Abbey of Saint Loup, Troyes

The Abbey of Saint-Loup (

Canons Regular. The Abbaye Saint-Loup, which came to be enclosed within the burgeoning medieval city of Troyes, developed a renowned library^[2] and scriptorium. The famous poet Chrétien de Troyes may have been a canon of this monastic house.^[3]

The abbey

prebendaries.^[7] In the fifteenth century an imposing Flamboyant Gothic abbey church was erected; the abbey church was rededicated in 1425. The scholarly Petrus Comestor was an Augustinian canon of Saint-Loup, among his other benefices.^[8]

The abbey's church and buildings, largely reconstructed in the seventeenth century, were destroyed during the

Abbey of Clairvaux. Thus a municipal public library in Troyes was first created.^[10] The Musée Saint Loup (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Archéologie et Histoire Naturelle

) was also installed in the building, where it has remained since 1830.

Notes

^ The relics were transported from Saint Martin-ès-Aires, "Saint-Martin-in-the-Fields", also within the historical centre of Troyes.
^ For the development and contents of the library: see C. Lalore, Inventaire, ccxxii-iv.
^ John F. Benton, "The Court of Champagne as a Literary Center" Speculum 36.4 (October 1961:551-591) p. 13.
^ C. Lalore, introduction to Collection des principaux carulaires du diocèse de Troyes vol. i (Paris, 1874); A. Roserot, Les abbayes du département de l'Aube", Bulletin historiqie et philologique 1904:558-71; M. Bur, La formation du comté de Champagne, 950-1150 (Nancy 1977:353-55)
^ Roman archaeological remains may still be inspected in situ.
^ Encyclopædia Britannica 1911, s.v. "Alcuin"
^ Christopher Harper-Bill, Ruth E. Harvey and Stephen Church, The Ideals and Practice of Medieval Knighthood (1986:254).
^ Eric Leland Saak, High Way to Heaven: The Augustinian Platform Between Reform and Reformation (2002:179f)
^ Precious manuscripts from the Saint-Loup library are conserved in the public library, Troyes, and a mid-fifteenth-century iron tabernacle door from the abbey came eventually to the Walters Collection, Baltimore, as one of Henry Walters' first medieval purchases, in 1899 (William R. Johnston, William and Henry Walters, the Reticent Collectors 1999:151).
^ The library was rehoused in a modern structure in 2002.

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[1] The relics were transported from Saint Martin-ès-Aires, "Saint-Martin-in-the-Fields", also within the historical centre of Troyes.

[2] For the development and contents of the library: see C. Lalore, Inventaire, ccxxii-iv.

[3] John F. Benton, "The Court of Champagne as a Literary Center" Speculum 36.4 (October 1961:551-591) p. 13.

[4] C. Lalore, introduction to Collection des principaux carulaires du diocèse de Troyes vol. i (Paris, 1874); A. Roserot, Les abbayes du département de l'Aube", Bulletin historiqie et philologique 1904:558-71; M. Bur, La formation du comté de Champagne, 950-1150 (Nancy 1977:353-55)

[5] Roman archaeological remains may still be inspected in situ.

[6] Encyclopædia Britannica 1911, s.v. "Alcuin"

[7] Christopher Harper-Bill, Ruth E. Harvey and Stephen Church, The Ideals and Practice of Medieval Knighthood (1986:254).

[8] Eric Leland Saak, High Way to Heaven: The Augustinian Platform Between Reform and Reformation (2002:179f)

[9] Precious manuscripts from the Saint-Loup library are conserved in the public library, Troyes, and a mid-fifteenth-century iron tabernacle door from the abbey came eventually to the Walters Collection, Baltimore, as one of Henry Walters' first medieval purchases, in 1899 (William R. Johnston, William and Henry Walters, the Reticent Collectors 1999:151).

[10] The library was rehoused in a modern structure in 2002.

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