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Introductory Note

bliographique, published in 1804, was a first part, and his Dictionnaire Raisonné de Bibliologie a second. The Manual is chiefly devoted to Lipsius, having for its opening chapter a life of our author, followed by a translation of the Syntagma. Peignot tells us that the plagiarism of Lipsius by authors who have not thought it worth their while to mention their indebtedness to him was one of the reasons why he was led to give the Syntagma the chief place in his own book,—he wished to secure to this learned man his just due.

In his "Notice préliminaire sur Juste Lipse et ses ouvrages" Peignot gives a selected list of