Léopold Delisle

Léopold Victor Delisle , born with Valognes (Handle) the October 24th 1826 and deceased with Chantilly the July 22nd 1910, was a Historien and Bibliothécaire French, administrator general of the National library of 1874 with 1905.

Beginnings

Léopold Delisle was high in Valognes where he attended the historian and archeologist Charles de Gerville, who initiated it being studied of the handwritten sources of the medieval Normandy. It finished brilliant studies with the École of the charters with a thesis entitled Essai on the public incomes in Normandy at the 12th century (1849). Devoting its first research to the history of its native province, its work Studies on the condition of the agricultural class and the state of agriculture in Normandy to the Middle Ages (1851), which condenses an enormous mass of facts drawn from local files, was republished in 1905 without change and continuous to make authority.

In 1852, it was recruited at the 26 years age at the Department of the Manuscripts of the National library. Already known as author of several inventories of manuscripts of a priceless value, when the government decided to print a general catalog of printed of the library, Delisle was the person in charge of this large company where it took an active part. It supplemented four volumes of the Cabinet of the manuscripts of the imperial Library in 1881. It gave a detailed history of the library and its management in the foreword of the first volume (1897).

The BN

In 1874, it succeeded Jules Taschereau at the post of general administrator of the National library, which it occupied until in 1905. Under its administration, this one grows rich by many gifts, legacy and acquisitions, in particular by the purchase of part of the manuscripts of the duke of Ashburnham. It showed that the major part of the manuscripts of French origin that the duke of Ashburnham had acquired in France, in particular those bought to the Barrois bookseller, had been stolen by the count Libri, inspector-general of the libraries under the king Louis-Philippe and obtained for the library the repurchase of the manuscripts. It carried out then the Catalog of the manuscripts of the funds Libri and Barrois (1888) where is consigned all the history of the covering of these manuscripts.

Elected in the Academy of the inscriptions and the humanities in 1859 and received with the Academy of Rouen the January 10th 1868, it collaborated in the volumes XXII and XXIII of the Recueil of the historians of France (1865) who are of value for the social history of France at the 13th century.

The scientist

The jubilee of the association of its fifty years of presence at the National library was celebrated the March 8th 1903. After its retirement taken the February 21st 1905, it gave many official reports and of catalog as well as a description of the books and printed manuscripts of the Musée Cop to Chantilly left by the duke of Aumale to the Institut. It wrote many official reports and catalogs of value with a great number of memories and monographs on points related on the Paléographie and the study of the history and Archéologie ( Mélanges of paleography and bibliography (1880) with an atlas and articles in the paleographic Album (1887).

Among its purely historical work, a special mention must be made of sound Mémoire on the acts of Innocent III (1857) and of sound Mémoire on the financial transactions of Templiers (1889), a documentation of the highest value for the history of the economy. The thirty-second divides into volumes literary Histoire of France , which is partly its work, is of great importance for the study of the chronicles Latin are Des.

Delisle was regarded as European undoubtedly more the scholar with regard to the Moyen-âge. Wilfrid Blunt described it in its Vie of Sydney Cockerell like the greatest authority of its time on the manuscripts. Its knowledge of the Diplomatic , paleography and printing works was deep. Its capacity for work, in the catalogs was phenomenal and the services which it rendered, in this respect, at the National library cannot be over-estimated. He had married Laure Burnouf, girl of the Orientaliste Eugene Burnouf, which was its collaborator during many years.

Work (nonexhaustive list)

the cabinet of the manuscripts of the imperial Library; study on the formation of this deposit including/understanding the elements of a history of the penmanship of the miniature, binding, and trade of the books to Paris before the invention of printing works , Paris, imperial Printing works, 1868-1881
cartulaires of the baronnie of Bricquebec , Saint-Lo, F. Tual, 1899
Collection of the acts of Henri II, king d' Angleterre and duke of Normandy, relating to the French provinces and the businesses of France , 3 flights., Paris, Impr. main road, C. Klincksieck, 1916-1930
Norman Cartulaire of Philippe-Auguste, Louis VIII, holy Louis and Philippe Bold the , Caen, Company of the antique dealers of Normandy, 1882
Norman Acts of the Room of the accounts under Philippe de Valois (1328-1350) , Rouen, A. Brument, 1871 Chronic
of Robert de Torigni, abbot of the Mount-Saint-Michel: followed various historical opuscules of this author and several monks of the same abbey: the whole published according to the original manuscripts , Rouen, A. Brument, Bookseller of the Company of the history of Normandy, 1872-1873
Test on printing works and the bookstore with Caen of 1480 to 1550 , Caen, H. Delesques, 1891
cartulaires of the baronnie of Bricquebec , Saint-Lo, F. Tual, 1899
Fragments of a new chronicle relating to the military events arrived to Basse-Normandie of 1353 to 1389 , Saint-Lo, F. Tual, 1895
Studies on the condition of the agricultural class and the state of agriculture to Normandy to the Middle Ages , Paris, H. Champion, 1903 New York, B. Franklin 1969,1851
Cartulaire Norman of Philippe-Auguste, Louis VIII, Saint-Louis and Philippe-the-Bold , Geneva, Mégariotis, 1978,1882
Catalog of the books printed or published in Caen before the medium of the , Caen, L. Jouan, 1903-1904
Instructions for the drafting of a catalog of manuscripts and for the drafting of an inventory of the incunables preserved in the libraries of France , Paris, H. Champion, 1910
Latin Literature & medieval history , Paris, E. Leroux, 1890
Mandements and various acts of Charles V (1364-1380) collected in the collections of the National library , Paris, HMSO, 1874
Mixtures of paleography and bibliography , Paris, Champion, 1880
Memory on the financial transactions of Templiers , Geneva, Slatkine-Megariotis Reprints, 1975,1889
Note on the manuscripts of the “Liber floridus” of Lambert, canon of Saint Omer , Paris, Impr. main road, 1906
Research on the bookstore of Charles V, king de France, 1337-1380 , Amsterdam, G. Th. van Heusden, 1967,1907
Rollers of died of the , Paris, Mrs. Ve. J. Renouard, 1866

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