Contemporary copy of La Pucelle d’Orleans with revisions and corrections possibly in Voltaire’s hand throughout, 1755
Identifiers
CMV:
CMV34627
Repository:
Shelfmark:
MA 491, ‘La pucelle d’Orleans : poëme heroë-comique par Mr. de Voltaire : contemporary manuscript copy, 1755.’
Title:
Contemporary copy of La Pucelle d’Orleans with revisions and corrections possibly in Voltaire’s hand throughout, 1755
Collection(s):
Link to Archive Catalogue:
Link to Digital Resource:
OCLC Number:
Reproductions:
Content
People:
Incipit Diplomatic:
Incipit Modernised:
Language(s):
In Voltaire’s Hand:
Partly
Brief Summary:
Contemporary copy of La Pucelle d’Orleans with revisions and corrections possibly in Voltaire’s hand throughout, 1755.
Detailed Summary:
A marginal note in the MS notes that the copy ‘circulated before the book was printed at Louvain’.
Keyword(s):
Genre(s):
Status:
Physical Description
Material(s):
Extent:
186 ff.
Format:
Dimensions:
Height: 314 mm
Hands:
Watermark:
Countermark:
Binding:
Bound in quarter red leather over tan cloth covered boards.
Additional Comments:
Materiality Keywords:
Decorations:
Additions:
Markam Sherwill and William Upcott have added signed attestations to the MS. There is a marginal note on the provenance of the MS, and a second signed note from S. de Ricci who remarks: ‘I do not see here a line which is unquestionably in Voltaire’s autograph’. There are a number of corrections throughout, possibly in Voltaire’s hand.
Marginalia Keywords:
Inclusions:
History
Date:
1755
Ownership:
Owned by Markam Sherwill, William Upcott, and S. de Ricci.
Origin (transcript):
Origin:
Provenance:
Passed at the Markam Sherwill sale in London in 1827 where it was purchased by William Upcott. Later purchased in 1908/09 from J. Pearson & Co. in London by Pierpont Morgan.
Bibliography
Bibliography:
OCV Reference:
OCV Manuscript Reference:
Record created by:
Record created on: