The collection features archives and a group of illuminated manuscripts. The thousands of archival documents include the papers of the former Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (minutes, inventories, accounts, and the celebrated academic conferences that were the foundation for the French artistic doctrine of Ancien Régime), as well a number of documents concerning the life of the school, the papers of painter Jacques-Louis David, correspondence from architect Charles Garnier, and unpublished dissertations on Rome’s architecture. Finally, 390 major manuscripts with paintings and illuminated fragments from the 12th to the 17th centuries, from the collections of Jean Masson, Claude Aimé Chenavard, and Achille Wasset.
© Compendium historiae in genalogia Christi ou "Arbre de Jessé". 1290 rotulus representing Christ’s genealogy.
Lettres patentes pour la fondation de l'Académie royales de Peintures, 1648
Listes des noms et demeures de Messieurs les Académiciens, from 1675 to 1751
Billets d'enterrement et de service de Messrs de l'Académie royale de peintvre et scvlptvre, qui sont morts depuis l'établissement d'icelle en 1648 iusqu'à l'année courante, gathered and organized by Antoine Reynès
Sacre de Claude de France
Art de trancher les viandes et toute sorte de fruicts à la mode italienne et nouvellement à la françoise
Vie de Saint-Antoine
Tractatus de Herbis
Heures à l'usages de Bourges
Masorah, fragment
