Title: Episcopatus curiensis in Rhætia sub metropoli Moguntina Chronologice ac diplomatice illustrates Opera et studio P. Ambrosii Eichhorn Presbyteri Congregationis S. Blasii
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> 4to. pp. viii, xiii, xxx, [ii], 368, 204. Contemporary boards. Manuscript title on spine label, blue pastedowns, red edges. Includes genealogical table. Ornamental bars as headpieces. "Codex probationum ad episcopatum curiensem ex præcipuis documentis omnibus ferme ineditis collectus" has separate title page.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">The first substantial use of the forgeries left in manuscript by Karl Widmer, who in 1656 fabricated a detailed chronicle of the Bavarian church dated ‘1498,’ which remained little known, until trustingly resurrected by Ambrosius Eichhorn; see W. Vogler, “Zur Rezeption der Pfäferser Fälschungen von Pater Karl Widmer,” in: Fälschungen im Mittelalter (1988), III, pp. 711-726.
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