Eriphile,avec le Discours
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CMV33875
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5-240 (I, f.276-312), ‘Eriphile, avec le Discours’
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Eriphile,avec le Discours
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Content
Incipit Diplomatic:
Juges plus éclairés que ceux qui dans Athène
Incipit Modernised:
Juges plus éclairés que ceux qui dans Athène
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In Voltaire’s Hand:
No
Brief Summary:
The same copyist, and the same corrector, were responsible for MS2 of Adélaïde Du Guesclin and for MS1 of Les frères ennemis. f.276r title; f.276v blank; f.277r-278r Disocurs; f.278v Acteurs; f.279r-312 text of play.
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Physical Description
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Extent:
35 ff.
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The manuscript is bound with other documents in contemporary red morocco.
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This copy has minor corrections in a second hand. It is clean and legible and the alternative readings are clearly placed. Sometimes the copyist has reversed the choice of variants, sometimes has shown initiative in the better placing of his variants.
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History
Date:
1 June 1731-1732
Ownership:
After Voltaire’s death, the MS passed into the ownership of Catherine II and remained in the imperial and then national collection thereafter.
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Provenance:
This MS was probably taken to St Petersburg by Wagnière in the summer of 1779 along with the rest of Voltaire’s library.
Bibliography
Bibliography:
Fernand Caussy, Inventaire des manuscrits de la bibliothèque de Voltaire conservée à la bibliothèque impériale publique de Saint-Pétersbourg (Geneva, Slatkine reprints, 1970)
OCV Reference:
5, Eriphile, p.389-530
OCV Manuscript Reference:
5, ‘MS1’, p.374
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