Bernard de Montfaucon

(1655-1741)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Montfaucon, Bernard de, 1655-1741 LBT ID: BeMontf1741 VIAF ID: 24624390 LOC ID: n86857655	B/BAP: 1655-01-13 DIED: 1741-12-21
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French Benedictine monk, scholar, and antiquary; he is regarded as the founder of paleography.
REFERENCES TO Bernard de Montfaucon: Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 20 December 1831 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Found 1: ¶ 11 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter XII 1824 Found 1: ¶ 11 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R. Plumer Ward III