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Title

La Pucelle, or the Maid of Orleans

Authors

• Voltaire, 1694-1778

Call number

Ms. Codex 217
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2486440
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486440

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

English, translated from French, with words and phrases in French and Latin in the notes

Origin

Place

England, after 1796

Summary

Cantos 1-4 only of Voltaire's poem about Joan of Arc, transcribed directly from the privately printed 1796-1797 translation. There are a number of annotations and corrections in ink and in pencil in the text.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. ii recto).
   

Extent

140 leaves : 371 x 236 mm. bound to 388 x 254 mm

Foliation

Paper, 140; [i-vi, 1], 2-8, [9-134 (127-134 blank)]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

18th-century quarter calf with marbled boards.

Layout

Written in up to 18 lines of verse, with poem text on rectos and notes on facing versos.

Script

Written in cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Sold by H. M. Fletcher (London), 1951.
   

Subjects topical

• French poetry--18th century--Translations into English

Genres

• Codices
• Poems
• Translations
• Manuscripts, European
• Manuscripts, English--18th century

Licenses

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