Find marginalia

If you know the title of the work you are looking for, or its date, this page will get you there quickly.

Voltaire’s personal library contains thousands of handwritten marks and notes in his hand or those of his secretaries, as well as inserted paper markers (signets), many of which also bear notes. These marginalia are revealing about what he thought of a given work or its author and tell us much about how he used what he read as raw material for his own writings.

Browse the list of works below, or start typing in the box to find marginalia relating to a specific title or author. You can use any word from the title, from the beginning, middle or end.

The list can be sorted alphabetically (from A to Z or from Z to A) by either author or title, by clicking on each column heading.

Annotator

Reset

CN no.arrow_drop_up	Author:	Title:
1		À nosseigneurs de Parlement en la Grand’chambre assemblée. [Pour H.-G. de Briqueville de La Luzerne, contre Ch.-J.-E. Mauger de la Maugerie]. [Paris], [1776], (Dans: Pot-pourry 77 Arrets et edits contre les parlements). 9–341 (No 1).
1	Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux	Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas. Lutrin: A Mock-Heroic pœm. In six canto’s. Render’d into English Verse. To which is prefix’d some Account of Boileau’s Writings, and this Translation. By N. Rowe. London, 1708. (Relié avec Garth, S. The Dispensary). 6.30.8.4.
1	Herodotus	HERODOTUS. The History of Herodotus. Translated from the Greek. By Isaac Littlebury. Vol. 1. London, 1709. 7.69.7.12.
2	Jacques Abbadie	Abbadie, Jacques. Traité de la vérité de la religion chrétienne, où l’on établit la religion chrétienne par ses propres caractères. T. 1–3. La Haye, 1750. 1–38 (No 6).
2	Luís de Camões	Camoẽs, Louis de. La Lusiade de Louis Camoëns; poëme héroïque, en dix chants, nouvellement traduit du portugais [par M. de La Harpe], avec des notes et la Vie de l’Auteur. T. 1–2. Paris, 1776. 6.59.7.43.
2	Nathaniel Hooke	[HOOKE, Nathaniel]. An Account of the conduct of the Dowager Duchess of Marlborough, from her first coming to court, to the year 1710. In a letter from herself to my Lord. London, 1742. 12.50.7.33.
3		Abrégé de la vie, des vertus et des miracles du bienheureux Séraphin d’Ascoli, ou de Monte Granario, religieux lai, profès de l’Ordre des capucins. Tiré de la Secrétairerie de la Congrégation des rites et traduit du latin imprimé à Rome en 1767 … Besançon, [1768]. (Dans: Pot poury 73). 11–141 (No 8).
3	John Keill	KEILL, John. An Introduction to the True astronomy: or astronomical lectures, read in the astronomical school of the University of Oxford. London, 1721. 5.10.6.61.
3	Miguel de Cervantes	Cervantes Saavedra, Miguèl de. Vida y hechos del Ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha, … T. 1–4. Haia, 1744. 6.20.6.26.
4		An Account of the execution of the late Laurence earl Ferrers, viscount Tamworth, and of His Lordship’s behaviour, from the time of his being delivered into the custody of the sheriffs of London and Middlesex, until the time of his execution. London, 1760. (Dans: Pot pourri [XXXVI]). 9–338 (No 9).

Results per page

expand_more