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Surgant, Johann Ulrich.

Manuale curatoru(m) predicandi prebens modu(m): tam latino que vulgari sermone practice illuminatu(m) certis aliis ad cura(m) animarum p(er)tine(n)tibus: omnibus curatis ta(m) co(n)ducibile que salubre. (On the last leaf:) [Basel, Michael Furter] "anno fructifere incarnationis" January 15, 1506. 4°. 8 unnum. With a large woodcut initial and Furter's printer's mark on the title and a full-page woodcut of a family tree. Modern half leather binding with gilt-stamped spine title. VD16 S-10230. Adams S-2093/4 (the Basel 1503 and 1508 editions). Second edition, like the first edition of 15403 published by Furter. The "Manuale curatorum" is the main work of Surgant (1450-1503), the son of a town clerk, jurist and famous pulpit orator and theologian. He enrolled at the University of Basel in the winter of 1464, returned to Basel in 1470 as a licentiate of the Sorbonne and was admitted to the Faculty of Arts as a master of the realist school. From 1472 he was pleban of St. Theodore's and from 1479 - after obtaining his doctorate - lecturer in canon law at the university. Surgant was rector three times: 1487, 1494 and 1501. Surgant was an important representative of ecclesiastical reform efforts and a successful preacher; in 1474 and 1491 he acquired relics from Bischofszell and Rome for his church. Among other things, he wrote a yearbook for St. Theodore, the present textbook on homiletics, an interesting "Regimen studiosorum" with advice for students and he began the "Liber conclusionum" of the university as well as the first baptismal register of his parish. In his last years, he was a house neighbor of Joh. Amerbach. "It was a pioneering bi-lingual handbook of practical theology for parish priests, and is considered to be the first homiletic manual with sample sermons in the vernacular . The first part deals with theory and form of the art of preaching, touching on such aspects as memory and diction. The second part deals with the practical aspects, and offers sample sermons in both Latin and German for all conceivable occasions on which the priest might be expected to speak. The volume consequently contains a complete German liturgy, such as had not been available anywhere before. A startling feature of the work is that the texts of the Lord's Prayer, Ave Maria, Credo and Ten Commandments are also given in French (fol. 91) - a most unusual occurrence in an early book printed in a German-speaking town" (Cat. Fred Schreiber 18, no. 86, 1987). The work was reprinted around ten more times before the outbreak of the Reformation. All editions are very rare. Overall a good copy. Spotting throughout, but only faint. A trace of moisture in the margins of the first six leaves. Handwritten annotations in a roughly contemporary hand on the verso of the title page and the last white leaf, as well as occasionally in the text. Ownership inscription by Baron Per Hierta, Främmestad, dated 1898 on the flyleaf.

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