The team was, I think, from the Pontifical Institute in Toronto, where the
microfilm of at least one of the Chartres MSS survives in good shape. The
bibliotheque in Chartres still holds the copyright, but the Institute has
permission to duplicate and sell the microfilm.
John Parsons
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Dawn,
>
> Many thanks for your reply, and especially for that vivid account of the
> Chartres MS. sheets burning in the air, a finale worthy of Eco's blazing
> library. Another story I heard from an informed diocesan source while I was
> working in the Chartres archives was that a (Canadian?) team had arrived
> shortly before the war to film--microfilm?--some important MSS. After doing so,
> they left, only to discover that their equipment was faulty.
>
> Gary Dickson
> University of Edinburgh
>
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