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900J Hugo Ripelin (von Straßburg) (1200-1268 ): bound with Hieremias de Montagnone (c. 1250/60-1320/1)

Epitome al[ia]s Compe[n]diu[m] theologice veritatis non minus publicis concionatorib [us] q[uam] scholasticis proficuum.

            Bound with 

Epytoma Sapientie : [“Incipit compendiu[m] moraliu[m] notabiliu[m] co[m]positum per Hieremia[m] iudicem de Montagno[n]e ciuem Paduanu[m]

Colonie  impress[us] in officina pie memorie He[n]rici Que[n]tell, 1506                                                               Bound With   Venetijs : Impensa Petri Liechtensteyn Coloniensis, 1505                        

                                                                             Price $5,500

Quarto 20 cm   Signatures: ad1 A-D⁶, E⁴,F-J⁶, K⁴, LM⁶, N⁴, OP⁶, Q^{4 .} second Quentell edition^.  w/ ad2 : π⁴, *A-*H⁸, *HH⁶, *I-*K⁸, *L-*R⁸, *S⁹  (editio princeps). Lacking the Printer’s device (Zappella 1064) in red and black at end *S¹⁰)  Bound together in contemporary wooden boards, with goatskin spine, one brass clasp, manuscript title. There is an ownership note with later clerical ownership inscription, followed by early shelf- or pressmark notation, Frater Lumhartis : fariderr :

ad1) VD16 H 5852, Index Aurel. XI, 256, Steer D19,

ad2) Adams; H540; EDIT 16; CNCE 20704; BM STC Italian, 1465-1600,; M444; Zappella, G. Marche dei tipografi del Cinquecento,; 1064; Essling 1494, Sander 4871

Ripelin’s Compendium Theologicae Veritatis — one of the most important Dominican theological handbooks of the late Middle Ages.   The Compendium was composed ca. 1260–1270, attributed to Hugo of Straßburg, a Dominican who was a contemporary of Albertus Magnus and part of the same intellectual milieu (often their works) confused.

The Epitome / Compendium is arranged as a scholastic synthesis of theology in seven books, following Peter Lombard’s Sentences but in a more practical, didactic format for preachers and teachers: This copy has marginal annotations which suggests is was an actively used preaching copy, with contemporary marginal warnings against doctrinally dangerous sermon formulations in the Trinitarian distinctions. Annotated in multiple contemporary clerical hands, including marginal doctrinal cautions, moral abstractions, and a systematic physiognomic index keyed to virtues and vices—clear evidence of sustained use as a preaching and pastoral manual.

The above annotations to me look like:

Nota: quod contra
… saepe dicunt fals. et pericul.
in sermone
per 3 …

Nota: quod contra [hoc] saepe dicuntur falsa et periculosa in sermone per tres [distinctiones]

“Note that against this, false and dangerous things are often said in sermons, by means of three [distinctions].” There are notations of this sort in different hands through this book of the sammelband.

The top reads “habitus assuendus merito et pat…”A habit must be acquired by merit and patience..

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This edition is set up in seven Distinctions, each with a pink alum tawed tab placed on each chapter.

1. De Natura Deitatis
2. De Operibus Conditoris— God, angels, and the creation of the world.
3. De Corruptione — The Fall, sin, and the corruption of nature.
4. De Humanitate Chrisi— Christology, the Incarnation, and Redemption.
5. De Gratia et Virtutibus — Grace, virtues, and moral theology.
6. De Sacramentis — The seven sacraments (baptism through extreme unction).
7. DeUltimis Te(m)poribus — Death, resurrection, judgment, heaven, and hell.

The Compendium was a standard theological manual for clerical education well into the 16th century — used by Dominicans, Franciscans, and university faculties. It functioned as a bridge between scholastic theology and pastoral preaching, hence the dual address: “non minus publicis concionatoribus quam scholasticis proficuum.”

 Quentel’s Cologne edition (one of several around 1500–1515) circulated widely in German universities and friaries, often bound with moral or sermon material — as in this copy.

¶This is the editio princeps, of the Epytoma Sapientie edited by Petrus Trecius, of a moral compendium attributed to Hieremias de Montagnone, a Paduan judge and moral philosopher active c. 1250–1320. The Epytoma Sapientiae is a moral florilegium — a collection of “notabilia,” short sententiae and examples arranged thematically, derived from Scripture, the Church Fathers, Aristotle, and classical moralists. It contains passages from the Bible and various classical authors, including, rather surprisingly, Catullus, for whom it is an important source book. (See Gaisser, Catullus and His Renaissance Readers, p.19)
It is divided into books or chapters on:

• Virtues and Vices (e.g. De caritate, De superbia, De patientia),
• Conditions of life (e.g. De rege et principe, De iudice, De paupere),
• Moral exempla for sermon use,
• Short allegorical glosses and proverbial sayings.

The text thus served as a moral index or preacher’s aide — a mirror of virtues suitable for use alongside Hugo’s theological compendium.

Ad II, urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10165554-2; urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10203466-8;  EDIT16 CNCE 20704

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