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This curious work represents Christ + Satan variance
over the subject of the Redemption of Man, the whole
proceedings being in the form of an action in a court of
law, Solomon acting as judge. The Latin original of this
work was 1st printed 1472 Augsburg + the present French
translation by P. Ferget in 1481, Lyon, Martin Huss
also translated Glenville, Fasciculus Temporum, Rodericus
Zamorensis + other works)
-- The Belial narrates c all possible legal phraseology the
progress of an action brought by Satan against Christ,
and tried first before Solomon, afterwards on appeal
before Moses, for infringing his rights by
redeeming souls which deserved damnation.
→ d. 1522. (from Mainz)
Neumeister BMC VIII p 269 Lyon (4th press) partly c Michel Topié - earliest
production at Lyons is taken to be an unsigned ed. of a French translation
of J. de Teramo's Belial dated 3 March 1483 which may indicate 1483/4.
His next known book is the signed Lyons Missal of 1487 followed by a
Vienne Breviary of 24 Jan 1489 + a Psalterium of 15 Feb 1489/90, both
signed. The last book bearing his name is the Uzis Missal of 5 Aug.
1495 produced in partenership c Topié, but he is known to have been living until 1522.
-- Le nom de Neumeister ne figure plus sur aucun volume apnes 1495.
BMC VI p 599 Foligno - 1pt press - with Aemilianus de Orfinis etc.
20 miles SE of Perugia (1470) April 1472 Dante ? 1st ed.
BMC VIII p. 351 Neumeister's name is not known to occur between 1472
when he left Foligno + 1483 when he is mentioned in the Tax
register of Lyons; but he is accepted as having printed a
Tuneaemata, Meditationes in 1479 at Mainz (2) + the same text
in teh ed. c the imprint of Albi (3) date \17 Nov. 1481.
The French Belial printed c the BMC. I p. 43
same type but without imprint may also have been
completed by him at Albi before his removal to Lyons.
Belial - a work of Christian theology - the culmination of a tradition at
least a century old by the time it was written in 1382
by J. de Teramo (Abp.)