A bibliography of the manuscripts from the Bibliothèque municipale at Chartres
A PDF document contains a bibliography arranged by shelfmark:
Classification framework:
- Shelfmark ; former shelfmark in parentheses ; state of preservation.
- Abbreviated indication of content, based on the Catalogue général des manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques de France, possibly corrected or completed.
- Annotated bibliography, in chronological order.
- Mention of the edition of the manuscript or some of its texts.
- Existing reproductions of the manuscript.
Use the research option in Adobe Acrobat to search for a shelfmark, author, title or owner.
Printed catalogs of the manuscripts from the municipal library of Chartres
The manuscripts were catalogued in the 8th series of the Catalogue général des manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques de France :
- H. Omont, A. Molinier, C. Couderc, E. Coyecque, Catalogue général des manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques de France, t. XI, Paris, 1890.
The volume can be consulted in three parts in PDF format :
Introduction to the history of the collection; edition of ancient inventories (p. I-XLI).
Notices des manuscrits 1-1796, with the exception of two reserved series, mss 815-1000 et 1341-1500 (p. 1-436). The corrections listed in Errata, p. 573 were inserted and are indicated in blue.
Tables : general index and table of contents ; errata (p. 437-573).Use the research option in Adobe Acrobat to search for a shelfmark, author, title or owner.
This catalogue can also be consulted in the Catalogue collectif de France.
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Two typewritten catalogues for the reserved series of shelfmarks (fonds municipal : mss 841-929 ; fonds municipal régional : mss 1368-1500).
- Catalogue général des manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques de France, t. XLI, Paris, 1903, p. 121-147.
Manuscripts 1797-1873, almost all from the modern period.
- Catalogue général des manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques de France, t. LIII, Manuscrits des bibliothèques sinistrées de 1940 à 1944, Paris, 1962, p. 2-5.
The shelfmarks in the inventory of destroyed manuscripts are sometimes incorrect.
Two earlier catalogues can be consulted on the web :
- Gustav-Friedrich Hänel, « Chartres, Bibliothèque de la ville (1826) », dans Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum qui in bibliothecis Galliae, Helvetica, e Belgii, Britanniae M., Hispaniae, Lusitaniae asservantur, Leipzig, 1830, col. 124-138 [available on Google Books and Archive.org.]
Brief introduction, catalogue of the manuscripts, but without shelfmarks.
Catalogue based on that of Charles-Claude-François Hérisson, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque de Chartres, dans l’ordre des siècles où ils ont été écrits, towards 1816 (manuscript, today Chartres, BM, ms. 1715 ; see also ms. 1157).
- Michel Chasles et L.-M.-A. Rossard de Mianville, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque de la Ville de Chartres, Chartres, 1840 [available on Archive.org].
Introduction on the history of the collections.
The shelfmarks correspond to those between parentheses in the Catalogue général of 1890. Detailed descriptions of some manuscripts, such as ms. 498 (142), volume 2 of the Heptateucon of Thierry of Chartres, and the Apothecarius moralis of Saint-Père-en-Vallée, ms. 1036 (H. l. 51).
P. 155-166, « Appendice au n° 411 » by G. Duplessis, today ms. 419.
Indices by author, title, subject.
Two specialized catalogs :
- Catalogus codicum hagiographicorum latinorum Bibliothecae publicae Civitatis Carnotensis, Bruxelles, 1889 (extrait de : Analecta Bollandiana, t. VIII, 1889).
The shelfmarks correspond to those in parentheses in the Catalogue général of 1890.
- Y. Delaporte, Les manuscrits enluminés de la bibliothèque de Chartres, Chartres, 1929.
Catalogue of the most important illuminated manuscripts, arranged chronologically.
Inventory of the illustration and decoration ; 24 plates.
The arms of the Chapter of Chartres (azure with a tunic argent) were stamped on parchment bindings in the 17th century (ms. 149). The tunic of the Virgin is the most precious relic of the cathedral.