Seventeenth-Century Treasure Hunter in the Rubble of a Ninth-Century Library: Gathering Fragments and the History of Libraries
Pierre Chambert-Protat
Among the few major Carolingian libraries that are rather well preserved, Lyon’s Cathedral Chapter Library presents a specific challenge: its fragmentation and dispersion have long hindered studies on constituent manuscripts, because they were scattered across distant libraries. Nowadays, digitization lifts greater part of material obstacles, virtual reconstructions makes it possible to study damaged manuscripts almost as if their fragments still preserved together. While accompanying such display Fragmentarium, this paper intends highlight importance an individual XVIIth century collector, Étienne Baluze, in salvaging from Lyon library. Through example is shown how very preservation status within larger ensembles can reveal information librarians, collectors, collections, whom belonged, own history.
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