Gilbert Ouy (1 March 1924, Paris – 26 June 2011,
Chambéry
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, aged 87) was a French historian, palaeographer and librarian.
Career
A student of the
École Nationale des Chartes
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, Gilbert Ouy obtained the archivist palaeographer diploma in 1946 with a thesis entitled ''Un commentateur des Sentences au XIVe siècle, Jean de Mirecourt''.
He was first a custodian in the manuscripts department of the
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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, then, from 1967, master of research at the
CNRS
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In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...
where he ended his career as research director.
On 19 January 1985 he obtained the title of Doctor of Letters.
[Enseignement supérieur, ''Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes'', 144/2 (1986), p. 45]
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Gilbert Ouy was Doctor ''honoris causa'' of the Turin University
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Work
His scientific work has provided fundamental insights into the intellectual life in northern France in the late Middle Ages, especially regarding the Franco-Italian relations and the first ferments of the humanist movement( Jean de Montreuil, Jean Gerson
Jean Charlier de Gerson (13 December 1363 – 12 July 1429) was a French scholar, educator, reformer, and poet, Chancellor of the University of Paris, a guiding light of the conciliar movement and one of the most prominent theologians at the Co ...
, Pierre d'Ailly
Pierre d'Ailly (; Latin ''Petrus Aliacensis'', ''Petrus de Alliaco''; 13519 August 1420) was a French theologian, astrologer and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
Academic career
D'Ailly was born in Compiègne in 1350 or 1351 of a prospero ...
). He was also a great connoisseur of manuscripts of the time and worked successfully in the reconstruction of important libraries and scriptoria of authors of which he had also identified several autographs witnesses.
Selected bibliography
* Gilbert Ouy, ''Le recueil épistolaire autographe de Pierre d’Ailly et les notes d’Italie de Jean de Montreuil'', Amsterdam, 1966, in-fol., XLII-190 pp.(« Umbræ Codicum Occidentalium », vol. IX)
* ''Le catalogue de la bibliothèque de l’abbaye de Saint-Victor de Paris de Claude de Grandrue 1514''. Introduction, text and index with V. Gerz-von Büren in collaboration with R. Hübschmidt and C. Régnier ; historique de la bibliothèque et concordances par G. Ouy, Paris, 1983, lxiii-734 pp.
* Danièle Calvot et Gilbert Ouy, ''L'œuvre de Gerson à Saint-Victor de Paris : catalogue des manuscrits, Paris, CNRS Éditions, 1990, 268 p.- f. de pl.-, 6] p. de pl.
* Gilbert Ouy, ''Les manuscrits de l’abbaye de Saint-Victor : catalogue établi sur la base du répertoire de Claude de Grandrue (1514)'',Paris-Turnhout, 1999, 2 vol. 395 and 636 pp., 8 pl. h.-t. (« Bibliotheca Victorina » X)
* Gilbert Ouy, ''La librairie des frères captifs :les manuscrits de Charles d’Orléans et Jean d’Angoulême'', Turnhout, 2007, 185 pp., 8 fig. (« Texte, Codex & Contexte » 4)
* Jean de Montreuil, ''Opera'', éd. Ezio Ornato, Nicole Grévy-Pons et Gilbert Ouy, Torino : G. Giappichelli, 1963-1981, 3 vol.
References
External links
Gilbert Ouy
on data.bnf.fr
Obituary
on Université catholique de Louvain
Complete bibliography
Hommage à Gilbert Ouy
''Les manuscrits de l'abbaye de Saint-Victor''
on Persée
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French palaeographers
French medievalists
French librarians
École Nationale des Chartes alumni
1924 births
Scientists from Paris
2011 deaths