MABILLON (Johannis). DE RE Diplomatica Libri VI. Luteciae-Parisiorum. 1709.

MABILLON (Johannis). DE RE Diplomatica Libri VI. Luteciae-Parisiorum. 1709.
MABILLON (Johannis)
DE RE Diplomatica Libri VI. In quibus quidquid ad veterum instrumentorum antiquetatem, materiam, scripturam & stilum; quidquid ad sigilla, monogrammata, subscriptiones ac notas chronologicas; quidquid inde ad antiquariam, historicam, forensemque disciplinam pertinet, explicatur & ilustratur. Accedunt commentarius de antiquis Regum Francorum Palatiis. Veterum scripturarum varia specimina, tabulis LX comprehensa. Nova ducentorum, & amplius, monumentorum collectio. Editio Secunda ab ipso Auctore recognita, emendata & aucta. Luteciae-Parisiorum: Sumtibus Caroli Robustel, 1709.

portada, [32], 648, viii, 116 pp., 7 gravuras desdobráveis numeradas com o texto, 2 fólios numerados 457*-460* além do texto: il.; 445 mm.

Second edition of a founding and fundamental work for paleographic and diplomatic studies. Published for the first time in 1681, it presents a set of methodologies applied to handwritten documents that gave its author the epithet of father of those auxiliary disciplines of History. Rare and important.