Quarto. Manuscript on paper. 145 leaves of text, the remainder blank. Contemporary blind-ruled vellum. Extremities marked and discoloured. Scattered spotting.

A choice eighteenth-century manuscript commonplace with extensive transcriptions, in a single legible hand, of passages from notable authors, including Milton, Ovid, Pliny, Locke and Shakespeare (Othello, Merchant of Venice, Macbeth etc.) gathered under appropriate headings concerned with emotional and moral states (honesty, virtue, hope etc.)

In addition, there are a number of apparently original verse compositions referencing, and indeed possibly by, Church of England clergyman, and Chaplain to the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, Matthew Frampton (fl. 1747-1782); though if not seemingly by an anonymous author who knew him intimately