Reliable Accounts of the Most Eminent Writers from the Beginning of the World to 1500

search in many books, and only too often I saw myself abandoned by them. The most significant and best bibliographic catalogs of all kinds only too often provided me with no help: I either did not find what I was looking for, or not in the way that met my intentions. I had particularly high hopes for the catalog of the Royal Library in Paris regarding the church writers of this period, which this fourth part treats: and who would not do the same? I acknowledge that this