Pierre Carpentier (1697-1767). Glossarium novum ad scriptores Medii Aevi,… Demum adjuncta est Cangii Dissertatio de Inferioris Aevi aut Imperii Numismatibus, quam excipiunt emendationes typographicae ad postremam Glossarii editionem. Paris: Le Breton et al., 1766.
Carpentier entered the Abbey of Saint-Remi in 1720, but he showed such promise as a scholar that his superiors sent him to the Abbey of Saint-Germain, where he worked on the preparation of various editions and a revision of Du Cange’s famous dictionaries of medieval Latin (1681) and Greek (1688). Du Cange’s and Carpentier’s work on Greek philology retain their importance centuries later. But what is often forgotten is that Carpentier’s Glossarium included corrections and updates to Du Cange’s Dissertatio on Byzantine coins as well.
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