Port-Royal (English version)
Het Utrechts Archief houses the internationally famous collection of Port-Royal. This collection is known as the most important archival source relating to the Jansenist movement in the Catholic church in the 17th and 18th centuries outside
of France. The collection is owned by the Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands.
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- The collection contains literally thousands of letters, writings and other documents, mostly in manuscript, produced by major and minor figures of the Jansenist movement, its sympathizers and opponents from the early 17th century untill the early
19th. Most of this material has never been published in any form. The index of personal names consist of over 6000 entries, ranging from the highest dignitaries of the church, such as cardinals, archbishops and bishops to simple priests and nuns. The
laity is also well represented from the highest ranks of the nobility of the sword to persons of lesser quality. Most of the documents emanate from France and are written in French. The library of Port Royal runs her own website.
- The collection is catalogued by J. Bruggeman and A.J. van de Ven in : Inventaire des pièces d’archives francaises se rapportant à l’Abbaye de Port-Royal des Champs et son cercle et à la
résistance contre la bulle Unigenitus et à l’appel (Ancien fonds d’Amersfoort).
- MMF Publications in Lisse has put the archive on microfiche.
- You can consult this archive in Het Utrechts Archief only on microfiche, on our location Alexander Numankade.
- In the following libraries and archives you can also consult these microfiches:
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- Yale Divinity School
- University of Berkeley
- Notre Dame (USA)
- BU School of Theology
- Stanford University
- Cornell University
- University of Washington
- University of Michigan
- John Hopkins University
- Georgetown University
- Duke University
- St. Louis University
- Center Research Libraries
- St. Paul’s, Ottawa
- Ohio State University
- UC Los Angeles
- University of Binghamton
- Bibliothèque National de France
- UB Mainz
- UB Tübingen
- UB Freiburg
- Herzog August Bibliothek
- Frankesche Stiftung Halle
- Bibliothèque pub. & univ. Genève
- KU Eichstätt
- Shiseido, Japan