Recueil of pieces relating to Christianity, compiled largely by Voltaire, c.1770
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CMV35344
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MS Voltaire 002 (Lee), ‘Fragmens philosophiques : de la Collection d’anciens évangiles, avec trois autres pièces.’
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Recueil of pieces relating to Christianity, compiled largely by Voltaire, c.1770
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932069389
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Si nous voulons savoir au juste en quel tems n’aquit moyse
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No
Brief Summary:
Recueil of pieces relating to Christianity, compiled largely by Voltaire, c.1770.
Detailed Summary:
The compilation includes the following texts: Anonymous, Vie de Moyse; Notice et fragmens de cinquante évangiles; Évangile de la naissance de Marie; Protévangile attribué à Jacques surnommé le Juste, frère du Seigneur; Évangile de l’enfance du Christ; Évangile de l’enfance; Évangile du disciple Nicodème; Deux lettres de Pilate à l’empereur Tibère; Relation du gouverneur Pilate touchant Jesus-Christ Notre Seigneur, envoyée à l’empereur Tibère qui était à Rome; Extrait de Jean d’Antioche; Relation de Marcel, des choses merveilleusses et des actes des bienheureux apôtres Pierre & Paul, et des artes magiques de Simon le magicien; Le dîner du comte de Boulainvilliers; Sur les imposteurs en général. The main section, consisting of eleven pieces, is said to have been compiled by Voltaire. Ten of these texts were published as Cellection d’anciens évangiles in London/Amsterdam, 1769, whilst Voltaire’s Le dîner du comte de Boulainvilliers was published in 1767. They have all been copied in the same, neat hand. Two different hands have added the remaining texts to the beginning and ending of the supposed Voltaire collection.
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[16] + 348 + [92] pp,
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Height: 210 mm
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Bound in contemporary stained leather with a smooth gilt spine featuring a black leather label. An acorn tool has been used in compartments divided by pentaglyph and metope-style, and wave rolls. There are stone-marbled end papers.
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Undecorated
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Three notes, written in two different hands, have been added to the flyleaf verso. The first reads: ‘pensées “non publici saporis” sont des pensées philosophiques qu’on ne doit faire connaître au peuple. Bayle a employé cette expression’. The second reads: ‘il exists deux histories de la vie de Jesu Christ, l’une publiée par Vagensel, et l’autre par Haldrie, ayant pour titre: Sepher Toledos Jesu’. The third reads: ‘Kortholt a fait le fameux livre intitulé: De tribus impostoribus magnis liber’. Bibliographical references and additional notes have been included in the left-hand margins throughout, occasionally linked to the main text through the use of corresponding symbols. There are a seriesof corrections throughout in the form of corrected text being written over the top of incorrect text, additional text added superscript, and crossings out. Several words and phrases have been underlined throughout.
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History
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c.1770
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Owned by J. Patrick Lee.
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Acquired by J. Patrick Lee from Llbreira Antiquària Comellas in Barcelona in 2003. Later acquired by McGill University in 2013 as part of the J. Patrick Lee Voltaire Collection (Item number 2097).
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