Guido de Monte Rochen

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Guido de Monte Rochen or Guy de Montrocher was a French priest and jurist who was active around 1331. He is best known as the author of Manipulus curatorum (the manual of the curate), a handbook for parish priests, that was often copied, with some 180 complete or partial manuscripts surviving, and later reprinted throughout Europe in the next 200 years, with at least 119 printings, and sales which have been estimated to be three times those of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica.[1] It became obsolete only when the Council of Trent created the Roman Catechism in 1566.

Page from a 1475 edition from Spain of the Manipulus curatorum.

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There were five more English printings of this book before 1520,[2] including three editions by Wynkyn de Worde (1502, 1509, and 1517).

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Later printings continue at least until the 1554 edition by Gulielmum Rouillium of Lyon.

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  1. ^ Bast, Robert James (2000). Continuity and change: the harvest of late medieval and Reformation history : essays presented to Heiko A. Oberman on his 70th birthday. BRILL. p. 117. ISBN 978-90-04-11633-7. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
  2. ^ Hellinga, Lotte (1999). The Cambridge History of Britain: 1400-1557, Volume 3. Cambridge University Press. p. 389. ISBN 978-0-521-57346-7. Retrieved 23 December 2010.