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| Street: | Quai François-Mauriac
75706 Paris Cedex 13 |
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| Phone: | 33(0)1 53 79 59 59 |
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About the Repository |
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The extensive collection of Mesoamerican manuscripts are found in the Fonds Mexicains (mostly pictorial), the Fonds Espagnols (mostly prose), the Fonds Americains (mostly prose), and the Fonds Francais (mostly prose), among other divisions. The major collectors behind the FM were Eugene Goupil and J.M.A. Aubin, both active in the nineteenth century. Eugene Boban made a catalog of the holdings that belonged to Goupil as of 1891. The BNF preserves many of these numbers in the FM collection. The Handbook of Middle American Indians (1975), vol. 15, pp. 407-415, provides a detailed listing of individual manuscripts in the BNF at of the time of its publication. The European Association of Mayanists lists this museum as having the Codex Paris among its Maya objects of special interest. [Source: http://www.wayeb.org/resourcescollections.htm.]
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Web Access and Catalog Information |
Web Site URL: Main library homepage: http://www.bnf.fr;
Gallica (the library’s internet searching tool ):
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| Search functions through Gallica are limited to French. Gallica is an Internet server which was first set up to test on-line searching of Bibliothèque nationale de France digitised collections, together with fixed image collections produced jointly with the Musée de l'Homme, the Maison Pierre Loti and the National school of civil engineering document centre. Although Gallica currently focuses on the 19th century in France, the material to be added by 1999 will provide a much wider historical perspective, with a total of 50 000 documents covering the Middle Ages through to the eve of the First World War and including a wide range of disciplines: science and the history of science, economics, law, politics, philosophy, literature and travelogues, history and ethnology. Gallica thus provides students, researchers and the general public with opportunities to consult contemporary editions, reference texts and monographs, rare periodicals and early images (prints and photographs), many of which had previously been difficult to locate. Data base contents may be searched via an indexed bibliography, or in full text through monograph and journal contents lists. Users may also access the contents through a chronological subject-based overview of the entire data base. For non specialists in particular, navigating is greatly facilitated by the hypertext links provided in a general introduction to the Gallica collection. |
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Collections (see more detailed list of Collections) |
4 collections listed in the VMA.
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Digitized Materials (see more detailed list of Materials) |
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