Paul Colomb de Batines (14 November 1811 – 14 January 1855) was a 19th-century French bibliographer, librarian and bibliophile. His name remains attached to his great work, a Bibliografia dantesca, "scholarship treasure" (Paolo Trovato, Un falso visconte, due edizioni elettroniche e altri libri su Dante, 451 via della letteratura, della scienza e dell’arte, issue 5, 2010) which is - still in the early twenty-first century - a valuable tool for any literary history study of Dante's work.

In 1829, Colomb de Batines created the library of Gap.^[1]

In the 1840s, he took the title "vicomte de Batines" after he left France and settled in Florence.

• Bibliografia dantesca, ossia Catalogo delle edizioni, traduzioni, codici manoscritti e comenti della ‘Divina Commedia’ e delle opere minori di Dante, seguito dalla serie de’ biografi di lui, Prato, Tipografia Aldina, 1845-1846, in 2 vol.

Note : this edition will be completed with a third posthumous volume containing notes and manuscripts addition by Columbus de Batines : Giunte e correzioni inedite alla Bibliografica dantesca, éd. par Guido Biagi, Florence, Sansoni, 1888

• Réédition anastatique de la précédente : Rome, Salerno Editrice, « Biblioteca storica dantesca », 2008, in 3 vol.

Note: the third volume contains the general index, the Giunte e correzioni (additions and corrections) index, a postface by Stefano Zamponi in collaboration with Mauro Guerrini and Rossano De Laurentiis, and an index of the manuscripts established by Irene Ceccherini

Catalogs of his library and bookshop

• Catalogue d'une partie des livres composant la bibliothèque de M. C. de B. [Colombe de Batines], 26 November 1839 auction, Lyon, Fontaine, 1839
• Notice d'une partie des livres, 18 April 1845 auction, Paris, Délion, 1845

Books related to Dauphiné

• See a list of these works on the site of the Bibliothèque Dauphinoise