The single surviving manuscript of this work carries on its other side an early
draft version of
The Early Italian Poets
DGR's source text was taken from the Middle English devotional poem,
“Joachim and Anne”, printed from the Auchinleck Manuscript
in the 1840 volume Legendae Catholicae. A Lytle Boke of Seyntlie Gestes
The poem was probably drafted in 1847, but possibly in 1848.