La dispersion des bibliothèques du diocèse de Rouen au temps des invasions normandes : autour d’un manuscrit carolingien anciennement conservé à la Sainte-Trinité de Fécamp

Abstract

A property of the abbey of Fécamp until the French Revolution, the ms 524 of the Rouen Library, written in the 9th century, contains different works dealing with astronomy and computation. The analysis of the obituary notice of Hardinus on fol. 78 seems to confirm the hypothesis, already put forward by some authors, of its being writen by a monk of the abbey of Fontenelle/Saint-Wandrille. It is not known how the manuscript came to Fécamp. Among the different possible channels, this paper considers that of the Blangy-sur-Ternoise monastery in the diocese of Thérouanne, one the refuges of the Fontenelle monks during Norman raids, which became the priory of Fécamp in 1032.

Keywords

• Blangy-sur-Ternoise
• Fécamp
• Fontenelle
• manuscript
• Normans
• Saint-Omer