sentences:  Of all the Christian libraries in the West in the first six centuries, we know most about the library at Hippo, home of Augustine.No distinction is made in the contemporary accounts between his personal library and that of the church, so it is probable that the two were housed together  The librarian recorded over a thousand items under Augustine's personal authorship, and the collection is certain to have included scriptural books, the works of other Latin and Greek Christian writers, and a rich selection of “secular” works.We know that the collection was fully catalogued (perhaps Augustine himself had a hand in this), but along with the rest of the collection this index is lost.