Secretarial copy of ‘Vie de Monsieur Jean-Baptiste Rousseau’, 1738

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CMV36550

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NAF 23808 (fol.112-136)

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Secretarial copy of ‘Vie de Monsieur Jean-Baptiste Rousseau’, 1738

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Voltaire: Author
Unknown: Copyist

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Brief Summary:

Secretarial copy of ‘Vie de Monsieur Jean-Baptiste Rousseau’, 1738.

Detailed Summary:

The MS was produced in the second half of the eighteenth century. A note at the top of the MS states that the text was finished in 1738. The MS is contained within a modern recueil titled ‘Mélanges historique, littéraires et bibliographiques’. Variants within the text were not copied after printing.

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25 ff.

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The paper is countermarked with the name ‘I [heart] Cusson’ within a cartouche.

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Second half of c.18th

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Bibliography

Bibliography:

Raymond Gaudriault, Filigranes (Paris, 1995), p.135, pl.127-28).

Andrew Brown, ‘Calendar of Voltaire manuscripts other than correspondence’, SVEC 77 (1970), p.11-102, at p.41.

OCV Reference:

vol.18A, p.1-84

OCV Manuscript Reference:

vol.18A, p.20