Contemporary copy of a letter from Pope Benoît XIV (Prospero Lambertini) to Voltaire, dated 15 September 1745 [D3210]
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CMV34183
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FS 315 C 14, ‘Lettre autographe de Benoît XIV à Voltaire [document manuscrit] : remerciement pour la dédicace de Mahomet’
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Contemporary copy of a letter from Pope Benoît XIV (Prospero Lambertini) to Voltaire, dated 15 September 1745 [D3210]
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Benedictus PP. XIV Dilecte fili, salutem apostolicam et benedictionem.
Incipit Modernised:
Benedictus PP. XIV Dilecte fili, salutem apostolicam et benedictionem.
In Voltaire’s Hand:
Partly
Brief Summary:
Contemporary copy of a letter from Pope Benoît XIV (Prospero Lambertini) to Voltaire, dated 15 September 1745.
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Physical Description
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Extent:
2 ff.
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271 x 197 mm
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2
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Bound with other Voltaire manuscripts in red morocco.
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Voltaire has added a note in his own hand that reads ‘lettre du pape originale’ to the MS.
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History
Date:
15 September 1745
Ownership:
Owned by Alfred Morrison (1821-1897), Georges Blumenthal (1858-1941), and Paul-Auguste-Cyrille de Launoit (1891-1981).
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Part of the Veydt collection. Passed at the Charavay sale in Paris on 17 April 1880 (Lot. 53), before entering the Morrison collection. Passed again at a Sotheby sale in London between 1917 and 1919.
Bibliography
Bibliography:
Jeroom Vercruysse, Inventaire raisonné des manuscrits Voltairiens de la Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier, vol.2 (Turnhout, 1983) p.11.
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