Partly holograph notes for Essai sur les mœurs et l’esprit des nations
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CMV32901
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MS 9, ‘Siècle de Louis XIV’
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Partly holograph notes for Essai sur les mœurs et l’esprit des nations
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Les danois les norveg sued plus a portée des decouvertes par les mers du nord.
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Brief Summary:
Partly autograph notes, headed ‘pr l’hist universelle’. These notes pertain to OCV, vol.13A, ch.6, p.101, l.161-177, ‘Essai sur les moeurs et l’esprit des nations’.
Detailed Summary:
Voltaire discusses the claims of the Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, and Dutch to lands in the New World, explaining that such lands are shared very unequally amongst the various countries.
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2 ff.
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240 x 185 mm
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2
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The paper is watermarked with a sphere containing a crown, wreath, and fleurs-de-lys.
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Additional Comments:
There are small areas of discolouration on the outer edges of both leaves and there is a small ink blot in the bottom right-hand corner of p.1.
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Undecorated
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The hand changes from Cosimo Alessandro Collini’s to Voltaire’s on p.3. A manicule has been drawn in the left-hand margin of p.4.
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A sheet of plain paper providing brief notes about the manuscript in blue and red ink in an unknown modern hand has been included.
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J. Vidal-Mégret, Collection d’autographes littéraires, lettres et manuscrits des XVIIe, XVIIIe, XIXe et XXe siècles. 2ème partie. Catalogue de la vente aux enchères du 26 février 1969 à l’Hôtel Drouot (Paris, 1969), no.156 (3).
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