Vers italiens

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CMV33920

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5-240 (II, f.187-188), ‘Vers italiens’

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Vers italiens

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Incipit Diplomatic:

Chiare fresche e dolci acque

Incipit Modernised:

Chiare fresche e dolci acque

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In Voltaire’s Hand:

Partly

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Physical Description

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2 ff.

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

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The manuscript carries a remark in Voltaire’s hand, reading ‘D’Olivet. Aurum Virgilius de stercore faceret, Enni Virgilii ex auro stercus amice facis’.

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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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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)

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Record created by:

Aušra Bukniute

Record created on:

29 August 2024