• 1789 Tome of De Re Diplomatica by Jean Mabillon
  • 1789 Tome of De Re Diplomatica by Jean Mabillon
  • 1789 Tome of De Re Diplomatica by Jean Mabillon
  • 1789 Tome of De Re Diplomatica by Jean Mabillon
  • 1789 Tome of De Re Diplomatica by Jean Mabillon
  • 1789 Tome of De Re Diplomatica by Jean Mabillon
  • 1789 Tome of De Re Diplomatica by Jean Mabillon
  • 1789 Tome of De Re Diplomatica by Jean Mabillon
  • 1789 Tome of De Re Diplomatica by Jean Mabillon
  • 1789 Tome of De Re Diplomatica by Jean Mabillon
  • 1789 Tome of De Re Diplomatica by Jean Mabillon
  • 1789 Tome of De Re Diplomatica by Jean Mabillon
  • 1789 Tome of De Re Diplomatica by Jean Mabillon
  • 1789 Tome of De Re Diplomatica by Jean Mabillon
  • 1789 Tome of De Re Diplomatica by Jean Mabillon
  • 1789 Tome of De Re Diplomatica by Jean Mabillon
  • 1789 Tome of De Re Diplomatica by Jean Mabillon
  • 1789 Tome of De Re Diplomatica by Jean Mabillon
  • 1789 Tome of De Re Diplomatica by Jean Mabillon
  • 1789 Tome of De Re Diplomatica by Jean Mabillon
  • 1789 Tome of De Re Diplomatica by Jean Mabillon
  • 1789 Tome of De Re Diplomatica by Jean Mabillon
  • 1789 Tome of De Re Diplomatica by Jean Mabillon
  • 1789 Tome of De Re Diplomatica by Jean Mabillon

1789 Tome of De Re Diplomatica by Jean Mabillon

2ft x 1.5ft when fully open

An intellectual cornerstone of archival science, this 1789 edition of De Re Diplomatica by the Benedictine savant Jean Mabillon embodies a turning point in Western historical methodology. Not simply a treatise, but a cartographic apparatus for deciphering centuries of parchment, papal bulls, and imperial edicts, this seminal volume codifies the rigorous discipline of diplomatics—a practice that still undergirds modern textual criticism and archival verification.

Jean Mabillon, a monk of the Congregation of Saint Maur, composed this landmark work not as speculative theory, but as a scholar's shield against the proliferating forgeries of his time. His acute attention to ink composition, script morphology, seals, dating formulas, and marginalia forms an analytical matrix that prefigures forensic document analysis. The text moves between medieval monastic culture and Enlightenment rationality, operating as both a theological relic and a methodological revolution.

This 1789 printing, likely issued by a continental ecclesiastical press with the gravitas typical of pre-revolutionary French typographic sensibilities, is set in crisp serif type, bound in austere calf or vellum, and often annotated by previous owners as a working scholarly instrument. The physicality of the book—the tactile gravitas of its paper, the solidity of its binding—echoes its intellectual weight.

At once arcane and essential, De Re Diplomatica is more than a book—it is a blueprint for truth in the historical record, a monastic act of defiance against falsification, and a beacon for those who understand that even ink and parchment are not immune to deception.

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