**MONTFaucon, BERNARD de.** – Born on 16 January 1655 in southern France, of noble family, in 1672 he became a soldier in the campaign of Turenne; in 1675 he entered the Benedictine novitiate at Toulouse, and from 1687 he was
**PALAEOGRAPHIA GRAECA,**
OR
ON THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS
OF GREEK LITERATURE,
TOGETHER WITH
All the Types of Vessels of Every Class of Greek Writers, as well as Abbreviations and Notations of Various Arts and Disciplines.
With Figures and Submissions of the Most Celebrated Manuscripts.
By the Work and Study of the Rev. BERNARD de MONTFAUCON, Priest and Benedictine Monk of the Congregation of Saint Maur.
PARIS,
[LUDOVICUS GURIN, bookseller, Quai des Augustins, at the sign of Saint Thomas Aquinas.
Widow of Joannes BOUVOT, bookseller, Quai des Augustins, at the sign of Saint Maur.
And CAROLUS ROBUSTEL, bookseller, Quai des Augustins, at the sign of the Palm Tree.]
MDCCVIII.
WITH ROYAL PRIVILEGE.
(1st. Enc. Cat. 1.)