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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Auteur principal: Toulet, Emmanuelle
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Publié: 2005
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spelling cairn-BUBIB_341_0023BUBIBBulletin du bibliophile https://shs.cairn.info/revue-bulletin-du-bibliophile-2005-1-page-11?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/bubib.341.0023 Les expositions de manuscrits : l’exploration progressive d’une collection Toulet, Emmanuelle2005 fre Bulletin du bibliophile | - | 1 | 2005-01-02 | p. 11-63 | 0399-9742 BUBIB_34181 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.Cairn restricted access
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description 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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Les expositions de manuscrits : l’exploration progressive d’une collection
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title_short Les expositions de manuscrits : l’exploration progressive d’une collection
title_full Les expositions de manuscrits : l’exploration progressive d’une collection
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