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Reference code
TRER/29/9
Title
Notebook with verse and prose on the subject of Siddhartha
Date(s)
- 1910s-1920s? (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
"Museum Note Book" by Clarke & Davies, 38 Museum St WC., cover missing. 32 ff., lined pages.
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
Extracts copied by Trevelyan from Layamon's "Brut"; blank verse retelling of the story of Siddhartha; "Everyman, Scene I" with characters Worldly Wiseman and Fight-the-good-fight, both on recto with corrections and additions on facing page.
From the back of the book inwards: extracts from the "Buddha Carita or the Life of the Buddha", translated by E. B. Cowell, on Siddhartha's 'Four Sights' [unlike Trevelyan's hand, and possibly copied out by Gordon Luce?]; retelling of Siddhartha's story in rhyming verse, on recto with corrections and additions on facing page.