Dante at Verona (fair copy manuscript with corrections, Fitzwilliam Museum)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Document Title: Dante at Verona
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of composition: 1848, 1869
Type of Manuscript: fair copy
Collation: 23 leaves, with versos initially left blank for additions and
corrections; leaf 11 is an insert, a copy made by Charles Fairfax
Murray.
Scribe: DGR
Corrector: DGR
Provenance
Current Location: Fitzwilliam Museum
Note: As the library bookplate on the inside cover of the bound manuscript
indicates, the manuscript was Charles Fairfax Murray's gift to the
library in 1905.
Physical Description
Cover: green leather
Paper: lined notebook paper, approx. 22 x 18cm
Watermark: unwatermarked
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Copyright: Digital images courtesy of Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum.
© Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This is the manuscript copy that DGR made in October 1869 from the earlier manuscript that had been buried with his wife's body. Although much of this manuscript is fair copy, the character of various revisions shows that DGR was composing even as he was also engaged in copying out. This manuscript was printer's copy for the Exhumation Proofs , out of which evolved the Second Trial Book .