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Access to the Historical Archives is free of charge, by appointment.
4300 items have been digitised so far. To see them, consult the online catalogue and tick “Illustrated reference” on the advanced search form.
The items which have not been digitised are accessible on site, by appointment.
Please read the guidelines for readers and contact Carole Jacquet, Head of Libraries and Archives to make an appointment : cjacquet@centreculturelirlandais.com or 00 33 1 58 52 10 33
You will be asked to fill an application form if it is your first visit.
The CHAN (Centre Historique des Archives Nationales) has documents on the secular colleges of the University of Paris within the Archives of the Ancien Régime, in the following category:
Category M (boxes)
MM category (registers)
H3 Sub-category
S category
Deeds for land ownership, houses, income and property belonging to the colleges; several plans. 12h-10.
N and NN category
Plans. 17th-18th c.
Source : http://www.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/chan/chan/fonds/guideorientation/VII-3-collegesseculirers.htm
Given that the Archives of the Irish College include several notarial deeds, the central minute book of the Paris notaries in the Archives nationales can be consulted.
In addition, the collection kept in the archives of the Archbishop of Paris, and in the National Archives of Ireland can also be consulted.
BOYLE Patrick, The Irish College in Paris 1578-1901, Londres, 1901
BOYLE Patrick, The Old Irish College in Paris (styled Collège des Lombards), Dublin
BYRNE Francis John, MARTIN Francis X., MOODY Theodore William (ed.), A new history of Ireland, vol. 3: early modern Ireland 1534-1691, Oxford, 1991
BYRNE Francis John, MARTIN Francis X., MOODY Theodore William (ed.), A new history of Ireland, vol. 4: eighteenth century Ireland 1691-1800, Oxford, 1986
BYRNE Francis John, MARTIN Francis X., MOODY Theodore William (ed.), A new history of Ireland, vol. 5: Ireland under the Union I, 1801-1870, Oxford, 1989
BYRNE Francis John, MARTIN Francis X., MOODY Theodore William (ed.), A new history of Ireland, vol. 6: Ireland under the Union II, 1870-1921, Oxford, 1996
CAILLET Maurice, « La bibliothèque du collège des Irlandais et son fonds de livres anciens », dans Mélanges de la bibliothèque de la Sorbonne, Paris, 1991
COMPERE Marie-Madeleine, Les collèges français, 16e-18e siècles, Paris, 2002
FIERRO Alfred, Histoire et dictionnaire de Paris, Paris, 1996
HAYES Richard, Bibliographical dictionary of Irishmen in France, Dublin, 1949
HILLAIRET Jacques, Dictionnaire historique des rues de Paris, 2 vol., Paris, 1963
LALOR Brian (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Ireland, Dublin, 2003
MAC CANA Proincias, Collège des Irlandais and Irish Studies, Dublin, 2001
O’FIAICH Thomas, The Irish Colleges in France, Dublin, 1990
O’SULLIVAN T. (ed.) et DEVLIN B.P., The Irish College in Paris, Dublin, 1994
SWORDS Liam, The Irish – French connection, 1578 – 1978, Paris, 1978
TUILIER André, Histoire de l’Université de Paris et de la Sorbonne, 2 tomes, Paris, 1994
4300 items have been digitised so far. To see them, consult the online catalogue and tick “Illustrated reference” on the advanced search form.
The items which have not been digitised are accessible on site, by appointment.
Please read the guidelines for readers and contact Carole Jacquet, Head of Libraries and Archives to make an appointment : cjacquet@centreculturelirlandais.com or 00 33 1 58 52 10 33
You will be asked to fill an application form if it is your first visit.
Additional sources
Find suggestions of other archives which can be consulted to complement your research in the Historical archives collection.The CHAN (Centre Historique des Archives Nationales) has documents on the secular colleges of the University of Paris within the Archives of the Ancien Régime, in the following category:
Category M (boxes)
Foundation deeds of the colleges since their origin, scholarship, chapel, and memorial service foundations; book donations; statutes and regulations; necrologies; documents concerning the Principals, Procurators, scholarship holders (provisions of scholarships, discipline, disputes); procedural documents, reports on management of the colleges, their reform; documents relating to college buildings, property, income. 13th c. – 1791.
MM category (registers)
Cartularies (collections of deeds) and office deliberations; deeds and foundation accounts, statements of scholarships and boarders, library catalogues; accounts, historical papers; collections and deeds of Père Léonard of Sainte-Catherine. 13th c. – 1791.
H3 Sub-category
Documents mainly from the 18th c.: accounts of college receipts and expenditure; documents concerning the novices and scholarship holders (extracts of baptismal certificates, allocation of scholarships, lists or catalogues of novices, distributions made to scholarship holders); documents concerning income (sales, purchases, receipts) and the buildings (rent reports, building work); inventories of deeds and libraries. 14th-18th c.
S category
Deeds for land ownership, houses, income and property belonging to the colleges; several plans. 12h-10.
N and NN category
Plans. 17th-18th c.
Source : http://www.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/chan/chan/fonds/guideorientation/VII-3-collegesseculirers.htm
Given that the Archives of the Irish College include several notarial deeds, the central minute book of the Paris notaries in the Archives nationales can be consulted.
In addition, the collection kept in the archives of the Archbishop of Paris, and in the National Archives of Ireland can also be consulted.
The Département des Estampes de la Bibliothèque nationale de France includes several plans of the Collège des Lombards (Collection VA-260(A) fol.) and the Irish College (Collection VA-258(B) fol.).
Bibliography
Find suggestions of other books and articles which can be
consulted to complement your research in the Historical archives
collection.
AMADOU Robert, avec la collaboration de Catherine Amadou, « Saint-Ephrem-des-Syriens. Du collège des Lombards à nos jours », dans Paris et Ile-de-France : Mémoires publ. par la Fédération des Sociétés historiques et archéologiques de Paris et de l’Ile de France, 1986, 37, p. 7-152.
AMADOU Robert, avec la collaboration de Catherine Amadou, « Saint-Ephrem-des-Syriens. Du collège des Lombards à nos jours », dans Paris et Ile-de-France : Mémoires publ. par la Fédération des Sociétés historiques et archéologiques de Paris et de l’Ile de France, 1986, 37, p. 7-152.
BOYLE Patrick, The Irish College in Paris 1578-1901, Londres, 1901
BOYLE Patrick, The Old Irish College in Paris (styled Collège des Lombards), Dublin
BYRNE Francis John, MARTIN Francis X., MOODY Theodore William (ed.), A new history of Ireland, vol. 3: early modern Ireland 1534-1691, Oxford, 1991
BYRNE Francis John, MARTIN Francis X., MOODY Theodore William (ed.), A new history of Ireland, vol. 4: eighteenth century Ireland 1691-1800, Oxford, 1986
BYRNE Francis John, MARTIN Francis X., MOODY Theodore William (ed.), A new history of Ireland, vol. 5: Ireland under the Union I, 1801-1870, Oxford, 1989
BYRNE Francis John, MARTIN Francis X., MOODY Theodore William (ed.), A new history of Ireland, vol. 6: Ireland under the Union II, 1870-1921, Oxford, 1996
CAILLET Maurice, « La bibliothèque du collège des Irlandais et son fonds de livres anciens », dans Mélanges de la bibliothèque de la Sorbonne, Paris, 1991
COMPERE Marie-Madeleine, Les collèges français, 16e-18e siècles, Paris, 2002
DAVIS Helen, LAURENT Catherine, Irlande et Bretagne : vingt siècles d'histoire : actes du colloque de Rennes, 29-31 mars 1993, Rennes, 1994
FIERRO Alfred, Histoire et dictionnaire de Paris, Paris, 1996
HAYES Richard, Bibliographical dictionary of Irishmen in France, Dublin, 1949
HILLAIRET Jacques, Dictionnaire historique des rues de Paris, 2 vol., Paris, 1963
LALOR Brian (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Ireland, Dublin, 2003
MAC CANA Proincias, Collège des Irlandais and Irish Studies, Dublin, 2001
O’FIAICH Thomas, The Irish Colleges in France, Dublin, 1990
O’SULLIVAN T. (ed.) et DEVLIN B.P., The Irish College in Paris, Dublin, 1994
PERRAUT Aurélie, Recherches sur le monde universitaire parisien au XIVe siècle : l’architecture des collèges, thèse sous la direction de M. Dany Sandron, Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne, 29 juin 2007, vol. III, p. 848-852 (Collège des Lombards).
SWORDS Liam, “History of the Irish College, Paris, 1578 – 1800. Calendar of the papers of the Irish College”, dans Archivium Hibericum, vol. XXV, 1980, pp. 3 – 233
SWORDS Liam, The Irish – French connection, 1578 – 1978, Paris, 1978
TUILIER André, Histoire de l’Université de Paris et de la Sorbonne, 2 tomes, Paris, 1994
WALSH T. J., The Irish continental college movement: the colleges at Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Lille, Dublin, 1973
(Taken from the "Norme ISAD (G)" by Grahal i-doc).
(Taken from the "Norme ISAD (G)" by Grahal i-doc).