Details

Standardized Title:

Pucelle d'Orléans. English

Subjects:

Joan, of Arc, Saint, 1412-1431 -- Poetry.
Joan, of Arc, Saint, 1412-1431.
French poetry -- 18th century -- Translations into English.
French poetry.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Poems.
Translations (documents)
Manuscripts, European.
Manuscripts, English.
Poetry.

Language:

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

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.

Contents:

1. f.iii recto-v verso: The preface / by Dom. Apuleius Risorius, a Benedictine monk.
2. f.1r-28r: Canto the first.
3. f.29r-59r: Canto the second.
4. f.60r-87r: Canto the third.
5. f.88r-126r: Canto the fourth.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. ii recto).
Foliation: Paper, 140; [i-vi, 1], 2-8, [9-134 (127-134 blank)]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
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.
Decoration: Canto introductions in red ink; in the notes, names, words in French or Latin, and quotations in faded red ink.
Binding: 18th-century quarter calf with marbled boards.
Origin: Written in England after 1796 (date of publication of source, f. ii recto).

Penn Provenance:

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

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 50 (Ms. English 7).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 217.

OCLC:

122479984