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<i>Qo</i> +MILAN, BIBL. TRIVULZIANA, 971

15th c.; 47 ff.; 33 lines; d.c.; catchwords.

1. Fol. 1a, [<i>La Belle Dame sans Mercy</i>].
Fol. 7b, <i>Cy finist la Belle dame sans mercy</i>.
800 lines.  Complete.  Text with headings.
2. Fol. 7b, <i>Cy apres s'ensuit la response de la Belle dame sans mercy</i>.
Fol. 9b, <i>Cy finist la response que fist Maistre Alain Charretier dessus la
belle dame sans Mercy</i>.
240 lines.  Complete.  Text with headings.
3. Fol. 9c, <i>Cy apres s'ensuit le lay de Paix que fist Maistre Alain
Charretier</i>.
Fol. 11c, <i>Cy finist le lay de paix qui fut envoy&eacute; au duc de
bourgogne</i>.
283 lines.  Lacks lines 155, 212.  Includes line 156a.  Lines 164-5 and 225-6
are inverted.
4. Fol. 11d, <i>Cy apres s'ensuit ung lay de plaisance</i>.
Fol. 13a, <i>Cy finist le lay de plaisance</i>.
195 lines.  Lacks line 38.  Lines 1-2 are inverted.
5. Fol. 13b, <i>Complainte pour la mort de sa dame Maistre Alain
Charretier</i>.
Fol. 14c, <i>Cy finist la Complainte</i>.
184 lines.  Lacks line 117.  Includes line 119a.  The order of stanzas is:
I-III, V-VII, IV, VIII-XII.
6. Ff. 14c-16c, <i>Cy apres s'ensuit le Breviere des Nobles M. A.
Charretier</i>.
Only the first seven ballades (lines 1-221) are copied, the rest of fol. 16v
being blank.  Line 15 is lacking and space has been left.  The third and fifth
ballades are entitled <i>Justice</i> and <i>Raison</i> respectively.  Each
envoy has the heading <i>Prince</i>.
7. Ff. 17a-33a, <i>Cy apres s'ensuit le livre des quatre dames M. A.
Charretier</i>.
The text stops at line 2132.  The last sixteen lines, those on fol. 33a, seem
to be in a different hand; ff. 33v-34v are blank.  Lacks lines 8, 707, 1596,
1738, 1829.  Lines 641-3, originally omitted, have been added in a different
hand.
8. Fol. 35a, <i>Cy commence le Resveille matin</i>.
Fol. 37c, <i>Explicit le Resveille matin</i>.
352 lines.  Lacks lines 17-24 and 361-8.

The imitations of the <i>Belle Dame sans Mercy</i> in <i>Qo</i> were listed and
discussed by Piaget who also included <i>Qo</i> in his bibliography of the
poem.  <i>Qo</i>, which has not been examined in detail before, was used in the
edition of the four poems.  In three of them it was found to be in the same
tradition as <i>Nj</i> and, particularly, <i>Nf</i>; in the case of the
<i>Debat de Reveille Matin</i>, <i>Qo</i> resembled <i>Oa</i> and <i>Qq</i>. 
<i>Nf</i> and <i>Nj</i> (and <i>Oa</i>) were preferred to <i>Qo</i> which
includes a large number of individual readings.  <i>Qo</i> contains a valuable
series of attributions.
 

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