This manuscript is a copy of Voltaire’s tragedy Agathocle. The first two acts are in an unknown hand and the three remaining acts are in the hand of Wagnière.
The manuscript is bound with other documents in contemporary red morocco.
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The first two acts of the MS have heavy corrections in Voltaire’s hand and some corrections in Wagnière’s hand. The three remaining acts are in the hand of Wagnière with some corrections by Voltaire. At the top, Wagnière has written ‘bon original’.
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Pre-September 1777
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Fernand Caussy, Inventaire des manuscrits de la bibliothèque de Voltaire conservée à la bibliothèque impériale publique de Saint-Pétersbourg (Geneva, Slatkine reprints, 1970)