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.
Detailed Summary:
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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Physical Description
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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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