Jacques de Vitry (c. 11 60/70-1240), is one of the more notable figures of the High Middle Age, of interest to secular, ecclesiastical, and social historians, and to students of literature. His career spans simple beginnings to high rank in the Church and rich activity on the world scene. Master at the University of Paris, diocesan priest, canon regular, preacher for the Albigensian and the Fifth Crusades, bishop of Acre (1215-1228) in the Holy Land, participant in the Fifth Crusade at Damietta (1218-1221), and lastly cardinal of the Roman Curia. His writings have generated perennial interest: the Historia Hierosolimitana Abbreviata, numerous sermons, collections of exempla, a biography of St. Mary of Oignies, and seven letters. The History is important for its treatment of the Holy Land and crusades, and for the institutional, and social history of thirteenth century western Europe, especially the much quoted description of university life at Paris. ... When searching for manuscripts of Book II, all those containing any writing of Jacques de Vitry were also recorded. Publication of these lists of manuscripts is intended to make them available to any scholar who undertakes a study of Jacques de Vitry. The list for the Historia Orientalis is accurate. For the other works of Jacques de Vitry, the entries are uneven. In most cases I have not seen the manuscripts themselves, nor in every instance a catalog description. Some were culled from catalogs, others from notices in articles, footnotes, cross references, etc. Students will have to check every entry to determine if it is pertinent or accurate.

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