BROMYARD Johannes de :

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BROMYARD Johannes de :
Summa predicantum. Volume I (of 2). Bound in full brown calf, binding with the ARMS of Johannes Georg von Pichelstorff und Altenburg, spine with 4 nerves, box with floral motifs in embossed leather, title page on caramel leather, hinges rubbed, restoration at the head and tail of the spine, three speckled edges. Printed in [1484 ed. Johann Amerbach] First volume: letters A to L. Complete with 34 ff. of tables, vocalis et realis, for both volumes. Printed in gothic letters, two columns of 53 lines. Rubricated in red. Numbering of the text in the margin. Each lettering announcing a change of letter of the alphabet is illuminated. ff. 35 : Lettering of the Prologue illuminated with blue, green and gold leaf, floral decoration starting from the lettering and framing the page : pale red, blue, green, black, gold leaf. ff. 36 : Lettering decorated with green, pale red, blue and gold leaf, a lack of gold leaf on the lower part of the letter A. For these two initials, there is a discharge on the back of the page at the place of the gold leaves. The 9 other initials (B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, L) are alternately red and blue, decorated with floral motifs but sometimes with faces or geometrical decorations in brown ink, sometimes also blue for the red initials, red for the blue initials. About twenty pages yellowed, scattered, trace of wetness at the head of about ten pages, without harming the text, fresh interior overall. Handwritten notes in the margins, partly trimmed by the binder. Ex-libris of Pierre L.Van Derhaegen: a wet stamp on the title page. John de Bromyard, a Dominican who became Chancellor of Cambridge University in 1383, was an author of preacher's manuals. This alphabetical catalog lists the subjects that are important or necessary for a priest to know when preparing his sermons.
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