BIB_ID
119640
Accession number
MA 491
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
1755.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908 or 1909.
Description
1 item (371 p.), bound ; 31.4 cm
Notes
With signed attestations of Markam Sherwill and William Upcott on a preceding leaf. Also with an unsigned note reading "This is a manuscript copy circulated before the book was printed at Louvain" and with a further note signed S. de Ricci "I do not see here a line which is unquestionably in Voltaire's autograph."
Provenance
Markam Sherwill; his sale (London, 1827) to William Upcott; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1908 or 1909.
Summary
A contemporary manuscript copy of the poem, with revisions and corrections, possibly in Voltaire's autograph, throughout. Written on the rectos and versos of 186 leaves.
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