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LIBER DIURNUS ROMANORUM PONTIFLCUM

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 539 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LIBER DIURNUS ROMANORUM PONTIFLCUM , or " See also:Journal of the See also:Roman Pontiffs," the name given to a collection of formulae used in the papal chancellery in preparing See also:official documents, such as the See also:installation of a See also:pope, the bestowal of the See also:pallium and the See also:grant of papal privileges. It was compiled between 685 and 751, and was constantly employed until the 11th See also:century, when, owing to the changed circumstances of the See also:Church, it See also:fell into disuse, and was soon forgotten and lost. During the 17th century a See also:manuscript of the Liber was discovered in See also:Rome by the humanist, See also:Lucas See also:Holstenius, who pre-pared an edition for publication; for politic reasons, however, the papal authorities would not allow this to appear, as the See also:book asserted the superiority of a See also:general See also:council over the pope. It was, however, published in See also:France by the Jesuit, See also:Jean Gamier, in ,68o, and other See also:editions quickly followed. The best See also:modern editions are one by See also:Eugene de Roziere (See also:Paris, 1869) and another by T. E. von Sichel (See also:Vienna, 1889), both of which contain See also:critical introductions. The two existing See also:manuscripts of the Liber, are in the Vatican library, Rome, and in the library of , St See also:Ambrose at See also:Milan.

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