Note 006
Liber de Mirabilibus Romae ex Registro Nicolai
Cardinalis de Amagonia in Bibliothecâ St. Isidori Armario
IV., No. 69. This treatise, with some short but pertinent
notes, has been published by Montfaucon, (Diarium Italicum,
p. 283 - 301,) who thus delivers his own critical opinion:
Scriptor xiiimi. circiter saeculi, ut ibidem notatur;
antiquariae rei imperitus et, ut ab illo aevo, nugis et
anilibus fabellis refertus: sed, quia monumenta, quae iis
temporibus Romae supererant pro modulo recenset, non parum
inde lucis mutuabitur qu Romanis antiquitatibus indagandis
operam navabit, (p. 283.)
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 71