Welcome to
The Digital Compendium moralium notabilium Project

This digital humanities project provides open access research materials from Geremia da Montagnone's Compendium moralium notabilium, a "proto-humanist" florilegium compiled at Padua in the early 14th century (ca. 1310) that survives in over 70 known manuscripts but was printed only once, two centuries after it was created.

This website provides two types of resources derived from the 1505 Venice edition, which is entitled "Epytoma Sapientie":

Portrait of Geremia da Montagnone
by The Novella Master,
Los Angeles, Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig XIV 8,
fol. 1r (detail) (early 15th cent.)

Reproduced with permission of the Getty Center Museum

The Author/Source Index is the portal for accessing editions of the quotations attributed to particular authors and sources. Except for those from Diogenes Laertius ("Cronica de nugis philosophorum"), for which Montagnone's sources apparently do not survive, each transcribed quotation is accompanied by the version of that passage from a modern edition of the original source text and variants are indicated by breaks in underscoring in the latter version. This aspect of the project was completed in April 2026.


The Subject Index is the portal for accessing transcriptions of the quotations under particular topics. This transcription was completed in December 2023.

While this website provides a critical edition of the 1505 Venice edition, a digital critical edition based on multiple manuscript witnesses has been developed for the Scholastic Commentaries & Texts Archive, directed by Dr. Jeffrey Witt at Loyola University Maryland, who is the primary collaborator on the grant funding this project.

With support from the funding sources acknowledged below, the following student research assistants generated draft editions for the Author/Source Index resource: Veronica Parkes & Aaron Bolarinho (both 2013), Erin Kurian (2022-25), Grant Schreiber (2023-25), Alasdair Sliter (2023-24), Alicia Koepke (2023-24), Graydon Lee (2023-24), Katrina Van Der Ahe (2023-25), Sophia Starkey (2024-25), Sam Louwagie (2025), & Iris Bednarski (2025). The six RAs whose names are underscored also contributed to the development of the SCTA edition of this text. Bolarinho's contribution was done in conjunction with his 2015 MA thesis: "'…tamquam civili causa' - The Reception of Vegetius and Frontinus in Geremia da Montagnone's Compendium moralium notabilium" (https://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/1781).


©2014-26 Chris L. Nighman
History Department, Wilfrid Laurier University
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto


The editor gratefully acknowledges that seed funding for this project was provided through a 2013 Undergraduate Research Assistant Grant that was partly funded by WLU operating funds and partly by a General Research Grant awarded to WLU by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Further development of this project has been financed by a 2021-26 SSHRC Insight Grant for the Digital Auctores Project.