Saül et David, d’après l’anglais intitulé: The man after God’s own heart imprimé chez Robert Freeman, in Pater Noster row, 1760
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CMV33877
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5-240 (I, f.370-404), ‘Saül et David, d’après l’anglais intitulé: The man after God’s own heart imprimé chez Robert Freeman, in Pater Noster row, 1760’
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Saül et David, d’après l’anglais intitulé: The man after God’s own heart imprimé chez Robert Freeman, in Pater Noster row, 1760
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Incipit Diplomatic:
O grand Saul! le plus puissant de rois; vois qui régnez sur les tris lacs dans l’espace de plus cinq cents stades
Incipit Modernised:
O grand Saul! le plus puissant de rois; vois qui régnez sur les tris lacs dans l’espace de plus cinq cents stades
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Brief Summary:
This is a contemporary copy, with Acts I and II in Wagnière’s hand and Acts III and IV in Bigeux’s hand. The text is almost identical to L’Evangile de la raison.
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35 ff.
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The manuscript is bound with other documents in contemporary red morocco.
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History
Date:
1762
Ownership:
After Voltaire’s death, the MS passed into the ownership of Catherine II and remained in the imperial and then national collection thereafter.
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Provenance:
This MS was probably taken to St Petersburg by Wagnière in the summer of 1779 along with the rest of Voltaire’s library.
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)
OCV Reference:
56A, Saul, drame p.459-540
OCV Manuscript Reference:
56, ‘MS1’, p.435
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