Janice Pinder wrote:
>I'm not sure how the Clarisses managed to keep at least some of their
manuscripts--there may be some account for Amiens in Jean Desobry, _Un Aspect
peu connu de la Révolution française de 1789 à Amiens_, Amiens: Société des
antiquaires de Picardie, 1986.
Thanks, Janice.
Looks like there's not a copy of Desobry in all of Indiana, so I'll not
be able to scratch my idlely curious itch any time soon.
I'll take it from the title that something rather unusual happened in
this case.
I've thought about it a bit more and still cannot recall comming across any
mention of any other substantial ecclesiastical archives escaping the
revolutionary net/fire; but, everything doesn't always happen the way one
would like, even in the best of revolutions, I suppose...
In the Eure-et-Loire (Chartres), to the best of my knowledge, only the
odd private collection of one or a few original mss seems to have turned up
now and again, perhaps donated to the Archives or to a local societé
(I know of one unpublished 12th c. charter found in the 1880's, now in
the hands of the Soc. Arch. of Chateaudun, for example). Pretty thin gruel.
And, of course, there are considerable archive materials--cartularlies
and suchlike--in England, the result of a few avid English collectors who
purchased mss as they came up on the market for sale during or after the
revolution. The Clarisses' stuff might have gone through this route, one way
or another.
Of course art historians are always turning up bits of sculpture and whatknot
in people's gardens (and a few years ago Terryl Kinder found a quite wonderful
map/view of Pontigny in someone's chicken coop!)--so there's really no telling
what might be out there, lurking in the non-academic shadows.
>The photographic material is all held at Orléans. On the whole, what
it contains is "literary" texts, so not notarial records, for example.
In Paris (40, av. d'Iéna, 75016 Paris) there are card-files in each department
(e.g.Sections Romane, Latine, Codicologie) arranged by manuscript, with a
note on the card when there is a microfilm or photograph....
Thanks. I always wondered what they were up to.
>In theory there is a web-page for Orléans,
http://rosalie.cnrs-orleans.fr/LABO/
>This address is a list of CNRS laboratories, with a link to the IRHT but when
I tried it I didn't get anywhere. You might have better luck.
I did, sort of.
The link is to
http://irht.cnrs-orleans.fr
which is the root of the url which Jim Bugslag posted a few days ago and
which worked when I pasted it in to another netscape window.
The site seems to be oriented towards guiding potential (material rather than
virtual) visitors, e.g.:
"L'IRHT sera fermé du 2 au 15 août 1999 inclus."
(I'll try and keep that in mind)
and, there is a remakably, breathtakingly ugly (though informative) map:
http://irht.cnrs-orleans.fr/pages/planirht.htm
which (thankfully) disappears when you click on it.
I've yet to find the part about what they might have for sale, but I'll keep
looking.
Thanks again.
Best from here,
Christopher
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