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Kirkestede, Henry de, ? 1314-? 1378 (prior and bibliographer)

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Dates

  • Existence: ? 1314 - ? 1378

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Henry de Kirkestede: Catalogus Scriptorum Ecclesie

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3470
Scope and Contents A transcript of a catalogue of the works of patristic and medieval writers on monastic libraries. Writers are arranged in alphabetical order, and under each appear the titles of their separate works with the number of vols to each, incipits, and explicits, and numbers indicating the libraries in which they are to be found. A key is at fos 10-12. Preface at fos 1-10. Fos 149-51: list of Biblical commentators. P. 152: six lines of verse, beginning 'Qui legis hunc librum scriptoris Rex miserere...
Dates: 1694
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