MUSEUM ITALICUM seu Collectio veterum scriptorum ex bibliothecis italicis
Tomus I
in duas partes distinctus
Prima pars complectitur eorumdem iter italicum litterarium: altera vero varia patrum opuscula & vetera monumenta, cum sacramentario & paenitentiali gallicano
Lutetiae Parisiorum; 1724
Volume I , 2 parts
Second part of has separate pagination and half-title.
Size 8 1/4 by 10 1/2"
Later cardboard binding with leather spine and corners
Text in Latin
12 full-page engravings, 4 are fold-outs; head and tailpieces; plus a few linecut illustrations.
Very good interior condition, some wear of binding

Jean Mabillon (1632-1707) was a monk of the French Benedictine congregation of St. Maur.
In 1685, the king of France sent Mabillon (accompanied by another monk) on a tour through Italy in search of early Church-historical books and manuscripts for the Royal Library.
Mabillon secured over 3,000 items, and these two volumes report on the monks' journey.
Mabillon's application of a disciplined, orderly and logical method to assess and determine the authenticity of early manuscript materials by, in part, examining and studying their writing has led him to be considered the founder of palaeography.



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