{"id":169,"date":"2015-08-22T09:55:44","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T09:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yvonneseale.org\/?p=169"},"modified":"2018-08-20T16:30:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T20:30:17","slug":"inventaires-sommaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yvonneseale.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/22\/inventaires-sommaires\/","title":{"rendered":"List of Inventaires-Sommaires (S\u00e9ries G & H) of French Departmental Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a list which links to digitised copies of\u00a0s\u00e9rie G\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0s\u00e9rie H<\/em> of the inventaires-sommaires<\/em> for the archives of the northern French d\u00e9partements<\/em> on which I primarily work. These departmental “summary inventories” are arranged largely according to the same scheme, so in all cases their s\u00e9rie G<\/em> volume(s) brings together sources from the secular clergy (diocese, cathedral chapters, parishes, cures) and the s\u00e9rie H<\/em> volume(s) from the regular clergy (abbeys, priories, collegiate churches). Most of them were compiled in the late nineteenth or early twentieth centuries.<\/p>\n

Despite the name, these inventories can often be quite detailed. The image above gives a sense of what a standard entry looks like: the heading gives the cote<\/em> (call number), if it’s a liasse<\/em> (bundle of documents) or a single document, and then how many items are within the\u00a0liasse<\/em>. At the beginning of the entry proper, the figures in bold give the date range for the documents contained within the\u00a0liasse<\/em> (so in the case of H 775 (pictured above<\/em>), the oldest is from 1173 and the most recent from 1268), and then follows a one-sentence description of each individual document, arranged (where known) in chronological order.<\/p>\n

These descriptions are very useful in giving you a sense as to whether you need to call up a particular cote<\/em>\u2014however, as they were drawn up according to nineteenth-century and early-twentieth ideas of what is historically important about a given source, these descriptions cannot be relied on wholly, particularly when it comes to the presence of women as actors within a particular medieval charter. In addition, as many of the inventaires<\/em> were compiled before the World Wars, some of the documents which they describe have since been destroyed.<\/p>\n

Sadly, not all of the departmental archives’ websites make these inventaires <\/em>available online. Where volumes have been digitised by Google Books or Gallica, the meta data are often confused and confusing, and finding the volume you’re looking for can be a trial in frustration. This list brings together all the inventaires<\/em> which I have been able to find, either on the archives’ websites or on external sites like Archive.org and Google Books.<\/p>\n

(Updated August 2018<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Aisne<\/strong><\/p>\n

S\u00e9rie G & H, Vol. 3 \u2014 Bishopric and Cathedral Chapter of Laon; Abbeys of Saint-Jean de Laon, Saint-Quentin-en-l’Ile, Pr\u00e9montr\u00e9. [Google Books<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Ardennes<\/strong><\/p>\n

S\u00e9rie G, H & I \u2014 Parishes [Internet Archive<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Aube<\/strong><\/p>\n

S\u00e9rie G, Vol. 3 \u2014 Episcopal officialit\u00e9 <\/em>of Troyes; Grand<\/em> and petit s\u00e9minaire<\/em> of Troyes. [Google Books<\/a>]<\/p>\n

S\u00e9rie G & H (entirety). [AD Aube<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Marne<\/strong><\/p>\n

S\u00e9rie G, Vol. 4 \u2014 Bishopric of Meaux. [Internet Archive<\/a>]<\/p>\n

S\u00e9rie G & H (entirety). [AD Marne<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Meuse<\/strong><\/p>\n

S\u00e9ries G & H (entirety). [AD Meuse<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Oise<\/strong><\/p>\n

S\u00e9rie G (nos. 1 \u00e0 2352) \u2014 Bishoprics and Cathedral Chapters of Beauvais, Noyon, Senlis. [Google Books<\/a>]<\/p>\n

S\u00e9rie G (entirety) [AD Oise<\/a>]<\/p>\n

S\u00e9rie H, Vol. 1 (nos. 1 \u00e0 1717) \u2014 Abbeys of Saint-Quentin de Beauvais, Saint-Martin-aux-Bois, Saint-Barth\u00e9l\u00e9my de Noyon, Saint-Vincent de Senlis, Note-Dame de la Victoire, Saint-Germer, Saint-Lucien, Saint-Symphorien. [Google Books<\/a>]<\/p>\n

S\u00e9rie H, Vol. 2 (nos. 1718 \u00e0 2649) \u2014 Abbeys of Breteuil, Saint-\u00c9loi de Noyon, Saint-Corneille de Compi\u00e8gne [Internet Archive<\/a>]<\/p>\n

S\u00e9rie H (entirety) [AD Oise<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Somme<\/strong><\/p>\n

S\u00e9rie G (nos. 1 \u00e0 1169) \u2014 Bishopric and Cathedral Chapter of Amiens. [Google Books<\/a>]<\/p>\n

S\u00e9rie H (entirety) \u2014 Abbeys of Saint-Jean d’Amiens, le Gard, Saint-Riquier, Berteaucourt-les-Dames [Internet Archive<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Yonne<\/strong><\/p>\n

S\u00e9rie G, Vol. 2 \u2014 Archbishopric and Cathedral Chapter of Sens; Parish churches. [Internet Archive<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Yvelines\/Seine-et-Oise<\/strong><\/p>\n

S\u00e9rie G (nos. 1 \u00e0 1167) \u2014 Parishes; coll\u00e9giales<\/em> of Notre-Dame de Poissy, Saint-Mellon de Pontoise. [Google Books<\/a>]<\/p>\n

S\u00e9rie G (entirety). [Archives Portal Europe<\/a>]<\/p>\n

S\u00e9rie H (entirety). [Archives Portal Europe<\/a>]<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

If you know of other places where digitised copies of the inventaires-sommaires<\/em> are hosted, please let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a list which links to digitised copies of\u00a0s\u00e9rie G\u00a0and\u00a0s\u00e9rie H of the inventaires-sommaires for the archives of the northern French d\u00e9partements on which …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resources"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":75,"url":"https:\/\/yvonneseale.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/14\/aventures\/","url_meta":{"origin":169,"position":0},"title":"De mes aventures parisiennes","author":"Yvonne Seale","date":"June 14, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Above: View of the Archives from the Rue des Francs Bourgeois I'm now about a quarter of the way through my stay in France, carrying out preliminary research for my dissertation and regaining as much as I can of my somewhat atrophied spoken French (reading a language is such a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Research"","block_context":{"text":"Research","link":"https:\/\/yvonneseale.org\/blog\/category\/research\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/yvonneseale.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/6a013486c64e2e970c0176157890ac970c.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2284,"url":"https:\/\/yvonneseale.org\/blog\/2019\/11\/28\/handlist-of-premonstratensian-cartularies\/","url_meta":{"origin":169,"position":1},"title":"Handlist of Premonstratensian Cartularies","author":"admin","date":"November 28, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Austria | Belgium | Czechia | England | France |\u00a0 Germany | Hungary | Netherlands | Poland | Scotland | Spain | Switzerland This is a work in progress and should not be considered exhaustive. 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