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Victor Scholderer in "Fifty Essays" (1966) p 283.
- speculates that Meffret is not a personal name,
but merely an alternative title of the collection:
Meffreth alias Hortulus Reginae, and that the
author is anonymus. (a Dominican ??)
The Pars de Santis was completed in 1443 + De
Tempore was started in the same year.
- written in honour of the diocese of Meissen (in Saxony)
- the sermons affort what is perhaps a unique
instance of an early printed text subjected to an individual censorship on theological grounds.

HEHL MSS Ref z 108 S35 For a suggested identification of "Meffret" with Mag. Petrus
Meffordis of Leipzig, see J. B. Schneyer in Scriptorium 32
(1978) 231-248 at p. 239. THe early ed. of Sermones Meffreth
were all printed in Basel + Nuremberg

#39 - 1433 preacher at Meissen.

Meffreth ist nur ein Beckname, vielleicht sich darunter
der Magister Petrus Meffordis aus Leipzig. Sicher war
en Priester der Diozese Meissen. (Jocher) Ersturd zwischen
1445-1476 auf der Hohe seines Wirkens.
N Kessler of Baltwar, became a citizen of Basel
in 1480. He printed in Basel till 1509 having
taken over Richel's printing office + whose
daughter he had married.
- N. Kessler is best remembered today for printing an ed.
of the Epistolare of St. Jerome, which contains the
famous woodcut by A. Durer of St. Jerome removing
the thorn from teh foot of a lion.