscript. For alphabetization, the first line is usually spelled according to modern orthography exceptions are Anglo-Saxon verse, where the aesc, eth, thorn, and yok have been transliterated, and Middle English and Scots, which have been copied as they appeared in the manuscripts.Įach first line is followed by a Houghton manuscript call number, followed (when applicable) by a roman numeral to indicate the volume of the manuscript in which the poem appears. First lines are alphabetized word for word, including definite and indefinite articles. Poems found incomplete in Houghton manuscripts are thus marked in the index. When the first line of a partial poem is not metrically complete, the citation also includes the next succeeding line. Poems are cited by first line as it appears in the manuscripts as given as well as when it is incomplete and ends imperfectly.