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rare exceptions descriptive catalogues of documents editions
The theory of the operations of external criticism is now so well established, the number of specialists thoroughly versed in them is now so great in every country, that, with rare exceptions, descriptive catalogues of documents, editions, regesta , monographs, are scrutinised, 139 dissected, and judged as soon as they appear.
— from Introduction to the Study of History by Charles Seignobos

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