Johannes Reuchlin

Book of Collections original: "Liber Congestorum" on the Art of Preaching by Johannes Reuchlin of Pforzheim, Doctor of Laws.

Ulrich Charintus to the Reader

Priest, if you wish to declaim with art, method, and professional duty,
Do not avoid the ancient referring to classical rhetorical traditions that this book teaches.

among the people of Alkmaar

Georg Symler

So that you may penetrate the silence of the entire crowd,
And speak pleasing words from the pulpit to the flock,
Often meditate on beautiful things in a dark chapel,
So that the time and hour may not escape your gathering.
Johannes, most famous among all the learned,
Produces this, and it is a great glory to his fatherland.