Richard de Fournival

[2] Richard was successively canon, deacon, and chancellor of the cathedral chapter of Notre Dame d'Amiens.

[4] Richard's library (of which the Biblionomia must be in part a catalogue) passed to Gérard d'Abbeville, an archdeacon at Amiens, who then left many of them to the recently established Collège de Sorbonne.

Some of these volumes then passed to the Royal Library (now the Bibliothèque nationale de France) in the 18th century.

In addition, he composed a list of his own books entitled the Biblionomia, the Nativitas (an astrological autobiography), and the De arte alchemica.

[6] The Biblionomia is a list of 162 volumes (some containing more than one work), divided into grammar, dialectic, rhetoric, geometry and arithmetic, music and astronomy, philosophy, and poetry.