<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. ff. [1] (blank), [12], 629, pp. [19] (last blank), f. [1] (blank). Signatures: ā8 ē4 A-2R8 2S4. Half calf. Gilded spine on 5 bars, red edges. Manuscript signature “M. Joh. Georg von Zabern Argentinens. 1767” on front endpaper, repeated on title page. On first blank recto: “Ex Libris Matter, 9 März 1836” (Jacques Matter (1791-1864) was a French writer on theology and philosophy who became France’s Inspector General of Education in 1832 and later oversaw the French public library system). On first blank verso manuscript note in Latin partly cut. Includes indexes. Engraved title vignette. Engraved initials, head- and tailpieces. Includes errata list (page [630]) and bibliographical references.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">The present work was the fourth attack on 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# 4103608-4103610/Fr# 1597-1599 in this collection for his previous rebuttals.</span><br /></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/catalog/bib_4103611" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record. </a></span></span></p>