Ludovicus a S. Carolo (

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Louis Jacob, Latin form ''Ludovicus Jacob''; 20 August 1608 – 10 March 1670) was a French

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scholar, writer and bibliographer. He published the first yearly lists of printed books.

Life

He was born at Châlons-sur-Marne (according to some at

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), the son of Jean Jacob and Claudine Mareschal. He entered the Order of Carmelites of the Old Observance in his native town, and made his profession 11 June 1626. While in Italy (1639) he took great interest in

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, regretting the wholesale destruction of inscriptions in the

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. A lasting fruit of his sojourn in Rome was the completion and publication of the "Bibliotheca Pontificia", begun by

Gabriel Naudé Gabriel Naudé (2 February 1600 – 10 July 1653) was a French librarian and scholar. He was a prolific writer who produced works on many subjects including politics, religion, history and the supernatural. An influential work on library science ...

, a work not free from errors and mistakes. On his return to France he obtained the post of librarian to

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, and later on the dignity of royal councillor and almoner. At a later period he became librarian to

Achille de Harlay Achille de Harlay de Sancy, CO (1581, Paris26 November 1646), the son of Nicolas de Harlay, seigneur de Sancy, was a French diplomat and intellectual who was noted as a linguist and orientalist. He entered Church service, becoming the Bishop of ...

, first president of the parliament, in whose house in Paris he lived and finally died, aged 61.

Works

Besides the work already mentioned, and some twelve books which he edited for their respective authors, he left, according to the "Bibliotheca Carmelitana" (II, 272), twenty-seven printed works and sixty manuscripts. They include: *A relation of the procession held 17 July 1639, at the church of Sts. Sylvester and Martin at Rome in honour of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Paris, 1639). *Catalogue of authors proving René Gros de Saint-Joyre, the poet, to have been related to

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(Lyons, 1642). *The panegyric of Ven. Jeanne de Cambry, of Tournay, Augustinian nun (Paris, 1644). We have from his pen the lists of Paris publications for 1643-44 and 1645, and the list of French publications for 1643–45. Among his manuscript notes were collections of bibliographical notices concerning his order, which were utilized by Martialis a S. Johanne Baptista (Bordeaux, 1730), and Cosme de Villiers (Orleans, 1752).

References

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