farfel_n11_015_661

661
Griffon's Medieval MSS
St. Petersburg, Fl.
Dec. '07
$15.00

Johannes de Bromyard (fl. 1390)
Summa praedicant um
Basel: Johann Amerbach, not after 1484 f^0

See
#556
#595
#398

Ref: Goff J-260 Hc 3993 Pell 3025
Polain (B) 2246 BMC III 747
Copy: HEHL, LC, YUL, BMawrCL

Decime Diij ix --> xii
D iii Decime v --> viij (marked folio 168)
2 columns, 53 lines. Rubricated in red and blue.

BMC
III
747

2 col. except in the Tabula vocalis on 2^a of Part 1, which
has 4. Part I, 40^a: 55 lines, headline and marginal headings,
255 (274) x 151 (186)mm

Part I 364 leaves, 37 and 364 blank.
Part II 324 " the 1st and last blank.

Bromyard's principal work (written in the 2nd
quarter of the 14th C) is aptly described as an
encyclopedia for preachers. It contains 198
chapters on topics suitable for sermons, arranged
alphabetically. Most of the capital sins and cardinal
virtues are treated.

Generally the Opus is composed of short articles from
Abbas to Xtus, and each entry is numbered for easy
reference: thus Abbas is A.i, Ab infantia is A.ii