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The title page carries, in the upper left corner, Wagnière’s endorsement ‘bon original’. This manuscript represents an intermediary stage, positioned between TP01 and K84. It incorporates a considerable number of the variants of TP01, whilst removing a few other variants. Among other drafts, it has the denouement found in K84. The manuscript contains minor variants as well.
The manuscript is a lettre en vers, opening with a twenty-line poem that engages with themes of Greek mythology, spirituality, religion, and Christianity. The author refers to the La Barre affair involving François-Jean Lefebvre de La Barre and Sir Morival, and alludes to violence committed by Christians in the name of the Virgin Mary. The text also offers a critique of the political system of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, particularly the use of the liberum veto.
According to T. D. N. Besterman, the folios are numbered 40–41.
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