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- P. Levet active from 1485-1502 specialized in cheap quarts + octave
tracts of legal , theological + classic texts for the use of Sorbonne
students, but [?oce?]. produced a more notable work. His address changed
several times - at 1st his press was
in the rue St. Jacques a l'Eglise St
severin prek petit pont.
-Latin compendia of faith + morals.
- presents an almost unrivalled panorama of the whole
[inserted] 824.2 H373 out [end inserted] field of medieval popular preaching in its final stage of
cultivation from the 15th C onwards, its charactership
teaching are its favourite topics + illustrations, + its recognized
authorities.
- a treatise which enjoyed a considerable popularity in the
15th + 16th C + was begug according to the colophon in
one of its early printed editions in 1429.
- the 1st treatise to confront us in the moral domain when
the 15th C is reached
- belonged to a significant group of contemporary
clerical agitatons for ecclesiasical reform in England.
-manuscripts Balliol College, Oxford
Peterhouse, Cambridge
- In terms so applicable to one medean motorists he declares
that those who will not go a league unless they are in the saddle
might as well have no fact at all
Destructium Vitiorum was 6 times printed 1516, + was
finally reprinted at Venice as late as 1582.
- a vast unoriginal compendium of the vices, boasting an almost
unfivalled succession of printed editions down to the year 1521
(Cologne 1480,1485 Nuemberg 1491, 1500 Paris 1497, 1500, 1505, 1509,
1516, 1521)
G.W. Oeust - Whatever has to be said about the decline of notable preaching as the
Reformation approaches, the pulpit references books have a career which
only flourshes the more as later years increase the power + efficency
of the printing press. Nevertheless, it is not hard to understand
why, as an independent art, preaching wellnigh perished
overwhelmed to such a surfeit of written material,
In a polite + official world of Latin + French, the pulpit
alone had maintained a regular public use of the English Tong as
by educated men from the days of the Conquest.

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