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HEMERE, Claude - Augusta Viromanduorum vindicata et illustra - Lot 29
HEMERE, Claude - Augusta Viromanduorum vindicata et illustrata duobus libris quibus antiquitates urbis et ecclesiae sancti Quintini, Viromandensium comitum series explicantur. Adjectum est regestum veterum chartarum... opera Claudii Hemeraei. Paris, Jean Bessin, 1644. In-4, front (5) pp, 373, 76 pp (charters), 2 plates (one folded), folded genealogical table, red morocco, boards decorated in the Du Seuil style, spine with grotesque ribbing, gilt tr.
Claude Héméré (Saint-Quentin circa 1580 - Paris 1650) received his doctorate from the Sorbonne in 1614, where he was librarian from 1638 to 1644. He was subsequently commissioned to draw up the catalog of Richelieu's manuscripts. Histoire de la ville de Saint-Quentin (History of the town of Saint-Quentin), written following a controversy about Augusta Viromanduorum, which according to Jacques Le Vasseur, Dean and Canon of Noyon, referred to the Vermand Abbey of the Prémontré Order. With the unidentified arms of a duke of the House of Lorraine, knight of the Order of Saint-Michel.
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