Old copy of verses found at the bottom of a portrait of Descartes above his Latin epitaph
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CMV34497
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FS 321 A 50, ‘Vers au bas du portrait de Descartes qui est au-dessus de son épitaphe latine adossé à un piller à Ste. Genevieve […] [texte manuscrit]’
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Old copy of verses found at the bottom of a portrait of Descartes above his Latin epitaph
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Descartes dont tu vois icy la sépulture
Incipit Modernised:
Descartes dont tu vois ici la sépulture
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Brief Summary:
Old copy of verses found at the bottom of a portrait of Descartes above his Latin epitaph.
Detailed Summary:
The text consists of ten verses.
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1 pp.
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Bound with other manuscripts in full fawn calf.
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History
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c.18th
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Owned by Paul-Auguste-Cyrille de Launoit (1891-1981).
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Jeroom Vercruysse, Inventaire raisonné des manuscrits Voltairiens de la Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier, vol.2 (Turnhout, 1983) p.11.
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