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to request this book ‘ex Augustino’. In another library this
same text, say the De duodecim abusivis , would be bound
third in a volume beginning with something by St. Cyprian.
There the same treatise would be ‘ex Cypriano’. This is
but one prolific source of ‘authorship’ attributions, which
cause one and the same text to be referred to by a
variety of names.
There is another circumstance, much too often
forgotten, which greatly adds to the confusion. To the
medieval scholar the question: Who wrote this book?
would not necessarily or even primarily mean: Who
composed this book? It might convey that the inquiry was
for the identity of the scribe not of the author. And this
would often be a much easier question to answer, for in
any abbey the characteristic hand of a brother who wrote
many fine books did remain traditionally familiar for