Research Programmes and Institutional Partners

• ANR ACRONAVARRE Project (Royal Acts of Navarre in the 15^th-16^th centuries)
• “Filigranes pour tous”
• Calendars from Europe and Asia
• Parisians and Writings from the Middle Ages to the 20^th Century
• The Mazarin Online Library
• Enriching the “Miroir des Classiques”
• “Esprit des Livres” Supplementary Database
• Biblissima EquipEx
• Hastec LabEx
• CAP LabEx
• ENHE LabEx

ANR ACRONAVARRE Project (Royal Acts of Navarre in the 15^th-16^th centuries)

Acronavarre

The Centre Jean-Mabillon is a member of the ACRONAVARRE research project selected by the National Research Agency during its last call for projects.

This multi-year research project (2016-20) brings together several Franco-Spanish teams (University of Pau and the Pays de l’Adour, the Departmental Archives of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, the Ecole Nationale des Chartes, Casa de Velázquez and the Universidad Pública de Navarra. It is coordinated by Philippe Chareyre, professor at the University of Pau and the Pays de l’Adour.

Its aim is to list and publish the approximately 7,000 acts of the kings and queens of Navarre, kept in all different forms and produced between 1484 and 1594. An extensive operation of collection, analysis and transcription will be conducted in numerous archival institutions and library collections on both sides of the Pyrenees. Study days and conferences will accompany the progress of this investigation, which will culminate in the online publication of a database allowing open source publication of these thousands of acts, for the most part previously unseen.

For the Ecole des Chartes and its research laboratory, this project selected by the ANR follows on from its past participation in the publication of French royal acts from the Collection of Unpublished Documents on the History of France (founded in 1835), the Collection of Charters and Diplomas related to the history of France (founded in 1908), the Catalogue and Rulings of the Kings of France since Francis I (as of 1887) up to the more recent digital publication enterprises.

The Jean-Mabillon Centre is closely involved in several of these, which are still ongoing:

• Acts of Philip III (“the Bold”) and Philip VI (“the Fair”) on the TELMA platform (Electronic Processing of Manuscripts and Archives) at the IRHT (Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes) http://www.cn-telma.fr//actesroyaux/index/
• Acts of the sons of Philip the Fair (1314-1328) http://cosme.hypotheses.org/tag/actes-royaux, royal acts related to Poitou (from 1302 to the middle of the 16^th century)
• http://corpus.enc.sorbonne.fr/actesroyauxdupoitou by Olivier Canteaut (Ecole Nationale des Chartes) with the support of the Consortium Sources Médiévales (COSME) platform
• Acts of Jean, Duke of Berry (1340-1416), within the framework of a 2^nd-year Master’s degree and doctoral seminar at the Ecole Nationale des Chartes, in partnership with the University Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne, under the direction of Olivier Guyotjeannin (Ecole Nationale des Chartes) and Olivier Mattéoni (Paris 1)

The Ecole des chartes, through the researchers of the Jean-Mabillon Centre (Olivier Canteaut, Olivier Guyotjeannin and Olivier Poncet), will be contributing its methodological experience in digital humanities, as well as its lexicometrical expertise in a comparative scope by comparing the Navarre corpus with the corpuses developed by the Ecole des Chartes.

Lastly, the project will call on the expertise of the European-wide Huma-Num research infrastructure, combining the CORPUS research infrastructure with the ADONIS large-scale research equipment, as well as the TELMA platform (Electronic Processing of Manuscripts and Archives) from the Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes (IRHT).

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Calendars from Europe and Asia

Parisians and Writings from the Middle Ages to the 20^th Century

The Mazarin Online Library

Inventaire après décès de la bibliothèque du cardinal Mazarin (1661-1662)

 © Bibl. Mazarine, ms. 4109, fol. 33

This project consists, under the scientific direction of Olivier Poncet and Yann Sordet, director of the Mazarin Library, in the online publication of the catalogue record sources from the Mazarin Library (1602-1661), the most important personal collection of the first Classical age. The focus of the project is the inventory of the library, drawn up in 1661 in the weeks following the death of Mazarin, with approximately 27,000 printed books and a little more than 2,000 manuscripts), whose publication will be done via TEI.

The project corresponds to several complementary ambitions:

• the online circulation of the inventory of a large historical collection in order to develop the analysis of its formation, economics, uses, cultural and political impacts; as such, Mazarin’s role in European diplomacy, the sheer volume of this library and the way in which it shaped the documentary ideology of the modern era, means that the disclosure of the project’s data will make investigations in several domains possible: history of political documentation, library collectables and practices, the transmission of cultural texts, knowledge and models in modern Europe
• the precise identification of the books and manuscripts owned by Mazarin, (acquisition circumstances, uses, management of the library’s space, transmission, current localisation)
• creating a model reproducing the former library, which will be articulated with the current reporting tools for manuscripts or ancient prints.

The project’s historical and documentary scope is focused on the personal library of Mazarin (from 1643, date of its constitution, to 1668, date of the exchange made with the royal library seven years after the death of Mazarin).

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Enriching the “Miroir des Classiques”

Traduction française anonyme du Codex de Justinien, ms. Giessen, Universitätsbibliothek, 945 [Paris, 1250-1275], fol.

The “Miroir des Classiques,” promoted by the Ecole Nationale des Chartes under the scientific direction of Frédéric Duval, is a directory of Classical Latin documents translated into French and Occitan during the Middle Ages. Under the title of each translated work, the different translations are presented in their chronological order, along with their eventual modifications. Each translation comes with a rapid description and a precise analysis of the manuscripts and editions (early printed books and publications from the 16^th century) in which they are contained.
A new component, developed under the framework of Biblissima, will focus on the French translations of the Corpus juris civilis.

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“Esprit des Livres” Supplementary Database

Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque de feu Monsieur l'abbé Desessarts, Paris, Pillot, 1775

 © Bibliothèque de l'École nationale des chartes, 8° R 92

The “Esprit des Livres,” promoted by the Ecole des Chartes under the scientific direction of Annie Charon, is a directory of sales catalogues, prior to the 19^th century, conserved in Parisian libraries. The notes grant a significant role to the biography of the possessor and to the specifics of the copy: handwritten notes, cost, names of the purchasers.
Under the framework of Biblissima, a parallel database will be created that is dedicated to the manuscripts described in the sales catalogues prior to the 19^th century.

These three projects were the subject of a joint presentation during a conference organised on Friday 23 January 2015.

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Biblissima EquipEx

Biblissima

Biblissima — Bibliotheca bibliothecarum novissima — is an observatory of written heritage from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, created thanks to the Investments in the Future Equipment of Excellence program.

It studies documents written in the main languages of Medieval and Renaissance European culture (Arabic, French, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, etc.) and contributes to a better understanding of the circulation of texts, the development of libraries and the transmission of knowledge in Europe from the 8^th to the 18^th centuries.
In addition to its function at the service of research, Biblissima also participates in circulating knowledge about the written heritage of the Middle Ages and Renaissance to a larger audience.

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Hastec LabEx

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CAP LabEx

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The “Création, Arts et Patrimoines” Laboratory of Excellence (acronym “CAP”) studies art, creation and heritage and uses them as points of reference in order to understand and guide the transformations of contemporary society, related to the globalisation of economic life and the means of communication, as well as cultures. It mobilises diverse scientific expertise in the fields of aesthetic theory and the philosophy of art, the history of art, architecture, patrimony, music, poetry, cultural anthropology, the sociology of art, the history of techniques as well as communication and information, design, conservation and restoration techniques.

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Post-doc researchers hosted at the Jean-Mabillon Centre with the support of LabEx:

ENHE LabEx