Notebook Page: Ashley 3852

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Production Description

Document Title: Love-Measure; and God's Graal (fragment)
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of composition: 1880?
Type of Manuscript: notebook texts
Collation: 1 leaf with text on recto and verso

Provenance

Current Location: British Library, Ashley Collection
Catalog Number: Ashley 3852

Physical Description

Paper: ruled white laid paper
Watermark: none
Dimensions of Document: 22.2 x 17.5 cm
Other Physical Features: paper from DGR's typical notebook

Bibliography

  • Burnett, The Ashley CatalogueI. 315.

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

This leaf from one of DGR's notebooks contains two manuscripts, a heavily revised draft of “Equal Troth”, and the two complete first stanzas of “God's Graal”. The marginal notation “(H. of L.)” on the recto is typical of DGR's notebook habits, indicating a poem he was writing and planning to include in the 1881 augmented edition of “The House Of Life”.

Electronic Archive Edition: 1
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