• DETAILS: Buffalo I.A: 21 loose sheets of blue ruled paper, plus one grey ruled sheet that was torn from a notebook. Joyce's text on rectos in ink, except for an addition in pencil on one sheet (p. 5); versos paginated 1,5,12-14,16,19,21-22,26,28,30,42,44-45,52,56-57,59,65,70-71; Cornell 18 (draft of Gogarty epiphany), 4, 17 (Stanislaus Joyce transcriptions). For completeness sake we have included a self-mocking epiphany included in a letter (now at Cornell) to Stanislaus Joyce of 10 January 1907.
• PHOTO-REPLICATE: James Joyce Archive (New York: Garland, 1978), vol. 7, pp. 1-69.
• PUBLISHED EDITIONS: James Joyce Epiphanies, ed. O.A. Silverman (Buffalo: Lockwood Memorial Library, 1956); The Workshop of Daedalus, ed. R. Scholes and R. M. Kain (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1965) pp. 3-51.
• DATE: 1900-1903, one 1904, one 1907; new epiphanies mentioned in a letter of 9 March 1903 to Stanislaus Joyce; their usage in Stephen Hero is mentioned in one of 19 January 1905 again to Stanislaus Joyce. One is partly quoted in a letter to Nora Barnacle dated 29 August 1904.

• DETAILS: National Library of Ireland Add. MS 36,639/2/A: School exercise book for mathematics. Red-brown cover with black tape binding along outer spine. With printed cover title: L'ÉTUDIANT / [large laurel wreath] / Papeterie-Imprimerie F. BÉNARD / 10, Galerie de l'Odéon, 10 / Maison principale: 16, Rue de Vaugirard. 31 numbered pages; 10 unnumbered pages with text; blank page; small fragment remaining from removed leaf; 2 unnumbered pages with text; 38 blank pages [i.e. 82 pages + fragments of 2].
• PUBLISHED EXTRACTS: Before its re-appearance as part of the Alexis Léon materials acquired by the National Library of Ireland in 2002, the sole source of information on the notebook was a number of extracts published in Herbert Gorman, James Joyce (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1939), which, along with some further material from Gorman's notes, were repeated (with corrections) in Robert Scholes and Richard M. Kain, The Workshop of Daedalus (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1965), Ellsworth Mason and Richard Ellmann, eds. The Critical Writings of James Joyce (New York: Viking, 1968), and Kevin Barry, ed. Occasional, Critical, and Political Writings (Oxford: Oxford World Classics, 2000).
• DATE: purchased by Joyce in Paris either in December 1902 or early 1903. See Letters II, 37: to his mother May Joyce, 20 March 1903)
• EARLIEST DATEABLE USE:
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• DETAILS: Buffalo II.A: A Vere Foster Ruled Exercise Book for schools. 11 leaves (22 pages), with alternating red and blue horizontal rules; 4 leaves were torn from the notebook and are missing. Joyce wrote on 21 pages in black ink, with a note in lead pencil on p. [19]; only 1 page is blank (p. [17]). The essay “A portrait of the Artist” takes up pages [1]-[15] and is followed by sundry notes.
• PHOTO-REPLICATE: James Joyce Archive (New York: Garland, 1978), vol. 7, pp. 70-94. A partial transcription (pp. 95-97) and a typescript of the essay (pp. 98-105) follow.
• PUBLISHED EDITION: Robert Scholes and Richard M. Kain, eds. The Workshop of Daedalus (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1965), pp. 56-74.
• DATE: 1904
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• DETAILS: Cornell University Library, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. James Joyce, Alphabetical Notebook, #4609: autograph notes are contained in a thick notebook, bound in half cloth over red-and-black mottled boards, with marbled edges. There are 300 ruled leaves in the book. The leaves are divided by 25 red tabs with white letters and have been cut so as to display the tabs, which are arranged in alphabetical order from top to bottom. Much of the material in this book was used verbatim by James Joyce in his published works, especially A Portrait of the Artist and Ulysses.
• PHOTO-REPLICATE: James Joyce Archive (New York: Garland, 1978), vol. 7, pp. 109-156.
• PUBLISHED EDITION: Robert Scholes and Richard M. Kain, eds. The Workshop of Daedalus (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1965), pp. 92-105.
• DATE: Probably around or shortly after 1909, when Joyce visited Ireland and recorded the details of Michael Healy's room.
• EARLIEST DATEABLE USE: 1912-1914, when he revised the earlier chapters and composed Chapter V of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. It was also used in 1913-1914 in the composition of early versions of segments of Ulysses of which only a few pages survive.

• DETAILS: Ronald L. Dzierbicki Collection: The text, which consists of a sequence of 50 prose pieces each separated from its predecessor, is written in ink in Joyce's best handwriting on both sides of eight large artist's drawing sheets held between loose blue covers on which is written “Giacomo Joyce” in an unknown hand (presumably that of one of his Triestine pupils). The pages, which are not numbered, are all written on.
• PHOTO-REPLICATE: James Joyce Archive (New York: Garland, 1978), vol. 7, pp. 276-309.
• PUBLISHED EDITION: Richard Ellmann, ed. Giacomo Joyce (London: Faber and Faber, 1968).
• DATE: probably Summer 1914, when Joyce was finishing A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and beginning Ulysses (though no manuscripts from the period for the later book survive).

• DETAILS: National Library of Ireland Add. MS 36,639/3: Mathematics exercise book with pink-red cover. Printed label pasted to outer front cover: “Modello e / Quaderno Officiale / ARITMETICA / per tutte le Classi delle Scuole primarie e maggiori” [32] unnumbered pages, 22 x 17.2 cm.
• TRANSCRIPTION: unused elements copied by Mme France Raphael in mid-1930s into Finnegans Wake notebook VI.C.7 255-269 (see JJA 41:436-440) = VI.D.4D.
• PUBLISHED EDITION: The Dublin Ulysses papers, vol. 3, ed. Danis Rose (East Lansing: House of Breathings, 2012).
• DATE: probably purchased by Joyce in Locarno in mid-October 1917.
• EARLIEST DATEABLE USE: Telemachus fair copy: Locarno, November 1917.
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• DETAILS: Missing notebook.
• TRANSCRIPTION: unused elements copied by Mme France Raphael in mid-1930s into Finnegans Wake notebook VI.C.16 232-274 (see JJA 42:348-359)
• PUBLISHED EDITION: The Lost Notebook, ed. Danis Rose & John O'Hanlon (Edinburgh: Split Pea Press, 1989). This is an annotated version of the notebook reconstructed from the transcribed pages in VI.C.16 and from clues in other Ulysses manuscripts (notebooks, notesheets and drafts).
• DATE: probably purchased by Joyce in Locarno in late 1917 or in Zurich in January 1918.
• EARLIEST DATEABLE USE: Proteus eo-text and proto-text: Locarno/Zurich, December 1917/January 1918.
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• DETAILS: Buffalo MS VIII.A.5 (see JJA 12:129-166): Pocket-sized notebook, 17.4 x 10.8 cm. Blue paper covers. 25 leaves of graph paper (last leaf torn from notebook), stapled: first 33 pages and last 3 pages written on; 14 pages blank: late 1917.
• PHOTO-REPLICATE: James Joyce Archive (New York: Garland, 1978), vol. 12, pp. 131-166.
• PUBLISHED EDITION: Joyce's Notes and Early Drafts for Ulysses: Selections from the Buffalo Collection, ed. Phillip Herring (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1977), pages [1]-33.
• DATE: probably purchased by Joyce in Zurich in early 1918.
• EARLIEST DATEABLE USE: Hades fair copy: Zurich, May 1918.
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In the following two notebooks, which form a pair, the notes are sorted according to Ulysses episodes. They were initially compiled for the purpose of revising (and expanding) already-drafted episodes.

• DETAILS: National Library of Ireland Add. MS 36,639/5A: Purple-grey marbled outer cover; grey-green plain inner cover. [60] unnumbered pages. 21 x 15.5 cm. Fragment of decorative label on front outer cover with text in pencil: “13A / ADD[...]” (possibly ‘ADDITIONS’) The covers are detached from the binding and from each other. On inner front cover in pencil: “Dabcd” (indicating that the notebook was used again ca. 1926 in revising the typescript of Finnegans Wake III.1-4).
• TRANSCRIPTION: unused elements copied by Mme France Raphael in mid-1930s into Finnegans Wake notebook VI.C.7 136-201 (see JJA 41:401-423) = VI.D.4A
• PUBLISHED EDITION: The Dublin Ulysses papers, vol. 4, ed. Danis Rose (East Lansing: House of Breathings, 2012). In this edition, many of the crossed entries marked "unlocated" in Ulysses may have been worked into Finnegans Wake; e.g. “annoying part of it was”, “and what's more”, etc., but this remains to be confirmed).
• DATE: probably begun at the end of 1918/early 1919 but filled in over a protracted period.
• EARLIEST DATEABLE USE: Scylla drafts, Sirens drafts: Zurich, late 1918-Spring 1919.
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• DETAILS: National Library of Ireland Add. MS 36,639/5B: Plain blue covers. [24] unnumbered pages. 21.7 x 17.2 cm. In pencil at top right of recto of front cover: “13B”. On recto of end cover: “Dabcd” (indicating that the notebook was used again ca. 1926 in revising the typescript of Finnegans Wake III.1-4). The covers are detached from the binding and from each other.
• TRANSCRIPTION: unused elements copied by Mme France Raphael in mid-1930s into Finnegans Wake notebook VI.C.7 202-234 (see JJA 41:423-431) = VI.D.4B
• PUBLISHED EDITION: The Dublin Ulysses papers, vol. 5, ed. Danis Rose (East Lansing: House of Breathings, 2012).
• DATE: probably begun at the end of 1918/early 1919 but filled in over a protracted period.
• EARLIEST DATEABLE USE: Scylla drafts, Sirens drafts: Zurich, late 1918-Spring 1919.
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• DETAILS: National Library of Ireland Add. MS 36,639/4: Copybook in plain blue cover. [24] pages 21.7 x 17.5 cm. On back cover (inner) in MS “Dabcd” (indicating that the notebook was used again ca. 1926 in revising the typescript of Finnegans Wake III.1-4).
• TRANSCRIPTION: unused elements copied by Mme France Raphael in mid-1930s into Finnegans Wake notebook VI.C.7 235-254 (see JJA 41:431-436) = VI.D.4C
• PUBLISHED EDITION: The Dublin Ulysses papers, vol. 6, ed. Danis Rose (East Lansing: House of Breathings, 2012).
• DATE: probably begun early in 1921 but filled in over a few months.
• EARLIEST DATEABLE USE: Eumeus drafts: Paris, January-February 1921
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• DETAILS: Buffalo MS V.A.2 (see JJA 12:97-125): Copybook, covers missing. 20 leaves ruled paper 22.5 x 16.9 cm.
• FACSIMILE: James Joyce Archive (New York: Garland, 1978), vol. 12, pp. 97-125.
• PUBLISHED EDITION: Joyce's Notes and Early Drafts for Ulysses: Selections from the Buffalo Collection, ed. Phillip Herring (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1977), pages [35]-118.
• DATE: probably begun early in 1921 but filled in over a few months.
• EARLIEST DATEABLE USE: Eumeus drafts: Paris, January-February 1921.
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• DETAILS: BL Add MS 49975, fols. 6-8: 3 large folios folded into 10 used and 2 blank “notesheets”. For convenience these are here further divided into segments (left and right columns, margins, etc) to indicate the disposition of notes on the page. Summer 1919, Zurich
• PUBLISHED EDITION: Joyce's Ulysses Notesheets in the British Museum, ed. Phillip Herring (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1972). Also published in facsimile in the James Joyce Archive vol. 12 (New York: Garland, 1978).
• EARLIEST DATEABLE USE: Cyclops drafts: Zurich, June-July 1919.
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• DETAILS: BL Add MS 49975, fols. 9-10: 2 large folios folded into 8 used “notesheets”. For convenience these are here further divided into segments (left and right columns, margins, etc) to indicate the disposition of notes on the page. Late 1919, Trieste.
• PUBLISHED EDITION: Joyce's Ulysses Notesheets in the British Museum, ed. Phillip Herring (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1972). Also published in facsimile in the James Joyce Archive vol. 12 (New York: Garland, 1978).
• EARLIEST DATEABLE USE: Nausicaa drafts: Trieste, November 1919.
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• DETAILS: BL Add MS 49975, fols. 11-15: 5 large folios folded into 21 used “notesheets”. For convenience these are here further divided into segments (left and right columns, margins, etc) to indicate the disposition of notes on the page. Early 1920, Trieste.
• PUBLISHED EDITION: Joyce's Ulysses Notesheets in the British Museum, ed. Phillip Herring (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1972). Also published in facsimile in the James Joyce Archive vol. 12 (New York: Garland, 1978).
• EARLIEST DATEABLE USE: Oxen of the Sun drafts: Trieste, Spring 1920.
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• DETAILS: BL Add MS 49975, fols. 16-21: 6 large folios folded into 8 used “notesheets”. For convenience these are here further divided into segments (left and right columns, margins, etc) to indicate the disposition of notes on the page. Spring and Summer 1920, Trieste and Paris,
• PUBLISHED EDITION: Joyce's Ulysses Notesheets in the British Museum, ed. Phillip Herring (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1972). Also published in facsimile in the James Joyce Archive vol. 12 (New York: Garland, 1978).
• EARLIEST DATEABLE USE: Circe drafts: Trieste/Paris, Spring-Summer 1920.
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• DETAILS: BL Add MS 49975, fols. 22-23: 2 large folios folded into 7 used “notesheets”. For convenience these are here further divided into segments (left and right columns, margins, etc) to indicate the disposition of notes on the page. Early 1921, Paris.
• PUBLISHED EDITION: Joyce's Ulysses Notesheets in the British Museum, ed. Phillip Herring (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1972). Also published in facsimile in the James Joyce Archive vol. 12 (New York: Garland, 1978).
• EARLIEST DATEABLE USE: Eumeus drafts: Paris, January 1921.
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• DETAILS: BL Add MS 49975, fols. 24-27: 4 large folios folded into 16 used “notesheets”. For convenience these are here further divided into segments (left and right columns, margins, etc) to indicate the disposition of notes on the page. 1921, Paris.
• PUBLISHED EDITION: Joyce's Ulysses Notesheets in the British Museum, ed. Phillip Herring (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1972). Also published in facsimile in the James Joyce Archive vol. 12 (New York: Garland, 1978).
• EARLIEST DATEABLE USE: Ithaca drafts: Paris, April 1921.
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• DETAILS: BL Add MS 49975, fols. 28-29: 2 large folios folded into 7 used “notesheets”. For convenience these are here further divided into segments (left and right columns, margins, etc) to indicate the disposition of notes on the page. 1921, Paris.
• PUBLISHED EDITION: Joyce's Ulysses Notesheets in the British Museum, ed. Phillip Herring (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1972). Also published in facsimile in the James Joyce Archive vol. 12 (New York: Garland, 1978).
• EARLIEST DATEABLE USE: Penelope drafts: Paris, August 1921.
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• EARLIEST DATEABLE USE: Sector 1: Cyclops drafts, Zurich, Summer 1919. Sector 2: Wandering Rocks fair copy: Zurich, January 1919. Sector 3: Eumeus early draft: Paris, January 1921. Sector 4: Paris, 1920-21.
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