This website provides an Open Access edition of Consolatorium theologicum (1338-41) of Johannes von Dambach OP (Iohannes de Tambaco). The text was transcribed from the editio princeps of Consolatorium, printed at Basel in 1492 by J. Amerbach (ISTC ij00437000), employing the open access copy provided by the Universitätsbibliothek Basel.

The primary purpose of this online edition is to document the author's extensive reception of Thomas of Ireland's influential Latin florilegium, Manipulus florum (1306). The online presentation of the text therefore includes links to the PDF source documents from The Electronic Manipulus florum Project for all quotations that were surely or probably derived from that florilegium, which was the author's source for many of the quotations in this text. This project thus follows the model of two previous websites I developed in 2015-16 to document the reception of Manipulus in two 15th-century texts:

- Giovanni Dominici's Lucula noctis (The Manipulus/Lucula noctis Project)

- Walter Bower's Scotichronicon (The Manipulus/Scotichronicon Project).

The major difference between this project and its predecessors is that critical editions of both Lucula noctis and Scotichronicon were published the 20th century, so those websites serve as addenda/corrigenda to those editions, whereas The Manipulus/Consolatorium Project constitutes the first modern edition of the text.

As explained in my forthcoming revisionist article on Johannes von Dambach's consolatory writings, Consolatorium (previously known as "Typ I" and "Accingi") is by far the most prolific version, with over 100 surviving manuscripts and five printed editions (1492-1506). The second most prolific version, which is known as Typ IV and "Tres regulae", survives in over 30 manuscripts and one very rare printed edition. To demonstrate that Typ IV is an abridged recension of Consolatorium, this website provides a comparative analysis of Liber 9, cap. 4. Until the forthcoming article appears and becomes available in Open Access, this website also provides a timeline for Johannes von Dambach's career and a brief overview of the scholarship on his Consolatio theologiae and Consolatorium theologicum.

Current status of this online resource: A full digital edition of Consolatorium has been provided on this website since December 2024. It is intended that this online edition will be enhanced, sometime in Spring or Summer 2025, by providing references to the non-biblical quotations that were not derived from Manipulus florum, including excerpts from patristic texts, Gratian's Decretum, Glossa ordinaria, and liturgical texts, as well as passages from several major Dominican authors: Thomas Aquinas, Albertus Magnus, and Vincent of Beauvais.