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''Desiré'' (also ''Désiré'', ''Lai del Desire'') is an

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Manuscripts

*P. Cologny-Gevève, Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, Phillips 3713, f. 7v, col. 2--12v. col. 1. Anglo-Norman, thirteenth-century. *S. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, nouv. acq. fr. 1104, f. 10v, col. 1--15v, col. 1. Francien, c. 1300. *N. Uppsala, De la Gardie, 4-7, pp. 37–48.Glyn S. Burgess, ''The Old French Narrative Lay: An Analytical Bibliography'' (Cambridge: Brewer, 1995), p. 44.

Editions

* Margaret E. Grimes, ''The Lays of Desiré, Graelent and Melion: Edition of the Texts with an Introduction'' (New York: Institute of French Studies, 1928). * Alexandre Micha, ''Lais féeriques des XIIe et XIIIe siècles'' (Paris: GF-Flammarion, 1992)

References

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