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1687 1st ed Mabillon Museum Italicum Italian Voyages Paleography IllustratedJean Mabillon, a 17th-century French Benedictine monk, was tasked by King Louis XIV of France to venture on a tour of Italy in search of early Church history books to expand the royal library. The events of his journey and his findings along the way were published in a book entitled 'Museum Italicum seu Collectio'. This book was responsible for giving Mabillon the moniker of the 'father of paleography'.
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MABILLON, Jean; GERMAIN, Michel
Museum Italicum Seu Collectio Veterum Scriptorum Ex Bibliothecis Italicis. Tomus I. In Duas Partes Distinctus : Primas Pars Complectitur Eorundem Iter Italicum Litterarium: altera vero varia Patrum Opuscula & vetera monumenta, cum Sacramentario & Pænitentiali Gallicano
Luteciae Parisiorum : Vidua E. Martin, J. Boudot & S. Martin, 1687. First edition.
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Collation: Complete with all pages;
o [20], 244; 397, [11]
o 11 engraved plates
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