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Title

Herode et Mariamne : tragedie / de M. de Voltaire.

Author

Voltaire, 1694-1778

Publication

• A Paris, quay des Augustins : Chez Noel Pissot, à la descente du Pont-Neuf, à la Croix d'or, et François Flahault, du côté du pont. S. Michel, au Roy de Portugal, MDCCXXV [1725]
• [Paris] : De l'imprimerie de Louis Sèvestre, pont S. Michel.

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Additional Authors

• Pissot, Noël, -1727
• Flahault, François
• Sevestre, Louis, 1651?-1733?
• Martin J. Gross Collection.

Description

[20], 95, [5] pages; 20 cm (8vo)

Subjects

• Mariamne, consort of Herod I, King of Judea, approximately 57 B.C.-approximately 29 B.C > Drama
• Herod > I, > King of Judea, > 73 B.C.-4 B.C > Drama

Note

• "Le prix est de 30 sols ... Avec privilege du Roy." Privilege, dated July 21, 1724: 4 pages at end (not present in all copies).
• Title page epigraph: "Aestuat ingens imo in corde pudor, mixto quae [sic] insania luctu, et furiis agitatus amor, &c." Some copies have a revised setting of gathering pi, in which "mixto quae" on title page is corrected to "mixtoque" and the list of "Acteurs" on preliminary page 20 is augmented by two roles following "Suite d'Hérode." Several other minor variations (in gatherings ã, C and F) were apparently introduced while this edition was in the press; for detailed account, see Freyne (cited below).
• NYPL copy: Gathering pi in original state, with "mixto quae" in epigraph and without addtions to "Acteurs." Of other variations mentioned by Freyne, NYPL copy has original readings except for the corrections "Mithridate," preliminary page 16, and "reconnoissance," page 36.
• The first authorized edition, preceded by two unauthorized edtions (Freyne 25CB and 25X). Afterwards published in revised form under title: Mariamne.
• A counterfeit of this edition (Freyne 25Pc) reprints the text line for line but uses different ornaments, with unsigned woodcut headpieces; other distinguishing points include the lack of a full stop folowing "pont" in Flahault's address on title page.
• On title page, publisher's names are joined by an accolade following "Chez."
• Printer's imprint from colophon, leaf F8v.
• One of the copies seen by Bengesco (BN no. 929; BnF Rés. p-Yf-393, available online via Gallica) contains an additional preliminary bifolium, unsigned, containing 3 blank pages and a dedication "A la Reine."
• Signatures: pi² (pi1+ã⁸) A-F⁸ chi².
• Type flower title page ornament; woodcut headpieces and tailpiece; type flower tailpieces and rules; factotums. Headpieces comprise a cut signed V.LS, used for the preface and acts 1-4, and a cut signed PIB (PIR?), used for act 5.

Indexed In (note)

• BN
• BnF
• Thomas, D.H. Major French authors in Oxford libraries 1526-1800
• Bengesco, G. Voltaire
• Freyne, M. Hérode et Mariamne, manuscripts and editions. (In Voltaire. Works, 1968-, v. 3C, pages 120-172)

Provenance (note)

• [Isidore-Florimond] Marié de Toulle (armorial bookplate).

Call Number

*KGV 13-137

OCLC

8524798

Author

Voltaire, 1694-1778, author.

Title

Herode et Mariamne : tragedie / de M. de Voltaire.

Publisher

A Paris, quay des Augustins : Chez Noel Pissot, à la descente du Pont-Neuf, à la Croix d'or, et François Flahault, du côté du pont. S. Michel, au Roy de Portugal, MDCCXXV [1725]

Manufacturer

[Paris] : De l'imprimerie de Louis Sèvestre, pont S. Michel.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

BN, v. 214, col. 693, no. 927-930

BnF FRBNF31602887 http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb316028874/

Thomas, D.H. Major French authors in Oxford libraries 1526-1800, page 211

Bengesco, G. Voltaire, I, no. 19

Freyne, M. Hérode et Mariamne, manuscripts and editions. (In Voltaire. Works, 1968-, v. 3C, pages 120-172), 25P

Provenance

[Isidore-Florimond] Marié de Toulle (armorial bookplate). NN

Local Note

NYPL copy: Seven-line manuscript inscription on verso of page 95, in an unidentified contemporary hand, giving an earlier version of Herod's final speech, as in the first unauthorized editions, which were perhaps based on the earliest performances. See Freyne's edition of Hérode et Mariamne (Voltaire. Works, 1968-, v. 3C), page 303; page 120.

With: Voltaire. Œedipe ... Seconde edition ... A Paris : Chez Pierre Ribou ... et Jacques Ribou, fils, MDCCXIX [1719]. -- Destouches, Néricault. Le philosophe marié, ou Le mary honteux de l'être. A Paris : Chez François Le Breton ..., MDCCXXVII [1727].

Martin J. Gross Collection.

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Place of Publication

France Paris.

Added Author

Pissot, Noël, -1727, publisher.

Flahault, François, publisher.

Sevestre, Louis, 1651?-1733?, printer.

Marié de Toulle, Isidore-Florimond, -1792, former owner.

Martin J. Gross Collection.

Research Call Number

*KGV 13-137