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Encyclopedia Britannica



MABILLON, JOHN (1632-1707)

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 189 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LUP-MAL
MABILLON, JOHN (1632-1707) ,
Benedictine
  monk of the
Congregation
  of St Maur (see MAURISTS), was the son of a peasant near Reims. In 1653 he became a monk in the abbey of St Remi at Reims. In 1664 he was placed at St Germain-des-Pres in Paris, the
great
  literary workshop of the Maurists, where he lived and worked for twenty years, at first under d'Achery, with whom he edited the nine folio volumes of Ada of the
Benedictine
  Saints. In Mabillon's Prefaces (reprinted separately) these lives were for the first time made to illustrate the ecclesiastical and civil history of the early middle ages. Mabillon's masterpiece was the De re diplomatica (1681; and a supplement, 1704) in which were first laid down the principles for determining the authenticity and date of medieval charters and manuscripts. It practically created the science of Latin
palaeography
 , and is still the standard
work
  on the subject. In 16851686 Mabillon visited the libraries of Italy, to purchase MSS. and books for the King's Library. On his return to Paris he was called upon to defend against de Rance, the abbot of La Trappe, the legitimacy for monks of the kind of studies to which the Maurists de-voted themselves: this called forth Mabillon's Traite des etudes monastiques and his Reflexions sur la reponse de M.l'abbe de la
Trappe (1691-1692), works embodying the ideas and programme of the Maurists for ecclesiastical studies. Mabillon produced in all some twenty folio volumes and as many of lesser size, nearly all works of monumental erudition (the
chief
  are named in the article MAURISTS). A very competent judge declared that, " he knew well the 7th, 8th, 9th, loth and rrth centuries, but nothing earlier or later." Mabillon never allowed his studies to interfere with his life as a monk; he was noted for his regular attendance at the choral recitation of the office and the other duties of the monastic life, and for his deep personal religion, as well as for a
special
  charm of character. He died on the 26th of December 1707, in the midst of the production of the colossal Benedictine Annals.
The
chief
  authority for his life is the Abrege de la vie de D. J. M. (also in Latin), by his disciple and friend Ruinart (1709). See also, for a full summary of his works, Tassin, Hist. litteraire de la congr. de St Maur (1770), pp. 205-269. Of modern
biographies
  the best are those of de Broglie (2 vols., 1888) and Baumer (1892)the former to be especially recommended. A brief sketch by E. C. Butler may be found in the Downside
Review
  (1893). (E. C. B.)


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