<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Full title:</b> De veteribus regum Francorum diplomatibus, et Arte secernendi antiqua Diplomata vera à falsis, disceptationes. Adversus R. P. D. Theodorici Ruinartii, &amp; Cl. V. Justi Fontanini Vindicias; atque Epistolas Cl. Virorum Dominici Lazzarini, &amp; M. Antonii Gatti. Auctore P. Bartholomæo Germon, Societatis Jesu Presbytero. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 12mo. f. [1] (blank), pp. [8], 439, [5] (last blank), f. [1] (blank). Signatures: ã4 A-Oo6. Vellum. Small engraved device on title page. </span><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;">Gilded yellow spine, lettering panel, edges spread in blue. </span></font><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">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 &amp; 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. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039129689707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>