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<i>Qa</i> +BESAN&Ccirc;ON, BIBL. MUN., 554

15th c.; paper; 208*143; 214 ff., plus 2 parchment end-leaves; 21-30 lines (3
stanzas); collation 1-9 12, 10 10, 11-18 12; signatures, catchwords at right
angles; contemporary binding of stamped leather on boards.
<i>Qa</i> was formerly in the library of the Capucin House in Besan&ccirc;on. 
The scribe has signed his name, 'Ja. de bosco', on fol. 214v.

1. Ff. 1r-10v, <i>Le breviaire des nobles</i>.
445 lines.  Lacks line 140.
2. Ff. 11r-14r, <i>Complainte d'amours</i>.
183 lines.  Lacks line 47.  Lines 142-3 and 146-7 are inverted.
3. Ff. 14r-31v, <i>La belle dame sans mercy</i>.
800 lines.  Complete.
6. Fol. 64r, [<i>Les Lettres des Dames a Alain</i>].
Fol. 64v, <i>Cy finist la copie des lectres<i>.
7. Fol. 64v, <i>Copie des lectres des dames en rithme envoyees a maistre
Alain</i>.
Fol. 66v, <i>Cy finissent les lectres des dames par rithme envoyees a maistre
Alain</i>.
9 stanzas of 8 lines, followed by 1 stanza of 6 lines.
8. Ff. 66v-68r, <i>Copie de la requeste baillie aux dames par aucuns contre
ledit maistre Alain.  Laquelle copie estoit enclose dedans les lectres cy
dessus transcriptes</i>.
9. Fol. 68r, <i>La copie de la lectre envoyee aux dames par rithme contre ledit
maistre Alain en maniere de supplicacion</i>.
Fol. 71r, <i>Cy finist la supplicacion faicte aux dames contre maistre
Alain</i>.
18 stanzas of 8 lines.
10. Ff. 71v-76v, [<i>L'Excusacion aux Dames</i>].
(i) Ff. 71v-73v, <i>Cy s'ensuit le songe de maistre alain</i>.
(ii) Ff. 73v-76v, <i>Cy s'ensuit la responce que maistre Alain fist au dieu
d'amours</i>.
240 lines.  Complete.
(12. Ff. 79v-87r, <i>Cy s'ensuit une complainte d'amours que l'on dit autrement
la belle dame a mercy faicte par maistre Alain charretier</i>.)
13. Ff. 87v-95r, <i>Cy s'ensuit le debat de reveille matin</i>.
358 lines. Lacks lines 17-24, 261, 341.  Stanzas XXIV and XXV are inverted.
15. Fol. 107r, <i>Balade</i>.
<i>Incipit</i>: Il n'est dangier que de villain. . .  28 lines

The imitations of the <i>Belle Dame sans Mercy</i> in <i>Qa</i> were discussed
by Piaget.  <i>Qa</i> was included in the bibliographies of the ballade ('Il
n'est dangier. . . '), and of the <i>Belle Dame sans Mercy</i>.  Rice gave
variants from <i>Qa</i> in his edition of the <i>Breviaire des Nobles</i>.
The text of the <i>Debat de Reveille Matin</i> in <i>Qa</i>, which bears some
resemblance to that in <i>Qq</i>, contains a very large number of individual
readings, many irregular.  Numerous readings peculiar to <i>Qa</i> are found in
the <i>Complainte</i>; the text of the <i>Breviaire des Nobles</i> contains a
number of irregular lines and poor rhymes.
  

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