Vindiciæ manuscriptorum codicum a R.P. Bartholomæo Germon impugnatorum. Cum Appendice, in qua S. Hilarii quidam loci ab Anonymo obscurati & depravati illustrantur & explicantur. Auctore Domno Petro Coustant Presbytero [...]

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Full title: Vindiciæ manuscriptorum codicum a R.P. Bartholomæo Germon impugnatorum. Cum Appendice, in qua S. Hilarii quidam loci ab Anonymo obscurati & depravati illustrantur & explicantur. Auctore Domno Petro Coustant Presbytero & Monacho Ordinis S. Benedicti è Congregatione S. Mauri. 8vo. f. 1, pp. [4], 3-306, [21] (last blank). Signatures: ā-AX8-Y5. Contemporary French speckled calf. Gilded spine on 5 bars, red panel. Edges in red. Label "Made in France." “1706” inked on First blank verso, on title page “ex libris maj. Semin. Rhedon. longg [?]. J. & M. [?]” "Achevé d'imprimer pour la premiere fois le 5. fevrier 1707" on final leaf. Printer's device on title page. Headpieces, initials. A reply by the editor of St Hilarius to Barthélemy Germon, who had declared the text and the source manuscript both spurious in his "De veteribus regum Francorum diplomatibus [...] disceptatio II" (see Bib# 4103609/Fr# 1598 in this collection. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.