Résumé
Two works by the Croatian polymath, church writer, priest and traveler, Juraj Križanić (Georgius Crisanius; 1618–1683?), are kept in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris: the sixth known copy of his printed treatise Asserta musicalia (Rome, 1656) and the hitherto unknown first complete manuscript copy of the work Tabulae nouae, exhibentes musicam (Rome, 1657), whose second incomplete copy is kept in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vittorio Emanuele II in Rome. These two works belonged to the secretary of the Roman Congregatio de Propaganda Fide and former superior of Križanić, Mario Alberizzi (1611–1680), and were brought to France during the Napolenic Wars. The Parisian copy of the Tabulae nouae must have been the very copy that was presented by Križanić to Pope Alexandar VII. It consists of a fine caligraphical writing of 25 folios, containing the title 'Musica aucta, explicata, facilitata' with date, the dedication, the main text with drawings in four colors (40 so-called ‘Diagramma’), and the small treatise on church singing entitled 'Discursus de cantu ecclesiastico facilitando argumentum'.
