Les expositions de manuscrits : l’exploration progressive d’une collection
From an early date the College des Cholets, founded in Paris in 1295, possessed a library for the use of its scholars. This library was unusual in not having benefited at the outset from the bequest of a ‘core collection’ by its founder, cardinal Jean Cholet, who died before being able to oversee th...
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| Shrnutí: | From an early date the College des Cholets, founded in Paris in 1295, possessed a
library for the use of its scholars. This library was unusual in not having benefited at
the outset from the bequest of a ‘core collection’ by its founder, cardinal Jean
Cholet, who died before being able to oversee the birth of the institution to which
his executors gave his name. Besides, no medieval catalogue remains; the first known
inventory is of the 17th century. However more than forty manuscripts and twenty
incunables survive, as well as a number of other indirect medieval sources — wills, discharges, college obituaries - which, along with three modern lists, enable us to
reconstruct its contents. It is hardly surprising that the College, an establishment
intended for theology students, and then from 1301 for arts students as well, possessed a library which was particularly well stocked in these two disciplines. Some
legal works, essential at that period, along with anonymous world chronicles, made
up the collection, which gives us a typical picture of a college where the few slightly
unusual works - Petrarch, Boccaccio, a book on medicine, and more recent legal
textbooks - were acquired by gift rather than by purchase. The College des Cholets
is thus fully representative of the majority of small Parisian colleges of the 14th and
15th centuries, whose libraries’ main function was to allow students to take the
courses and graduate at the university faculties; this was, after all, the purpose for
which they had been set up. |
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