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Whatever the method adopted, a volume containing
twenty different pieces by ten different authors would
necessarily have to be listed under one name, whatever
the librarian might decide to do about the other nine
names. And if the first tract in the volume was by St.
Augustine, under St. Augustine it would go. If you wanted
to see the volume you would have to ask for St.
Augustine, even if it should be the fifth treatise in the
volume you wanted to consult, which might be by Hugo
de Sancto Caro. And if you asked a friend in another
abbey to copy something for you which you had noted on
a former visit you would have to write to him: ‘Please
copy the treatise on fols. 50 to 70 in your “Augustinus”.’
This would not necessarily imply that the writer was not
aware that the author of this treatise was not
Augustinus; whether he thought so or not, he would have