Couplets
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CMV33897
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5-240 (II, f.86 v°), ‘Couplets’
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Couplets
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Quand tu punis le sodomite
Incipit Modernised:
Quand tu punis le sodomite
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In Voltaire’s Hand:
Yes
Brief Summary:
The manuscript reproduces libertine poems penned by multiple poets, including Claude de Blot (Chauvingny de Blot) in Voltaire’s hand (whilst the poems in question are written in Voltaire’s hand, the manuscript was assembled by Wagnière with a preliminary leaf written in Wagnières hand (See vol. 81, p. 28).
Detailed Summary:
The manuscript is a fragment of various poems written in Voltaire’s hand. The poems belong to one of Voltaire’s notebooks written between 1735 and 1750, The Leningrad Group of Notebooks, also known as Sottisier. The Leningrad Group of Notebooks received scholarly attention from Prince Alexander Ivanovich Lobanov-Tostovsky, Léozun-Le Duc, and Desnoiresterres. The original manuscript was transcribed by Beuchot (1844) and later reproduced by Rostopschine with Léozun-Le Duc as an editor (1880). Please note that the incipits in vol. 81 and Caussy’s inventory do not correspond, with Caussy’s catalogue featuring ‘the sodomites’ in plural.
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Physical Description
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1 f.
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The manuscript is bound with other documents in contemporary red morocco.
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The manuscript was assembled by Wagnière with a preliminary leaf written in Wagnières hand (See vol. 81, p. 28).
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History
Date:
[1735-1750]
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:
81 Notebooks I, ‘Leningrad Group of Notebooks, ff. [I]-[105]’
OCV Manuscript Reference:
p.28
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