Voltaire, 1694-1778. Essai historique et critique sur les dissentions des églises de Pologne
Treatise on the conflicts in the churches of Poland
- HMML ID
- 449454645172
- PURL
- LC access point
- Voltaire, 1694-1778. Essai historique et critique sur les dissentions des églises de Pologne
- VIAF
Variants
- Essai historique et critique sur les dissensions des Églises de Pologne
Work information
- Title
- Essai historique et critique sur les dissentions des églises de Pologne
- Author
- Date published
- 1767
- Centuries
- 18th century CE
- Original languages
Associated names
- Associated names
- Fakhr, Ḥannā Mīkhāʼīl, active 19th century (Translator)
- Voulgaris, Eugenios, 1716-1806 (Translator)
- Sīdʹhum, ʻAbd al-Masīḥ, active 19th century (Translator)
- Fakhr, Bāsīlī ibn Yūsuf, active 1815-1818 (Translator)
Versions
- Expression
- Voltaire, 1694-1778. Essai historique et critique sur les dissentions des églises de Pologne. Arabic
- Language
- Arabic
- Title
- Khulāṣat al-qaḍāyā al-tārīkhīyah wa-al-mushājarāt al-wāqiʻah fī kanāʼis Būlūniyā
- HMML native script
- خلاصة القضايا التاريخية والمشاجرات الواقعة في كنائس بولونيا
- Alternate titles
- Iḥtimāl al-madhhab
- Translator
- Incipit
- إنه من قبل تعريفي العامة بطريق الاستقامة عن الخلافات التي بسببها انشقت اليوم كنائس بولونيا
- Alternate incipits
- الحمد لله الذي من علينا بالإيمان نعمة منه وأفضالا
- اعلم أيها المحب المطالعة بأن هذا الكتاب برز إلى الوجود
- Description
- Translated into Arabic from the Greek translation of the original French
- Expression
- Voltaire, 1694-1778. Essai historique et critique sur les dissentions des églises de Pologne. Modern Greek
- Language
- Greek, Modern
- Title
- Peri tōn dichonoiōn tōn en tais ekklēsiais tēs Polonias Dokimion historikon kai kritikon
- HMML native script
- Περ̀ι τῶν διχονοιν τῶν εν ταις ̓Εκκλησ́ιαις τὴς Πολον́ιας δοκ́ιμιον ̔ιστορικ̀ον κὰι κριτικ́ον
- Date created
- 1768
- Translator
- Expression
- Voltaire, 1694-1778. Essai historique et critique sur les dissentions des églises de Pologne. French
- Language
- French
- Title
- Essai historique et critique sur les dissentions des églises de Pologne
- Date created
- 1767
- Incipit
- Avant de donner au public une idée juste des différents qui divisent aujourd'hui la Pologne
Publication history
First printed in Basel in 1767, under the pseudonym Joseph Bourdillon.
General notes
- Citations
- Voltaire, Peri tōn dichonoiōn tōn en tais ekklēsiais tēs Polonias Dokimion historikon kai kritikon, trans. Archbishop Voulgaris (Leipzig, 1768).
- Citations
- Joseph Bourdillon, Essai historique et critique sur les dissentions des eglises de Pologne (Basel, 1767), https://www.google.com/books/edition/Essai_historique_et_critique_sur_les_dis/DnxzQwAACAAJ.
- Description
- خلاصة القضايا التاريخية والمشاجرات الواقعة في كنايس بولونيا=Khulāṣat al-qaḍāyā al-tārīkhīyah wa-al-mushājarāt al-wāqiʻah fī kanāʼis Būlūniyā; Translated into Arabic from the Greek translation of the original French by 3 translators. Arabic translation in hand is preceded by 2 introductions: one by Fakhr, Bāsīlī ibn Yūsuf, active 1815-1818 (the primary translator from Greek into Arabic), and the other by Voulgaris, Eugenios, 1716-1806 (translator from French into Greek) who also annotated the text and commented on it. His introduction, annotations, and comments are translated into Arabic. Comments are entitled Iḥtimāl al-madhhab=احتمال المذهب. Voulgaris significantly adapted and expanded this text when he translated it into Greek. Most significantly, he added his own essay on religious tolerance, entitled Schediasma peri tēs anexithrēskeias. It seems that this essay is likely what Fakhr means when he refers to the text as Iḥtimāl al-madhhab.
- Citations
- MARI 00187, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, accessed June 13, 2023, https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/607480.
Preferred citation
"Voltaire, 1694-1778. Essai historique et critique sur les dissentions des églises de Pologne." HMML Authority File. Hill Museum & Manuscript Library. Last modified April 26, 2024. https://w3id.org/haf/work/449454645172
Change notes
- Date added
- 2023-06-13
- Last edited
- 2024-04-26