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JOHANNES DE BROMYARD. Summa praedicantium. Volume 1 (of 2). [363] (of [364]) leaves; lacks final blank. Gothic type. Rubricated. Folio, 364x253 mm, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, worn, lacking catches and clasps, most of skin missing from rear cover; minor worming in blank upper inner corner of opening leaves, infrequent light marginal dampstaining, few minor marginal repairs, small hole in leaf 118 affecting a few words. Late 18th-/early 19th-century stamp and duplicate stamp of the Royal Public Library, Stuttgart; signatures of Edwin Henry Sibley of Cornell University dated 1878, and his ownership note dated 1879 in lower margin of leaf 13r; bookplate of E. A. Burr. [Basel: Johann Amerbach, not after 1484]
first edition. A 14th-century English Dominican, "John Bromyard was the author of handbooks for preachers . . . which had a marked influence on homiletic literature in the later middle ages . . . Bromyard is now best known for . . . the massive alphabetical encyclopaedia of preaching lore, the Summa praedicantium" (ODNB). Hain-Copinger 3993; BMC III, 747; Goff J260; ISTC ij00260000.
