Henry of Kirkestede, Catalogus De Libris utenticis et Apocrifis

by Rouse, Richard H.; Rouse, Mary A.

• ISBN13: 9780712348379
• ISBN10: 0712348379
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-30
• Publisher: British Library Board

Summary

In the middle years of the fourteenth century, the monk Henry de Kirkestede, librarian and later prior of Bury St Edmunds abbey, set about compiling a universal bibliography of writers and their works. His sources were extensive. First, the framework was provided by the Franciscan union catalogue compiled in Oxford around 1300 - The Registrum Anglie, volume two in this series - which provided the form of entry, works of ninety-nine authors, and a record of copies in different locations. Henry augmented this with a systematic use of ancient bibliographers such as Jerome, and from references to authors and works he found in his own wide reading. His third source was the large library of Bury St Edmunds itself, one of the richest in the country. Books that Henry used survive there to this day, including his copy of the ancient bibliographers, as well as many books containing his notes which reveal him as an astute librarian with a bibliographical turn of mind.

Author Biography

R.H. Rouse is a professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. M.A. Rouse is an independent scholar living in Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

Prefatory Note	viii
Acknowledgements	ix
Table of Authors	xi
List of Abbreviations	xix
List of Plates	xxvi
Introduction
Henry of Kirkestede	xxix
Appendix. Kirkestede's Hand	lxxxiii
Compiling the Catalogus	lxxxiv
Kirkestede and the Speculum coenobitarum	cxxvi
Appendix. The List of Monastic Authors in the Revised Speculum Coenobitarum	cxliv
The History of the Text of the Catalogus	clxxiv
The Edition of the Catalogus	ccxi
The Plates
CATALOGUS DE LIBRIS AUTENTICIS ET APOCRIFIS
Appendix Kirkestede's Location Numbers	540	(35)
Alphabetical List of Houses	575	(2)
Alphabetical List of Authors	577	(8)
Index of Manuscripts	585	(7)
General Index	592