L OPOLD See also:

• VICTOR
• VICTOR, GAIUS JULIUS (4th cent. A.D.)
• VICTOR, SEXTUS AURELIUS

VICTOR See also:

• DELISLE, JOSEPH NICOLAS (1688-1768)
• L OPOLD VICTOR DELISLE (1826– )

DELISLE (1826– )  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French bibliophile and historian, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Valognes (See also:

• MANCHE

Manche) on the 24th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1826 . At the Ecole See also:

• DES

des Chartes, where his career was remarkably brilliant, his valedictory thesis was an Essai sur See also:

• LES

les revenus publics en Normandie au XIIe siecle (1849), and it was to the See also:

• HISTORY

history of his native See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province that he devoted his See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• WORKS

works . Of these the Etudes sur la See also:

• CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition de la dasse agricole et Petal de l'See also:

• AGRICULTURE
• AGRICULTURE (from Lat. ages, field, and colere, to cultivate)
• AGRICULTURE, BOARD OF

agriculture en Normandie au moyen See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age (1851), condensing an enormous See also:

• MASS (O.E. maesse; Fr. messe; Ger. Messe; Ital. messa; from eccl. Lat. missa)
• MASS, IN

mass of facts See also:

• DRAWN

drawn from the See also:

• LOCAL

local archives, was reprinted in 1905 without See also:

• CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

change, and remains authoritative . In See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1852 he entered the See also:

• MANUSCRIPT

manuscript See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of the Bibliotheque Imperiale (Nationale), of which in 1874 he became the See also:

• OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head in See also:

• SUCCESSION (Lat. successio, from succedere, to follow after)

succession to Jules Taschereau . He was already known as the compiler of several invaluable inventories of its See also:

• MANUSCRIPTS

manuscripts . When the French See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government decided on See also:

• PRINTING (from Lat. imprimere, O. Fr. empreindre)

printing a See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general See also:

• CATALOGUE (a Fr. adaptation of the Gr. KaraXoyos, a register, from Karalyety, to enrol or pick out)

catalogue of the printed books in the Bibliotheque, See also:

• DELISLE, JOSEPH NICOLAS (1688-1768)
• DELISLE, L OPOLD VICTOR (1826– )

Delisle became responsible for this See also:

• GREAT

great undertaking and took an active See also:

• PART

part in the See also:

• WORK

work; in the See also:

• PREFACE (Med. Lat. prefatia, for classical praefatio, praefari, to speak beforehand)

preface to the first See also:

• VOLUME

volume (1897) he gave a detailed history of the library and its management . Under his See also:

• ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration the library was enriched with numerous gifts, legacies and acquisitions, notably by the See also:

• PURCHASE

purchase of a part of the See also:

• ASHBURNHAM, JOHN (c. 1603-1671)

Ashburnham See also:

• MSS

MSS . Delisle proved that the bulk of the MSS. of French origin which See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord Ashburnham had bought in See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, particularly those bought from the See also:

• BOOK

book-seller See also:

• BARROIS, CHARLES (1851– )

Barrois, had been purloined by See also:

• COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

Count Libri, inspector-general of See also:

• LIBRARIES

libraries under See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

King See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis Philippe, and he procured the repurchase of the MSS. for the library, afterwards preparing a catalogue of them entitled Catalogue des MSS. des fonds Libri et Barrois (1888), the preface of which gives the history of the whole transaction . He was elected member of the See also:

• ACADEMIC

Academic des See also:

• INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

Inscriptions et Belles Lettres in 1859, and became a member of the See also:

• STAFF (O. Eng. staef, cf. Du. staf, Ger. Stab, &c.; Icel. stafr meant also a written letter, and O. Eng. stafas, the letters of the alphabet; " stave," one of the thin pieces of wood of which a cask is made, is a doublet)

staff of the Recueil des historiens de la France, collaborating in vols. xxii . (1865) and See also:

• XXIII

xxiii . (1876) and editing vol. See also:

• XXIV

xxiv . (1904), which is valuable for the social history of France in the 13th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century .

The See also:

• JUBILEE (or JUBILE), YEAR OF

jubilee of his fifty years' association with the Bibliotheque Nationale was celebrated on the 8th of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1903 . After his retirement (See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 21, 1905) he brought out in two volumes a catalogue and description of the printed books and MSS. in the Musee See also:

• CONDE
• CONDE, LOUIS DE BOURBON, PRINCE
• CONDE, LOUIS II
• CONDE, PRINCES OF

Conde at See also:

• CHANTILLY

Chantilly, See also:

• LEFT

left by the duc d'See also:

• AUMALE
• AUMALE, HENRI EUGENE PHILIPPE LOUIS

Aumale to the French See also:

• INSTITUTE (from Lat. instituere, to establish or set up)

Institute . He produced many valuable official reports and catalogues and a great number of See also:

• MEMOIRS

memoirs and mono-graphs on points connected with See also:

• PALAEOGRAPHY (Gr. aaXalbs, ancient, and ypal6ew, to write)

palaeography and the study of history and See also:

• ARCHAEOLOGY (from Gr. &pxa1a, ancient things, and Xoyos, theory or science)

archaeology (see his Melanges de paleographie et debibliographie (188o) with See also:

• ATLAS

atlas; and his articles in the See also:

• ALBUM (Lat. albus, white)

Album paleographique (1887) . Of his purely See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical works See also:

• SPECIAL

special mention must be made of his Memoire sur les actes d'See also:

• INNOCENT (INNOCENTIUS)
• INNOCENT (POPES)

Innocent See also:

• ILL

Ill (1857), and his Memoire sur les operations financieres des See also:

• TERN (Norsk taerne, tende or tende; Swedish tarna; Dutch Stern1)

Tern pliers (1889), a collection of documents of the highest value for economic history . The See also:

• THIRTY

thirty-second volume of the Histoire litteraire de la France, which was partly his work, is ;:if great importance for the study of 13th and 14th century Latin See also:

• CHRONICLES, BOOKS OF

chronicles . Delisle was undoubtedly the most learned See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man in See also:

• EUROPE

Europe with regard to the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle ages; and his knowledge of diplomatics, palaeography and printing was profound . His output of work, in catalogues, &c., was enormous, and his services to the Bibliotheque Nationale in this respect cannot be overestimated . His wife, a daughter of See also:

• EUGENE

Eugene See also:

• BURNOUF, EUGENE (1801—1852)

Burnouf, was for many years his collaborator . The Bibliographie des travaux de L.Delisle (1902), by See also:

• PAUL
• PAUL (PAULUS)

Paul Lacombe, may be consulted for a full See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list of his numerous works .