Liber de scriptoribus ecclesiasticis.

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Creator

Trithemius, Johannes

Title

Liber de scriptoribus ecclesiasticis.

Coverage

[Basel]

Publisher

[J. Amerbach]

Date

[1494]

Description

Johannes Trithemius (1462–1516), abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Sponheim and later of St. James in Würzburg, is honored with the title of “father of bibliography” for the first systematic bibliography of the printing age. Trithemius lists 7,000 works of nearly 1,000 writers, mostly ecclesiastical.

Source

Harper Fund, 1959.