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I've changed the header because the subject is no longer St. Albans. I don't know if there is a comprehensive catalogue for French monastic libraries, but there is a handy-dandy guide to them: Genevois, A.-M,, et al., eds. Bibliothe`ques de manuscrits me'die'vaux en France: Releve' des inventaires du VIIIe au XVIIIe sie`cle. Paris: CNRS, 1987. ISBN 2-222-04101-5. 230 F, but I paid $42.63 after some conference discount in 1996. It is organized by owners, personal and institutional, with dates of the documents, identifications of the nature of the documents, MS references (right down to folios!), and references to printed versions or to the fact that inventories are not edited, though sometimes there may be transcriptions or work in progress--e.g., "Ine'd." vs. "Ine'd. Transcr. (IRHT)." vs. "Ine'd. Travail en cours." There are multiple indices at the end, as well. I'm supposed to be grading papers, so I won't peruse the introduction to see if there's a comment that someone is working on a master edition of them all. Perhaps some other list members knows. Juris [log in to unmask] http://oscar.wvsc.edu/~lidaka West Virginia State College On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Patrick J. Nugent wrote: > Is there a similar catalogue for French monasteries? I have in view a > project (possibly doomed from the start) of trying to trace who owned what > hagiographic texts in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%