also derive from Faber's sermons for this same Sunday
[98].
The poems in A occupy fols. 4—547, and the section that derives from Faber is from fol. 4 to the first poem on fol. 315. Not all the poems in this section are taken from Faber. Of the total of 1 909 poems in the section, it can be demonstrated that 1 213 go back to Faber, leaving 696 poems that do not. Of those 696 poems, however, 261 come under the heading «Vivlia» and represent captions to biblical pictures, twenty are captions to icons, and ten are epitaphs. If these 291 poems are discounted because of their special genre, the number of poems not taken from Faber is 405. This means that in the first three hundred or so leaves of A the proportion of Faber to non-Faber poems is 75%:25% Although the remaining 25% of poems have not as yet been traced back to any particular source, it seems likely that they too will eventually prove to be less original than they appear.
As to the rest of the autograph manuscript (A) of the Vertograd, it has been possible to identify three groups of poems that derive from the HortulusRegime siveSermonesMeffreth, of which Simeon almost certainly possessed a copy[99]. The first is on fols. 317—348>v, where 117 out of 132 poems derive from Meffreth; the other two are on fols. 382—388>v and fols. 397—404>v, where Meffreth accounts for 33 poems out of 34, and 37 out of 39 respectively. Like Faber, this book is a collection of Jesuit sermons set out according to the Sundays and festivals of the Church year.
Another important source, especially for the narrative moralising poems in the Vertograd , is the Magnum speculum exemplorum, first published anonymously in 1482 and later edited by the Belgian Jesuit Jan Major. It seems virtually certain that Simeon possessed at least one copy of this work, but the only copy preserved in the Sinodal'naja tipografija library today is one that his disciple Sil'vestr Medvedev acquired after Simeon's death. It is therefore not possible to say with certainty which edition he owned. The exempla tended to be repeated from one edition to the next, but with ever more additions. For poems deriving from the Magnumspeculumexemplorum the Commentary refers the reader to the Duaci, 1603 and Coloniae Agrippinae, 1653 editions. There was also a Polish translation by Symon Wysocki published in Cracow in 1612, 1621 and 1633 entitled Wielkie zwierciadło przykładów, and Simeon may well have owned a copy. It is occasionally possible to assign the language of Simeon to a Latin rather than a Polish original