Recueil de pieces fugitives tant en prose qu'en vers.
Description
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French
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[France] : [Producer not identified], between 1747 and 1785.
- Summary
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Collection of around 122 épîtres, épigrammes, épitaphes, chansons, discours, répliques, contes, etc. by various authors, in particular Voltaire. On page 203 is a lettre by Voltaire, previously unknown, according to van Roosbroeck, headed "Sur le mot imprudent dont Jean Jacques s'est servi contre M. de Voltaire dans une de ses lettres à M. de Luc 1766. On doutoit qu'il y eut dans cette Lettre imprudent ou impudent." In the margin, Monmerqué has noted "J'ai vainement cherché la lettre à M. DeLuc dans les oeuvres de Rouss. ed. Musset-Parthay." Van Roosbroeck is convinced that the letter is authentic, and he relates it to the quarrel between Voltaire and Rousseau, pointing out that the date, 1766, is a year in which Voltaire's correspondence attacked Rousseau repeatedly.
- Note
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Contemporary stained calf, triple fillet border stamped in blind with the name "Mr. de Villeneuve" stamped in gilt on the upper cover, gilt double fillet board edges, gilt spine with floral ornaments, black title label, red sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers; spine worn, upper cover detached, corners bumped.
Mostly written neatly in several hands, numbered sequentially; some shoulder notes in the same hands and some marginal notes added by Montmerqué according to the catalogue clipping on the front pastedown and the James Cummins description; some of the songs have staves drawn in with the music for them. Manuscript pencil partial list of contents on verso of front free endpaper, pencil notes on flyleaf, and some pencil markings throughout.
Part of the J. Patrick Lee Voltaire Collection acquired by the library in 2013; acquired by Lee from James Cummins Bookseller in 2004 (see Lee Collection inventory binder for this number); the front pastedown bears a clipping from the catalogue of a previous earlier bookseller, possibly the one from whom Gustave L. van Roosbroeck of the University of Minnesota acquired it. Van Roosbroeck refers to the manuscript as being in his possession in an article written in Modern language notes (volume 38, number 4 (April 1923), pages 205-209. He says that at the beginning of the 19th century, the manuscript belonged to M. de Monmerqué who added some of the marginal notes. The original possessor of the manuscript was a "Mr. de Villeneuve," probably the nephew of Mme Dupin, with whom Voltaire became acquainted in 1744, a date close to that of the earliest of the many poems by Voltaire included in the collection, some of which seem unpublished. Van Roosbroeck suggests that Villeneuve may have "received copies of them from Voltaire himself or from one of his secretaries." Villeneuve died imprisoned in the Conciergerie in 1794 during the "Terror."
Includes pieces by Bouflers, Collé, Voltaire, Bernis, de Pegay, Maurepas, and de la Harpe. Manuscript shoulder notes throughout, some attributed to M. de Montmerqué.
Approximate dates from text: earliest dated piece, 1747, latest dated piece, 1785.
Manuscript.
- Physical Description
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332 pages, 116 unnumbered (blank) pages :
music ;
24 cm (4to)
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