Manuscript codicil to Voltaire’s will in an unknown secretarial hand, dating to c.1778
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CMV34563
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MA 634.1, ‘Le codicille de Monsieur de Voltaire : manuscript codicil to his will, undated [ca. 1778?].’
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Manuscript codicil to Voltaire’s will in an unknown secretarial hand, dating to c.1778
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Brief Summary:
Manuscript codicil to Voltaire’s will in an unknown secretarial hand, dating to c.1778.
Detailed Summary:
In the codicil, Voltaire leaves instructions to Bernard-Joseph Saurin, a lawyer and friend of Voltaire’s, for his funeral. He goes on to make reference to d’Alembert and l’Abbé Jean Antoine Nollet. A provenance note on f.1v suggests that the MS was found amongst Voltaire’s papers after his death.
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2 pp.
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Height: 214 mm
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Bound with other manuscripts in red morocco with gilt decoration by Rivière.
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Undecorated
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A note has veen added to f.1v reading: ‘Le codicile de M. de Voltaire / Trouvée dans ses papiers aprez son décès.’
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c.1778
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Purchased from J. Pearson & Co. in London in 1910 by Pierpont Morgan.
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