What National Library of France holds the Annales ianuenses?
Annales ianuenses The Annales ianuenses ("Genoese annals") form the official history of the Republic of Genoa during the High Middle Ages. It is the earliest medieval civic chronicle and the earliest set of annals composed by a layman. The "Annales" form a chronological account of the history of Genoa from 1099 until 1294. The first annals were composed by Caffarus, a private citizen, on his own initiative. In 1152, he petitioned the republic to keep a copy in the public archives ("comuni cartularium") and thenceforth the annals were continued at public expense. Caffarus, who probably began the work around 1100, continued it himself down to 1163. A series of officials of the chancery continued the "Annales" between 1169 and 1197, when work was taken over by the scribe and diplomat Ogerius. He worked down to 1216; thereafter, the annalists were anonymous, and at times a committee, until the last entry was added in 1294. The public manuscript of the "Annales ianuenses" is now kept in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 10136.
Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand The Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand is a specialized public library run by the municipal library system of the French city of Paris. Created from a massive collection started in 1897 by journalist and activist Marguerite Durand, the Library opened in 1931 and moved at 79 rue Nationale in Paris. It holds a collection of materials on feminism and the struggle of French suffragettes for equality. The collection contains biographies, manuscripts, photographs, periodicals, letters..., and more than 25,000 books dating back to the 17th century plus 4,000 pieces of correspondence written by prominent women.