La Curne de Sainte-Palaye Manuscripts

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0103 SAINTE-PALAYE
Held at	: University College London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/special-coll ›
Full title	: La Curne de Sainte-Palaye Manuscripts
Date(s)	: 18th century
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 62 volumes
Name of creator(s)	: Palaye | Jean Baptiste | de La Curne de Sainte- | 1697-1781 | lexicographer
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Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1697; lexicographer; announced his Glossaire de l'ancienne langue françoise, 1756; died, 1781; his Glossaire finally appeared in its entirety, 1875-1882. Publications include: as editor, Les Amours du bon vieux tems (Vaucluse & Paris, 1756); Histoire littéraire des Troubadours, arranged and published by C F X Millot (Paris, 1774), and The Literary History of the Troubadours, collected and abridged from the French by [Susanna Dobson] (London, 1779); Memoires sur l'ancienne chevalerie (Paris, 1759-81), and Memoirs of Ancient Chivalry, translated by [Mrs S Dobson] (London, 1784); Memoirs of the Life of Froissart, translated by T Johnes (London, 1801); Dictionnaire historique de l'ancien langage françois: ou Glossaire de la langue françoise (Paris, Niort, 1875-1882). See Lionel Gossman, Medievalism and the ideologies of the Enlightenment: the world and work of La Curne de Sainte-Palaye (Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1968).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript 'Glossaire des moeurs, coûtumes etc de France', compiled by Jean Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye for his Glossaire de l'ancienne langue françoise, 18th century, and comprising an alphabetical arrangement of topics on French manners and customs, with marginal references giving the volume and page of the manuscript or printed source from which the extracts were made.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
French

System of arrangement:

The volumes comprise an alphabetical arrangement of topics with two supplements, both also arranged alphabetically.

Conditions governing access:

Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Normal copyright restrictions apply.

Finding aids:

Collection level description.

Archival Information

Archival history:

The volumes belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), baronet, an antiquary and bibliophile whose collection included c60,000 manuscripts of various kinds, some relating to the administration of Swiss towns. Various manuscripts were sold after Sir Thomas's death, some to the German government, and were dispersed to several libraries. Formerly Phillipps MS 260.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The Phillipps Manuscripts at University College London were given to the College by the German government in 1912.

Allied Materials

Related material:

University College London Library holds a copy of Dictionnaire historique de l'ancien langage françois: ou Glossaire de la langue françoise (1875-1882) (Ref: 211 QUARTOS B 2LAC).

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Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Sources: Dorothy K Coveney, A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of University College London (London, 1935); University College London website; Dictionary of National Biography entry for Sir Thomas Phillipps; British Library OPAC. Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
May 2001