I.ii. Notebook with accounts, quotations, book lists, etc.,

1903-1904
Bibliographic Details
Main Creator: Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
Summary:School exercise book for mathematics. Red-brown cover with black tape binding along outer spine. With printed cover title: "L'ÉTUDIANT ˜ [laurel wreath] œ Papeterie-Imprimerie F. BÉNARD ˜ 10, Galerie de l'Odéon, 10 œ Mainson principale: 16, Rue de Vaugirard".


This notebook is a kind of "commonplace book", in which the young Joyce kept accounts, notes, lists of reading, quotations and other scribbles, during his time in Paris and in Pola, when he was in his early 20s.
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In collection: The Joyce Papers 2002, c.1903-1928.
Format: Manuscript
Language:English
Published / Created: 1903-1904
Citation:MS 36,639/2/A.
Subjects:
Notes:31 numbered pages; 10 unnumbered pages with text; blank page; small fragment remaining from removed page; 2 unnumbered pages with text; 38 blank pages [i.e. 82 pages + fragment].

At head of front cover in MS: "Priez de rendre á œ James A. Joyce ˜ Rue Corneille, œ Paris".

"The National Library of Ireland's new Joyce manuscripts: a statement and document descriptions" / Michael Groden. - James Joyce Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 1 (Fall 2001), pp. 29-51.

"A first foray into the National Library of Ireland's Joyce Manuscripts: Bloomsday 2011" / Luca Crispi. - Genetic Joyce Studies, Issue 11 (Spring 2011)http://www.geneticjoycestudies.org/

Physical description: 1 notebook ; 21.5 x 17 cm, + fragment.

Indexes: Finding Aid Available: NLI Manuscripts Collection List No. 68.

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Access:Originals withdrawn. Digitised images are available online and can also be consulted in the Reading Room of the Department of Manuscripts; please contact the Department in advance to arrange time for viewing the images.
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245 1 0 |a I.ii. Notebook with accounts, quotations, book lists, etc.,  |f 1903-1904 
260 |c 1903-1904 
300 |a 1 notebook ;  |c 21.5 x 17 cm, +  |e fragment. 
351 |c Item. 
500 |a 31 numbered pages; 10 unnumbered pages with text; blank page; small fragment remaining from removed page; 2 unnumbered pages with text; 38 blank pages [i.e. 82 pages + fragment]. 
500 |a At head of front cover in MS: "Priez de rendre á œ James A. Joyce ˜ Rue Corneille, œ Paris". 
505 8 0 |8 1.1\x  |t /Front cover (outer);  |g Previous NLI identifier [Image: 02-001] 
505 8 0 |8 1.2\x  |t /Front cover (inner) --  |t /p.1:  |g MS calendar for Tuesday 20 Jan to Sunday 31 May 1903. The dates from 20 Jan to 10 April are crossed out. Accounts from 20 Jan to 4 April 1903. Mostly recording loans from Joseph and Patrice Casey, Joseph Douce, money sent from home and small amounts of remuneration;  |g Previous NLI identifier [Image: 02-002] 
505 8 0 |8 1.3\x  |t /p.2:  |g Accounts from 13 Mar. to 10 Apr. 1903 --  |t /p.3:  |g "I was not wearier where I lay" Song by Ben Jonson. Quotations from Aristotle's Psychology;  |g Previous NLI identifier [Image: 02-003] 
505 8 0 |8 1.4\x  |t /p.4:  |g Quotations from Aristotle's Psychology continued. Schema for Aristotelian structure of tragedy. List of 4 books, one of which has library shelf number. --  |t /p.5:  |g Untitled text beginning: "Desire is the feeling which urges us to go to something"; signed and dated on next page by "Jas A Joyce ˜ Feb.13. 1903 œ Paris";  |g Previous NLI identifier [Image: 02-004] 
505 8 0 |8 1.5\x  |t /p.6:  |g Text from p.5 continued. Text beginning: "...There are three conditions of art"; signed and dated by "Jas A Joyce ˜ 6 Mar 1903 œ Paris" --  |t /p.7:  |g Series of songs transcribed from Ben Jonson's Cynthia's Revels;  |g Previous NLI identifier [Image: 02-005] 
505 8 0 |8 1.6\x  |t /p.8:  |g Accounts; at head "1st Month œ from 23 January 1903 to 20 February 1903". Signed by Joyce. --t /p.9:  |g Song transcribed from Ben Jonson's The Poetaster;  |g Previous NLI identifier [Image: 02-006] 
505 8 0 |8 1.7\x  |t /p.10:  |g At head: "MEMORABILIA". Quotations from W.L. Courtney, Walter Sichel, Edmund Gosse, W.B. Yeats, Herbert Spencer and Theodore Watts. --  |t /p.11:  |g Begins: "Musical Antiquarian Society"; references to 2 societies engaged in publishing old music and to publications on the history of music. Latin verse (riddle?) concerning Raymon Lull. Alchemical diagram. Epigram on Ben Jonson. List of 4 works with prices edited and/or published by Bertram Dobell, with Dobell's address;  |g Previous NLI identifier [Image: 02-007] 
505 8 0 |8 1.8\x  |t /p.12:  |g Begins: "Speculation is above practice". Series of aphorism from Aristotle's Metaphysics. --  |t /p.13:  |g 2 songs from Ben Jonson's Volpone;  |g Previous NLI identifier [Image: 02-008] 
505 8 0 |8 1.9\x  |t /p.14:  |g At head: Musical notation. Fragment of song in Persian. --  |t /p.15:  |g 2 songs from Ben Jonson's Epicene;  |g Previous NLI identifier [Image: 02-009] 
505 8 0 |8 1.10\x  |t /p.16-17:  |g Lists of authors and book titles categorized as "Verse", "Biography and History", "Fiction", "Speeches";  |g Previous NLI identifier [Image: 02-010] 
505 8 0 |8 1.11\x  |t /p.18:  |g List of books, including 1 with library shelf number --  |t /p.19:  |g Begins: "The rain runs down"; Scottish ballad from Percy's Reliques vol. 1;  |g Previous NLI identifier [Image: 02-011] 
505 8 0 |8 1.12\x  |t /p.20:  |g Accounts; at head: "2nd Month œ from 20 February 1903 to 20 March 1903 (exclusive of Hotel Bill)". Signed by Joyce --  |t /p.21:  |g Song from Ben Jonson's The Devil is an Ass;  |g Previous NLI identifier [Image: 02-012] 
505 8 0 |8 1.13\x  |t /p.22:  |g At head: "Questions". Series of 8 numbered questions --  |t /p.23:  |g Extracts from Percy's Reliques vol.1;  |g Previous NLI identifier [Image: 02-013] 
505 8 0 |8 1.14\x  |t /p.24:  |g At head: "Rhythm seems to be"; series of 3 aphorisms, each signed and dated by Joyce --  |t /p.25:  |g 2 songs from Ben Jonson's The Staple of News;  |g Previous NLI identifier [Image: 02-014] 
505 8 0 |8 1.15\x  |t /p.26:  |g At head: "Answers"; series of 4 replies to some of the "Questions" on p.22 above --  |t /p.27:  |g Song from Ben Jonson's The New Inn;  |g Previous NLI identifier [Image: 02-015] 
505 8 0 |8 1.16\x  |t /p.28:  |g At head: "The intention"; 4 aphorisms --  |t /p.29:  |g At head: "Bonum est in quod tendit appetitus"; with translation of text of St. Thomas Aquinas signed and dated "JAJ œ Pola. 7. XI. 04";  |g Previous NLI identifier [Image: 02-016] 
505 8 0 |8 1.17\x  |t /p.30:  |g At head: "[see pp - 16 and 17]". Additional list of titles and authors categorized as "Verse", "Drama", "Old Literature" and "Modern Literature" --  |t /p.31:  |g At head: "- Pulcra sunt quae visa placent -"; with translation of text of Aquinas signed and dated: "JAJ œ Pola. 15. XI. 04". The paragraph beginning on p.[32] is crossed through;  |g Previous NLI identifier [Image: 02-017] 
505 8 0 |8 1.18\x  |t /p.[32]:  |g Text on p. 31 continued --  |t /p.[33]:  |g Entitled: "The Act of Apprehension"; signed and dated: "JAJ œ Pola. 16. XI. 04";  |g Previous NLI identifier [Image: 02-018] 
505 8 0 |8 1.19\x  |t /p.[34]:  |g At head: "Polype[?]ism and [?]Thomopenism" --  |t /p.[35]:  |g At head: "- Ad pulcritudinem tria requiruntur: integritas, consonantia et claritas-" With English translation of the text of Aquinas;  |g Previous NLI identifier [Image: 02-019] 
505 8 0 |8 1.20\x  |t /p.[36]:  |t At head: "Saint Nicholas"; variations of the name of Saint Nicholas - Santa Claus. First verse of an Istrian folksong on San Nicolo di Bari. Copy of the French comic song "Monsieur de la Palisse". Song[?] in Italian beginning: "Don Zanetti muso di porco". --  |t /p.[37]:  |g Heading along inner margin: "For STEPHEN HERO";  |g Previous NLI identifier [Image: 02-020] 
505 8 0 |8 1.21\x  |t /p.[38]:  |g Text on p.[37] continued --  |t /p.[39]:  |g Heading along inner margin: "For DUBLINERS";  |g Previous NLI identifier [Image: 02-021] 
505 8 0 |8 1.22\x  |t /p.[40]:  |g At head: "Byrne" --  |t /p.[41]:  |g At head: "Maria Candelora". Popular verse;  |g Previous NLI identifier [Image: 02-022] 
505 8 0 |8 1.23\x  |t /p.[42]:  |g Blank --  |t /p.[43]:  |g At head: "Books"; list of 7 books with imprints and prices;  |g Previous NLI identifier [Image: 02-023] 
505 8 0 |8 1.24\x  |t /p.[44]:  |g At head: "S.W". Programme of study for 6 medical students being taught English by Joyce. At end; "Hellenism - European appendicitis" --  |t /p.[45]:  |g Blank;  |g Previous NLI identifier [Image: 02-024] 
505 8 0 |8 1.25\x  |t /p.[46-82]:  |g Blank. 
505 8 0 |8 1.26\x  |t /Back cover (outer);  |g Previous NLI identifier [Image: 02-025] 
506 1 |a Originals withdrawn. Digitised images are available online and can also be consulted in the Reading Room of the Department of Manuscripts;  |c please contact the Department in advance to arrange time for viewing the images.  |f Online access with authorization  |2 star 
520 8 |a School exercise book for mathematics. Red-brown cover with black tape binding along outer spine. With printed cover title: "L'ÉTUDIANT ˜ [laurel wreath] œ Papeterie-Imprimerie F. BÉNARD ˜ 10, Galerie de l'Odéon, 10 œ Mainson principale: 16, Rue de Vaugirard". 
520 8 |a This notebook is a kind of "commonplace book", in which the young Joyce kept accounts, notes, lists of reading, quotations and other scribbles, during his time in Paris and in Pola, when he was in his early 20s. 
524 |a MS 36,639/2/A. 
540 |a By viewing these materials, you acknowledge that it is your responsibility to comply with the legislation in your jurisdiction particularly copyright (where applicable). We also remind you that the National Library of Ireland owns these materials and makes them available for the purposes of research and private study only. Any other use is strictly prohibited without prior written permission from the National Library of Ireland. The National Library of Ireland accepts no liability or responsibility for the manner in which the materials are used or the results of such use. 
555 |a Finding Aid Available: NLI Manuscripts Collection List No. 68. 
581 |a "The National Library of Ireland's new Joyce manuscripts: a statement and document descriptions" / Michael Groden. - James Joyce Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 1 (Fall 2001), pp. 29-51. 
581 |a "A first foray into the National Library of Ireland's Joyce Manuscripts: Bloomsday 2011" / Luca Crispi. - Genetic Joyce Studies, Issue 11 (Spring 2011)http://www.geneticjoycestudies.org/ 
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