Notebook Page (two loose leaves, Duke Library) Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 Digital images used with permission of the Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. <author>Dante Gabriel Rossetti</author> <msprod> <date compdate="1879,1880">1879-1880</date> <type/> <assign/> <collation>2 leaves, 4 pages</collation> <note>The last page has a copy of a letter from Robert Crozier to Frederick Shields, in an unknown hand, dated “26 Aug. 80”.</note> </msprod> <scribe>DGR</scribe> <corrector>DGR</corrector> <provenance> <location>Duke University Library</location> <recnum>Writings: XIX. Miscellany</recnum> <note/> </provenance> <physicaldesc> <binding> <cover/> <endpapers/> </binding> <paper>7 1/8 x 8 7/8 in</paper> <watermark>none</watermark> <note>The paper of this disbound notebook sheet is identical to a number of other disbound notebook sheets, including several leaves in the Duke library collections. These include pages 29-30 and 34-35 of the so-called <xref doc="a.nb0004.duke.rad" from="[29] to=[35]">“Note Book II”</xref>; is the same paper as <xref doc="a.nb0002.duke.rad">another notebook page</xref> in the Duke Library archive.</note> </physicaldesc> </citnstruct> </sourcedesc> </filedesc> <encodingdesc/> <profiledesc> <commentaries> <head>Commentary</head> <section type="intro"> <head>Introduction</head> <p>These two pages are disbound from a notebook that DGR was using in 1880.</p> </section> <section type="texthistcomp"> <head>Textual History: Composition</head> <p/> </section> <section type="texthistrev"> <head>Textual History: Revision</head> <p/> </section> <section type="prodhist"> <head>Production History</head> <p/> </section> <section type="recepthist"> <head>Reception History</head> <p/> </section> <section type="icon"> <head>Iconographic</head> <p/> </section> <section type="printhist"> <head>Printing History</head> <p/> </section> <section type="pictorial"> <head>Pictorial</head> <p/> </section> <section type="historical"> <head>Historical</head> <p/> </section> <section type="literary"> <head>Literary</head> <p/> </section> <section type="translation"> <head>Translation</head> <p/> </section> <section type="autobio"> <head>Autobiographical</head> <p/> </section> <section type="biblio"> <head>Bibliographic</head> <p> <bibl> <author>Baum, ed.</author>, <xref doc="a.z6616.r82d.rad" link="dead"> <title level="bk"> <hi rend="i">Manuscripts in the Duke University Library</hi> , 12, 39-40.

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No. I

Dante, being sickens and crying out gre? ina troublous dream of his lady's death, isbewept by his near kinswoman; whom otherladies lead thence, by reason of her grief, andawaken him.

No. II

Dante recounts his dream to theladies, who have awakened him,whereto his grieving kinswoman alsohearkens apart.

 --------- Articles.—Marlowe & Chatterton<lb/>The Poems of Nero & the latest French muse --------- <hi rend="c">Dîs Manibus</hi> Gustave Flaubert, whose honoured rôle Was to be scribe to Nero's soul, And make French flesh to creep & crow O'er Carthaginian Salammbň, Lies here, in body, as in brain, Like Morgue-corpse tumid from the Seine. x What shall be writ above his grave?— Vitellius— Nero's dying stave? “Fui Imperator!” (shall it flow?) Or “Qualis Artifex pereo!” ---------

xFlaubert became so bloated latterly thathe could hardly move and had to weara special loose costume.

 For the first entry here see William Bell Scott, <hi rend="i">William Blake: Etchings from his Works by William Bell Scott. With Descriptive Text</hi> 1878 .

Scott's Catalogue Raisonné of Exhibition of Exhibition ofBurlington Fine Arts Club. 1876Scott's Etchings from Blake's Works, with descriptive text. 1878

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As in a tract of lifeless land, the scatteredpools of rain-water that for a moment catchthe sky as the traveller passes—so arethe lonely far-apart intervals of living labour in thelife of an idle man. After death, will all if these brief efforts be worthy, will all besky-brimmed water or all a desertof sand?

 --------- This little day—a bird that flew to me— Has swiftly flown out of my hand again. Ah! have I listened to its fugitive strain For what its tidings of the sky may be? ---------

Lent Watts Gris-de-Flandres inkstand

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Watts (Smith Biog. Vol. 3

--------- <hi rend="c">Joan of Arc</hi> This word had Merlin said from of old:— That out of the Oak Tree Shade, In the day of France's direst dule, God's hand should send a Maid. And where Domremy, by Burgundy, Sits crowned with its oakenshaw, Even there Joan d'Arc, the Maid of God's Ark, The light of the day first saw. ------------- Where spirits go, what man may know? Yet this may of man be said:— That, when Time is o'er and all hath suffic'd, Shall the world's chief Christ-fire rise to Christ From the ashes of Joan the Maid.