[NATIONAL LIBRARY] [MEDALS CABINET]. Files relating to the C - Lot 272

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[NATIONAL LIBRARY] [MEDALS CABINET]. Files relating to the C - Lot 272
[NATIONAL LIBRARY] [MEDALS CABINET]. Files relating to the Cabinet of Medals in preparation for the Report made on behalf of the sub-commission charged with examining the state of the catalogues of the Cabinet of Medals and Antiquities of the National Library, drawn up by M. d'Albert de Luynes (1850). The files are entitled: Particular History of the Cabinet; Cabinet; Report on the Library's Cabinet Catalogues of Medals and Antiques; Pages relating to the catalogue, unsorted; Quantitative Inventory from 1789. Enclosed: Printed. ALBERT DE LUYNES (D'). Report made on behalf of the sub-commission charged with examining the condition of the catalogues of the Cabinet of Medals and Antiquities of the Bibliothèque nationale, Paris, Imprimerie nationale, n.d. 1850] 34 pp. - Two letters from LENORMANT (Charles) (18021859), archaeologist, numismatist and orientalist of great reputation and one of Champollion's companions in Egypt, addressed to the Duke of Luynes: LAS dated 16 November 1850; LS dated 16 March 1851: "Receive once again, Monsieur le Duc, the thanks of the Cabinet des Médailles for the enlightened and so persevering care you are willing to take of its destiny...". It is his successor in the Cabinet of Medals Pierre-Marie-Anatole Chabouillet who and the joy of receiving the donation from the Duke of Luynes in 1862. - Measures taken in 1793 to remove the royalist symbols from the furniture and paintings decorating the Cabinet des Médailles (signed Cointreau). Handwritten copy (bi-feuillet), copy on the original. This text is included in the Report (1850), pp. 3233. - Note in reply to one of the questions asked by the Members of the Commission in charge of the examination of the Catalogue of the National Library. Signed Ch. Magnin, March 17, 1851. Lithographed copy from the National Library, 6 ff; [PRINT]. BEUGNOT. Rapport au nom de la sous-commission chargée d'examiner l'état des catalogues du département des imprimés et de la collection géograp
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