Tractatus de Studiis Monasticis In tres Partes distributus, Cum quadam praecipuarum difficultatum serie, quae in Autographorum Operum lectione singulis quibusque saeculis occurrent, Selectiorumque Voluminum addito Catalogo ad Bibliothecam in Ecclesiasticis materiis comparandam... Editio Altera
Venitiis: Ex Typographia Andrae Poletti, 1745. Second edition. Hardcover. Second edition, 1745, after the first of 1729. Collated and complete. Quarto. Three volumes in one (bound first, third, second): [24],366;[20],272;[16],302,[2] pp. Half titles and separate title pages for Parts III and II. Contemporary calf, gilt leather label, raised bands, spine ruled in gilt. Contemporary woodcut bookplate, 'Monasterii Murensis'. Calf significantly worn, spine ends chipped, contents moderately foxed. Good plus. Latin translation of Mabillon's 1691 'Traité des études monastiques,' encouraging study for monks, including those belonging to non-scholarly orders. Jean Mabillon (1632-1707) was a French Benedictine monk of the Congregation of Saint Maur, celebrated as the founder of paleography. Good +. Item #z07304
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