Recueil of fugitive prose and verse, possibly compiled by Pierre Armand Vallet de Villeneuve in 1747
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CMV35345
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MS Voltaire 035 (Lee), ‘Recueil de pieces fugitives tant en prose qu’en vers.’
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Recueil of fugitive prose and verse, possibly compiled by Pierre Armand Vallet de Villeneuve in 1747
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932131244
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Quelle est celle grotesque ébauche
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No
Brief Summary:
Recueil of fugitive prose and verse, possibly compiled by Pierre Armand Vallet de Villeneuve in 1747
Detailed Summary:
The compilation is a collection of 122 épîtres, épigrammes, épitaphes, chansons, discours, répliques, and contes by a variety of authors. The works of Voltaire are especially prominent. The collection also includes a letter from Voltaire to Jean André Deluc, dating to February 1767 [D13961]. The texts range in date from 1747 to 1785, and some of the chants have staves of music drawn in to accompany them.
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Physical Description
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332 + [116] pp.
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Height: 240 mm
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Bound in contemporary stained calf with a triple fillet border stamped in blind with the name ‘Mr. de Villeneuve’ in gilt on the upper cover. There are gilt double fillet board edges, a gilt spine with floral ornaments, a black title label, and red sprink
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Undecorated
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Footnotes have been added to several poems to identify individuals and texts referenced in the pieces, such as on p.9, p.63, and p.140-162. Marginal notes have been added elsewhere to expand upon the text or identify key passages, including many in pencil in a later hand. There are small corrections to p.215-216, p.220, p.251, p.285, and p.311 in the form of a crossing out and the addition of corrected text superscript. On p.243 and p.271, corrected text has been written over the top of incorrect text where necessary.
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History
Date:
1747-1785
Ownership:
Owned by Louis-Jean-Nicolas Monmerqué (1780-1860), Gustave L. Van Roosbroeck, and J. Patrick Lee.
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Acquired by McGill University in 2013 as part of the J. Patrick Lee Voltaire Collection (Item number 2043).
Bibliography
Bibliography:
Van Roosbroeck, G. L. “An Unknown letter of Voltaire about J. J. Rousseau”, MNL, volume 38, number 4. (April 1923), pages 205-209.
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