Luke d', a learned Benedictine of the congregation of St Maur, was born at St Quintin, in Picardy, in 1609; and made himself famous by printing several works, which till then were only in manuscript: particularly, the epistle attributed to St Barnabas; the works of Lanfranc, archbishop of Canterbury; a collection of scarce and curious pieces, under the title of Spicilegium, i.e. Gleanings, in thirteen volumes, quarto. The prefaces and notes, which he annexed to many of these pieces, show him to have been a man of genius and abilities. He had also some share in the pieces inserted in the first volumes of The acts of the Saints of the order of St Benedict; the title whereof acquaints us that they were collected and published by him and Father Mabillon. After a very retired life, till the age of 73, he died at Paris the 20th of April 1683, in the abbey of St Germain in the Fields, where he had been librarian.