Reconstructing Mazarin's Library / Libraries in Time and Space Sources, Tools and Hypotheses

The author launched a project to virtually reconstruct the two successive libraries of Cardinal Mazarin in Paris. The first, maybe the largest book collection of the western world at that time (from 40,000 to 56,000 books), which was scattered during the Fronde in 1652; the second, which had been de...

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Published inQuaerendo no. 46
Main Author Sordet, Yann
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Brill Academic Publishers 01.01.2016
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Cultural heritage and museology
History
Humanities and Social Sciences
Library and information sciences
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Summary:The author launched a project to virtually reconstruct the two successive libraries of Cardinal Mazarin in Paris. The first, maybe the largest book collection of the western world at that time (from 40,000 to 56,000 books), which was scattered during the Fronde in 1652; the second, which had been developed from 1653 and had been settled in a long gallery newly built in Mazarin's palace, of which very few architectural elements remain today. The digital edition and the analysis of the seventeenth-century inventories are combined with research on the history of the Palais Mazarin, to better know the development, content, arrangement and transmission of the library.
ISSN:0014-9527
1570-0690