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Title: [Manuscript notes on Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique]
Alternative Title: Dictionnaire philosophique
Creator: Jamet, François Louis
Voltaire
Date Created and/or Issued: [about 1766]
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern Annotated Books from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: 1765 copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique with extensive annotations and underscoring throughout by Louis-François Jamet. Includes mention by Jamet of the printer on t.p.: "c.à.d. à Nanci de l'imprimerie de Jean Batiste Hiacinte Leclerc, par les soins de Claude-François Cognet avocat en la cour souveraine de Lorraine, reçu en 1740, qui m'a doné cet exemplaire relié le 19 mai 1766." Jamet's annotations provide commentary on the text, cross-reference other books (as well as Jamet's own notes and annotated volumes), occasionally correct the printed text, and augment Voltaire's Dictionnaire with additional entries, including those on Aaron, Baisers, David, Deluge, Diogene, and Merveilleux (among others).
Scope/Content: On front free endpaper, in later hand: "Vente Potier, mars 1870. no. 283."; formerly in the library of Claude Lebédel.
Type: text
Format: ink on paper
Form/Genre: Annotations (Provenance)--France--18th century
marginalia (annotations)
Extent: [8], 336 pages, bound ; 20 cm
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1131f
B 42 .V55 1765 *
Language: French
fre
Subject: Philosophy--Dictionaries--French
Place: Paris, France
48.85341, 2.3488
Location: CLUW

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