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Bernard Roy

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Notable figure 1845–1919 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 222; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 596 · Second source: Archives diplomatiques, Centre de Nantes, Fonds Bernard Roy (1AE/138), finding aid (2018, updated 2021 and 2023): Jean-Baptiste Bernard Roy (1845–1919)

From France; worked in Tunisia

Field: Manuscript cataloguing

Affiliation

Catalogued the Zaytuna Mosque's manuscripts and books (1900)

Biography

Born at Marigny-le-Cahouët in France, he came to Tunisia at twenty-two, learned Arabic and went on deepening it, and was Secretary General of the Tunisian government from 1889 until his death in Tunis. With Mhammed Bel Khodja and Mohammed El Hachaichi he produced the Extrait du catalogue des manuscrits et des imprimés de la bibliothèque de la Grande Mosquée de Tunis (1900). He published the Arabic inscriptions of Mahdia (1915) and Monastir (1918); his Inscriptions arabes de Kairouan appeared after his death (1950).