Quentin and St. By the close of the Middle Ages all the volumes here were most probably housed within the cathedral chapter library, and the earliest codex here was recorded there from to , when it was used in the compilation of successive volumes of Gallia Christiana. The latter had been a canon of the Cathedral, and the present volumes were taken into the family library in , most probably for their protection during the period of unrest that led up to the French Revolution.
The family and their library survived the Revolution, and by the beginning of the twentieth century it numbered some valuable early printed books and 43 manuscripts 23 from Beauvais cathedral chapter.
Some of the manuscripts from the library at Troussures were exhibited in Beauvais in , in an exhibition of pre-Revolutionary art attended by Emperor Napoleon III the first codex here with a paper label evidently from this exhibition inside the front board, dated and listing it as "Inv.
Rothschild and seven others to Pierpont Morgan 1: a seventh-century Augustine of Hippo, Homiliae decem in epistolam S. Public sales in Paris of the remaining manuscripts followed on 9 July in which the present codices were lots 10, 22, 12, 20, 13 and 24 and June lot 24 in the previous sale failing to sell and being reoffered as lot 8 of this sale.
Rosenthal and passing to Berlin, Staatsbibliothek now Theol. By descent to the present owner. II , pp. The Le Caron family appear to have saved three types of books from the library of the Cathedral chapter at Beauvais: i early volumes from the tenth century or before, ii large illuminated volumes from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and iii the present manuscripts, the core liturgical books containing the offices of daily life there and unique records of the inhabitants of the town in the Middle Ages.
