EPHE Michel Fleury (BMF) Library
The Michel-Fleury Library, the library of the Historical and Philological Sciences Section of the EPHE, has existed since the school was founded in 1868. Its collection has been built up through purchases and donations, as well as through duplicates from the Sorbonne Library (for a long time, some of the works were kept in the latter's stores). The collection comprises more than 70,000 documents (monographs, periodicals, microforms, offprints, theses). Its areas of specialization include: Greco-Roman antiquity (epigraphy), Egyptology, the European Middle Ages, Indian studies (history and philology), auxiliary sciences of history, and linguistics.
The collections have been transferred to the Humathèque on the Condorcet Campus. They are integrated into Territory C “Texts, Meaning, Creation,” in sections C1 and C2 “History of Texts, Sciences of Scholarship,” alongside the documentary collections of the library of the Institute for Research and History of Texts (IRHT-CNRS) and the library of the Institute for Textual Traditions (CNRS).
Access terms
The vast majority of documents are freely accessible in the reading rooms.
Lending terms
Most documents in the Humathèque can be borrowed, subject to the following rules:
- Doctoral students and researchers residing on campus may borrow 30 documents at a time for 60 days
- Master's students taking classes on campus may borrow 20 documents at a time for 30 days
- Non-resident researchers from member institutions may borrow 10 documents at a time for 60 days.
Academic works, rare and valuable documents, and archival collections are not available for loan.
EPHE Michel Fleury (BMF) Library
