Agathocle / tragédie

Identifiers

CMV:

CMV33869

Shelfmark:

5-240 (I, f.59-88), ‘Agathocle’

Title:

Agathocle / tragédie

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Content

People:

Voltaire: Author, Annotator
Jean-Louis Wagnière: Secretary, Annotator
Unknown: Secretary

Incipit Diplomatic:

De nos malheurs enfin le ciel a pris pitié

Incipit Modernised:

De nos malheurs enfin le ciel a pris pitié

Language(s):

In Voltaire’s Hand:

Partly

Brief Summary:

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.

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Physical Description

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Extent:

30 ff.

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3

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Binding:

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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History

Date:

Pre-September 1777

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Bibliography

Bibliography:

Fernand Caussy, Inventaire des manuscrits de la bibliothèque de Voltaire conservée à la bibliothèque impériale publique de Saint-Pétersbourg (Geneva, Slatkine reprints, 1970)

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Record created by:

Aušra Bukniute

Record created on:

29 August 2024