Jean Vezin

Jean Vezin (30 July 1933[1] – 30 August 2020[2]) was a French librarian and medievalist historian, specializing in Latin palaeography and codicology.

Biography

Vezin was born in Vannes. A student at the École Nationale des Chartes, he obtained the archivist palaeographer diploma in 1958 with a thesis entitled Les scriptoria d’Angers au XIe siècle[3][4] then joined the Casa de Velázquez.

A curator at the manuscript department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France from 1962 to 1974, he also taught palaeography at the Institute for Latin Studies of the Paris-Sorbonne University, as well as palaeography and codicology at the École nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques.

In 1974, he was elected a research director at the École pratique des hautes études. He was co-director of the Chartæ Latinæ Antiquiores and the Monumenta palæographica Medii Ævi.

He also headed the librarians-documentalists school of the Institut catholique de Paris from 1985 to 1998.

The author of more than two hundred articles, Vezin was elected a corresponding member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres on 21 November 1997.[5]

References
  1. Fiche BnF
  2. "Décès de Jean Vezin (prom. 1958)". École nationale des chartes. 2020-08-30. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
  3. Site de l'École des chartes
  4. Les "scriptoria" d'Angers au XIe siècle on WorldCat
  5. Site de l'AIBL


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