Caroli M. Imp. et Synodi Parisiensis sub Ludovico Pio Caroli M. F. scripta; De imaginibus
By: edita ad fidem vetustissimorum exemplarium Ioannis Tilii Episc. Meldensis, & P. Pithoei Iuris Conf. Parisiensis
Contributors: Theodulf, Bishop of Orléans, approximately 760-821; Pithou, Pierre, 1539-1596; Goldast, Melchior, 1578-1635; Daillé, Jean, 1594-1670; Paulinus II, Saint, -802
Publisher: [J.A. & S. De Tournes?]
Published: 1671
Place of publication: Geneva?]
Language: lat
Subjects: Idols and images; Worship; Literary forgeries and mystifications; Council of Nicaea (2nd : 787 : Nicaea, Turkey) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84177500; Libri Carolini
Other titles: Synodi Parisiensis.; Opus inlustrissimi.; De imaginibus.
Work titles: Libri Carolini
Notes: Place of publication and date from Clément, Grässe, and BM.

Includes commentary by Melchior Goldast from the 1608 Frankfurt ed. of his Imperiala decreta De cultu imaginum.

This is a late 17th century reprint of the 1549 Paris ed. of the Opus inlustrissimi and the 1596 Frankfurt. ed. of the Synodus Parisiensis De imaginibus, issued, according to D. Clément, with a new pref. and commentary by Jean Daillé.

" ... La prétendue Édition des Livres Carolins"--Clément, D.  Bib. curieuse, t. 6, p. 298.

The original 1549 Paris ed. of the Opus inlustrissimi was 16mo. It concerns the Second Council of Nicaea. Authorship attributed to Theodulfus, Bishop of Orléans. Edited pseudonymously by Jean Du Tillet, Bishop of Meaux.  Cf. New Cath. encyc.

The original 1596 Frankfurt. ed. of the Synodus Parisiensis included a publisher statement: "apud hered. Andreae Wecheli Claudium Marnium & Joannem Aubrium"--Adams 334.

Daillé's Swiss publishers were J.A. & S. De Tournes of Geneva, descendents of the Lyons family of Huguenot printers exiled in Geneva 1585-1728, who may have transmitted the Lyonnais counterfeiting tradition.  Cf. Dict. biog. française; Cartier, A.  Bib. des éds. des de Tournes.

Grässe, v. 2, p. 51

NUC, v. 104, p. 52; v. 331, p. 631

BM, v. 36, col. 1261
Table of contents: title: Caroli M. Imp. et Synodi Parisiensis sub Ludovico Pio Caroli M. F. scripta; De imaginibus; title: Opus inlustrissimi & excellentissimi seu spectabilis viri, Caroli Magni ... contra Synodum ... item, Paulini Aquileiensis episcopi adversus Felicem Urgelitanum, & Eliphandum Toletanum episcopos libellus ...; title: Synodus Parisiensis de imaginibus habita Anno Christi DCCCXXIV.