A library of Charles the Great and her lot

Abstract

In article has іnterdisciplinary character and is written at the interface of the branches, such as a history of the Middle Ages, a history of the book as well as a history of the librarianship. An aim of article is to sum up the study of development of the royal libraries and their lot by the case of library of emperor Charles the Great, which is considered as first united court library in the Frankish state. In the article traces an author a chronology of development of the certain theories and hypotheses about the structure of the royal library and her lot, which were propounded and developed in the course of the last twelve centuries until early 2014, as it was all over the world celebrated 1200 years since the death of her founder. In consequence of study of the numerous German-language publications, which were published over the last 70 years, was it established, that a substance of collection in the royal library of Charles the Great consists of the publications about the religion, the philosophy, the history and other humanities, which the promіnet persons could use in those days, and also the separate editions about the natural sciences, the manuscripts, few teaching aids and reference books too. Аn author came to the conclusion, that some aspects of activity of the contoversial politician such Charles the Great were studied extremely insufficient. Among their number is a question of the concern of Charles to the librarianship, because a king had found a state library. But he hadn't given at the same time an attention to the problems of conservation of the collections for the posterity, such as to the problems of collecting and filling of the gaps by means of rewriting of the rare works, which were kept in the other institutions, specifically in the monasteries. It is appears in consequence of study of the modern publications about the Early Middle Ages such as about the government of Charles the Great, that the library collections were turned over religious institutions of all sorts after his death in late january 814.