The Ecole nationale des Chartes (Paris, France) has just released a few new documents on its website ELEC, the free online editions of the Ecole des Chartes (_http://elec.enc.sorbonne.fr http://elec.enc.sorbonne.fr/_).
The Obituary of Saint-Mont (_http://elec.enc.sorbonne.fr/obituairesaintmont/_). Ms. Marie-José Gasse-Grandjean, researcher at the University of Burgundy, publishes the first critical edition of this manuscript, along with the document itself digitized by Metz public library (médiathèque du Pontiffroy). The obituary, which has been dated 1406, was written for Guillaume de la Perche, prior of Saint-Mont, in order to list the names of all monastery benefactors and to celebrate their memory. This nice "book of practice", not quite a «*nécrologe* », nor a calendar nor a «censier» (liber censuum), is a unique source of information on everyday life among a small monastic community depending on the Abbey of Remiremont.
The Formulary of Odart Morchesne (established according the manuscript ms BnF fr. 5024) (_http://elec.enc.sorbonne.fr/morchesne/_). This edition, prepared by Mr. Olivier Guyotjeannin, professor at the École des chartes, and Mr. Serge Lusignan, professor at the University of Montreal, with the help of students of the Ecole des Chartes, contains about 270 models of acts which were useful for notaries and secretaries working for the King of France in the XVth century. This handbook is remarkable because the acts were annnotated by the author himself. The richness of the vocabulary is also outstanding. This is why the École des chartes will publish this document twice : there will be a print version (to be published in the collection Mémoires et documents de l’École des chartes) more convenient for reading and an electronic version allowing to access and search the text.
The Language of Acts, proceedings of the XIth International congress of diplomatics Troyes, Sept. 11-13, 2003 (_http://elec.enc.sorbonne.fr/sommaire163.html_). The eleventh plenary session of the International Commission of diplomatics was organized by the École des chartes. The various workshops focused on the language of acts, a topic which had emerged after a survey done by the École des chartes research center “History, mémory, heritage” (EA 3624). Papers are published on the Website as soon as Mr. Olivier Guyotjeannin receives them.
Digital cartularies of the region Ile-de-France (_http://elec.enc.sorbonne.fr/cartulaires/_) The library of the École des chartes has a collection of early XXth century editions of cartularies of the region Ile-de-France which surrounds Paris. This digitization project, supported by the French Ministry of Education, has three aims:
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to provide a digital facsimile of these rare editions which are not available in most libraries
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to allow browsing through full-text acts and indexes and to provide a critical presentation of the edition (critical apparatus by the students of the Ecole des Chartes under the direction of Olivier Guyotjeannin)
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to enhance digitization by providing access and search tools linking text and images, by creating tables for browsing, by allowing full-text search and the creation of personal data files.
The following editions are available on our site : - Cartulary of the Abbey of Saint-Martin de Pontoise - Cartulary of the Abbey of Notre-Dame de la Roche - Cartulary of the royal Abbey of Montmartre - Cartulary of the Abbey of Porrois - Priory of Saint-Germain-en-Laye - Liber testamentorum Sancti Martini de Campis - Cartulary and censier (liber censuum) of Saint-Merry de Paris - Cartulary of Saint-Spire de Corbeil
The most recent technologies in electronic publishing were used to produce these documents. Thanks to the standards chosen by the École des chartes (METS, TEI, XML), it is easy to browse through the documents, to make a full-text search _http://elec.enc.sorbonne.fr/exist/rechercher.php_ and to create indexes. Electronic documents produced by the École des chartes abide by TEI recommendations, thus promoting the durability and the interoperability of data among the international community dedicated to electronic edition in the field of Humanities (_http://www.tei-c.org http://www.tei-c.org/_).
Best regards, Gautier Poupeau, Electronic publisher at the Ecole des chartes