Vers d’Œdipe, copie

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CMV:

CMV33884

Shelfmark:

5-240 (II, f.16-20), ‘Vers d’Œdipe, copie’

Title:

Vers d’Œdipe, copie

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Content

People:

Voltaire: Author
Unknown: Copyist

Incipit Diplomatic:

J’ai abordé le sphynx et ce monstre hideux

Incipit Modernised:

J’ai abordé le sphinx et ce monstre hideux

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In Voltaire’s Hand:

Yes

Brief Summary:

This manuscript is a cc of several lines from Oedipe, Voltaire’s adaptation of Sophocles’ Athenian tragedy Oedipus Rex.

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Physical Description

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5 ff.

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The manuscript is bound with other documents in contemporary red morocco.

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History

Date:

December 1713-January 1717

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:

OCV Manuscript Reference:

1A, ‘MS2’, p.131

Record created by:

Aušra Bukniute

Record created on:

29 August 2024