Autograph essay titled ‘Du théisme’, 1776
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CMV34717
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MA 490, ‘Du théisme : autograph manuscript essay, [1776].’
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Autograph essay titled ‘Du théisme’, 1776
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Brief Summary:
Autograph essay titled ‘Du théisme’, 1776.
Detailed Summary:
The essay constitutes a draft of Chapter 26 of Voltaire’s Histoire de l’établissement du christianisme.
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8 pp.
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Height: 235 mm
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The MS is unbound and stored in a blue cloth drop-spine box. It was previously bound in black morocco gilt and lettered with the following by Stikeman: ‘Manuscript of the essay on Theism by Voltaire’. The upper cover of this binding is kept with the MS.
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1776
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Purchased from Hellman in New York by Pierpont Morgan in 1908.
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