<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;">12mo. f. [1] (blank), [5], pp. 409, [19] (last blank), f. [1] (blank). Signatures: a4 A-O4 P-2H6 2I4. Vellum, gilded yellow lettering panel on spine. Edges spread in blue. Stamps: "Ex libris Comitis Petri Caroli Borgogelli", "Ex libris Piercarlo Borgocelli." Printer's device on title page. Head- and tailpieces, engraved initials. "Approbatio Regii Censoris" signed by Raguet (recto of Nn ij). "Permissio R. P. Provincialis" signed by "Jul. Baudran". "Privilege du Roy" signed by Le Comte; P. Trabouïllet, Syndic; Germon, de la Compagnie de Jesus; Guerin, Syndic.</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 second 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# 4103608, 4103610-4103611/Fr# 1597, 1579-1600 in this collection for his previous and later 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/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039129659707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>