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<i>Pl</i> PARIS, BIBL. NAT., ROTHSCHILD 440 (1.4.31)

Mid 15th c.; parchment; 205*135(135*80); 212 unnumbered ff.; 26 lines;
collation 1-17, 18: 19-27; catchwords, some at right angles; traces of
signatures; decorated borders and initials; space for miniature at the
beginning of each item.
The following names can be read: 'Loyse de daillon' (fol. 1r); 'Rence de
daillon' (fol. 211r); 'Loyse de savoisy' (fol. 209r); 'Marie de gras(s)ay' (ff.
209r and 210r); 'Loyse Despeaux(?)' (fol. 43r); 'Madamoyselle du lude' (fol.
212r).

1. Fol. 1r, [<i>Le Quadrilogue Invectif</i>].
Fol. 43r, <i>Cy finist le quadrilogue</i>.
2. Ff. 43v-52v, [<i>Le Breviaire des Nobles</i>].
445=446 lines. Complete.
3. Ff. 53r-58v, [<i>Le Lay de Paix</i>]
277 lines. Lacks lines 20-1, 30-2, 38, 159.
5. Ff. 75v-82v, [<i>Le Debat de Reveille Matin</i>].
360 lines.  Lacks lines 17-24.
6. Ff. 83r-100r, [<i>La Belle Dame sans Mercy</i>].
799 lines.  Lacks line 475.
7. Ff. 100r-101r, [<i>La Requeste Baillee aux Dames contre Alain</i>].
8. Ff. 101r-v, [<i>Les Lettres des Dames a Alain</i>].
9. Ff. 102r-107r, [<i>L'Excusacion aux Dames</i>].
240 plus 4 lines.  Complete.
12. Ff. 141r-208v (quires 19-27), [<i>Le Livre des Quatre Dames</i>].
3498 lines.  33 lines are omitted, in the main single lines.

Piaget discussed the imitations of the <i>Belle Dame sans Mercy</i> in
<i>Pl</i> and included the manuscript in his bibiography of the poem itself. 
<i>Pl</i> has not been listed elsewhere.  
The texts in <i>Pl</i> are of reasonable quality but seem not to have been
revised.  <i>Pl</i> resembles <i>Qr</i> where the <i>Lay de Paix</i> is
concerned; it is difficult to relate the text of the <i>Debat de Reveille
Matin</i> to any other text very closely.  Readings peculiar to <i>Pl</i>,
infrequent in the <i>Lay de Paix</i>, occur more frequently in the <i>Debat de
Reveille Matin</i>.  The latter poem includes a number of irregular lines, as
do the <i>Belle Dame sans Mercy</i> and the <i>Breviaire des Nobles</i>.  

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