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Manuscript containing a collection of ballads and other poems
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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.4
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘La Complainte de Nature a L`Alchymiste’ by Jean Perréal, followed (folio 18) by ‘La Response de l’Alchymiste’. Printed in ‘La Roman de la Rose’, iv, pages 123-202. It omits the prologue and a number of lines throughout, and the last 187 lines of the ‘Response’ are replaced by the last forty lines of the ‘Complainte’. For a discussion of the poem and its authorship, see A Vernet in ‘Bibliothèque d`Humanisme et Renaissance’, iii,...
Dates:
1st half of 16th century.