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Henry of Kirkestede Compiles a Medieval Union Catalogue of Manuscripts Naming 694 Authors

Circa 1350
From the Rouse & Rouse edition, a page of the original manuscript.
From the Rouse & Rouse edition, a page of the original manuscript.

About 1350 the Benedictine monk Henry of Kirkestede, prior of the royal abbey of St. Edmund at Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, and traditionally known as Boston Burienis, compiled a union catalogue of manuscripts in English libraries entitled Catalogus de libris autenticis et aposcrifis. He named 674 authors and assigned to them about 3900 works.

Richard H. Rouse & Mary A. Rouse, eds., Henry of Kirkestede, Catalogus de libris autenticis et aposcrifis (2004).

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