MABILLON (JEAN): DE RE DIPLOMATICA Libri VI. In quibus quidquid ad veterum instrumentorum antiquitatem, materiam, scripturam, & stilum; quidquid ad sigilla, monogrammata, subscriptiones, ac notas chronologicas; quidquid inde ad antiquarium, historicam, forensemque disciplinam pertinet, explicatur & illustratur, Paris, Sumtibus Ludovici Billaine, 1681, folio on large paper, additional engraved title, engraved title vignette and headpiece, 68 numbered plates, some double-page, one double-page and folding (wormholes affecting additional title, title and text up to B1, wormhole in later leaves also slightly affecting text, occasional browning, ownership stamp of Jastrzehski on title and verso of final leaf), modern brown morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, g.e., slipcase. [Brunet III, 1263; Printing and the Mind of Man 158]

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MABILLON (JEAN): DE RE DIPLOMATICA Libri VI. In quibus quidquid ad veterum instrumentorum antiquitatem, materiam, scripturam, & stilum; quidquid ad sigilla, monogrammata, subscriptiones, ac notas chronologicas; quidquid inde ad antiquarium, historicam, forensemque disciplinam pertinet, explicatur & illustratur, Paris, Sumtibus Ludovici Billaine, 1681, folio on large paper, additional engraved title, engraved title vignette and headpiece, 68 numbered plates, some double-page, one double-page and folding (wormholes affecting additional title, title and text up to B1, wormhole in later leaves also slightly affecting text, occasional browning, ownership stamp of Jastrzehski on title and verso of final leaf), modern brown morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, g.e., slipcase. [Brunet III, 1263; Printing and the Mind of Man 158]

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This volume 'created' the science of Latin palaeography, rebutting the attitude towards mediveal documents shown by Papebroch, the editor of the Acta Sanctorum (lot 2). Diplomacy, chornology, numismatics were greatly affected by this work, and it earned a European reputation for Mabillon, a Benedictine of the congregation of St. Maur at St. Germain-des-Près. 'Even now Mabillon's method has been superseded only in details, chiefly due to the application of technical inventions such as photography' (cf. PMM)

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