Confraternity book

A confraternity book is a medieval memorial book that records the names of people who have entered into a state of brotherhood with a church in some way, often by visiting it in the capacity of a pilgrim.

Confraternity books

The following is a list of earlier medieval confraternity books:

• Confraternity book of the Abbey of St Gall
• Confraternity book of Reichenau Abbey
• Confraternity book of St Peter's Abbey, Salzburg
• Liber memorialis of Remiremont Abbey
• Liber Vitae of the Imperial Abbey of Corvey
• Liber Vitae of Durham
• Liber Vitae of the New Minster, Winchester and Hyde Abbey
• Liber Viventium of Pfäfers Abbey
• Memorial and Liturgiecodex of San Salvatore

References

• Geuenich, Dieter (2004), "A Survey of the Early Medieval Confraternity Books from the Continent", in Rollason, David, The Durham Liber Vitae and Its Context, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, pp. 141–8, ISBN 1-84383-060-4