Project: Catalogue of the Gironcourt Collection

By fall 2011, a “full-scale” catalogue of the de Gironcourt collection of West African manuscripts is Ms. University of Liège, General Library, no. 2241, fols. 153-154, moonface watermark. COMSt • 11 Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Newsletter • 1 • January 2011 scheduled to appear within the Series Catalogorum of the Istituto per l’Oriente “C. A. Nallino” (Roma) and CNRS (Paris). This collection, brought to Europe by the French ingénieur-agronome Georges de Gironcourt (1878-1960) in 1912, is kept at the Library of the Institut de France.