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De Viris Illustribus (Jerome)

Also known as On Illustrious Men

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founded or start. 392high · Wikidata P571

Jerome's 392 catalogue of 135 Christian writers, a key early bibliographic source.

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De Viris Illustribus is a Latin biobibliographical collection by Jerome completed at Bethlehem in 392–393 AD. It consists of a prologue and 135 chapters, each giving a brief account of an author and a list of writings, beginning with figures from the apostolic age and ending with Jerome.

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