Copy of Ecclesiastes
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COPY-OF-ECCLESIASTES
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5-240 (III, f.252-254), ‘Copie de l’Ecclésiaste’
Title:
Copy of Ecclesiastes
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas
Incipit Modernised:
Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas
In Own Hand:
Partly
Brief Summary:
The manuscript is a copy of Ecclesiastes, with the incipit written in Voltaire’s hand, and the remainder in Wagnière’s handwriting.
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Physical Description
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3 ff.
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2
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The manuscript is bound with other documents in contemporary red morocco.
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After Voltaire’s death, the MS passed into the ownership of Catherine II and remained in the imperial and then national collection thereafter.
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This MS was probably taken to St Petersburg by Wagnière in the summer of 1779 along with the rest of Voltaire’s library.
Bibliography
Bibliography:
Fernand Caussy, Inventaire des manuscrits de la bibliothèque de Voltaire conservée à la bibliothèque impériale publique de Saint-Pétersbourg (Geneva, Slatkine reprints, 1970), p.18.
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