Le Liber Pontificalis. Texte, Introduction et Commentaire by Duchesne, Louis Marie Olivier

3 vols., CCLXII, 534, LXXVIII, 560, 401 pp. transcription of the original Latin manuscripts on the annals of the Papacy and Rome from St. Peter through the death of Pius II (1458), with manuscript variants and copious explanatory and other notes, lengthy introductory material on related source material, etc., chronological tables, frontispiece photo-portrait of Duchesne, 7 facsimile plates, folding plan of the ancient basilica of St. Peter's, vol. 3 comprising later additions and corrections edited by Cyrille Vogel, lengthy bibliography, notes relative to the first and second volumes, appendices, and indices. Large 4to. Cloth. Paris (Boccard) 1955-1957. Second, enlarged ed. Duchesne, the noted scholar, church historian, and director of the Ecole Française de Rome for over 25 years, originally published this important historical source in 1886-1892.