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Whilst chasing after an exemplum, I got a reference to Herolt's Promptuarium Exemplorum, where the exemplum is ascribed to "Petrus de amore." Herolt is an early 15th-century Dominican, so Petrus may be rather late. Earlier on Medtextl nobody had any idea, but I observed that I could probably see Herolt on microfilm, and it came: Johannes Herolt's _Sermones de temporibus et de sanctis, cum Promptuario exemplorum et Miraculis Beatae Virginis Mariae_ (Lyon, 1495; French Books before 1601, roll 111, item 3), where I found an exemplum similar to the one I'm chasing down but having quite a few different details. Here is the Herolt version: A man commits sin with his daughter, the mother figures it out, and the daughter knows so she gets poison from an old woman and poisons her mother; the father is horrified so she poisons him; she realizes her sins and falls into despair until she hears someone preach that all sins--despite any enormity--are as nothing in the eyes of divine mercy; she is contrite & weepy, she confesses and convinces her confessor of her honesty and openness, he assigns penance it seems, she and her nurse enter the church to pray and in her devoutness and weepy state she dies; the confessor urges all to pray for her, but a voice says the people ought to pray for themselves, since her tearflood has baptised her again and she has skipped out of purgatory straight to heaven. At the end, "Hoc petrus de amore lib. ij." I could not find any other details on this "petrus de amore" whilst skipping around in Herolt, and then various individuals discovered me and had business, so I returned the film to ILL and lost 2 hours in talking to people. Does anyone have any idea who the Petrus is and if "de amore" signifies a cognomen or a work? As always, my thanks in advance publically, and privately later (so as not to o'erburden everyone's mailboxes or to waste storage space in archives). Juris [log in to unmask] http://oscar.wvsc.edu/~lidaka West Virginia State College %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%