Léopold Victor Delisle

Léopold Delisle.

Léopold Victor Delisle (born October 24, 1826 in Valognes , † July 22, 1910 in Chantilly ) is a French historian and librarian ; he was administrateur général of the Bibliothèque nationale de France from 1874 to 1905.

Beginnings

Léopold Delisle grew up in Valognes, where he met the historian and archaeologist Charles de Gerville (1769-1853), who introduced him to working with the manuscripts of medieval Normandy . He completed his studies at the École des Chartes in 1849 with a thesis on tax revenues in Normandy in the 12th century ( Essai sur les revenus publics en Normandie au 12e siècle ). He devoted his first research to the history of his home region, his work on agriculture in Normandy in the Middle Ages ("Études sur la condition de la classe agricole et l'état de l'agriculture en Normandie au Moyen Âge", 1851), one of them enormous amount of facts condensed from the local archives, was reissued unchanged in 1905 and is still valid.

In 1852, at the age of 26, he entered the Manuscript Department of the Bibliothèque nationale. In 1859 he was elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres . In 1866 he became a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences , in 1868 a member of the Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen , in 1877 a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , in 1892 a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg and in 1907 of the British Academy . He worked on volumes 22 to 24 of the Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France .

When the government decided to publish a general catalog of the national library's printed matter, Delisle, as an already recognized author of such works, became responsible for this major project. In 1881 he completed the four volumes of the Cabinet des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque impériale .

The Bibliothèque nationale

In 1874 he succeeded Jules-Antoine Taschereau (1801–1874) in the office of administrateur général of the national library, which he held until 1905. During his tenure, she acquired part of the manuscripts of the Earl of Ashburnham through gifts, endowments and purchases, among other things : he was able to show that the majority of the manuscripts of French origin that the Earl of Ashburnham had bought in France, especially those of the Bookseller Barrois, had been stolen by Comte Libri , inspector general of the library at the time of King Louis-Philippe I , and then published the Catalog des manuscrits des fonds Libri et Barrois (1888).

On March 8, 1903, he celebrated his 50th anniversary with the National Library, and on February 12, 1905, he retired.

Works (selection)

• Le cabinet des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque impériale; étude sur la formation de ce dépôt comprenant les éléments d'une histoire de la calligraphie de la miniature, de la reliure, et du commerce des livres à Paris avant l'invention de l'imprimerie , 3 vol. in fol., Paris, Imprimerie impériale, 1868–1881.
  • Tome 1
  • Tome 2
  • Tome 3
  • Tome 3bis: Planches
  • Tome 3 supplément: List of manuscrits cités
• Les cartulaires de la baronnie de Bricquebec , Saint-Lô, F. Le Tual, 1899
• Recueil des actes de Henri II, roi d'Angleterre et duc de Normandie, concernant les provinces françaises et les affaires de France , 3 vols., Paris, Impr. Nationale, C. Klincksieck, 1916–1930
• Cartulaire normand de Philippe-Auguste, Louis VIII, saint Louis et Philippe le Hardi , Caen, Société des antiquaires de Normandie, 1882
• Actes normands de la Chambre des comptes sous Philippe de Valois (1328-1350) , Rouen, A. le Brument, 1871
• Chronique de Robert de Torigni, abbé du Mont-Saint-Michel: suivie de divers opuscules historiques de cet auteur et de plusieurs religieux de la même abbaye: le tout publié d'après les manuscrits originaux , Rouen, A. Le Brument, Libraire de la Société de l'histoire de Normandie, 1872–1873
• Essai sur l'imprimerie et la librairie à Caen de 1480 à 1550 , Caen, H. Delesques, 1891
• Les cartulaires de la baronnie de Bricquebec , Saint-Lô, F. Le Tual, 1899
• Fragments d'une chronique inédite relatifs aux événements militaires arrivés en Basse-Normandie de 1353 à 1389 , Saint-Lô, F. Le Tual, 1895
• Études sur la condition de la classe agricole et l'état de l'agriculture en Normandie au Moyen Âge , Paris, H. Champion, 1903 New York, B. Franklin 1969, 1851
• Cartulaire normand de Philippe-Auguste, Louis VIII, Saint-Louis et Philippe-le-Hardi , Genève, Mégariotis, 1978, 1882
• Catalog des livres imprimés ou publiés à Caen avant le milieu du XVIe siècle , Caen, L. Jouan, 1903–1904
• Instructions élémentaires et techniques pour la rédaction d'un catalog de manuscrits et pour la rédaction d'un inventaire des incunables conservés dans les bibliothèques de France , Paris, H. Champion, 1910 (1e éd.: 1890)
• Instructions élémentaires et techniques pour la mise et le maintien en ordre des livres d'une bibliothèque , Lille, L. Danel, 1890.
• Littérature latine & histoire du Moyen Age , Paris, E. Leroux, 1890
• Mandements et actes divers de Charles V (1364-1380) recueillis dans les collections de la Bibliothèque Nationale , Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1874
• Mélanges de paleographie et de bibliographie , Paris, Champion, 1880
• Mémoire sur les opérations financières des Templiers , Genève, Slatkine-Megariotis Reprints, 1975, 1889
• Notice sur les manuscrits du "Liber floridus" de Lambert, chanoine de Saint Omer , Paris, Impr. Nationale, 1906
• Recherches sur la librairie de Charles V, roi de France, 1337-1380 , Amsterdam, G. Th. Van Heusden, 1967, 1907
• Rouleaux des morts du IXe au XVe siècle , Paris, Mme. Veuve J. Renouard, 1866

bibliography

• Paul Lacombe: Bibliography des travaux de M. Léopold Delisle , Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1902, XXXVIII-511 pp., Supplément (1902–1910), Paris, H. Leclerc, 1911. In-4 ̊, XXIV-87 pp.
• Yann Potin: "Le dernier garde de la librairie du Louvre. I: Léopold Delisle et son édition des inventaires", in: Gazette du Livre médiéval , 36 (2000), pp. 36-42
• Yann Potin: "Le dernier garde de la librairie du Louvre. II: Editions de catalogs et publication de sources au XIXe siècle", in: Gazette du Livre médiéval , 37 (2000), pp. 1-8

literature

• David Bates: Léopold Delisle (1826–1910) , in: Helen Damico, Joseph B. Zavadil (eds.): Medieval Scholarship. Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline, Volume 1: History (= Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Volume 1350), Garland Publishing, New York 1995, ISBN 0-8240-6894-7 , pp. 101-113.
• Françoise Vielliard, Gilles Désiré dit Gosset (ed.): Léopold Delisle. Colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle (8-10 October 2004) , Saint-Lô, Archives départementales de la Manche, 2007, 308 pp.

Web links

• Works by and about Léopold Victor Delisle  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 66.
2. ^ Léopold Delisle's membership entry at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 24, 2017.
3. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 20, 2020 . 

predecessor	Office	successor
Jules Taschereau	Administrateur général de la Bibliothèque nationale 1874–1905	Henry Marcel