Soul's Beauty (Sibylla Palmifera) (fair copy manuscript, Delaware Art Museum)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Production Description
Document Title: Sibylla Palmifera
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of composition: 1867
Type of Manuscript: holograph pen and ink fair copy
Scribe: DGR
Corrector: DGR
Provenance
Current Location: Delaware Art Museum, Bancroft Collection
Note: Bought in 1948 from B. F. Stevens and Brown Ltd. for L9.13.3.
Physical Description
Paper: writing paper, measurements: 18 x 11 cm
Watermark: watermarked
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Copyright: Digital images courtesy of the Delaware Art Museum, Samuel and Mary R.
Bancroft Collection.
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Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
The title of the manuscript argues that it is an early copy, probably made around the time the poem was written in 1867. The variant in line 7 indicates that the text may predate all of the printed texts.