De veteribus Regum Francorum diplomatibus, Et Arte secernendi antiqua diplomata vera à falsis, Disceptatio. Ad. R. P. D. Joannem Mabillonium, Monachum Benedictinum. Auctore P. Bartholomæo Germon [...]

Full title: De veteribus Regum Francorum diplomatibus, Et Arte secernendi antiqua diplomata vera à falsis, Disceptatio. Ad. R. P. D. Joannem Mabillonium, Monachum Benedictinum. Auctore P. Bartholomæo Germon, Societatis Jesu Presbytero.

12mo. pp. [8], 360, [20] pages, f. [1] (blank). Signatures: ã4, A-Hh6, Ii4. Calf, gilded spine on 5 bars, red lettering panel. Edges spread in red. Plate with arms on front endpaper. Printer's device on title page. Head- and tailpieces, engraved initials. "Approbatio Regii Censoris" dated and signed "Datum Parisiis, IV Id. Jul. an. 1703. Raguet" on verso of I ij. "Approbatio R. P. Provincialis" dated and signed: "Parisiis, die 22. Julii, 1703. Subscriptum, Jul. Baudran" on recto of I iii. "Privilege du Roy" onI iii-I iv at end. Signed by Lecomte; P. Trabouïllet, Syndic; Germon, de la Compagnie de Jesus; P. Emery, Syndic. 

The present work was the first 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 also Bib# 4103609-4103611/Fr# 1598-1600 in this collection for his later rebuttals.

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