ABSTRACT
The production of sermon collections for the benefit of other preachers received great impetus from the advent of the friars in the thirteenth century. Texts were copied out by hand, often in multiple copies via the pecia system. Anton Koberger of Nurnberg, who printed quite a number of sermon collections, specialized in theology and scholastic philosophy. Many of his books had a ready market in the universities. Some works, including the Latin collections of the famous Bernardino of Siena, were printed, but failed to generate sustained demand. The printing of sermons was hailed from the beginning as a divine gift, one which, in the words of Jacob Wimpheling, 'makes it possible to propagate the correct doctrines of faith and morals throughout the world and in all languages'. Indeed the often reprinted sermon collections to be studied here were intended to promote correct doctrine and morals.
