VI.C.12.
VI.C.12: "Work in Progress"/Finnegans Wake Scribal Notebook (1936–1937)
Material Description
The manuscript has floral-designed maroon covers over boards, with a black tape spine, which is worn but intact, and the edges of all the leaves are speckled blue-and-white. There are blue-and-white marbled design papers pasted to the front cover verso and back cover recto; the front flyleaf verso and back flyleaf recto are plain white, unlined paper. The notes are in the hand of Mme Raphael in black ink. Joyce used red as well as blue colored crayons to cross through the notes he had used in his manuscripts. There are also vertical red and blue crayon marks beside some of the uncrossed notes, presumably by Joyce.
Collation
The manuscript consists of 140 leaves (280 pages) of blue horizontally ruled paper, 12 stitched gatherings (the 1st and 12th gatherings are composed of 20 pages and the 2nd through 11th gatherings are composed of 24 pages); none of the pages are detached. All of the pages, including the front flyleaf verso and the back flyleaf recto, are inscribed; none are blank.
Measurements
The manuscript measures 18.8 x 14.5 cm.
Contents
The notebook contains transcriptions of Joyce’s notes in the following primary notebooks:
| Scribal Notebook | Primary Notebooks | JJA |
|---|---|---|
| MS VI.C.12, pp. [001]–[223] | MS VI.B.14, p. [019]–back cover recto | 43.003–058 |
| MS VI.C.12, p. [224]–back flyleaf recto | MS VI.B.13, front cover verso–p. [188] | 43.058–073 |
Pagination
The pages are not numbered.
Dating
Mme Raphael prepared the transcriptions in this notebook in 1936 to early 1937 in Paris (TD 34) and Joyce used the notebook from 1936 to 1938.
Other Markings
The notebook was marked "12" in blue crayon on the front flyleaf verso, probably by Joyce. He wrote "5 | 7 | ’38" also on the front flyleaf verso in green ink. There is a stamped purple stationer’s mark on the front flyleaf verso and upside down on the back flyleaf recto that reads: "38".
Publication
The manuscript has been reproduced in black and white photo-facsimile in JJA 43.002–073. MS VI.B.14 was published in The Finnegans Wake Notebooks at Buffalo: VI.B.14, edited by Vincent Deane, Daniel Ferrer and Geert Lernout (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2001).