De l'usure : mutuu date nihil inde sperantes

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Publication date: 1700

Topics: Manuscripts, French -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal., Sermons, French -- Texts., Religious poetry, French -- 18th century., McGill University Library Digitized Title, Voltaire Manuscript project, Manuscripts, French, Sermons, French, Religious poetry, French

Collection: mcgilluniversity; mcgilluniversityrarebooks; toronto

Contributor: McGill University Library

Language: French; Ancient Greek; Latin; Ancient Greek

14 unnumbered pages, 446 pages, 121 unnumbered pages : 1 illustration ; 20 cm

Manuscript

Title devised by cataloguer suggested by caption on first page

Part of the J. Patrick Lee Voltaire Collection acquired by the library in 2013: item number 2096

Written in a crowded script, mostly by one hand; miniscule marginalia probably in a different hand; numbered sequentially by hand for the bulk of the manuscript; many parts are written in double columns

Two leaves inserted before front free endpaper, next page glued over front free endpaper; index written on verso of front free endpaper in three columns; vestiges of a bookplate that has been peeled off the center column of the index; a small oval engraving has been pasted at the head of page 390

Full bound dark brown mottled leather, raised bands, gilt spine with ornaments,marbled endpapers with scalloped orange borders on pastedowns, vestiges of clasps; back free endpaper wanting, rubbed, corners bumped, many pages loose, some foxing

Extensively annotated notes with marginalia for sermons including advice on "la méthode de prêcher;" includes religious poetry, some with verses divided by double lines

Addeddate: 2017-04-21 19:26:22

Identifier: McGillLibrary-rbsc_voltaire-de-lusure-ms-024-16867

Identifier-ark: ark:/13960/t5w71sz60

Note: Manuscript.
Title devised by cataloguer suggested by caption on first page.
Part of the J. Patrick Lee Voltaire Collection acquired by the library in 2013: item number 2096.
Written in a crowded script, mostly by one hand; miniscule marginalia probably in a different hand; numbered sequentially by hand for the bulk of the manuscript; many parts are written in double columns
Two leaves inserted before front free endpaper, next page glued over front free endpaper; index written on verso of front free endpaper in three columns; vestiges of a bookplate that has been peeled off the center column of the index; a small oval engraving has been pasted at the head of page 390 CaQMM
Full bound dark brown mottled leather, raised bands, gilt spine with ornaments,marbled endpapers with scalloped orange borders on pastedowns, vestiges of clasps; back free endpaper wanting, rubbed, corners bumped, many pages loose, some foxing. CaQMM
Extensively annotated notes with marginalia for sermons including advice on "la méthode de prêcher;" includes religious poetry, some with verses divided by double lines.