Draft of ‘Essai sur les mœurs et l’esprit des nations’, written in the hand of Collini with autograph corrections by Voltaire (Volume 1)
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CMV34148
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Cod.gall. 100, ‘Essai sur les révolutions du monde et sur l’histoire de l’Esprit humain depuis le temps de Charlemagne jusqu’à nos jours, tome 1 (chapîtres I – XLVIII jusqu’en 1414) – BSB Cod.gall. 100.’
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Draft of ‘Essai sur les mœurs et l’esprit des nations’, written in the hand of Collini with autograph corrections by Voltaire (Volume 1)
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892983757
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Plusieurs Esprits infatigables ayant de broüillé autant que le peut
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Plusieurs esprits infatigables aiant de broüillé autant que le peut
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Draft of Essai sur les mœurs et l’esprit des nations, written in the hand of Cosimo Alessandro Collini with autograph corrections by Voltaire.
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662 pp.
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2
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Decorative flourishes have been drawn to denote the ends of chapters.
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Voltaire has added the title ‘essay sur lhistoire universelle’ in his own hand. There are also marginal notes expanding on the main text and corrections in his hand throughout the manuscript, including on p.6, p.15, p.58-59, p.78, p.154, p.168, p.196, p.199, p.201-202, p.204, p.232-233, p.238, p.241, p.245-246, p.264, p.270, p.281, p.324, p.336, p.409, p.529, p.549-551, p.598, and p.629-630. There are also marginal notes throughout made by Collini, many of which are numbers, names, places, events, and chapter references.
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c.18th
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Previously housed in the Palatine Library of Mannheim.
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