The Virgin Mary, Auchinleck Manuscript Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 1847
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<artist/> <location/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnpictorial> <citnmythic> <name/> <culture/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnmythic> <citnhistorical> <event/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnhistorical> <citnautobiographical> <name/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnautobiographical> <citnscenic> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnscenic> </listcitn> </source> <commentaries> <head>Commentary</head> <section type="intro"> <head>Introduction</head> <p>The single surviving manuscript of this work carries on its other side an early draft version of <xref doc="a.8-1848.raw"> <title level="wrk">“The Lady's Lament” . Both works are closely related to the whole Courtly Love project that culminated for DGR in his signature poem “The Blessed Damozel” , and that pervades, of course, the translation project eventually published in 1861 as the The Early Italian Poets volume.

DGR's source text was taken from the Middle English devotional poem, “Joachim and Anne”, printed from the Auchinleck Manuscript in the 1840 volume <hi rend="i">Legendae Catholicae. A Lytle Boke of Seyntlie Gestes</hi> .

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The poem was probably drafted in 1847, but possibly in 1848.

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