Jean Hurault de Boistaillé

Several book traders, such as Andreas Dramarius and Nicola della Torre, were also supplying manuscripts to Hurault and he used services of the Roman booksellers Vincenzo Lucchino and Camilius Venetus.

[7] He possessed a 13th-century manuscript of the Quran and a Horologion of the Melkite, the earliest book printed from movable type in Arabic, which was produced in Fano, Italy, in 1514 at a press subsidized by Pope Julius II.

[1][3] After his death the library came into the possession of his brother André Hurault de Maisse, who was also a book collector.

After the Bishop's death the collection of 409 manuscripts was sold to King Louis XIII for the sum of 12 000 francs.

Louis XIII deposited them in the royal library, which was nationalized at the Revolution as the Bibliothèque nationale de France.