Antoine du Verdier
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Antoine du Verdier lord of Vauprivast, was a French politician and writer. He was conseiller du roi and controller-general in Lyon
, but is best known for his work as a bibliographer
alongside his friend and contemporary François Grudé
.
Lyon
Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....
, but is best known for his work as a bibliographer
Bibliographer
"A bibliographer is a person who describes and lists books and other publications, with particular attention to such characteristics as authorship, publication date, edition, typography, etc. The result of this endeavor is a bibliography...
alongside his friend and contemporary François Grudé
François Grudé
François Grudé , lord of la Croix du Maine, was a French writer and bibliographer. He wrote under the Latin pseudonym Grucithanius.-Works:...
.
Publications
- ProsopographieProsopographyIn historical studies, prosopography is an investigation of the common characteristics of a historical group, whose individual biographies may be largely untraceable, by means of a collective study of their lives, in multiple career-line analysis...
, description des personnages-insignes, avec portraits, Lyon, 1573 - Bibliothèque d'Ant. Duverdier, contenant le catalogue de tous les auteurs qui ont écrit en français, 1585, valuable work of bibliographyBibliographyBibliography , as a practice, is the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology...
, reprinted in 1772-1773 with that of the La Croix du Maine.
External links
- Portrait, à Cartari, Vincenzo (1531 - ca 1571): Imagines Deorum, Qui Ab Antiquis Colebantur (1581)
- La Croix du Maine, Antoine du Verdier, "Les Bibliothèques françoises", Paris, Saillant & Nyon, 1773, numbered by Google Books :
- 1st volume La Croix du Maine, volume 1
- 2nd volume La Croix du Maine, volume 2
- 3rd volume Du Verdier, volume 1
- 4th volume Du Verdier, volume 2
- 5th volume Du Verdier, volume 3
- 6th volume Errata, epitomes bibliothecae gesnerianae, etc.
