IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 225: From Myth to Memory: The Lost Medieval Libraries of Chartres
Monday 2 July 2018, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (IRHT), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris / Renaissance virtuelle des manuscrits brûlés de Chartres Project |
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| Organiser: | Joanna Frońska, Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (IRHT), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris |
| Moderator/Chair: | Isabelle Bretthauer, Centre de Recherches Archéologiques et Historiques Anciennes et Médiévales (CRAHAM), Université de Caen Basse-Normandie |
| Paper 225-a | Remembering the Beginnings of a Lost Library: The Case of Saint-Père-en-Vallée (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Bibliography, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 225-b | The New Chapter Library of Chartres and the Binding Campaign of 1415 (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Bibliography, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 225-c | Augustin Dupuy's Inventory of c. 1600: Imagining Space of the Chapter Library of Chartres (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Bibliography, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | The Library of Chartres, accidentally destroyed in May, 1944, and hardly accessible to scholars since has been for a long time shrouded in myths. Two beliefs are still alive. First that all manuscripts have perished. Second that they contained many works of the masters of the famous cathedral school of Chartres. Research conducted by the Institut de Recherche et d'histoire des Textes in Paris since 2006 has shown that both are inexact. Out of 518 medieval manuscripts once preserved in the library, 214 have been identified among extant fragments. Their study allows a better understanding of the intellectual, religious, and economic life at Chartres throughout a long period of time and gives an insight into the formation and growth of the collections of manuscripts. This session will explore the history of two Chartrean libraries, the cathedral chapter library and that of the Benedictine monastery of Saint-Père-en-Vallée. |