Diplomatics
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Diplomatics, or diplomatic, is a scholarly discipline centred on the critical analysis of documents, especially historical documents. It focuses on the conventions, protocols and formulae that have be
Title page of Jean Mabillon's De re diplomatica (1681)
Title page of Volume 4 of Tassin and Toustain's Nouveau traité de diplomatique (1759)
Jean Mabillon
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Dom Jean Mabillon, was a French Benedictine monk and scholar of the Congregation of Saint Maur. He is considered the founder of the disciplines of palaeography and diplomatics.
Diplomatics
…focus of study in diplomatics, and to accreditation papers carried by diplomats. The word diplomatics was effectively coined by the Benedictine monk Jean Mabillon, who in 1681 published his treatise, De re diplomatica (Latin: roughly, "The Study of Documents"). From there, the word entered the French language as…
Dom Jean Mabillon, O.S.B.
Annales Ordinis Sancti Benedicti (1739)