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turers and workmen, nobility, merchants, Jews, usurers, dancing, oaths, 
blasphemy and profanity, jesting and play, falsehood, sinful apparel, 
superstitions, duties of parents to children, and vice versa, how one can sin 
in eating, etc.’”’ 
The last collection we shall mention is that of Oswald Pelbart, usually 
called Pelbartus de Themeswar, a Franciscan monk from Themeswar in 
Hungary, who flourished in the latter part of the fifteenth century, and 
was widely known by his sermons. The collection bears the fantastic 
title of Pomeriwm (orchard), and consists of sermones de tempore, de sanc- 
tis, and quadragesimales.* Another work by the same author is usually 
bound up with one of the above collections. It bears the somewhat mis- 
leading title: Pomerium sermonum de beata virgine det genetrice vel Stella- 
rium corone beate virginis pro singularum festivitatum eiusdem predicationt- 
bus couptatum. It is not, as might seem, a collection of sermons, but a 
treatise in twelve books for the use of preachers, and might perhaps more 
properly have been mentioned above. The last, part of the twelfth book is 
devoted to the miracles of the Virgin. The sermones de sanctis number in 
all two hundred and twenty-one ; ninety-seven in the pars hyemalis, and 
one hundred and twenty-four in the pars estivalis. Asin Herolt, so here 
several sermons are devoted to the same feast, the first of the series con- 
taining the legend at the end of the sermon. The sermons are paragraphed 
in the usual way, and there are copious indices. ‘Fhe work no longer has 
an anecdotal character, a strict analytical method is pursued, and the 
writer generally confines his citations to the Scriptures, and the doctors of 
the Church. 
We shall take leave of the*last class of our subject with a brief reference 
to some sermons in the vulgar tongue containing exempla. They are the 
sermons of St. Bernardino of Siena, who died in 1444, and was canonized 
six years later. Thus far only ten of the forty-five Italian sermons of St. 
Bernardino have been edited (Siena, 1853), the exempla, however, to the 
number of thirty-eight have been extracted, and published by Francesco 
Zambrini, under the title : Novellette, esempt morali e apologht di San Ber- 
narvrdino da Siena, Bologna, 1868 (Scelta di curiosite letterarie inedite o rare 
dal secolo witt al avii, Dispensa wevii). Many of these eaempla are contem- 
poraneous anecdotes, here and there are found fables or stories forming 
part of the common stock of Europe. Among the fables are : iii, La Fon- 
taine iti, 1; vi, dbéd. xi, 6; ix. Voigt, Kleinere latein. Denkmaler der Thier- 
sage, Strassburg, 1878, pp. 81, 188; wvii, ‘Di una scimia la quale per ven- 
detta arse uno orso ;’’ wav,*** DeW asino delle tre ville,’’ for the last two we 
have found no paralleis. Among the stories are: xiv (Etienne de Bour- 
bon, 456) ; viii (dbtd. 885) ; xxix (db¢d. 483, Pauli, 872).+ 
* For editions see Hain, Nos. 12548-66 } Greesse ti, 2, 1, p. 420 ; Fabricius, ed. cit, v. 
213. We have been able to procure the sermones de sanctis only in the edition of 
Hagenau, 1511, fol. containing also the Stellarium coronae B. V. mentioned above, 
ft While this article was in preparation, our eye fell on the following advertise- 
ment, which again proves that there is nothing new under the sun: ‘* & Co. 
