Record of variants between the 1736 edition of Alzire and the Beaumarchais edition of the same text, produced by Chrétien-Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes and written in the hand of his secretary Bauffres

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CMV35555

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Lambert-David.1Vvers.3Critiques.5.”Recueil de Malesherbes de la main de Bauffres son secrétaire”

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Record of variants between the 1736 edition of Alzire and the Beaumarchais edition of the same text, produced by Chrétien-Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes and written in the hand of his secretary Bauffres

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Incipit Diplomatic:

Variantes d’alzire del’Edition de 1736 à celle de M. de Beaumarchais.

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Brief Summary:

Record of variants between the 1736 edition of Alzire and the Beaumarchais edition of the same text, produced by Chrétien-Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes and written in the hand of his secretary Bauffres

Detailed Summary:

The MS notes that it was compiled to identify variants between the 1736 edition of Alzire and the Beaumarchais edition of the same text. Examples from each edition are directly compared and contrasted throughout. The exemplars are taken from Acts 1-6.

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4 ff.

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185 x 118 mm

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The MS is bound with blue ribbon.

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Undecorated

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A second, unknown hand has endorsed the MS as ‘recueils de Malesherbes de la main de Bauffre, son secrétaire’ at the top of f.1r.

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c.1785

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Record created by:

Zoe Screti

Record created on:

29 August 2024