"Catharism and MS 609 of the Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse", Cahiers de Fanjeaux 55 ("le «catharism» en questions"), 2020 (English version) (original) (raw)

[This is the English version of "Le catharisme et le manuscrit 609 de la Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse", Cahiers de Fanjeaux 55 ("Le « catharism » en questions"), published Summer 2020] Over 130 years ago Célestin Douais -abbot, bishop, and early historian of Catharismobserved in his influential overview of manuscript 609 of the Bibliothèque municipal de Toulouse (MS609), the registry of the 'great inquisition' of Toulouse, that it was marked by "la longueur d'un document, du reste quelque peu monotone, puisque, comme dans toutes les enquetes, les memes renseignements y reviennent souvent" 1 . Not one historian who has referred to MS 609 since Douais has failed to comment on this particular quality of the registry 2 , noteably moreso since Mark Pegg published his monograph on it, The Corruption of Angels.