Janice Pinder wrote:
>> -A Poligny, monastere, archives du couvent des clarisses d'Amiens
(ferme)deposees a Poligny
>...refers to the archives of the convent at Amiens, which no longer
exists....
ahhhh.... fermé, alors.
I was warned about the missing diacriticals.
"farm" indeed.
duh.
>This is a private archive, not a public research library, so you need to get
permission from the Sisters at Poligny to consult it.
Anselm Cramer wrote:
>For what it is worth, the English Benedictine archives from Cambrai and
Douai are (mostly?) in L'Archive du Nord at Lille....
Yes, I believe that this would be the standard situation for virtually
all of France--the pre-revolutionary documents housed in the AD of the
département *in which the house itself* was situated.
E.g., an immense number of original charters concerning the hundreds of
priories of Marmoutiers survived until 1790 in a muniments room at Marmoutiers
itself--or so I understand--and were subsequently dispersed
to the various newly-established départemental archives in the départements
where those priories actually were situated;
on the other hand, there were also cartularies (books made up of copies
of charters) for the various "regions" (I don't know what they were
called by the Marmoutiersistas themselves)--e.g., one for the Dunois, one for
the Blesois, for the region around Chartres, etc.
And those which survived were deposée in either the Bibliotheque
nationale or, perhaps, the Archives nationales.
Perhaps the same dispersal was done for the Cluniac charters and other,
smaller "congregations"?
I'd be curious to know the circumstances under which the Franciscans retained
(or regained) their medieval documents.
Such a thing is quite unusual, as far as I know.
>The Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes in Paris has the
contents of the archive on microfilm, but you still need the nuns'
permission to consult it.
I understand that there is a large depository of microfilmed documents in the
Institut's archives at Orléans also.
Do you, Janice (or anyone else) know how extensive these holdings in
Paris and Orléans are and where one might find a catalogue of them?
Is it possible to buy copies of the films?
Best from here,
Christopher
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