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DESMARAIS (P.). PRÉFACE du Catalogue de la Bibliothèque Mazarine. Paris. 1867. - DESMARAIS (P.) PRÉFACE du Catalogue de la Bibliothèque Mazarine . Rédigée en 1751 [...]. Publiée, traduite en français et annotée par Alfred Franklin. Paris: J. Miard, 1867. [4], XII, 112 pp.; 175 mm. First edition. Publication of the Latin preface that Pierre Desmarais, librarian of the Mazarine Library, wrote in 1751 for the library's alphabetical catalog, the Praefatio catalogi alphabetici Bibliothecae Mazarineae , previously unpublished. Alfred Franklin, himself a librarian at the Mazarine Library and historian of the old libraries of Paris, presents it in an annotated French translation, followed by the original Latin text. The preface outlines the history of the oldest public library in France, founded by Cardinal Mazarin, and the principles that governed the organization and cataloging of its collection in the mid-18th century. A document of interest to the history of libraries and library science, it forms part of the extensive series of studies that Franklin dedicated to Parisian libraries. Unusual. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate