5-240 (II, f.194 v°), ‘Note autographe: [V] ‘Remarquez qu’en italien on a une foule de rimes nobles; presque toutes les nôtres sont basses et burlesques.’’
Title:
Remarquez qu’en italien on a une foule de rimes nobles; presque toutes les nôtres sont basses et burlesques’
The manuscript is bound with other documents in contemporary red morocco.
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History
Date:
9 May 1746
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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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)