Atrée et Thyeste (Les Pélopides)
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CMV33871
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5-240 (I, f.119-155), ‘Atrée et Thyeste’
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Atrée et Thyeste (Les Pélopides)
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Voilà! Donc tout le fruit de tes soins vigilants!
Incipit Modernised:
Voilà! Donc tout le fruit de tes soins vigilants!
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In Voltaire’s Hand:
Partly
Brief Summary:
This manuscript is a copy of Les Pélopides in Wagnière’s hand, under the title of Atrée et Thyeste, with corrections by Voltaire. The title page carries, in the upper left corner, Wagnière’s endorsement ‘bon original’. This manuscript represents an intermediary stage, positioned between TP01 and K84. It incorporates a considerable number of the variants of TP01, whilst removing a few other variants. Among other drafts, it has the denouement found in K84. The manuscript contains minor variants as well.
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37 ff.
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2
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The manuscript is bound with other documents in contemporary red morocco.
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The MS has corrections in Voltaire’s hand. The title page carries, in the upper left corner, Wagnière’s endorsement ‘bon original’.
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History
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19 December 1770-late 1771
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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)
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