En jouant avec les poupées russes : 88 manuscrits grecs de Gabriel Naudé, dont 50 de Guillaume Sirleto, dont certains de Marcel Cervini, dont 2 d’Ange Colocci

Following traces of purchases made by Gabriel Naudé in Rome, we discovered that, while searching for volumes for his mentor’s, cardinal Julius Mazerino, personal library, he happened to enrich his own collection too with manuscripts from the Altemps dukes. Among them, we found manuscripts previously owned by the Cardinals Sirleto and Cervini : the vast majority of the Greek volumes owned by Naudé show signs of such origin and represents part of the Greek paper copies from the first half of the 16th century currently part of the Parisini graeci collection of the National French Library.