Genre: Satire

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The MS is divided into the following sections:

  • ‘Diatribe du Docteur Akakia, médecin du Pape: décret de l’Inquisition; et rapport des professeurs de Rome au sujet d’un prétendu Président. Rome 1753.’
  • ‘Berlin du 16eme Decembre 1752’
  • ‘Decret de l’Inquisition de Rome’
  • ‘Augement des Professeurs du Collége de la Sapience’
  • ‘Mémoire’, written in the hand of Collini with an autograph correction by Voltaire
  • ‘Reponse de Mr de Voltaire à Mr de Maupertuis’
  • ‘Avertisement qui a paru dans les gazettes litteraires et ordinaires de Leipzig’
Repository: Gelders Archief
Date: 1752-1753
CMV: cmv37531

The variants found in this MS copy do not match other copies of the same work.

Repository: Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Dresden, Germany
Date: c.18th
CMV: cmv37448
Repository: Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Dresden, Germany
Date: post-1755
CMV: cmv37439

The MS includes a number of pre-1739 variants, along with a new reading of l.82 as ‘artistement orné’.

Repository: Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris (BHVP), France
Date: c.1739
CMV: cmv37101
Repository: Present Whereabouts Unknown
Date: c.1764
CMV: cmv36537

The text was one of the works included in the 1764 edition of Contes de Guillaume Vadé.

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Date: c.1764
CMV: cmv36536

This piece is a satire against Madame Du Barry and was published in Mémoires secrets du 2 janvier 1769 and the Correspondance littéraire secrète de Métra (6 January 1776). The attribution to Voltaire is contested by Bengesco.

Repository: Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Brussels, Capital Region, Belgium
CMV: cmv34495

A manuscript copy of Voltaire’s Candide which derives from a printed edition as it features a copy of the title page, date, running titles, and signatures.

Repository: The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, US
CMV: cmv35113
Repository: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
Date: c.1736
CMV: cmv36797