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Nicholas Tempelfeld of Brzeg’s Sermon Compelle Intrare (Pro Statutis Legendis), Given in 1428 at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Krakow
Abstract
Sermons were an important part of the academic, spiritual and social life in medieval universities: some of them praised individual people – authorities or graduates – or sciences, some commemorated the dead, while some were delivered at the beginning of classes in a given semester, as well as at the beginning of a lecture on a specific subject (so-called principia) or instructed on the functioning legal regulations (collationes and exhortationes, delivered by rectors and deans). This paper provides a critical edition of the representative of the last of the types of sermons mentioned above – the dean’s speech collatio pro statutis legendis by Nicholas Tempelfeld of Brzeg (before 1400-1474), given in 1428 at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Krakow. The edition is based on a single source – an autograph found in a codex belonging to the University of Wrocław Library collection, shelfmark I Q 380, fol. 284r-286v. The text is provided with three apparatuses, i.e., in addition to two standard ones (criticus and fontium), there is also one intended to enable the reconstruction of the original version, which underwent numerous changes and corrections. The edition is preceded by an introduction containing the issues of authorship and the time of origin of the published sermon, an overview of the content undertaken by Tempelfeld from a historical and philosophical perspective, and the editorial principles. It also documents the current state of research on Nicholas’s figure and his works, beginning in historiography in the mid-19th century. It also presents a list of his works that have been printed up till now (both critically and non-criticalaly).
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University of Krakow in the Middle Ages, university sermons, statutes, collatio, critical editionDetails
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