Item MS028 - Works of Voltaire manuscript

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Works of Voltaire manuscript

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    MS028

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    • 1736 (Creation)

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    1 volume containing 3 manuscripts

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    An earlier owner was Robert Montgomery.

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    Fair copy by an unknown hand of Voltaire's poem transcribed from a manuscript in the library of Prince Eugene of Savoy. The volume contains manuscripts of: Epitre a Uranie (8 p.); Le fameux livre des trois imposteurs traduit du latin en françois; Dissertation sur Le livre des trois imposteurs (28 p.); and, Le fameux livre des trois imposteurs traduit du latin en françois. All three manuscripts are bound into one volume. There is no agreement on the authorship of Les trois imposteurs.

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    Manuscript was acquired from Barry Brown in 1960s.

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