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MONTFAUCON, BERNARD DE. Palaeographia Graeca; sive, De ortu et progressu literarum Graecarum. 11 engraved plates on 10 leaves, including 6 double-page; numerous full-page and text illustrations. [20], xxix, [1], 574 pages, including engraved allegorical frontispiece. Folio, 397x260 mm, contemporary vellum boards, rebacked; scattered minor marginal spotting or foxing, occasional pencil marginalia, early owner's notes on front flyleaf facing frontispiece. 19th-century bookplates of Samuel Farman Jarvis, D.D., and Frederic Huidekoper; perforated stamp of Meadville Theological School in lower outer corner of title. Paris: Louis Guerin et al., 1708
first edition. "Palaeography acquired its name with the publication in 1708 of Palaeographia Graeca . . . a book that dealt so comprehensively with the handwriting and other characteristics of Greek manuscripts that it remained the leading authority on the subject for almost two centuries" (Bischoff). Pages 441-509 reprint the Greek text, together with a Latin translation, of the 1701 account by Ioannis Komnenos of the monasteries of Mount Athos and their libraries. Bischoff, Latin Palaeography, page 1.
