Bibliothèque generale des auteurs de France. Livre premier, contenant La Bibliothèque Chartraine ou le traite' des auteurs et des hommes illustres de l'ancien Diocèse de Chartres: Quo ont laissé quelques monumens à la posterité...
by LIRON, JEAN
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1719. Paris, Jean-Michel Garnier, 1719. (8), xxxvi, 364, (4) pp. 4to. Contemporary calf (rubbed, spine dam. & hinges weak). With the bookplate of Armand Maior de Lille on inside front cover & illegible library stamp on titlepage. Inserted: (Perdoux de la Rivière, d'Orleans). Lettre d'un conseiller de Blois, a un chanoine de Chartres, sur la Bibliothèque Chartraine (ou) Le Traité des Auteurs de l'ancien Diocese de Chartres, du R. Pere Liron, Benediction. No place, 1719. 20pp. Dom Jean Liron (who died in 1749) was a benedictine monk of the Congregation of St. Maur. His work is placed exactly between the Bibliothèque françoise by François de La Croix and Antoine Du Verdier (both published in 1585), and l'Histoire littéraire de la France that was to be published from 1733 to 1736. Initially Liron wanted to write a Bibliothèque générale des auteurs de France. However, understanding that it would be impossible for a single person to complete this he decided instead to write a series of bibliothèques regionales and started with the Diocèse of Chartres. A next volume, the Bibliothèque d'Anjou was only published long after his death, in 1897. After the general introduction Liron explains in detail his method of working. This section ends with a catalogue of works which he used for writing this work, which gives an idea what bibliography was like in the beginning of the 18th century. Each entry is both biographical and bibliographical. The entries are chronologically ordered and often in the first entries Liron mentions sources that only exist in manuscript. Liron deserves an eminent place in the history of bibliography but is lacking in Besterman (Les Débuts de la Bibliographie Méthodique) and in Malclès (La Bibliography). However, he is cited in Besterman's A world of bibliography (1230). The inserted (anonymous) letter is an attack on Liron and his work. A contemporary hand on the titlepage gives the name of the real author.
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- Bibliothèque generale des auteurs de France. Livre premier, contenant La Bibliothèque Chartraine ou le traite' des auteurs et des hommes illustres de l'ancien Diocèse de Chartres: Quo ont laissé quelques monumens à la posterité...
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