Copyright © 1995, 1996 Isaac Hunter Dunlap
This project was developed through research prepared for an Advanced
Reference Seminar led by Dr. James V. Carmichael, Jr. at the University
of North Carolina at Greensboro in the Spring of 1995. The class mandate
was for each student to choose an obscure historical figure and conduct
exhaustive research so that a would-be biographer would have the
resources necessary to write a definitive biography on the individual.
Gerard, a fascinating figure who translated important Arabic
manuscripts into Latin in twelfth century Spain, was my obscure figure
of choice. The following essay is an early draft of an extended article
recently published in the Bulletin of Bibliography
[53 (December 1996): 379-389] under the title Gerard of Cremona: A Manuscript Location Guide and Annotated Bibliography.