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Secretarial copy of Voltaire’s Aléxis, with autograph corrections, c.1778
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CMV37078
Repository:
Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz / Prussian Privy State Archives
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I. HA Rep. 96 C, Nr. 8, ‘”Aléxis. Tragédie” (Alexius Komnenus. Tragödie) von Francois-Marie d´Arouet gen. Voltaire’
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Brief Summary:
Secretarial copy of Voltaire’s Aléxis, with autograph corrections, c.1778.
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Keyword(s):
Alexius Komnenus, Paris, Printing, Tragedy
Genre(s):
Theatre, Tragedy
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Copy (Secretarial)
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66 ff.
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Folio
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3
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Voltaire has corrected the text throughout. A note has also been added by Suarez concerning the rights to print the text in Paris. This note is dated 6 January 1778.
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