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Extracts from Voltaire, 1760, and from Hume on English history : Miscellany 1760.
Literary Manuscripts Leeds: Sources from The Brotherton Library, University of Leeds Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Voltaire, author.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (91 ff.).
- Summary:
- Comprises notes on some of the salient events in mainly English history from Ethelred to Queen Anne, extracted from a translation of Voltaire's writings, with notes on China and Charlemagne's time on f. 1, followed on ff. 16-17 by similar notes extracted from Hume's writings on some selected events from Richard III's days to those of James II
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference:Lt q 45
- The compiler of these extracts is unknown. Probably written in a single hand. Ff.1v, 9v-11v, and 19v-91 are blank, and ff.18r-19r have only a ruled line drawn on them. On f.1r there is a note in blue pencil which reads 'Destroy'
- Local Notes:
- Bound in boards.
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