At the start of this summer, SorbonNum provided new digitised batches for the geology collections. These are 51 books and 34 maps which make up a corpus of regional geology throughout France and the rest of the world. Colonial history is represented with a collection specialised in Indochina before 1920.Find out more about the geology collections in SorbonNum.Illustration image: extract from Étude des plissements et des zones d'écrasement de la moyenne et de la basse...
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15 July 2024

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This May, SorbonNum is putting 6 digitised sets of the Pierre Aubry's Archives, held by Sorbonne University.The 1910 donation to the University of Paris of the library and archives of this archivist and palaeographer, a pioneer of musicology, is at the origin of the Collex-labelled musicology collection (collection d’excellence), which has been held at Clignancourt university library since 2013.Among the documents digitised and available on the SorbonNum is the manuscript of his thesis...
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23 May 2024

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9 printed scores dating from the late 17th and early 18th centuries have been put online on SorbonNum. These works are held in the Clignancourt library of Sorbonne University. Additions have been made to make these documents unique, along with commentaries and manuscript interpretations. Some of the documents also include manuscript scores and bookplates, notable those of the Marquise de Flamanville. The collection includes operas by Lully, Desmarets, and Collasse.Illustration: extract...
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28 February 2024

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Among the scientific and heritage collections held by Sorbonne University, the manuscripts in the medical collections have been digitised for the first time this year, with five works from the Musée Dupuytren now available online.Founded in 1835 thanks to a legacy from Guillaume Dupuytren (1777-1835), who built up a pathological anatomy collection that was later expanded to include other medical collections, the Musée Dupuytren closed its doors in 2016.The manuscripts available...
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21 December 2023

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The István Frank's library is now on SorbonNum with 16 digitalised books. István Frank (1918-1955) was a specialist of Romance languages, lecturer of Romance philology at Saarland University and who has been recognized with the publishing of Répertoire métrique de la poésie des troubadours and Trouvères et Minnesänger. The István Frank's library is held  by the Bibliothèque de linguistique occitane et romane (Occitan and Romance Linguistics...
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8 December 2023

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