Notebook fragment 48a
Identifiers
CMV:
CMV33710
Repository:
Shelfmark:
MS 20
Title:
Notebook fragment 48a
Collection(s):
No related collections found.
Related record(s):
No related manuscripts found.
Link to Digital Resource:
Link to Archive Catalogue:
OCLC Number:
Reproductions:
Content
People:
Incipit Diplomatic:
en perse, leur philosophie comence comme celle d’aristote initium sapientiae incredulitas.
Incipit Modernised:
Language(s):
In Voltaire’s Hand:
–
Brief Summary:
Autograph notes concerning history.
Detailed Summary:
A variety of notebook entries on a range of topics including ‘histoire orientale’, ‘Poeme pour le tombau d’abas invocation a mahomet’, ‘Turcs’ ‘janissaires’, ‘siege de vienne’, ‘portrait de mahomet’, ‘peintures’, ‘superstition’, ‘arts antiquite’, ‘luxe Charlemagne luxe’, ‘philippe le be[l]’, ‘louis ix lux’, ‘france’, ‘1430’, ‘1370’, ‘vers law 1630’, ‘postes’, ‘pavé’, ‘equipages’, and ‘commerce’. The following leaf can be found at BnF, n.a.fr.24342, f.287.
Keyword(s):
Status:
Physical Description
Material(s):
Extent:
3 ff.
Format:
Dimensions:
365 x 240 mm
Hands:
1
Watermark:
Countermark:
The paper is countermarked with indistinguishable initials.
Binding:
Unbound
Additional Comments:
The MS is written on ledger paper. The pages have been folded in half horizontally. A small tear in the upper left-hand corner of f.3r has been repaired with tape.
Materiality Keywords:
Decorations:
Undecorated
Additions:
Voltaire has corrected the text throughout with crossings out and the insertion of additional text. Markers have been drawn in the left-hand margins throughout to indicate the beginning of a new section.
Marginalia Keywords:
Inclusions:
A piece of pale orange card printed with the following: ‘LIBRAIRIE ANDRIEUX 154, Boulevard Malesherbes PARIS-XVIIe Telephone: CARNOT 00-69 – ORGANISATION DE VENTES PUBLIQUES EXPERTISES – PARTAGES’. An excerpt from the auction catalogue has been glued beneath the text and outlined in black and green ink. Notes in an unknown modern written in pencil, biro, and ink have been added to this that describe what the manuscript is (fragment 48a/b) and how was paid for the lot (4,800 francs plus tax).
History
Date:
Ownership:
Origin (transcript):
Origin:
Provenance:
Bought at auction by Theodore Besterman (1904-1976) in Paris on 29 May 1968 for 4,800 francs plus tax.
Bibliography
Bibliography:
Theodore Besterman, ‘Thirteen new fragments’, SVEC 148 (1976) p.19-27.
OCV Reference:
OCV, 84p.235-67, l.1-239
OCV Manuscript Reference:
48a’, p.169
Record created by:
Record created on: