Tournai, Cathedral of BVM, Library; a creation of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, replacing the earlier medieval library which was destroyed during the religious troubles of the sixteenth century; the collection was dispersed in 1794, some books being acquired by the municipal library; see Documents pour servir à l'histoire des bibliothèques en Belgique, ed. C. Auguste Voisin (Ghent, 1840), 282-97; on the history of the earlier library see Albert Derolez, `Notice sur les livres et la bibliothèque de la cathédrale de Tournai au moyen âge', in Horae Tornacenses 1171-1971 (Tournai, 1971), 68-78, with references at 68 for the history of the later library; on the Cathedral in general see J. Warichez, La Cathédrale de Tournai et son chapître (Wetteren, 1934), and Eglises de France, V c 121-5, with references. ♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Period: unknown century.

4 entries:

• G-230(1) Gregorius I, Pont. Max. — Pastorale, sive Regula pastoralis. — Paris: Ulrich Gering and Berthold Rembolt, 18 July 1498. 4°.
• P-466(1)? Proba — Centones Vergilii. — [Paris: Michel Le Noir?, c.1498]. 4°.
• T-055(1) Termini Causarum in Romana Curia — [Rome: Eucharius Silber, c.1495]. 4°.
• T-219(1) Tolomei, Petrus Georgii — Translatio miraculosa ecclesiae BVM de Loreto [Italian] La dichiaratione della chiesa di sancta Maria delloreto (trans. Bartolomeo da Vallombrosa). — [Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, c.1500]. 4°.

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