BIB_ID
81751
Accession number
MA 59.1
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Display Date
1819 Oct. 29-1820 Feb. 20.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (28 p.), unbound ; 29-37.2 cm
Notes
Draft is unsigned.
High reserve.
Housed with Byron's autograph manuscript of Manfred, which is described in a separate record (MA 59.2).
Manuscript includes an additional page (found at the end of the ms.) with three versions of "Argument 1st Canto" (beginning "While Charlemagne, the same styled Imperator" or "While Charlemagne the emperor is living") and one version of "Argument 2 Canto" (beginning "Now the good father Abbot bids good bye and").
High reserve.
Housed with Byron's autograph manuscript of Manfred, which is described in a separate record (MA 59.2).
Manuscript includes an additional page (found at the end of the ms.) with three versions of "Argument 1st Canto" (beginning "While Charlemagne, the same styled Imperator" or "While Charlemagne the emperor is living") and one version of "Argument 2 Canto" (beginning "Now the good father Abbot bids good bye and").
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Sotheran, 1900.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (43.6 cm)
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