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The oval room is a library where we can study, read and play video games. This room is an oval room hence its name. This room is open to everybody and it's free. We can watch more than 20.000 works where we can discover the history of arts and heritage.

The central area of the room gives the function of reading and also, we can watch a place for consultation, discussion and sharing. On the side, we can see four floors where we can find a lot of books. Also the people only can go to the first floor, on the side of them we can watch some screens, where we can learn about a lot of things, for example,the history of the library. Next to these screens we can watch some computers where we can play some video games or do some research.

For us, the library is very beautiful, especially because we think the glass room makes the library more interesting and attractive. The feeling of watching all the people studying, makes us desire to study. Also, when we were watching the library, we cast an eye over the books, especially one book about an illustration of Mickey mouse.

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There are nine screens, everybody can watch, and we can find all around the library. We can learn about its history, architecture, missions and collection.

We have to watch the next screens:

Restaurer les oeuvres:

Enrichir les fonds:

Partager

Also, we watch for pleasure:

Chercher la petite bête.

What makes a book a book?

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1. How many foreign libraries does de BNF have agreements with?
They have 250 foreign libraries
2. What is the rare book division?
There were approximately 200.000 of the most precious, rare and unusual volumes are preserved.
3. Apart from books, what other kind of documents can you find?
380.000 handwritten manuscripts, but also, scores, maps, coins, models, stages and costumes.

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1. How does a work enter the library?
At this moment, dozens of new documents enter the collections every day. The collections, which originated with the Library of the Kings of France, have grown over the centuries. The works arrived in different ways: through mandatory deposit, confiscations during the French Revolution, donations, purchases and more things.
2. What is a royal collection?
The Library’s origins can be found in the collection of the Kings of France. First we have preserved manuscripts, then printed books, as well as coins, objects from antiquity, globes, maps and more things.

3. What is purchases and fund raising?
To enrich and complete the collection, the people in charge of them can buy items or arrange trades with other libraries, particularly international ones.

4. What are revolutionary confiscations?
During the revolutionary period, the goods of the clergy and the church, including the church, also the nobility and the royal family. This way, the collections of the Royal Library had become the National Library, which increased hundreds of thousands of documents, for example: books; manuscripts; prints; maps and precious.

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This large missal is a prayer book for Mass that was made in 1506 and 1511 for Jacques de Beaune, Queen Anne of Brittany’s treasurer. The pages of the volume were in good condition, but the bindings were quite damaged.

Meticulous restoration, which called for some 125 hours of work, returned it to its former glory.

Before restoration, the binding is the most revealed in the book. This part was in bad condition, without leather in some parts. Also, there are some holding with some signatures, but there are no more together.

After a complete cleaning, the manuscript is protected by a binding, but the pages are preserved in good condition. However, all the pages have been dusted and rubbed to remove all the trash.

Without the back of the manuscript is in really bad conduction. The back of the bindings is removed with a lot of care. The manuscript is clean with rice-starch glue.

The next step has the function is reinforcing the raised bands. They made sewing seven bands, a technique that was common in the 16th century. The restorer uses essential elements with bands of leather that are moulded each one after they are sewn in her place.

The consolidating the end bands. With headbands and tail bands made from colored threads that are around a core material. These headbands and tail bands are sewn to keep them together. This step required 19 hours of needlework.

The next step has the function of strengthening the back. For that, the pieces of parchment between the raised bands, and stick strips as leather between the back and boards. And they made the top of the manuscript with new leather.

Later, they are replacing the original back, and the new back leather is dyed with the same color of the rest of the book. The original leather is put back into her place.

The final step is after rubbing to make shine once again, and the Misal is ready to come back to the preservation box that the restorer had made to measure for it.