‘Les quatre parties du jour’

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LES-QUATRE-PARTIES-DU-JOUR

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5-240 (II, f.142-151), ‘Les quatre parties du jour, poème, ‘par Saint-Lambert’’

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‘Les quatre parties du jour’

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Incipit Diplomatic:

Le Matin. / Je chante le palais des heures

Incipit Modernised:

Le Matin. / Je chante le palais des heures

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Partly

Brief Summary:

The manuscript is a poem ‘Les quatre parties du jour’ by Saint-Lambert. The title includes the phrase ‘par Saint-Lambert’, written in Voltaire’s hand.

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10 ff.

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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.11.

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