La bibliothèque de Geoffroy de Vendôme (1093-1132)

The publishing of Geoffroy's correspondence having highlighted the richness of his culture as well as the importance of the biblical, patristical and canonical sources he used, it seems interesting to try and reconstruct the contents of his library, which the remaining manuscripts as well as the others works that can be reconstituted from his letters and sermons have enabled. The library in La Trinité, constituted by his predecessor Oderic (18 manuscripts), was extended by Geoffroy thanks to copies written in scriptorium (36 manuscripts), and by his successor (35 manuscripts). The texts now in that library are those known by clerks of that time ; links between those works and the use made by Geoffroy, although numerous, are not systematic ; evidence of careful reading of those manuscripts does exist through the marginal notes but whether they were written by or for Geoffroy remains uncertain. But at least we have been given the chance of discovering a xuth century library in another way, not just through a mère catalogue. Appendixes : 1119 short inventory, list of manuscripts copied in Geoffroy's time, list of still existing works and fragments.