Paul Colomb de Batines


Paul Colomb de Batines was a 19th-century French bibliographer, librarian and bibliophile. His name remains attached to his great work, a Bibliografia dantesca, "scholarship treasure" which is - still in the early twenty-first century - a valuable tool for any literary history study of Dante's work.
In 1829, Colomb de Batines created the library of Gap.
In the 1840s, he took the title "vicomte de Batines" after he left France and settled in Florence.

Publications

Bibliografia dantesca, ossia Catalogo delle edizioni, traduzioni, codici manoscritti e comenti della ‘Divina Commedia’ e delle opere minori di Dante, seguito dalla serie de’ biografi di lui, Prato, Tipografia Aldina, 1845-1846, in 2 vol.
  • Réédition anastatique de la précédente : Rome, Salerno Editrice, « Biblioteca storica dantesca », 2008, in 3 vol.
;Catalogs of his library and bookshopCatalogue d'une partie des livres composant la bibliothèque de M. C. de B. , 26 November 1839 auction, Lyon, Fontaine, 1839Notice d'une partie des livres, 18 April 1845 auction, Paris, Délion, 1845
;Books related to Dauphiné
  • See a on the site of the ''Bibliothèque Dauphinoise''