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Excerpt from Bibliotheca Ms. Stowensis, Vol. 2: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Stowe Library Charters so renewed to be of equal authority with the originals; a fact of such importance, so clearly ascertained, would alone suffice to lay a foundation for greater prolixity, and to demand as great a display of learning, as falls to the lot even of the most learned men of the present age. It will be found also that, in some instances, dates occur which are inconsistent with one ano ther, and with the names of the witnesses, who may be proved to have died before the day, the mouth, or even the year when the Charter is dated; that the date of the Indiction does not always agree with that of the Incarnation; and yet that this disagreement alone is not sufficient to invalidate the authority of a Charter, if other circumstances contribute to establish it. Hasty scribes have often miscalculated indictions; a remarkable instance occurs in the following sheets, by which it appears that the scribe left a blank for the insertion of the Indiction on a future occasion, when he should be better informed. (1) There are also in this volume instances of genuine original letters antedated a whole month by their writers. (2) Reasons must therefore be assigned for objecting to the authenticity of documents from the falsehood of their dates alone, since that alone is not always suflicient to invalidate their authenticity. - Thcre are, no doubt, dates which alone invalidate the authority of any document however diligently forged. The power of the Emperor Maximin was not equal to the task which he undertook, of passing for genuine the false acts of Pontius Pilate, in which the death of our Saviour h dated the 7th year of Tiberius, long before Pilate was Governor of Judea. (3) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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