De veteribus regum Francorum diplomatibus, et Arte secernendi antiqua Diplomata vera à falsis, disceptationes. Adversus R. P. D. Theodorici Ruinartii, & Cl. V. Justi Fontanini Vindicias; atque Epistolas Cl. Virorum Dominici Lazzarini [...]

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Full title: De veteribus regum Francorum diplomatibus, et Arte secernendi antiqua Diplomata vera à falsis, disceptationes. Adversus R. P. D. Theodorici Ruinartii, & Cl. V. Justi Fontanini Vindicias; atque Epistolas Cl. Virorum Dominici Lazzarini, & M. Antonii Gatti. Auctore P. Bartholomæo Germon, Societatis Jesu Presbytero. 12mo. f. [1] (blank), pp. [8], 439, [5] (last blank), f. [1] (blank). Signatures: ã4 A-Oo6. Vellum. Small engraved device on title page. Gilded yellow spine, lettering panel, edges spread in blue. Head- and tailpieces, engraved initials. "Permissio R. P. Provincialis" signed by C. Delaistre. "Privilege du Roy" signed by Le Comte; P. Trabouïllet, Syndic; Germon, de la Compagnie de Jesus; Guerin, Syndic. Ex libris stamp from Conte Piercarlo Borgocelli throughout. The present work was the third attack on Jean Mabillon’s De re diplomatica (see Bib# 4103630/Fr# 1626 for the revised and corrected second edition) by the Jesuit Barthélemy Germon, who disputed the genuineness of some sources used in the Benedictine edition of the works of St. Hilary and St. Augustine. See Backer-Sommervogel, Bibliographie de la Compagnie de Jésus. Brussels & Paris, 1892, III, 3, c. 1354. See also Bib# 4103608-4103609, 4103611/Fr# 1597-1578, 1600 in this collection for his previous and later rebuttals. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.