One such manual, now known
as the Correctorium Vaticanum, was prepared by William de
la Mare, a Grey brother of Oxford, in the course of forty
years' labour; and it is "a work which before all others
laid down sound principles of true scientific criticism upon
which to base a correction of the Vulgate text."[1]
[1] Gasquet 3, 140, q.v. for full description of these
Correctoria.
Another special work of the Grey brethren, the Registrum
Librorum Angliae,[1] was less important, although it more
clearly illustrates their high regard for books. Some time
in the fourteenth century, by seeking information from
about one hundred and sixty monasteries, some friars drew
up a list of libraries under the heads of the seven custodies
or wardenships of their order in England, and catalogued
the writings of some eighty-five authors represented in these
collections. In this way was formed a combined bibliography
and co-operative catalogue. Of this catalogue we
are able to reproduce a page on which are indexed five
authors, with numerical references to the libraries containing
each work. Early in the fifteenth century a monk of Bury
St.
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