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Abbas Joachim, In Concordia maiori de Novem Ordinibus, sic Scribit de Sancto Francisco (14th cent.)

Actus Beati Francisci et Sociorum Eius and Fioretti di San Francesco

Actus Beati Francisci in Valle Reatina

Ammaestramenti di morale cristiana

Amica fraternaque Responsio ad Questionem an Sancta virgo Catherina Senensis possit cum stigmatibus depingi?

Anima con Dio in vita ed in morte (1799)

Annales Franciscanum Gorlicensium (1248-1508)

Annales Fratrum Minorum in Löwenberg (1248-1508)

Annales Gandenses (c.1308/10)

Annales Hamburgenses (c. 1265)

Annales Lubicenses (1264-1324)

Annales Minorum Prussicorum (c. early 14th cent.?)

Annales Turonenses (14th cent.?)

Antiphonaria Terrae Sanctae (14th-15th cent.)

Apologia sive Tractatus Defensorius (c. 1492)

Arbor amoris. Der Minnebaum (ca. 1450)

Ars Praedicandi, Tractatus de Modo Praedicandi, Modus Colligendi Sermones, Octo Modi Dilatandi Materiam, Directoria Generalia Orandi et Collationandi

Bedudinghe op Cantica Canticorum (15th cent.)

Breviarium Decretorum (15th cent.)

Brevissimus Tractatus Septemplicis Distinctionis

Cartas Ficticias

Catalogus sanctorum fratrum minorum (ca. 1335)

Chronica Anonyma Provinciae Saxoniae (later 13th cent.)

Chronica conventus Luneburgensis (mid 15th cent.?)

Chronica conventus Ordinis Fratrum Minorum prope Isenacum (mid 15th cent.)

Chronica XXIV Generalium Ordinis Fratrum Minorum (Arnaud de Sarrant?, c. 1375/80)

Chronicon Parmense (early 14th cent., Franciscan provenance?)

Chronicon universale Hermanni Gygantis ordinis fratrum minorum, see: Flores temporum II

Chronik von Namslau (17th-later 18th cent.)

Collationes defunctorum, see under: Franciscus lector provinciae Calabriae Ordinis Minorum (letter F).

Collectio Sermonum de Dominiciis, de Festis et de Sanctis ad Usum Fratrum Minorum (14th cent.)

Commentarius in Apocalypsim (Pseudo Alexander Halensis)

Commentarius in Apocalypsim (Pseudo Bernardinus Senensis, late 13th century)

Commentarius in Apocalypsim (Pseudo Hugh of St. Cher/Pseudo Thomas Aquinas, between 1240-1244)

Commentarius in primum librum sententiarum Petri Lombardi (c. 1325)

Compendio e sumario de confessores tirado de toda a substancia do Manual (c. 1325)

Compendium et nova compilatio privilegiorum Fratribus Minoribus, aliisque Ordinibus Mendicantibus Concessorum (1523)

Compendium Metricum super libros Sententiarum

Compendium de Virtute Humilitatis

Compilatio Assisiensis seu Legenda Perusina (c. 1244-1260?)

Compilatio Avenionensis (c. 1335)

Compilatio Exemplorum and Summa de Confessione (15th cent.)

Concilium Domini Mediolanensis Presbiter Cardinalis

Conciones/Sermones Mysticae

Considerazioni sulle Stimmate di San Francesco (late 14th cent.)

Constituciones que hizo la Observancia para los recoletos de España en Madrid (1502)

Consultatio super validitate Matrimonii Spadonum (?)

Contra Judaeos, ne libera tenementa in Anglia emere eis liceat (?)

Crónica de la provincia Santa de Santiago (17th cent.)

Cronica minoritae Erphordensis (second half 13th cent.)

Cronica Sacriste Pysini Ordinis Minorum (an. 1380)

Declarationes Senece Moraliçate (1475)

De Confessione (mid 15th century)

De Consequentiis, De Suppositionibus, Sofismas (c. 1356-1374, Pseudo Albert of Saxony)

Defensorium contra Errores Johannis Papae(first half 14th cent.)

Defensorium Logicae Ockham (first half 14th cent.)

De inceptione vel fundamento Ordinis (Anonymus Perusinus)

De inclito Adolpho comite Holzacie, ordinis Minorum in Kyl

De modo, die et hora apparitionis Domini in forma Seraphica B. Francisco (...) (14th cent.?)

Den wijngaert van Sinte Franciscus vol schoonre historien, legenden, ende duechdelijcke leeringhen allen menschen seer profijtelijck (c.1514-1518)/Den Wyngaert van Sinte Franciscus

Der kersten Eeuwe (c. 1521)

De Sacris ritibus juxta romanam regulam usui Fratrum Minorum S. Francisci (1626)

Descriptio Terrae Sanctae/Description de la Terre Sainte (c. 1463)

Deutschenspiegel & Schwabenspiegel

De via eundi de Joppe, et de S. Sepulchro et aliis locis (13th cent.)

Devote Salutation des Membres Sacrez de la glorieuse Vierge Mère de Dieu (later 17th cent.)

Diarium Praedicationis (late 15th cent.)

Disciplina ed istituzione regolare per l’informazione, e riformazione dell’uomo exteriore, & interiore ad uso de’Novizi, e Religiosi (1731)

Discours funèbre sur la mort de très-illustre et très religieuse princesse Madame Louise de Lorraine, Abbesse de Nostre Dame de Soissons (1644)

Disputatio inter inimicum domesticum paupertatis et zelatorem paupertatis (mid 13th cent.?)

Dives et Pauper (early 15th cent.)

Doctrinae Bonaventurae de Modo Praedicandi (13th cent.)

Een cransken van minnen (1518)

Een devoot ende profitelijck boecxken, inhoudende veel gheestelijcke liedekens ende leysenen (1539)

Een wandelinghe der Kersten menschen met Ihesu den brudegom der sielen inden hof der bloemen (c. 1486-1497)

Eisenacher Franziskanerchronik (after 1407)

Encyclopedia Theologica, Elaborata ex Ioannis de Erfurt Tabula Originalium (15th cent.)

Epitome Historial, de la vida, virtudes, y portentos de el Invicto, y glorioso Padre San Juan de Capestrano (1691)

Estatutos por que se regián las casas de recolección de la Provincia (1523)

Fac secundum Exemplar, see: Speculum vitae

Fasciculus Mirre or Dat Cleyne Bondeken van Mirre (before 1517)

Fasciculus Morum (c. 1300, attributed to Robert Selke)

Fasciculus Mirrhe. El cual trata de la Pasión de nuestro redentor Jesucristo. (before 1524)

Fioretti, see: Actus beati Francisci et sociorum eius

Flores temporum (late 13th cent.)

Flores Temporum II/Chronicon universale Hermanni Gygantis ordinis fratrum minorum (c. 1340/50?)

Floreto de San Francisco (late 15th cent.)

Formalitates Doctoris Subtilis & Alius Tractatus et Brevior de Formalitatibus

Forma Predicandi incipit Benigne Jesu (15th cent.)

Friar Daw’s Reply (late 14th cent.)

Gebete zu den Wunden des Hl. Franziskus (c. 1510)

Genealogia delle Provincie de'Beati e Santi della Religione di S. Francesco (1525)

Gesta beati Francisci confessoris (c. 1356)

Gesta Romanorum cum Applicationibus Moralisatis et Mysticis (late 13th cent., of Franciscan provencance?)

Glossa Tripartita super Cantica (c. 1300-1320)

Graduale Santorale (14th cent.)

Harmonia del bien y del mal. Duo sonoro, ex operibus Capuccinorum Marci d’Aviano, & Joannis Baptista Bolduc (c. 1300-1320)

Hetzpredigt gegen die Frauen (1702)

Italian Preaching Diary (c. 1500), see: Diarium Praedicationis

Historia de Landgraviis/Eccardiana (early to mid 15th cent. ?)

Istruzione chiara e piana ad un novello Confessore (1793)

Kilkenny Chronicle (mid 14th cent.)

La giostra delle virtù e dei vizi (mid 14th cent.)

L’amore evangelico sopra la Regola di san Francesco

Lectionum de certis anni festis diligens sed tamen brevis descriptio

Le bonheur et l’amour de l’homme angélique et séraphique François d’Assise dans ses dévotions envers les SS. Anges

Legenda antiqua, see: Speculum vitae

Legenda Sancti Francisci per sermones disctincta and Legenda Sancti Ludovici per sermones disctincta

Legenda Trium Sociorum (c. 1241-1247?)

Lezioni morali sopra l'ingratitudine umana a divini benefizi (1747)

Libellus ad Petendam Restitutionem in Integram

Libellus Penitentalis

Liber de Accidentibus, Liber de Vestibus Sacerdotalibus, Liber de Nominibus Dei apud Hebreos, De Quatuor Synodis & Quaedam Catena (15th cent. ?)

Liber de Quolibet (Bernardinus de Agnone?, 15th cent.)

Liber exemplorum ad usum praedicantium (c. 1275/79)

Liber miraculorum et visionum (c. early 14th cent.)

Liber Sapientiae Spiritualis (first half 15th cent.)

Libro del conosçimiento (c. 1360?)

Libro llamado Fuente de vida (1527)

Manuale (ca. 1500)

Massime e Riflessioni ascetico-morali proposte ad un novello Maestri dei Novizi Capuccini (1775)

Meditatio Pauperis in Solitudine (c. 1282-1284)

Meditationes Vitae Christi, see under Joannes de Caulibus (letter J)

Memoriale della Porziuncola, 1705-1860

Memorie spettanti alla vita del P. Agostino Maria da Brescia (1775)

Memorie subsidium metricum ad recolenda tum Geographiae et Chronologiae tum Artis oratoriae elementa (1763)

Miracula Virginis Mariae - Collectio Exemplorum (c. 1400?)

Misterios de la devoción & Misterios de los angeles (before 1537/9)

Modus Reponendi Sermones (ca. 1507)

‘Ms. Little’

Necrologium conventus O.F.M. Coburgensis (1301-1525)

Necrologium Fratrum Minorum Hamburgensium

No more ne willi wiked be, poetry (14th cent?)

Pectorale Dominicae Passionis (c. 1486-1497)

Pharetra (14th cent?)

Poeta Carceratus (17th century)

Postillae Evangeliorum Dominicalium,Ferialium, et Quorundam Festivalium (c. 1450)

Practica Inquisitionis ad Usum Donati de Sanct'Agatha et Fratrum Minorum Provincie Romandiolae

Prediche sul Terz’Ordine (15th cent.)

Predigt des Barfüßer-Lesemeister (ca. 1340)

Processo delli morti in servitio delli appestati e di quelli che havendo servito, turravia vivono (1662)

Provinciale Omnium Ecclesiarum and related works

Quare detraxistis

Quadragesimale peregrini (c. 1410)

Quaestio de Imagine Recreationis

Quaestiones disputatae 'De productione rerum', 'De imagine' et 'De anima' e schola bonaventuriana (ca. 1260))

Quaestiones super III Sententiarum (14th cent.)

Quaranta Massime esposte ad una Religiosa (ca. 1760)

Registrum Anglie (c. 1325)

Relazione fedele della grande controversia nata in Gerusalemme circa alcuni Santuari dai Greci usurpati ai Latini (1637)

Sacrum Commercium Sancti Francisci cum Domine Paupertate

Saechsische Weltchronik (c. 1230-1255)

Scala divini amoris (c. 1300)

Schwarzwälder Predigten (13th cent.)

Scriptum super Hieremiam (mid 13th cent.)

Scutum Defensionis super Privilegiis Fratrum de Audiencia Confessionum et Sepultura (15th cent.)

Sendbrief an geistliche Kinder

Sermones de Festis Sanctorum (late 13th cent.)

Sermones de Sancta Clara

Sermones de Tempore Compilati ex Concionatoribus Franciscanis ut S. Bonav. Et Nicolao de Lyra (15th cent.)

Sermones Diversi, Sermones de T., Sermones de Passione et Resurrectione & Expositio Officii Missae (15th cent.)

Sermones Dominicales (15th cent.)

Sermones Evangeliares de Tempore (15th cent.)

Sermones Epistolares et Evangeliares (15th cent.)

Sermones, Partes VII-X Redactae a Quodam Frate Minore Saec. XIV (14th cent.)

Sermoon vande bekeerde sonderesse Maria Magdalena & Sermoon vande groote liefde van Maria Magdalena (after 1500?/1562 cent.)

Specchio dei religiosi (15th cent.)

Speculum humanae salvationis (14th cent.)

Speculum Laicorum (before 1300?, also attributed to John of Hoveden (see there))

Speculum Perfectionis (early 14th cent.)

Speculum Perfectionis Minus/Speculum Perfectionis Lemmens (late 13th cent.?)

Speculum vitae/Legenda antiqua/Fac secundum exemplar (c. 1322?)/Compilatio Avenionensis

Speigel der waren vnde rechten ynkere to gode (1508)

Spill de la Vida Religiosa/Espejo de Religiosos/Tratado llamado el Desseoso (early 16th cent.)

Spina et Rosa (15th cent.)

Spiraculum/Liber Distinctionum

Spirituale Exercitium, ac Expositio Orationis Dominicae (1549)

Summa contra Hereticos (Pseudo Jacobus Capelli), see: Jacobus Capelli (de Capellis/Mediolanensis), letter J

Svegliarino spirituale ad uso dei novelli professi cappuccini (1760)

Tabula Septem Custodiarum (c. 1309)

Tractatus de Decem Preceptis ‘fratris Stanton’ (14th cent. or later ?)

Tractatus de bono modo predicandi (15th cent.)

Tractatus de Hedificatione Domus Spiritualis (15th cent.)

Tractatus Predicatione Evangelica (ca. 1523)

Tractatus de Significatione Litterarum Alfabeti & Tractatus contra Pestilentiam (15th cent.)

Tractatus de Universalibus

Tractatus Fraticellorum ad Rectores Urbis Romae (14th cent.)

Tractatus Fraticellorum Perusinorum

Tractatus Impugnatioris (c. 1484-1492)

Utrum Liceat Adiurare Demones

Vademecum (first half 14th cent.)

Venerabilis Agnetis Blannbekin (…) Vita et Revelationes Auctore Anonymus (1290)

Vergel de Virginidad, Misterio de los Angeles, Excelencias de la Fe, Misterios de Devoción (first half 16th cent.)

Vita Annae ducissae Silesiae (15th cent.)

Vita della Ven. Suor M. Maddalena Martinengo (1775)

Vita del P. Serafino da Vicenza (1750)

Vitae sanctorum fratrum minorum provinciae Saxoniae (14th cent.)

Von der Gnade Gottes (15th cent.)

Von der göttlichen Liebe (14th cent.?)

 

 

 

 


 

 

 


 

 

 


 

 

 


 

 

 

Author of Abbas Joachim, In Concordia maiori de Novem Ordinibus, sic Scribit de Sancto Francisco (14th cent.)

OM. Apparently a fourteenth century friar and author of a Joachimist text.

works

The work has apparently been edited in Juana Maria Arcelus Ulibarrena, Florensia 6 (1992), 45-54 (needs to be checked).

literature

J. Guadalajara Medina, Las profecías del anticristo en la edad media (Madrid, 1996).

 

 

 

 

Author(s) of Actus Beati Francisci et Sociorum Eius and Fioretti di San Francesco

OM. Italian friar(s) responsible for the Actus Beati Francisci et Sociorum Eius, or the Quaedam notabilia de beato Francisco et sociis eius et quidam actus eorum mirabiles was probably compiled between 1327 and 1341. According to some, it was the product of Ugolino da Montegiorgo (see: David Flood, ‘The Domestication of the Franciscan Movement’, Franziskanische Studien 60 (1978), esp. 325-327). The work consists of about 70 anecdotes or episodes concerning Francis and his early followers. Many of these have a miraculous element and some include visions concerning the history of the order. These visions and the general message of many anecdotes reveal a spiritual point of view, according to which the order declined after the death of Francis and certainly after the abdication of minister general Giovanni of Parma in 1257. The Actus Beati Francisci et Sociorum Eius, which has come down to us in about 25 manuscripts, is the first text that two times presents Francis as alter Christus. The Actus became the main source text for the popular Italian Fioretti di San Francesco, which was created in the second half of the fourteenth century.

works

Actus Beati Francisci et Sociorum Eius: a.o. MSS Aix en Provence, Bibl. Comm. Méjanes, cod. 1445; Anger, Bibl. de la Ville, cod. 821; Assisi Bib. Comm. 679; Barcelona, Bib. Centr. 645; Barcelona, Bibl. Centr. 665; Berlin, Staatsbibl. Cod. Theol. Fol. 94; Berlin, Staatsbibl. Cod. Lat. Theol. F. 705; Berlin, Staatsbibl. Cod. Lat. Theol. Qu.22; Bonn, Universitätsbibliothek 364; Braunschweig, Stadsbibl. 136; Breslau, Städtische Bibl. Rehdiger 491; Brussel,Bibl. des Bollandistes 156; Brussel, Koninklijke Bibliotheek 7771-2; Brussel, Koninklijke Bibliotheek II 2326; Budapest, Ungarisches Nationalmuseum Med. Aev. Lat. 77; Capestrano, Biblioteca del Convento dei Frati Minori cod. X; Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek 73 H 35; Deventer, Athenaeum Bibliotheek 10w5; Düsseldorf, Landes-und Stadtbibliothek, cod. B. 85; Erperenburg, Bibliothek des Barons von Breken Cod. 7; Fribourg [Schwitzerland] Bibl. des Cordeliers 23.j.60; Greifswald Bibl. der Nikolaikirche X.E.37A; Leuven, Univ.Bibl. 174; Liège, Bibl. du Séminaire 6 f 12; Liège Bibl. de L'Université 343; Liegnitz, Bibliothek der Peter und Paul Kirche, 12; Lwów, Universitätsbibliothek 1 G 17; Magdeburg, Stadsbibliothek, XII.2.154; München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Lat. 9098; Olomouc, Studienbibliothek, II.F.22; Oxford, Bodl. Cod. Canon. Miscell. 525; Oxford, Bodl. Cod.Lat. Theol. D. 23; Paris Bibl. de la Faculté de Théologie Protestante, cod. Rosenthal; Paris, Bibl. Mazarine 989; Paris, Bibl. Mazarine 1743; Rome, Bibl. del Collegio di Sant'Isidoro 1/72; Rome, Bibl. del Collegio di Sant'Isidoro, 1/142; S. Florian, Stiftsbibliothek XI.148; Sarnano, Biblioteca Comunale, E.n.60; Trier, Seminar Bibl. 105; Utrecht, Universiteitsbibl. 4.C.2; Vaticano, Bibl. Apost. Vat. Lat. 4354; Vienna, Nationalbibl. Lat. 4724
The work has received a number of editions: Actus beati Francisci et Sociorum Eius, ed. Paul Sabatier, Collection d'Études et de Documents sur l'Histoire Religieuse et Littéraire du Moyen âge, IV (Paris, 1902). See also the comments in A.G. Little, ‘Description of a Franciscan Manuscripts, formerly in the Phillipps Library, now in possession of A.G. Little’, Collectanea Franciscana 1 (Aberdeen, 1914), 9-113 (the introduction) & B. Bughetti, ‘Descriptio novi codicis ‘Actus beati Francisci’ exhibentis’, AFH 32 (1939), 412-438; Actus beati Francisci et sociorum eius. Nuova edizione postuma di Jacques Cambell, ed. J. Cambell, M. Bigaroni & G. Boccali, Pubblicazioni della Biblioteca Francescana, Chiesa Nuova - Assisi, Testi 5 (Assisi, 1988); A l’origine des Fioretti. Les Actes du bienheureux François et de ses compagnons, trans. & ed. Armelle Le Huërou, Jacques Dalarun & Olivier Legendre (Paris: Les Editions du Cerf - Les Editions Franciscaines, 2008). See also Fonti agiografiche dell’Ordine Francescano: Passione dei santi frati martiri in Marocco. Dialogo sulle gesta dei santi frati Minori. Vite di Antonio di Padova: Vita prima o Leggenda “Assidua” – Vita seconda – Legenda “Benignitas” – Legenda Raimondina – Legenda Rigaldina. Vita Perugina – Vita Leonina – Detti del beato Egidio di Assisi, Atti del beato Francesco e dei suoi compagni, ed. Maria Teresa Dolso (Padua: Efr-Editrici Francescane, 2014) [Review in Collectanea Franciscana 85:1-2 (2015), 300-303]. A new edition of the Actus seems to be in prep. by Massimiliano Zanot. Arthur Fisher (1987), 6 stated with regard of the Actus: ‘… a compilation of stories purporting to have conserved through oral tradition certain tales and recollections treasured by Brother Leo and his circle, and including as well a group of stories by and about some of the more conservative of the Spirituals living in the area southwest of Fermo in the Marches in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Much or perhaps all of the Actus in its surviving recensions is the work of one of these friars, Ugolino da Monte San Maria, now Montegiorgio, who appears as a witness testifying in a trial of 1331 and may have lived into the 1340’s. These final recensions seem almost certainly to have been done in the middle 1320s.’

Fioretti, the vernacular version/transformation of the Actus beati Franciscus et sociorum eius. It would seem that this Fioretti was the product of friars living at or near La Verna, where in 1224 the stigmata would heve been impressed on the body of Francis of Assisi. The Fioretti is not a mere translation of the Actus. It amounts to a thorough reworking, bent on transforming the Actus into a more orderly and accessible inspiration to piety, with even more emphasis on the stigmata and their spiritual meaning (and the role of Francis, presented as a figure of a new covenant with God, to clense the sins of mankind). The Fioretti has received several editions. Aside from the Fioretti text found alongside of the Actus edition of Cambell (1988), see: Les Fioretti de saint François d’Assise, trad. A. Masserron, illustr. J.S. Grinneiser, Éditions Franciscaines (Paris, 2002); Die Blümlein des heiligen Franziskus von Assisi. Aus dem Italienischen nach der Ausgabe der Tipografia Metastasio, Assisi 1901, trans. Rudolf G. Binding (Leipzig, 1911); I Fioretti di San Francesco. Riveduto su un nuovo codice, ed. Benvenuto Bughetti (Florence, 1926) and its revision in I Fioretti di San Francesco, ed. Riccardo Pratesi (Florence, 1958); Fonti Francescane 1441-1624; Die Fioretti, Legenden über Franziskus und seine Gefährten, trans. J. Schneider (Kevelaer, 2002). See review in CF 73 (2003), 689f. and Fioretti. Legenden um Franz von Assisi in Bild und Text, ed. Anton Rotzetter (Freiburg, 2002). In fact, the vernacular Fioretti received their first imprint as: Fioretti di S. Francesco (Venezia: Andrea Bonetti, 1484). This was issued by the same publishing house that issued the first edition of Ubertino da Casala’s Arbor vitae crucifixae Iesu.

literature

Giorgio Petrocchi, ‘Dagli ‘Actus beati Francisci’ al volgarizzamento dei ‘Fioretti’’, Convivium n.s. 22 (1954), 534-555, 666-677; Giorgio Petrocchi, Ascesi e mistica trecentesca (Florence, 1957), 87-146; Arthur L. Fisher, ‘A reconsideration of the Fioretti, the little flowers of St. Francis’, Collectanea Franciscana 57 (1987), 5-24; Engelbert Grau, ‘Quellenkritische Einführung in die Probleme der Fioretti’, Wissenchaft & Weisheit 48 (1985), 101-112; Arthur L. Fisher, 'A Reconsideration of the Fioretti, the Little Flowers of St. Francis', Collectanea Franciscana 57 (1987), 5-24; Stefano Brufani, ‘Agiografia e santità francescana nel Piceno: gli Actus beati Francisci et sociorum eius’, in: Agiografia e culto dei santi nel Piceno: Atti del Convegno di studio svoltosi in occasione della undicesima edizione del ‘Premio internazionale Ascoli Piceno’; Ascoli Piceno, 2-3 maggio 1997, ed. Enrico Menestò, Atti del ‘Premio internazionale Ascoli Piceno’. Nuova serie, 8 (Spoleto, 1998), 123-152; Massimiliano Zanot, `Lo stato dell'edizione degli Actus Beati Francisci', in: Editori di Quaracchi, 100 anni dopo. Bilancio e prospettive, pp. 261-274; José-Maria Siciliani, L’art franciscain de raconter la sainteté d’après les Fioretti de saint François: une approche narrative de la théologie franciscaine de la conformité (Paris, 2003); Marco Esposito, ‘Conformitas, sequela e imitatio Christi negli Actus beati Francisci et sociorum eius’, Franciscana 7 (2005), 127-148; Enrico Menestò, Gli’Actus Beati Francisci et sociorum eius’: studio sulla tradizione manoscritta, Diss. (Florence: Dip. Di Studi sul Medioevo e il Rinascimento dell’Università di Firenze, 2005); A l’origine des Fioretti. Les Actes du bienheureux François et de ses compagnons, trans. & ed. Armelle Le Huërou, Jacques Dalarun & Olivier Legendre (Paris: Les Editions du Cerf - Les Editions Franciscaines, 2008); R. Feiter, ‘Franziskus und sein Gefährte: eine ekklesiogenetische Überlegung im Anschluss an das elfte Kapitel der ‘Fioretti”, in: Kommunikation des Evangeliums. Festschrift Udo F. Schmälzle (Berlin, 2008), 29-45; Federico Fascetti, ‘Note sulla presenza della ‘Legenda Maior’ volgarizzata nella tradizione manoscritta tre-quattrocentesca dei ‘Fioretti’ di San Francesco’, Studi Francescani 106 (2009), 255-265; J. Schneider, ‘Fioretti/Blümlein; Betrachtungen über die Wundmale’, in: Franziskus-Quellen. Die Schriften des Heiligen Franziskus, Lebensbeschreibungen, Chroniken und Zeugnisse über ihn und seinen Orden, ed. Dieter Berg, Leonhard Lehmann et al., Zeugnisse des 13. und 14. Jahrhunderts zur Franziskanischen Bewegung, Band 1 (Kevelaer: Butzon & Bercker, Ed. T. Coelde, 2009), 1333-1478; Federico Fascetti, ‘La tradizione manoscritta tre-quattrocentesca dei ‘Fioretti’ di San Francesco’, AFH 102 (2009), 419-468 & 103 (2010), 41-94; S. Brufani, 'Gli «Actus beati Francisci» e i «Fioretti»: due storie di un testo senza storia', Franciscana. Bollettino della Società Internazionale degli Studi Francescani (2010), 193-214; Paul van Heck & Sanne Noyon, ‘Traduzioni moderne dei Fioretti e degli Actus in lingua ollandese’, AFH 104 (2011), 147-182; Achim Wesjohann, Mendikantische Gründungserzählungen im 13. und 14. Jahrhundert: Mythen als Element institutioneller Eigengeschichtsschreibung der mittelalterlichen Franziskaner, Dominikaner und Augustiner-Eremiten, Vita Regularis. Ordnungen und Deutungen religiosen Lebens im Mittelalter, Abhandlungen, 49 (Münster: LIT Verlag, 2012), 119-121; Antonio Montefusco, ‘The History as a Pendulum: The Actus and the Fioretti’, Franciscan Studies 71 (2013), 361-373; Felice Accrocca, Un santo di carta. Le fonti biografiche di san Francesco d’Assisi, Biblioteca di Frate Francesco, 13 (Rome-Milan: Centro Culturale Aracoeli-Biblioteca Francescana, 2013); Daniele Solvi, ‘Spiritualità francescana dei Fioretti’, Vita Minorum 84:6 (2013), 47-126; Daniele Solvi, Uomini celesti e angeli terrestri. Una lettura francescana dei Fioretti, Presenza di san Francesco, 57 (Milan: Biblioteca Francescana, Milano, 2015); Antonio Montefusco, 'Gli Actus / Fioretti dal singolare al plurale', in: Saint François et le franciscanisme dans les arts et dans la littérature du XIV siècle, ed. 'E. Zunino (2015); Filippo Sedda, 'Atti del beato Francesco e dei suoi compagni e Fioretti. Antologia di episodi minoritici edificanti', in: Storia della spiritualità francescana, I: secoli XIII-XVI, ed. M. Bartoli, W. Block & A. Mastromatteo (Bologna: Edizione Dehoniane, 2017), 347-364; Antonio Montefusco, 'Gi Actus/Fioretti: dal politico francescano alle sirocchie uccelli', in: Herméneutique et commentaire, ed. P. Gasparini & E. Zunino, =P.R.I.S.M.I. Revue d'Étude Italiennes 16 (2019), 57-86; Rachele Giacani & Monica Bocchetta, 'La collezione dei Fioretti di san Francesco della Biblioteca francescana di Falconara Marittima (AN). Con un focus sulle edizioni antiche', Picenum Seraphicum n.s. 33 (2019), 171-187.

 

 

 

 

Author of Actus Beati Francisci in Valle Reatina (fl. ca. 1400)

OM. Anonymous Italian friar from the region of Rieti, responsible for a collection of notices concerning Francis of Assisi. The work has survived in a single manuscript from 1416. The work itself probably written at the beginning of the fourteenth century, and it is to a large extent a compilation of earlier sources, focusing on events from Francis's life that would have occurred in the Rieti valley. The work has strong spiritual tendencies and focuses on all kinds of local events that could be connected with miraculous actions and interventions of Francis.

works

Anonimo Reatino, Actus beati Francisci in Valle Reatina, ed. Attilio Cadderi & Giovanni Boccali, Biblioteca Storico-Francescana, Chiesa Nuova - Assisi, 9 (S. Maria degli Angeli: Porziuncola, 1999).

 

 

 

 

Author of Ammaestramenti di morale cristiana (fl. ca. 1460)

OM. Italian friar from Siena, who was active around 1460, known for Ammaestramenti di morale cristiana, which survives in MS Siena Biblioteca Comunale cod. I.II.39. It is addressed at lay women in particular, and resembles a bit Girolamo da Siena’s Regole della vita spirituale. The Ammaestramenti amount to a simplified vernacular theological summa, presenting in detail regulations for almost every aspect of Christian life (from prayer and fasting, to dress, personal hygiene and choice of reading matter).

works

Ammaestramenti di morale cristiana: MS Siena Biblioteca Comunale cod. I.II.39

literature

B. Paton, Preaching Friars and the Civic Ethos: Siena, 1380-1480, 68.

 

 

 

 

Author of Amica fraternaque Responsio ad Questionem an Sancta virgo Catherina Senensis possit cum stigmatibus depingi? (fl. 16th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar.

works

Amica fraternaque Responsio ad Questionem an Sancta virgo Catherina Senensis possit cum stigmatibus depingi? (Valencia: Claudius Maffei, 1552).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, BUF III, 3; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 53.

 

 

 

 

Author of Anima con Dio in vita ed in morte (1799)

OFMCap. Italian friar.

works

Anima con Dio in vita ed in morte (Milan, 1799).

literature

Catalogus Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum, ab anno 1747 usque ad annum 1852, sive Appendix ad Bibliothecam Scriptorum Capuccinorum a P. Bernardo Bononiensi (...) (Rome: Gaetano A. Bertinelli, 1852), 13.

 

 

 

 

Author of Annales Franciscanum Gorlicensium (fl. late 15th cent.)

OM. German friar. author of short annals on the history of the Franciscan convent of Görlitz (Saxony province, Meißen diocese), running from 1248 to 1484.

works

Annales Franciscanum Gorlicensium. See: D. Büsching, 'Die Althertümer der Stadt Görlitz', Neues Lausitzisches Magazin 3 (1824), 181-185; Annales Franciscanorum Gorlicensium, ed. M. Köhler, in: Scriptores rerum Lusaticarum, Neue Folge, 1 (Görlitz, 1839) 309-313, 345, 348-350.

literature

Volker Honemann, 'Die Bibliothek des Görlitzer Franziskanerklosters im Mittelalter. Ein Beitrag zur weiteren Erforschung des franziskanischen Buchwesens', in: Europa und die Welt in der Geschichte. Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Dieter Berg, ed. R. Averkorn et al. (Bochum, 2004), 364-375; Annales Franciscanorum in Görlitz http://www.geschichtsquellen.de/repOpus_00276.html, 2016-03-07 .

 

 

 

 

Author of Annales Fratrum Minorum in Löwenberg (fl. ca. 1500)

OM. German friar. Author of a short chronicle, providing information on the foundation of the Löwenberg friary (1248), founded with the support of Duke Heinrich II der Jüngere of Schlesia, and also on the activities of Giovanni da Capestrano in 1453, alongside of predominantly urban and regional historical information.

works

Annales Fratrum Minorum in Löwenberg (1248-1508). Edited in C. Grünhagen (ed.), 'Kurze Annalen der Franziskaner zu Löwenberg', Zeitschrift des Vereins für Geschichte und Altertumskunde Schlesiens 11 (1871), 209-210.

literature

W. Mrozowicz, 'Die mittelalterliche Geschichtsschreibung in Schlesien. Stand und Bedürfnisse im Bereich der Quelleneditionen', in: Die Geschichtsschreibung in Mitteleuropa. Projekte und Forschungsprobleme, ed. J. Wenta, Subsidia historiographica, 1 (Toru, 1999), 203-227 (223 nr. 44); Annales Fratrum Minorum in Löwenberg, http://www.geschichtsquellen.de/repOpus_00312.html, 2016-03-09 ; Volker Honemann, ‘Franziskanische Geschichtsschreibung’, in: Geschichte der Sächsischen Franziskanerprovinz, 1: Von den Anfängen bis zur Reformation, ed. Volker Honemann (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015), 812.

 

 

 

 

Author of Annales Gandenses (c.1308/10)

OM. Belgian friar from the Ghent friary. He wrote between 1308 and 1310 a short chronicle on the town of Ghent and the County of Flanders, covering in annalistic fashion the period between 1296 and 1310. These annals give a partisan and engaged account of the struggle between Flanders and the French king Philip IV, and of the cumbersome alliance between Flanders and the English king Edward I. The author is very concerned about the fate of terra nostra Flandria.

works

Annales Gandenses, ed. F. Funck-Brentano, Collection des textes pour servir à l'étude et à l'enseignement de l'histoire (Paris, 1899); ‘Notes additionelles à l'édition des Annales Gandenses’, in: Chronique artésienne (1295-1304). Nouvelle édition, et Chronique tournaisienne (1296-1314), ed. F. Funck-Brentano (Paris, 1899), xviii-xxiv; Annales Gandenses - Annales of Ghent, ed. & trans. Hilda Johnstone, Medieval Classics (Londen-Edinburgh-Paris-Melbourne-Toronto-New York, 1951)/Annales Gandenses: Annals of Ghent, ed. & trans. Hilda Johnstone, Oxford Medieval Texts, Reprint (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985); De Annales Gandenses. Een eigentijdse kroniek van de Vlaamse vrijheidstrijd. 1297-1310, ed. & trans. Janick Appelmans, José Vanbossele & Niklaas Maddens (Kortrijk: De Leiegouw, 2008).

literature

H. van Werveke, ‘Bijdrage tot een nieuwe uitgave van de Annales Gandenses’, in: Dancwerc. Opstellen aangeboden aan Prof. dr. D.Th. Enklaar ter gelegenheid van zijn vijfenzestigste verjaardag (Groningen, 1959), 109-115; Herman van Goethem, ‘De Annales Gandenses: Auteur en Kroniek; enkele nieuwe elementen’, Handelingen der Maatschappij voor Geschiedenis en Oudheidkunde te Gent n.s. 35 (1981), 49-59; Marc Boone, ‘Der anonyme Minorit von Gent Annales Gandenses’, in: Hauptwerke der Geschichtsschreibung, ed. Volker Reinhardt, Kröners Taschenausgabe 435 (Stuttgart: Kröner, 1997), 14-17.

 

 

 

 

Author of Annales Hamburgenses (c. 1265)

OM. German friar. Author of thirteenth-century annals, which have survived in a late thirteenth-century manuscript from Hamburg. The annals start with the Annus gratiae 1 and provide more or less yearly entries until the 1250s/early 1260s, many of which focus on the northern German regions (esp. for the 12th and 13th cent.). It is not completely sure whether or not these annals are of Franciscan provenance, although are some indications that point in this direction. To a large extent it is an excerpt from the chronicle of Albert von Stade.

works

Annales Hamburgenses, ed. I.M. Lappenberg, in: Monumenta Germania Historica Scriptores XVI (Hannover, 1859), 382-385 (only the additions to and differences from the Chronicle of Albert von Stade); Annales Hamburgenses, ed. Friedrich Reuter, in: Scriptores minores rerum Slesvico-Holsatensium. Erste Sammlung, Quellensammlung der Gesellschaft für Schleswig-Hols.-Lauenb. Geschichte, 4 (Kiel, 1875), 405-430 (complete text).

literature

Volker Honemann, ‘Franziskanische Geschichtsschreibung’, in: Geschichte der Sächsischen Franziskanerprovinz, 1: Von den Anfängen bis zur Reformation, ed. Volker Honemann (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015), 789-790.

 

 

 

 

Author of Annales Lubicenses (fl. early 14th cent.)

OM. German friar. Compiler of annals that later were used by Detmar of Lübeck and other Franciscan authors.

works

Annales Lubicenses (1264-1324), ed. I.M. Lappenberg, in: Monumenta Germania Historica Scriptores XVI (Hannover, 1859), 411-429.

literature

Volker Honemann, ‘Franziskanische Geschichtsschreibung’, in: Geschichte der Sächsischen Franziskanerprovinz, 1: Von den Anfängen bis zur Reformation, ed. Volker Honemann (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015), 791.

 

 

 

 

Author of Annales Minorum Prussicorum (fl. 15th cent.?)

OM. German friar. Author of a conglomerate of texts (the title Annales Minorum Prussicorum was chosen by the editors) that provides annalistic remarks on several Franciscan convents/loca in the Prussian region, such as Thorn, Kulm, Neuenburg, and Braunschweig. The last entry dates from 1308. The late 15th-century manuscript double leaf containing these notices, which have survived in the Stadtarchiv, has been edited by Strehle and Lemmens (see below).

works

Annales Minorum Prussicorum, ed. Ernst Strehkle, in: Scriptores Rerum Prussicarum, ed. Theodor Hirsch, Max Toeppen & Ernst Strehlke, 5 Vols. (Leipzig, 1874) I, 647f.; Annales Minorum Prussicorum, ed. Leonhard Lemmens, Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 6 (1913), 702-704.

literature

Volker Honemann, ‘Franziskanische Geschichtsschreibung’, in: Geschichte der Sächsischen Franziskanerprovinz, 1: Von den Anfängen bis zur Reformation, ed. Volker Honemann (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015), 790-791.

 

 

 

 

Author of Annales Turonenses (fl. 14th cent.?)

OM. Dutch or German friar active in the Franciscan friary of Thorn, responsible for the creation of a historical compendium. The original annals, which might have started in the year 430 and continue until the year 1340, has not survived. What did survive were Latin excerpts, possibly a partly derivative set of Annales Turonenses edited by Strehlke in Scriptores rerum Prussicarum (Leipzig, 1866) III, 57-316), as well as a German translation, the creation context of which remains unclear, edited from a Cambridge manuscript by Herbert Ludat (see under editions).

works

Annales Turonenses (German version), edited in: Herbert Ludat (ed.), 'Annalistische Aufzeichnungen zur Geschichte zur Geschichte des Deutschen Ordens im 14. Jahrhunderts', Zeitschrift für Ostforschung 5 (1956), 97-104.

literature

Volker Honemann, ‘Franziskanische Geschichtsschreibung’, in: Geschichte der Sächsischen Franziskanerprovinz, 1: Von den Anfängen bis zur Reformation, ed. Volker Honemann (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015), 791 [with more, albeit sometimes somewhat confusing information]

 

 

 

 

Author(s) of Antiphonaria Terrae Sanctae (fl. 14th-15th cent.)

OM. Franciscan friars who produced a range of Franciscan antiphonaria and related liturgical texts and songs in the Franciscan Jerusalem settlement under Ottoman rule during the fourteenth and fifteenth century. They have been studied and at least in part edited by Elena Niccolai.

works

Antiphonaria Terrae Sanctae. See: Elena Niccolai, 'Antifonari francescani di Terrasanta (1431-1492). 1. Betlemme, Monte Sion, Betania, Monte Oliveto, ‘Peregrinationes infra Ierusalem civitatem’, Valle di Giosafat', Storie e linguaggi 1:2 (2015), 205-258; Martina Cita, 'Antifonari francescani di Terrasanta (1431-1492). 2. Santo Sepolcro, Siloe, Montana Giudea, Ebron, Fiume Giordano, Joppe, Nazareth, Damasco', Storie e linguaggi 1:2 (2015), 259-308.

 

 

 

 

Author of Apologia sive Tractatus Defensorius (c. 1492)

OM. Belgian (Flemish) or Dutch Franciscan friar. Author of an Apologia sive Tractatus Defensorius.

literature

De Troeyer, Biobibliographia Franciscana Neerlandica ante Saec XVI I, 189

 

 

 

 

Author(s) of Arbor amoris, Der Minnebaum/Boem der minnen (ca. 1450)

OM. German and/or Dutch friars responsible for the pseudo-bonaventurean Arbor amoris/Der Minnebaum/Boem der minnen.

works

Der Minnebaum: MS Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek. 133 G I (883), ff. 191r-212r (ca. 1450, from the Poor Clares of Hoogstraten). Inc: ‘Hier beghint een suuerlyck tractaetken. Bonaventura van boem der minnen. Ic aensach Ende siet, daer was een boem int middel der eerden [Dan. 4,7], want alle bomen die gheen goede vruchten voert enbrenghen, die sellen wt gherodet werden…’ The tree grows on its threefold root of contrition, confession and satisfaction, with six stemms of love: ongheduerighe liefte, hette , scarpe liefde, siedende hette, oversiedende hette, ontoeganckelycke liefte.... It reaches back to the divine hierarchy developed by Dionysius. Cf. Kurt Ruh, Bonaventura Deutsch (Bern, 1956), 292-293 (293): ‘Auf franziskanischen Ursprung weisen die Überlieferung hin - die Hs. Enthält zur Hauptsache Franciscana [statutes on ff. 56r-100r; statutes of Poor Clares ff. 148v-155v; Urban IV’s rule for the Poor Clares ff. 100r-147r; detti of Aegidius of Assisi ff. 156r-1190v; prayers to Francisco and Clara ff. 222r-225r etc.] -, aber auch die allgemeine Tatsache, daß die Staffeln der Liebe und die emblematische Darstellung als solche in franziskanischen Kreisen besonders beliebt waren.’
For an edition and a further analysis of different versions and Latin antecedents, see also Arbor amoris. Der Minnebaum. Ein Pseudo-Bonaventura-Traktat, ed. U. Kamber (Bielefeld, 1964).

 

 

 

 

Author(s) of Ars Praedicandi, Tractatus de Modo Praedicandi, Modus Colligendi Sermones, Octo Modi Dilatandi Materiam, Directoria Generalia Orandi et Collationandi (fl. 14th cent?)

OM. German friars involved with the production of preaching manuals.

works

Tractatus de Modo Praedicandi: MS Eichstatt, 683, 4°, ff. 1-6v.

Tractatus de Modo Inveniendi Materias Praedicandi: MS Eichstatt, 683, 4°, ff. 225-226.

Ars Praedicandi: MS Eichstatt, 683, 4°, ff. 226-228.

Modus Colligendi Sermones: MS Lüneburg,Ratsbücherei Theol. 4°, 5.

Octo Modi Dilatandi Materiam: MS Bibl. Munich State Library, Lat. 8826 f. 3ff.

Directoria Generalia Orandi et Collationandi: MS Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, 27985, 2°

 

 

 

 

Author of Bedudinghe op Cantica Canticorum (fl. 15th cent.)

OM. Dutch friar and responsible for a vernacular reworking of the Franciscan Glossa Tripartita super Cantica, which itself is a Franciscan text from the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century (in its final redaction possibly around 1320). This Latin commentary on the Song of Songs holds the middle ground between a fully academic commentary and a more devotionally oriented text. The Dutch Bedudinghe op Cantica Canticorum is a fifteenth century reworking that has survived in 43 manuscripts, and can be considered as part of the late medieval pseudo-bonaventurian cloud of texts that circulated in vernacular versions in Germany and the Low Countries.

works

Bedudinghe op Cantica Canticorum. Vertaling en bewerking van ‘Glossa tripartita super Cantica’. Teksthistorische studies en kritische editie, I: Teksthistorische studies, II: Kritische editie, ed. Kees Schepers, Miscellanea Neerlandica, 35 (Louvain: Peeters, 2006). Cf. Review in CF 77 (2007), 406f.

 

 

 

 

Author of Breviarium Decretorum (fl. 15th cent.)

OM. German friar and author of a Franciscan Decretal compilaton for educative purposes in the Franciscan school network?

works

Breviarium Decretorum: MS Sydney, Univ. Libr., Nicholson 16 (15th cent.)

 

 

 

 

Author of Brevissimus Tractatus Septemplicis Distinctionis (fl. 14th cent.?)

OM. Spanish friar. Compiler of a philosophical Brevissimus Tractatus Septemplicis Distinctionis.

works

Brevissimus Tractatus Septemplicis Distinctionis: MS Madrid,Biblioteca Nacional 2017 ff. 40v-43v.

 

 

 

 

Author of Cartas Ficticias

OM. Spanish friar.

works

Cartas Ficticias: MS Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, 2341.

literature

M. de Castro, Manuscritos Franciscanos de la Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid (Madrid: Servicio de Publicaciones del Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia, 1973), 127.

 

 

 

 

Author of Catalogus sanctorum fratrum minorum (fl. ca. 1335)

OM. Author of a catalogue of Franciscan saints following the provinces of the order. The work originated from the Provincia sancti Francisci and in several manuscripts also appears as part of the Fac secundum exemplar collection.

works

Catalogus sanctorum fratrum minorum. Edited in Lemmens, Fragmenta Minoria. See also: Volker Honemann, ‘Das mittelalterliche Schrifttum der Franziskaner der Sächsischen Ordensprovinz unter besonderer Berücksichtigung deutschsprachiger Zeugnisse’, in: i>Geschichte der Sächsischen Franziskanerprovinz, 1: Von den Anfängen bis zur Reformation, ed. Volker Honemann (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015), 630-631.

 

 

 

 

Author of Chronica Anonyma Provinciae Saxoniae (later 13th cent.)

OM. German friar from the Saxony province. Responsible for a reworking of the chronicle of Jordanus de Yano (see there). Wadding and Sbaralea once identified this friar with Balduinus Brunswickensis, yet that seems to be mistaken, due to a confusion with a scribe of Jordan's chronicle. For an elucidation see the 1885 study of Heinrich Denifle.

literature

Heinrich Denifle, 'Zur Quellenkunde der Franciscaner-Geschichte', Archiv für Litteratur- und Kirchengeschichte des Mittelalters 1 (1885), 630-640.

 

 

 

 

Author of Chronica conventus Luneburgensis (fl. 15th cent.?)

OM. German friar. Author of a chronicle dealing with the thirteenth-century foundation and the fifteenth-century reform of the Lüneburg friary.

works

Von dem Barfuesser Marienkloster zu Lüneburg, ed. Ludwig Albrecht Gebhardi, in: Idem, Historisch-Geneaologische Abhandlungen, IV (Lüneburg-Leipzig, 1767), 173-236 (textedition on pp. 203-214).

literature

Volker Honemann, ‘Franziskanische Geschichtsschreibung’, in: Geschichte der Sächsischen Franziskanerprovinz, 1: Von den Anfängen bis zur Reformation, ed. Volker Honemann (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015), 815-817.

 

 

 

 

Author of Chronica conventus Ordinis Fratrum Minorum prope Isenacum (fl. mid 15th cent.)

OM. German friar from Eisenach. Compiler of a chronicle of the Eisenach friary (Thüringen). The first part of this work contains a wealth of more general historical entries running from 1393 to 1445. The second part is more clearly a convent chronicle for the period 1322-1441. This is not the only chronicle created in this friary. Another chronicle was written by Johannes Rothe.

works

Chronica conventus Ordinis Fratrum Minorum prope Isenacum, ed. Serapeum 14 (Leipzig, 1853), 379-382 (second half); J. Kremer, 'Beiträge zur Geschichte der klösterlichen Niederlassungen Eisenachs im Mittelalter', Quellen Gesch. Fulda 2 (1905), 170-177.

literature

Neues Archiv der Gesellschaft für ältere deutsche Geschichtskunde 20 (1895), 408-409 (manuscript info provided by Oswald Holder-Egger); MGH Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum, 42 (Hannover, 1899), 141 (manuscript info provided by Oswald Holder-Egger); H. Patze, 'Landesgeschichtsschreibung in Thüringen', Jahrbuch für die Geschichte Mittel- und Ostdeutschlands 16/17 (1968), 119f.; Volker Honemann, ‘Franziskanische Geschichtsschreibung’, in: Geschichte der Sächsischen Franziskanerprovinz, 1: Von den Anfängen bis zur Reformation, ed. Volker Honemann (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015), 813-815 (further analysis of the text).

 

 

 

 

Chronica XXIV Generalium Ordinis Fratrum Minorum (Arnaud de Sarrant/Arnaldus de Sarnano?, ca 1375/80)

OM. Author of the Chronica XXIV Generalium Ordinis Fratrum Minorum or Chronicle of the Twenty-Four Generals of the Order of Friars Minor. In the past the author of this massive work has been identified as the Aquitanian Franciscan friar Arnaud de Sarrant/Arnald de Sarrant, but this ascription is not secure (cf. Lützelschwab (2010) and the remarks in the works of Dolso mentioned below). The chronicle provides information on the order from its foundation by Francis of Assisi in 1209 to the 24th minister general (Leonardo Rossi, 1373–1378). Aside from information on minister generals, the work contains a host of other materials on Franciscan saints, theologians, provincial officials, as well as accounts of miracles and controversies. As such, it became a starting point for many later Franciscan chroniclers.

works

Chronica XXIV Generalium Ordinis Minorum Cum Pluribus Appendicibus Inter Quas Excellit Hucusque Ineditus Liber de Laudibus S. Francisci Fr. Bernardi a Bessa..., in: Analecta Franciscana ad Historiam Fratrum Minorum Spectantia 3 (Quaracchi, 1897); Reprint: Chronica XXIV Generalium Ordinis Minorum Cum Pluribus Appendicibus Inter Quas Excellit Hucusque Ineditus Liber de Laudibus S. Francisci Fr. Bernardi a Bessa... (Nabu Press, 2011). An English version can also be found on url http://http://i-tau.com/franstudies/texts/chronica_final.pdf The latter is a pdf of: Arnald of Sarrant, Chronicle of the Twenty-Four Generals of the Order of Friars Minor [1369-1374], trans. Noel Muscat (Malta: TAU Franciscan Communications, 2016), which ascribed the work to Arnaud de Sarrant. [For a review of that translation, see: Collectanea Franciscana 87:3-4 (2017), 710-712]

literature

Repertorium Fontium Historiae Medii Aevi, III, Rome 1970, 398-399; Maria Teresa Dolso, ‘Un nuovo manoscritto della ‘Chronica XXIV generalium Ordinis Minorum.’ Il codice 142 della Bibliothèque municipale de Strasburgo’, Franciscana 3 (2001), 191-200; Maria Teresa Dolso, La Chronica XXIV Generalium: il difficile percorso dell’unità nella storia francescana, Collana Centro Studi Antoniani, 40 (Padua, 2003); M.T. Dolso, ‘I manoscritti della Chronica XXIV Generalium Ordinis Minorum’, Franciscana 6 (2004), 185-261; Ralf Lützelschwab, ‘Chronica XXIV generalium Ordinis Fratrum Minorum’, Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle, ed. Graeme Dunphy (Leiden: Brill, 2010), 451; Maria Teresa Dolso, 'La Chronica XXIV Generalium. Celebrazione della santità minoritica', in: Storia della spiritualità francescana, I: secoli XIII-XVI, ed. M. Bartoli, W. Block & A. Mastromatteo (Bologna: Edizione Dehoniane, 2017), 421-436.

 

 

 

 

Author of Chronicon Parmense (early 14th cent.)

OM. Italian friar, and possible author of a town chronicle that relates the history of Parma in a vernacularized Latin from 1038 until 1309. Alongside Salimbene's Cronica, this anonymous town chronicle is the major narrative source for the history of Parma. The Franciscan provenance of this text is not secure.

works

Chronicon Parmense, ed. L.A. Muratori, in: Idem, Rerum Italicarum Scriptores (Milan, 1723-51) IX, col. 756-880; Chronicon Parmense ab anno 1038 usque ad annum 1338, ed. Giuliano Bonazzi, in: Rerum italicarum. Nuova edizione (Istituto istorico italiano, 1902-1904).

literature

Girolamo Tiraboschi, Storia della letteratura italiana (N. Bettoni e Comp., 1833) II, 398-399.

 

 

 

 

Author of the Chronik von Namslau (fl. first half 18th cent.)

OM. German friar, active in the Saxony province. Author of a convent chronicle of Namslau (Saxony) compiled in the later 17th and 18th century, with the last entry covering the year 1754.

literature

Lucius (Alfons) Teichmann, Die Franziskanerklöster in Mittel- und Ostdeutschland 1223-1993 (ehemaliges Ostdeutschland in den Reichsgrenzen von 1938), Studien zur katholischen Bistums- und Klostergeschichte, 37 (Leipzig, 1995), 154-156.

 

 

 

 

Author of Collectio Sermonum de Dominiciis, de Festis et de Sanctis ad Usum Fratrum Minorum (14th cent.)

OM. French friar. Author of a Franciscan sermon collection from the fourteenth century.

works

Collectio Sermonum de Dominiciis, de Festis et de Sanctis ad Usum Fratrum Minorum: MS Paris, BN, Lat. 3302 ff. 1-96 (14th cent.)

 

 

 

 

Author of Commentarius in Apocalypsim (Pseudo Alexander Halensis, fl. 13th cent.)

OM. A friar responsible for n Apocalypse commentary that in the past was assigned to Alexander of Hales (see also under his name elsewhere in this catalogue).

works

Comm. in Apocalypsim: MS Wolfenbüttel, Herzog Augustbibliothek Novi 960 ff. 69rb-94rb

 

 

 

 

Commentarius in Apocalypsim (Pseudo Hugh of St. Cher/Pseudo Thomas Aquinas, fl. ca. 1240)

OM. Friar of an Apocalypse commentare with strong links with the co-workers of Hugh of St. Cher OP. The question is therefore also whether this work is indeed of Franciscan provenance, as is assumed by several scholars. The work eventually found its way in older editions of the works of Thomas Aquinas.

works

Commentarius in Apocalypsim, edited in: Sancti Thomae Aquinatis Doctoris Angelici Ordinis Praedicatorum Opera Omnia (Parma, 1869) XXIII, coll. 326-511. [Yet the incipits of the text printed there are not the same as the fragments given by Smalley on the basis of MS Oxford, Bodl. 444 (2385), ff. 28r-177v]

literature

Stegmüller, Repertorium, no. 3771; B. Smalley, ‘John Russel O.F.M.’, Recherches de Théologie Ancienne et Médiévale. 23 (1956) 302; R.E.Lerner, ‘Poverty, Preaching, and Eschatology in the Revelation Commentaries of ‘Hugh of St. Cher’.’, in: The Bible in the Medieval World. Essays in Memory of Beryl Smalley, K. Walsh & D. Wood, Studies in Church History, Subsidia, 4 (Oxford, 1985), 157-189; David Burr, Olivi’s Peaceable Kingdom, >>!.

 

 

 

 

Author of Commentarius in Apocalypsim (Pseudo Bernardinus Senensis, fl. late 13th century)

OM. Author of an Apocalypse commentary that appears in several old editions of Bernardino of Siena. There are possibly connections with the Apocalypse commentaries of Vital du Four and William of Meliton.

works

Commentarius in Apocalypsim, edited in: Sancti Bernardini Senensi Ordinis Seraphici Minorum in Apocalypsim beati Ioannis Commentarii. in: S. Bernardini Senensis Opera Omnia, ed. Joannes de la Haye (Paris 1635/Lyon, 1650/Venice, 1745) V, 1-177.

literature

Dionysius Pacetti, ‘Le postille autografe sopra l'Apocalisse di S. Bernardino da Siena recentemente scoperte nella Bibl. Naz. di Napoli’, Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 56 (1963), 40-70.

 

 

 

 

Author of Commentarius in primum librum sententiarum Petri Lombardi (fl. ca. 1325)

OM. French (?) friar active in the 1320s in Paris. Author of a commentary on the first book of the Sentences of Lombard. The work, probably composed by this friar in the context of fulfilling his degree obligations at the Franciscan Studium generale, interacts heavily with the works of dominant (predominantly Franciscan) theologians of the later thirteenth and early fourteenth century (esp. Peter Aureol and Duns Scotus)

works

In I. Sent.: MS Vienna, Oesterr. Nationalbibl. Palatinus 1439 ff. 1-55

literature

Russel L. Friedman & Christopher D. Schabel, ‘The Vitality of Franciscan Theology at Paris in the 1320s...’, Ad’HDLMA 63 (1996), 357-372.

 

 

 

 

Author of Compendio e sumario de confessores tirado de toda a substancia do Manual (fl. ca. 1325)

OM. Portuguese friar from the Prouincia da Piedade.

works

Compendio e sumario de confessores tirado de toda a substancia do Manual, copilado & abreuiado por hum religioso frade Menor da ordem de S. Francisco da Prouincia da Piedade. Acrecentarãselhe em os lugares cõuenientes as cousas mais cõmuas que se ordenarã em o Sctõ Cõcilio Tridentino (Coimbra: Antonio de Maris, 1567/Salamanca: Alexander de Canova, 1572)). This work is accessible via several digital portals.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, BUF III, 9.

 

 

 

 

Author of Compendium et nova compilatio privilegiorum Fratribus Minoribus, aliisque Ordinibus Mendicantibus Concessorum (fl. ca. 1523)

OFM. Spanish friar from the Aragon province.

works

Compendium et nova compilatio privilegiorum Fratribus Minoribus, aliisque Ordinibus Mendicantibus Concessorum (fl. ca. 1523).

literature

Iberian Books / Libros ibéricos (IB): Books Published in Spanish or on the Iberian Peninsula before 1601/Libros publicados en español o portugués en la Península Ibérica antes de 1601, ed. Alexander S. Wilkinson (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2010), 220.

 

 

 

 

Author of Compendium Metricum super libros Sententiarum (fl. 15th cent.)

OM. Author of a pseudo-Bonaventurian metrical abbreviated Sentences commentary.

works

Compendium Metricum super libros Sententiarum: MS Bibliotheca Jagellonica Cracoviae, 1534 (a. 1444-1445), ff. 2v-357r [partial Lib IV, dist. 1-36, 38-50]. Is this the same work as the Summula Brevis Totius Textus Sententiarum Magistri Petri Lombardi per Versus Dictata per Dominum Bonaventuram Doctorem Seraphicum found in MSS Colmar Bibl. Publ. 348 ff. 129-54v (15th cent.) & Würburg UB Zisterzienserabtei Ebrach I. t. 615?

 

 

 

 

Author(s) of Compilatio Assisiensis seu Legenda Perusina (fl. 13th cent.)

OM. Italian friar(s). Author of a text that, ever since the early studies by Delorme after its discovery in MS Perugia, Biblioteca Comunale Augusta 1046 ff. 94-127, has been discussed in modern scholarship under a variety of names. These names including Compilatio Assisiensis, Legenda Antiqua Sancti Francisci, I fiori dei tre compagni, Scripta Leonis, Rufini et Angeli Sociorum S. Francisci, and Legenda Perusina. This makes it very difficult for outsiders to identify the text and its connections with other sources discussed in the eternal ‘Franciscan question' debates. The complexity of the debate is also fuelled by the fact that the work seems to consist of at least three different parts, which not necessarily have a common origin. The work is certainly a compilation, and in all probability in part connected with the dossiers gathered by Leo and his group after 1244 at the request of general minister Crescenzio of Jesi. Based on one's evaluation of the status of this text, and its relation with other ‘works’ ascribed to the same circle, the supposed date of composition varies (ranging from 1244 to 1260 or later). Felice Accrocca (2013) and Alfonso Marini (2015) consider the Compilatio Assisiensis the living voice of the companions of Francis. But as ever, scholarly evaluations of the work differ.

works

Compilatio Assisiensis seu Legenda Perusina: MS Perugia, Biblioteca Comunale Augusta, 1046 ff. 94-127. This manuscript was until 1381 in the library of the Sacro Convento of Assisi, and was probably produced in that house between 1310 and 1312. Hence it goes back on older text witnesses that have not survived.
For editions, see: I Fiori dei tre Compagni. Testi francescani latini ordinati, con introduzione e note, ed. Jacques Cambell., Versione italiana a fronte, trans. Nello Vian (Milan, 1966) [cf Rview of Edith Pásztor in Studi Medievali (1968), 252-264]; Scripta Leonis, Rufini et Angeli Sociorum Sancti Francisci, ed & trans. Rosalind B. Brooke (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1970); ‘Compilatio Assisiensis’ dagli scritti di fr. Leone e compagni su S. Francesco d’Assisi Dal. Ms. 1046 di Perugia, 2. edizone integrale riveduta e corretta con versione italiana a fronte e variazioni, ed. Marino Bigaroni, Biblioteca Francescana di Chiesa Nuova (Assisi: Porziuncola, 1992); Compilatio Assisiensis (Legenda seu Compilatio Perusina), in: Fontes Francescani (1995), 1471-1690.
For translations, see: We Were With Saint Francis: An Early Franciscan Story, trans. Salvator Butler (Chicago: Franciscan Herald Pressm , 1976); Légende de Pérouse, trans. & introd. Damien Vorreux & Théophile Desbonnets’, in: Saint Francois d’Assise: Documents, écrits et Premières Biographies (Paris : Éditions franciscaines, 1981); Saint Francis of Assisi. Writings and Early Biographies. English Omnibus of the Sources for the Life of Saint Francis, ed. Marion A. Habig (Chicago: Franciscan Herald Press, 1973), 975-1091; Herinneringen aan broeder Franciscus, trans. M. Siert (Haarlem, 1985)The Assisi Compilation, in: Francis of Assisi: Early Documents, ed. Regis J. Armstrong, J. Wayne Hellmann, & William J. Short (New City Press, 2000) II, 111-220.

literature

Ferdinand Delorme, ‘La ‘Legenda antiqua sancti Francisci’ du MS. 1046 de la Bibliothèque Communale de Pérouse’, AFH 15 (1922), 23-70, 278-332; A. Gattucci, ‘Dalla ‘Legenda antiqua S. Francisci’ alla ‘Compilatio Assisiensis’. Storia di un testo piu prezioso che fortunato’, Studi Medievali 20 (1979), 790-807; Raoul Manselli, Nos qui cum eo fuimus. Contributo alla questione francescana, Bibliotheca Seraphico-Capuccina, 28 (Rome: Istituto storico dei Cappuccini, 1980); Felice Accrocca, ‘La Compilatio Assisiensis nella ‘Questione Francescana”, AFH 86 (1993), 105-110 [also included in Idem, Sulla via di Francesco: saggi e discussioni sugli scritti e le agiografie francescani (Spoleto: CISAM, 2017), 365-370]; Jacques Dalarun, La malavventura di Francesco d’Assisi. Per un uso storico delle legende francescana (Milan: Edizioni Biblioteca Francescana, 1996), 140-150; Emil Kumka, ‘La ‘Compilatio Assisiensis’. Una prova dell’analisi strutturale e concettuale’, Miscellanea Francescana 103 (2003), 233-306; Achim Wesjohann, Mendikantische Gründungserzählungen im 13. und 14. Jahrhundert: Mythen als Element institutioneller Eigengeschichtsschreibung der mittelalterlichen Franziskaner, Dominikaner und Augustiner-Eremiten, Vita Regularis. Ordnungen und Deutungen religiosen Lebens im Mittelalter, Abhandlungen, 49 (Münster: LIT Verlag, 2012), 100-101; Felice Accrocca, Un santo di carta. Le fonti biografiche di san Francesco d’Assisi, Biblioteca di Frate Francesco, 13 (Rome-Milan: Centro Culturale Aracoeli-Biblioteca Francescana, 2013); Latifah Troncelliti, 'The Assisi Compilation: On Broken Mirrors', in: Idem,Thoughts on Francis of Assisi (New York, 2013), 5-16; Emil Kumka, Io non smetterò di ammaestrare i frati: La pedagogia di Francesco nella “Compilatio Assisiensis” (Città del Vaticano: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2014 & 2015) [Review in Collectanea Franciscana 85:1-2 (2015), 298-299, and in Studi Francescani 112:3-4 (2015), 555ff.]; John W. Coakley, ‘The Conversion of St. Francis and the Writing of Christian Biography, 1228-1263’, Franciscan Studies 72 (2014), 27-71; Alfonso Marini, Francesco d'Assisi, il mercante del regno, Frecce, 197 (Rome: Carocci editore, 2015). Review in Collectanea Franciscana 85:3-4 (2015), 748-751; François Delmas-Goyon, ‘Structure de la Compilation d’Assise’, Études franciscaines n.s. 11 (2018),

 

 

 

 

Author ofCompendium de Virtute Humilitatis (fl. second half 13th cent.?)

OM. Author of a work that used to be ascribed to Bonaventure. The unknown friar in question used a sermon of Bonaventure as his point of departure.

works

Compendium de Virtute Humilitatis, edited in: Bonaventura Opera Omnia (Quaracchi, 1898) VIII Appendix (Opusculum V), 658-662.

 

 

 

 

Author of Compilatio Avenionensis (fl. early 14th cent.)

OM. German friar. Member of the Saxony province. Author of a collection compiled shortly after 1335 at Avignon. This compilation is partly dependent upon Bonaventure’s Legenda major, but also includes parts of the Speculum perfectionis, writings by Aegidius Assisiensis (Giles of Assisi) and other texts. This collection is also known as the Fac secundum exemplar collection (see there: these entries have to be corrected and re-assembled). A significant number of manuscripts were produced in the German lands.

works

Compilatio Avenionensis: a.o. MS Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 4354, ff. 106v-112v
For editions, see: Enrico Menestò, 'La ‘Compilatio Avenionensis' una raccolta di testi francescani della prima metà del XIV secolo', Studi Medievali 33:3 (2003), 1423-1541; Enrico Menestò, ‘Una inedita micro compilazione trecentesca di racconti francescani dal ms. Vaticano Latino 4354’, in: Scritti di storia medievale offerti a Maria Consiglia De Matteis, ed. Berardo Pio, Uomini e mondi medievali, 27 (Spoleto: Centro italiano di studi sull'Alto Medioevo (CISAM), 2011), 413-450.

literature

Volker Honemann, ‘Das mittelalterliche Schrifttum der Franziskaner der Sächsischen Ordensprovinz unter besonderer Berücksichtigung deutschsprachiger Zeugnisse’, in: Geschichte der Sächsischen Franziskanerprovinz, 1: Von den Anfängen bis zur Reformation, ed. Volker Honemann (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015), 621ff.

 

 

 

 

Compilatio Exemplorum and Summa de Confessione (fl. 15th cent.)

OM. Italian friar. Probably the author of both a Compilatio Exemplorum and a Summa de Confessione. The latter work is predominantly based upon the Summa Angelica, the Summa Pacifica, and on works of Francis Piazza of Bologna, Bernardino of Siena, Giovanni of Capistrano and Cherubino of Spoleto.

works

Compilatio Exemplorum: MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, VIII.B.43 & XIV.C.35. Cf. Manoscritti francescani della Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli, ed. Cesare Cenci, Spicilegium Bonaventurianum, 7-8 (Quaracchi, 1971) II, 816-7, 975-7.

Summa de Confessione: MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, XIV.E.29.

 

 

 

 

Author of Concilium Domini Mediolanensis Presbiter Cardinalis

OM. Italian friar. Probably the author of both Concilium Domini Mediolanensis Presbiter Cardinalis and Utrum Liceat Adiurare Demones, to be found in the same manuscript.

works

Concilium Domini Mediolanensis Presbiter Cardinalis: MS Bologna, Coll. Hisp. S. Clemente 56.

 

 

 

 

Author of Conciones/Sermones Mysticae

OM. German friar. Lector (‘Lesemeister’).

works

Conciones/Sermones Mysticae. See Kurt Ruh, Bonaventura deutsch. Ein Beitrag zur deutschen Franziskanermystik und scholastik (Bern, 1956), 52.

 

 

 

 

Author of Considerazioni sulle Stimmate di San Francesco (fl. late 14th cent.)

OM. Italian friar. Author of a rather popular text in the Italian vernacular that is based in part on the Actus beati Francisci et sociorum eius and by some is seen as an addition to the famous vernacular transformation of the Actus known as the Fioretti. However, the Considerazioni and the Fioretti are not necessarily the product of the same compiler/group of compiler-translators. Nevertheless, they often can be found together in early manuscript compilations, and they can also be found together in the oldest incunable edition of the Fioretti. The oldest known surviving manuscript witness of the Considerazioni seems to date to 1396. What is interesting about the Considerazioni is its focus on La Verna as a holy place.

works

Considerazioni sulle Stimmate di San Francesco, ed. Nunzio Bianchi (Modugno: Stilo Editrice, 2013). There are also a number of old editions, starting with the text witness present in the 1476 incunable edition of the Fioretti.

literature

Benvenuto Bughetti, 'Alcune Idee Fondamentali sui ‘Fioretti di S. Francesco”, Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 29 (1926), 323-333; Bianchi (see under editions).

 

 

 

 

Author of Constituciones que hizo la Observancia para los recoletos de España en Madrid (1502)

OMObs. Spanish friar. Author of Spanish Observant constitutions.

works

Constituciones que hizo la Observancia para los recoletos de España en Madrid (1502), ed. Meseguer Fernández, in: AIA 21 (1961), 29-31.

 

 

 

 

Author of Consultatio super validitate Matrimonii Spadonum (?)

OM. Spanish friar?

works

Consultatio super validitate Matrimonii Spadonum: MS Madrid General Archive OFM, Plut.2.29.

 

 

 

 

Author of Contra Judaeos, ne libera tenementa in Anglia emere eis liceat (?)

OM. English friar.

works

Contra Judaeos, ne libera tenementa in Anglia emere eis liceat, per quemdam fratrem minorem: MS Oxford, Bodleian 1 f. 93f? Cf. Juan de San Antonio, BUF III, 3.

 

 

 

 

Author of Crónica de la provincia Santa de Santiago (fl. 17th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar. Author of a provincial order chronicle, with information on the Franciscan Santiago province from its beginnings in 1214 until 1614.

works

Crónica de la provincia Santa de Santiago (1214-1614) (por un franciscano anónimo del siglo XVII), ed. Manuel de Castro (Madrid: AIA, 1971).

 

 

 

 

Author of Cronica minoritae Erphordensis (fl. second half 13th cent.)

OM. German friar. He was probably active in the Erfurt friary and wrote a concise chronicle, a first version of which was completed around 1261, with reworkings and additions up till 1272. The work was subsequently continued in seven installments (by the same and/or other friars) until the year 1330, yet another, much later addition covering 1421-1426, and subsequent continuations (the so-called Annales Veterocellenses). The chronicle indicates that the initial author visited Rome several times and that he must have participated in the 1256 general chapter, held in the Aracoeli. The chronicle is built around a substantial chronological treatment of the gesta and statuta of subsequent popes from the times of the early Church until the author’s own time. The chronicle also deals more shortly in a chronological fashion with the gesta of subsequent emperors. Hence it is a pope-emperor chronicle that emphasizes papal history. It is predominantly a compilation, based on Orosius, Eusebius-Jerome, Bede, Lambert of Hersfeld, Petrus Comestor, canon law collections and existing hagiographical materials, grouped around a catalogue of popes.

works

Cronica minoritae Erphordensis, ed. O. Holder-Egger, MGH SS Rer. Germ. XXIV (Hannover, 1899), 486-671. The various additions and continuations can be found on pp. 671-704. On the manuscripts available for the edition, which fall into several manuscript groups (more or less two manuscript of a so-called 'A version', quite a large number of manuscripts for a diversified B version, a C version etc.), see Holder-Egger's introduction, as well as the insightful remarks of Honemann (2015).

literature

Th.F. Bonmann, Die literaturkundlichen Quellen des Franziskanerordens im Mittelalter (Munich, 1937), 14; Wilhelm Wattenbach & Franz Josef Schmale, Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter. Vom Tode Kaiser Heinrichs V. bis zum Ende des Interregnums (Darmstadt, 1976) I, 409f.; Dieter Berg, 'Studien zur Geschichte und Historiographie der Franziskaner im flämischen und norddeutschen Raum', Franziskanische Studien 65 (1983), 114-155; B. Roest, Reading the Book of History (Groningen, 1996), passim; Dieter Berg, Armut und Wissenschaft. Studien sur Geschichte der Bettelorden im Hohen und Späten Mittelalter (Kevelaer, 1998), passim; Volker Honemann, ‘Franziskanische Geschichtsschreibung’, in: Geschichte der Sächsischen Franziskanerprovinz, 1: Von den Anfängen bis zur Reformation, ed. Volker Honemann (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015), 780-788.

 

 

 

 

Author of Cronica Sacriste Pysini Ordinis Minorum (fl. 1380)

OM. Italian friar. Author of a Franciscan chronicle.

works

Cronica Sacriste Pysini Ordinis Minorum: MS Vienna, Österr. Landesbibl. 3284 (an. 1380).

 

 

 

 

Author of Declarationes Senece Moraliçate (1475)

OM. Italian friar. Possibly a lector of moral theology.

works

Declarationes Senece Moraliçate: MSS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, I.H.39 f. 259v-264v; Erfurt Bib. Amplon. In Quart. 391 f. 25-33.

 

 

 

 

Author of De Confessione (fl. mid 15th century)

OM. Italian friar. Author of a confessional text.

works

De Confessione: MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, VII. E. 33

literature

G. Giovanardi, Studi Francescani 12 (1915), 49-67; Piana, AFH, 41 (1948), 247f, n. 4; Manoscritti francescani della Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli, ed. Cesare Cenci, Spicilegium Bonaventurianum, 7-8 (Quaracchi, 1971) I, 522.

 

 

 

 

Author(s) of De Consequentiis, De Suppositionibus, Sofismas (Pseudo Albert of Saxony, ca. 1356-1374)

OM. English friars, possibly to be identified with he so-called `calculators' of Oxford, one of which might have been acquainted with John Sutton.

works

De Consequentiis, De Suppositionibus, Sofismas: a.o. MSS Paris BN Lat. 14715, f. 59vb-78rb; Berlin Staatsbibl. Lat. F. 15rb-33vb.

literature

A. Muñoz García, `Un Ps. Alberto de Sajonia franciscano?', in: Editori di Quaracchi, 100 anni dopo, 227-238.

 

 

 

 

Author of Defensorium contra Errores Johannis Papae(fl. first half 14th cent.)

OM. Italian friar? Aithor of a Defensorium written in the context of the conflict between Pope John XXII and the Franciscans Michael of Cesena, Bonegratia of Bergamo and William of Ockham.

literature

Cl. Schmitt, AFH, 80 (1987), 466-471; F. Accrocca, Archivum Historiae Pontificae, 32 (1994), 329-341; F. Accrocca, `Il Defensorium', in: Editori di Quaracchi, 100 anni dopo, 333-335.

 

 

 

 

Author of Defensorium Logicae Ockham (fl. first half 14th cent.)

OM. Danish friar? Author of a defense of Ockham's logical positions.

works

Defensorium Logicae Ockham. See: Robert Andrews, ‘The Defensorium Ockham: an edition’, Cahiers de l’institut du Moyen-Age grec et latin 71 (2000), 189-273 (probably written by a Danish Franciscan and preserved in MS Rome, Biblioteca Angelica, 1017).

literature

Sten Ebbesen, ‘A note on Ockham’s Defender’, Cahiers de l’Institut du Moyen-Age grec et latin 71 (2000), 275-277.

 

 

 

 

Author of De inceptione vel fundamento Ordinis (Anonymus Perusinus, fl. ca. 1300?)

OM Italian friar from Perugia or thereabouts. Author of De inceptione vel fundamento Ordinis et actibus illorum fratrum Minorum qui fuerunt primi in religione et socii B. Francisci. The only medieval manuscript of the work is no longer in existence. Scholars are in disagreement over the question whether the work is based on (a version of) the Legenda trium sociorum or that it is the other way around (and that the Legenda is depended on the Anonymus Perusinus. Grau (1993), Wesjohann (2012), among others argue for the the former position. Di Fonzo, Causse, Dalarun and the translators of the Francis of Assisi: Early Documents volumes argue for the latter. Depending on this, the verdict on the date of composition also varies considerably. The work probably dated from the late 13th (or early 14th?) century. This dating, which also depends on when one wishes to date the Legenda trium sociorum is, of course, liable to change due to ongoing developments in the scholarly discussions on the so-called Francican question.

works

De inceptione vel fundamento Ordinis. A partial edition is included in Acta Sanctorum Oct. II, 549-560. Another, more complete edition appeared as Anonymus Perusinus, ed. F. van Ortroy, in: Miscellanea francescana 9 (1902), 33-48. Later, a new critical edition with contextual studies appeared as L. Di Fonzo, ‘L’Anonimo Perugino tra le fonti francescane del secolo XIII: Rapporti letterari e testo critico’, Miscellanea francescana 72 (1972), 117–483. Under the title De inceptione vel fundamento Ordinis et actibus illorum fratrum Minorum qui fuerunt primi in religione et socii B. Francisci (Anonymus Perusinus), the work can be found in: Fontes Franciscani, ed. Enrico Menestò, Stefano Brufani, Giuseppe Cremascoli, Giovanni M. Boccali et al, (Assisi: Porziuncola, 1995), 131-1351. The Latin text can also be found on url http://www.rilievo.poliba.it/bsc/bsc/st/cc/orm/francescani/index.html and on http://i-tau.com/wp/wp-content/uploads2/spirtuUhajja/spirtuUhajja87.pdf
The work was translated as: The Beginning or Founding of the Order and the Deeds of Those Lesser Brothers Who Were the First Companions of Blessed Francis in Religion, in: Francis of Assisi: Early Documents, ed. Regis J. Armstrong, J. Wayne Hellmann, & William J. Short (New City Press, 2000) II, 31-58. For a Dutch translation, see: Het begin van de orde der mindere broeders, trans. M. Siert in: Idem: Herinneringen aan broeder Franciscus (Haarlem, 1985), 153-180.

literature

Pierre B. Beguin, L’Anonyme de Pérouse. Un témoin de la fraternité franciscaine primitive, confronté aux autres sources contemporaines, Textes franciscains, 14 (Paris: Éditions franciscaines, 1979); Engelbert Grau, Die Dreigefährtenlegende des heiligen Franziskus von Bruder Leo, Rufin und Angelus und Anonymus Perusinus, Franziskanische Quellenschriften, 8 (Werl: Coelde, 1993), 187-219; Felice Accrocca, ‘Un’opera preziosa e a lungo dimenticata: ‘De inceptione vel fundamento Ordinis’, Frate Francesco 71 (2005), 169-201; L. Lehmann, ‘Johannes von Perugia (Anonymus Perusinus), Über die Anfänge des Ordens’, in: Franziskus-Quellen. Die Schriften des Heiligen Franziskus, Lebensbeschreibungen, Chroniken und Zeugnisse über ihn und seinen Orden, ed. Dieter Berg, Leonhard Lehmann et al., Zeugnisse des 13. und 14. Jahrhunderts zur Franziskanischen Bewegung, Band 1 (Kevelaer: Butzon & Bercker, Ed. T. Coelde, 2009), 571-601; Achim Wesjohann, Mendikantische Gründungserzählungen im 13. und 14. Jahrhundert: Mythen als Element institutioneller Eigengeschichtsschreibung der mittelalterlichen Franziskaner, Dominikaner und Augustiner-Eremiten, Vita Regularis. Ordnungen und Deutungen religiosen Lebens im Mittelalter, Abhandlungen, 49 (Münster: LIT Verlag, 2012), 97-100; Felice Accrocca, Un santo di carta. Le fonti biografiche di san Francesco d’Assisi, Biblioteca di Frate Francesco, 13 (Rome-Milan: Centro Culturale Aracoeli-Biblioteca Francescana, 2013); G. Miccoli, ‘De inceptione (o «Anonimo Perugino»)’, Vita Minorum 84:6 (2013), 7-46; Alfonso Marini, Francesco d'Assisi, il mercante del regno, Frecce, 197 (Rome: Carocci editore, 2015). Review in Collectanea Franciscana 85:3-4 (2015), 748-751 [Marini has a more negative view on De inceptione, than, for instance Roberto Rusconi].

 

 

 

 

Author of De inclito Adolpho comite Holzacie, ordinis Minorum in Kyl (fl. early 15th cent.?)

OM. German friar. Author of an early fifteenth-century prose latin text on County Adolph IV von Schauenburg, who joined the Franciscans in 1239, in accordance with a promise made to Saint Mary Magdalene, to whom he had appealed prior to the battle of Bornhöved (1227), in which he was victorious. He lived first in the convent of Hamburg, which he had help create, and then he transferred to the convent of Kiel, with the founding of which he also had been involved. He died there on 8 July 1261. Quite a number of German and latin prose and verse texts devoted to Adolph's conversion were made in the Franciscan Saxony province from the thirteenth century onwards. Not all of those texts were of Franciscan provenance (cf. Honemann (2015), mentioned below), but it would seem that the De inclito Adolpho comite Holzacie, ordinis Minorum in Kyl can probably be ascribed to the ambiance of the Franciscans of Hamburg. The work has survived in two fifteenth-century manuscripts, both of which originate from the Bordesholm monastery and can be assigned to the scribe Johannes de Naso (Ness).

works

De inclito Adolpho comite Holzacie: MSS Kiel, Universitätsbibliothek, MS Bordesholm 61A; Wiener Neustadt, Neukloster, Stiftsbibl., MS XII. D. 21.
For editions, see: W. Leverkus, 'Zum sechshundertjährigen Gedächtniss – Nachricht des Franziskanerklosters zu Kiel über das Leben des Grafen Adolf IV. von Holstein † 1261', Jahrbücher für die Landeskunde der Herzogthümer Schleswig, Holstein und Lauenburg 4 (1861), 374-377; De inclito Adolpho comite Holzacie, ordinis minorum in Kyl, ed. N. Beeck, in: Quellen für die Geschichte von Schleswig-Holstein 4:1 (1874), 223-227 (intro on pp. 207-222).

literature

See for starters the introduction by Beek mentioned in the section concerning the editions. Aside from that, see: C. Schirren, 'Die Prosa de inclito Adolfo', Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für schleswig-holstein-lauenburgische Geschichte 7 (1877), 285-287; H. G. Walther, 'Die Entscheidung zur Gründung einer civitas holsatorum. Zum Verhältnis von Bettelordenskloster und Stadtgründung am Beispiel Kiels', in: Mare Balticum. Beiträge zur Geschichte des Ostseeraums in Mittelalter und Neuzeit. Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Erich Hoffmann, ed. W. Paravicini, F. Lubowitz & H. Unverhau, Kieler Historische Studien, 36 (Sigmaringen, 1992), 125-135; H. G. Walther, 'Bettelordenskloster und Stadtgründung im Zeichen des Landesausbaus: Das Beispiel Kiel', in: Bettelorden und Stadt. Bettelorden und städtisches Leben im Mittelalter und in der Neuzeit, ed. Dieter Berg, Saxonia Franciscana, 1 (Werl: D. Coelde Verlag 1992), 19-32; N. Kruppa, 'Erinnerungen an einen Grafen – Adolf IV. von Schaumburg und seine Memoria', in: Adlige – Stifter – Mönche. Zum Verhältnis zwischen Klöstern und mittelalterlichem Adel, ed. N. Kruppa, Veröffentlichungen des Max-Planck-Instituts für Geschichte, 227 = Studien zur Germania Sacra, 30 (Göttingen, 2007), 183-223; Volker Honemann, ‘Franziskanische Geschichtsschreibung’, in: Geschichte der Sächsischen Franziskanerprovinz, 1: Von den Anfängen bis zur Reformation, ed. Volker Honemann (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015), 770-771 (for other texts on Adolph, some of which might also be of Franciscan provenance, see there pp. 767-771).

 

 

 

 

Author of De modo, die et hora apparitionis Domini in forma Seraphica B. Francisco (...) (fl. 14th cent.?)

OM. English friar.

works

De modo, die et hora apparitionis Domini in forma Seraphica B. Francisco, et impressione sacrorum stigmatum; De locis fratrum minorum, et praedicatorum in Tartaria; Nomina Generalium Ministrorum Ordinis, & Ministrorum Generalium Anglorum: MS London, British Library Cotton Nero A.IX.5.

literature

Thomas Smith, Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Cottonianae (...) (Oxford: Sheldon, 1696): 49; Juan de San Antonio, BUF III, 11.

 

 

 

 

Autor of Den wijngaert van Sinte Franciscus vol schoonre historien, legenden, ende duechdelijcke leeringhen allen menschen seer profijtelijck (fl. early 16th cent.)

OFM. Dutch friar who seems to have been acquainted with Dirc Coelde and with Matthias Weijnsen, who might have been involved with the publication of the text. The Den wijngaert van Sinte Franciscus vol schoonre historien, legenden, ende duechdelijcke leeringhen allen menschen seer profijtelijck is a large vernacular compilation in three boeks and 856 pages of the major hagiographical and legendary texts concerning Francis, his early followers, and the major saints of the order, using the Legenda Trium Sociorum, the Speculum Perfectionis, the Actus Beati Francisci, the Opuscula Beati Francisci, the Liber de Conformitate, and related texts. The first book deals with the branches of the vine yard (Francis himself). The second book deals the flowers of the vine yard, that is with the saints of the order. The third book deals with the fruits or the grapes of the order: dealing with the greatness of the order, its important doctors, popes, cardinals, its royal and aristocratic members, the size of the order and its presence around the world, and the indulgences that can be earned on the feast days of the order. On the untimely publication of this work and the way it was received in subsequent decades, see the study of Goudriaan (2016).

works

Den wijngaert van Sinte Franciscus vol schoonre historien, legenden, ende duechdelijcke leeringhen allen menschen seer profijtelijck (Antwerp: Hendrik van Homberch, 1518). This 1518 edition is now available via Google Books.

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum I, 47; S. Dirks, Histoire littéraire et bibliographique des Frères Mineurs de l’Observance de St. François en Belgique et dans les Pays-Bas (Antwerp, 1885), 40; Bonaventura Kruitwagen, ‘Den Wijngaert van Sinte Franciscus’, Neerlandica Franciscana (1914), 43-72, 135-155; W. Schmitz, Het aandeel der minderbroeders in onze Middeleeuwse Literatuur. Inleiding tot een bibliografie der Nederlandse Franciscanen (Nijmegen, 1936), 61-63; B. de Troeyer, Bio-Bibliographia Franciscana Neerlandica Saeculi XVI, I: Pars Biographica (Nieuwkoop, 1969), 43-46; Koen Goudriaan, ‘The Vineyard of Saint Francis’, in: Religious Orders and Religious Identity Formation, ca. 1420–1620: Discourses and Strategies of Observance and Pastoral Engagement, ed. Bert Roest & Johanneke Uphoff (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2016), 152-171.

 

 

 

 

Author of Der kersten Eeuwe (fl. ca. 1500)

OMObs/OFM. Belgian (Flemish) friar. Member of the Cologne province, who wrote in a Brabant dialect and was active in the regions of Antwerp, Delft and Gouda. Der kersten Eeuwe, published in Antwerp around 1521 is a manual for living a Christian life, as also is indicated in it very first sentence: ‘Dit is den spieghel oft reghel des kersten gheloofs oft der kersten Eeuwe’. In 29 chapters, it provides concrete teachings on the Pater Noster, Ave Maria, the Ten Commandments, and the articles of faith. It battles superstition, and gives a ‘handful’ of advice, namely i.) to practice quick prayers for all occasions, ii.) to engage in daily examinations of conscience, iii.) to go monthly to confession, iv.) to go to communion on the four major feasts of the year and to engage mental communion during every mass, v.) and to make sure one has made a proper testament and paid one’s debts (hence to be ready for death). The works contains a wealth of additional admonitions and exemples on charity, and the importance of social peace.

works

Der Kersten Eeuwe (Antwerpen: W. Vorsterman, ca. 1521).

literature

B. de Troeyer, Bio-Bibliographia Franciscana Neerlandica Saeculi XVI, I: Pars Biographica (Nieuwkoop, 1969), 51-53, 103-107 (two different works with same title? Check); Bio-Bibl. Francisc. Neerl. Incunab., ed. L. Mees, 87..

 

 

 

 

Author of De Sacris ritibus juxta romanam regulam usui Fratrum Minorum S. Francisci (fl. ca. 1625)

OFMCap. Italian friar.

works

De Sacris ritibus juxta romanam regulam usui Fratrum Minorum S. Francisci (Naples: Sorigianci, 1626).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, BUF III, 3.

 

 

 

 

Author of Descriptio Terrae Sanctae/Description de la Terre Sainte (fl. ca. 1460)

OM. French (Burgundian?) friar, who visited the Holy Land and stayed with the friars in their Mount Sion convent in the mid-fifteenth century. He wrote for a prince who remained unnamed, but who might have to be identified with Philip the Good, the duke of Burgundy (1396-1467), who was a known patron of the Franciscans in Palestine.

works

Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, edited in: Ch. Kohler, 'Description de la Terre Sainte par un franciscain anonyme 1463', Revue de l’Orient Latin 12 (1911), 1-67.

literature

Jacques Paviot, 'La devotion vis-à-vis de la Terre Sainte au XVe siècle: L’example de Philippe le Bon, duc de Bourgogne (1396-1467)', in: Autour de la première croisade. Actes du Colloque de la Society pour l'étude des Crusades et de L'Est Latin (Clermont-Ferrand, 22-25 juin 1995), ed. Michel Balard (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1996), 404, 410.

 

 

 

 

Author(s) of Deutschenspiegel & Schwabenspiegel

OM? German author(s) and possibly a Franciscan friar (or several friars) involved with the production of the Deutschenspiegel and the Schwabenspiegel. It is unclear as to whether these text were really of Franciscan provenance. What seems certain is that the Sachsenspiegel of the knight Eike von Repgow (ca. 1230) - a very influential German book of law - was reworked in or in the context of the Franciscan friaries of Magdeburg and Augsburg into the so-called Deutschenspiegel (ca. 1265/70) and the so-called Schwabenspiegel (title after the medieval period). It is unknown whether the Franciscan friars David of Augsburg of Berthold of Regensburg were involved in this. Nevertheless, according to Johanek, the transformation of the Sachsenspiegel did take place in the Augsburg friary.

literature

Ferdinand Doelle, 'Die Rechtsstudien der deutschen Franziskaner im Mittelalter (...)', in: Aus der Geisteswelt des Mittelalters (1935) 1037-1064 (1045-1049); Peter Johanek, 'Augsburger Sachsenspiegel', Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon I (1978), 527f; Peter Johanek, 'Rechtsschrifttum', in: Die deutsche Literatur im späten Mittelalter, 1250-1370, Geschichte der deutschen Literatur von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart, III,2 (Munich, 1987), 396-4341 (413); Peter Johanek, 'Schwabenspiegel', Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon VIII (1992), 896-907; Peter Johanek, 'Spiegel aller deutschen Leute', Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon IX (1995), 94-100.

 

 

 

 

Author pf De via eundi de Joppe, et de S. Sepulchro et aliis locis (fl. 13th cent.)

OM. Pilgrim to the Holy Land.

works

De via eundi de Joppe, et de S. Sepulchro et aliis locis. See: Biblioteca bio-bibliografica della Terra Santa e dell'Oriente Francescano, ed. Girolamo Golubovich (Quaracchi, 1906) I, 405-408.

literature

A.-D. von den Brincken, Die ‘Nationes Christianorum Orientalium' im Verständnis der lateinischen Historiographie, Cologne-Vienna, 1973, 446.

 

 

 

 

Author of Devote Salutation des Membres Sacrez de la glorieuse Vierge Mère de Dieu (fl. later 17th cent.)

OFMCap. French Capuchin friar and devotional author.

works

Devote Salutation des Membres Sacrez de la glorieuse Vierge Mère de Dieu, ed. Claude Louis-Combet & Gilles Banderier (Trévoux: La Compagnie de Trévoux, 2005).

 

 

 

 

Author of Diarium Praedicationis (Bernardino da Folign?, fl. late 15th cent.)

OMObs. Italian friar and preacher, active between 1484-1507. Author/compiler of a Diarium Praedicationis.

works

Diarium Praedicationis: MS Biblioteca Comunale di Foligno, MS. C. 85. The work was first described in Mario Sensi, ‘Predicazione itinerante a Foligno nel secolo XV’, Picenum Seraphicum 10 (1973), 139-195 (esp. pp. 145-147 & 190-193). Sensi thought the preacher was maybe Bernardino da Foligno. More recently, the work has been studied in Yoko Kimura, ‘Predicazione “di routine” di fine Quattrocento. Il diario di un predicatore anonimo francescano (Biblioteca Comunale di Foligno, Ms. C. 85)’, AFH 106:3-4 (2013), 585-598 & Yoko Kimura, ‘The Bildungsroman of an Anonymous Franciscan Preacher in Late Medieval Italy (Biblioteca Comunale di Foligno, MS C. 85)’, Medieval Sermon Studies 58 (2014), 47-64. Kimura does not want to confirm Sensi's attribution but agrees that the diary was the work of an Observant Franciscan friar. The sermons referred to and partly recorded are general sermons to towns people (one de tempore cycle, 20 quaresimal cycles, 9 Advent cycles, and a few individual sermons), and sermons to groups of religious people (friars in chapter, nuns, tertiaries, confraternities, as well as sermons/preaching occasions in dominican and benedictine churches. The diary provides info on the towns in which the preacher preached and normally provides the theme and the divisiones, auctoritates, exempla info of the sermons, and also indicates how the preacher in question grew into his homiletic role.

literature

Mario Sensi, ‘Predicazione itinerante a Foligno nel secolo XV’, Picenum Seraphicum 10 (1973), 139-195; Yoko Kimura, ‘Predicazione “di routine” di fine Quattrocento. Il diario di un predicatore anonimo francescano (Biblioteca Comunale di Foligno, Ms. C. 85)’, AFH 106:3-4 (2013), 585-598; Yoko Kimura, ‘The Bildungsroman of an Anonymous Franciscan Preacher in Late Medieval Italy (Biblioteca Comunale di Foligno, MS C. 85)’, Medieval Sermon Studies 58 (2014), 47-64.

 

 

 

 

Author of Disciplina ed istituzione regolare per l’informazione, e riformazione dell’uomo exteriore, & interiore ad uso de’Novizi, e Religiosi (fl. first half 18th cent.)

OFMDisc. Italian friar. Author/compiler of a novice treatise manual, possibly in part modelled on the famous novice training treatise of David of Augusburg.

works

Disciplina, ed istituzione regolare per l'informazione, e riformazione dell'uomo esteriore, ed interiore ad uso de'Novizi, e Religiosi della Provincia diS. Pietro di Alcantara de'Minori Scalzi del Regno di Napoli (Naples: Carolo Porfile, 1689). Accessible via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, BUF III, 10.

 

 

 

 

Author of Discours funèbre sur la mort de très-illustre et très religieuse princesse Madame Louise de Lorraine, Abbesse de Nostre Dame de Soissons (fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFMCap. French friar and preacher.

works

Discours funèbre sur la mort de très-illustre et très religieuse princesse Madame Louise de Lorraine, Abbesse de Nostre Dame de Soissons. Prononcé en l’Eglise de Nostre Dame de Soissons le 28 de Septembre 1643 par un predicateur Capucin (Paris: Nicolas Bessin, 1644). Accessible via Google Books.

 

 

 

 

Author of Disputatio inter inimicum domesticum paupertatis et zelatorem paupertatis (fl. mid 13th cent.?)

OM. French (Provencal) friar and author of Disputatio inter inimicum domesticum paupertatis et zelatorem paupertatis. This worked used to be ascribed to Hugh of Digne, one of Salimbene's heroes, but recent scholarship has denied this ascription.

works

Disputatio inter inimicum domesticum paupertatis et zelatorem paupertatis. See the entry on Hugo de Digne, as well as the literature mentioned under literature below.

literature

Damien Ruiz, ‘Hugues de Digne, OMin., est-il l'auteur de la Disputatio inter zelatorem paupertatis et inimicum domesticum eivs? Étude et texte’, AFH 95:3-4 (2002), 267-350; Felice Accrocca, 'Un nuovo testimone volgare della 'Disputatio inter inimicum domesticum paupertatis et zelatorem paupertatis' in una singolare redazione dello 'Specchio della perfectione dello stato delli Frati Minori' (Roma, Biblioteca Vallicelliana, MS. B-131)', in: Litterae ex quibus nomen Dei componitur. Studi per l’ottantesimo compleanno di Giuseppe Avarucci, ed. Aleksander Horowski, Bibliotheca Seraphico-Capuccina, 104 (Rome: Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, 2016), 179-205.

 

 

 

 

Author of Dives et Pauper (fl. early 15th cent.)

OM. English Franciscan friar and probable author of Dives et Pauper, a prose dialogue-treatise from the early fifteenth century (ca. 1405). Pauper is a mendicant friar and preacher, who instructs a rich man (Dives) in the Ten Commandmends with recourse to a wide range of lively andectotes. A prologue underlines the importance of poverty. The treatise clearly presupposes a decent understanding of the biblical message. The work was for a long time (also in some of its early imprints) ascribed to several non-Franciscan and even Lollard authors, but since the study of Pfander, scholarship leans towards a Franciscan provenance. The work has survived in 12 manuscripts and in three early printed editions (1493, 1496 and 1536). A modern edition in two volumes appeared in the 1970s. Hudson & Spencer (1984) ascribe to the same Franciscan friars a number of early fifteenth-century sermons (in MS Longleat 4).

works

Dives et Pauper, ed. P.H. Barnum, Early English Text Society OS, 275 & 280, 3 Vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976-2004). The first two volumes of this work, which constitute the text proper, are referred to as Volume I, parts 1 and 2. The third volume, which contains an important introduction, is then labeled Volume II.

Sermones: See Hudson & Spencer (1984).

literature

Rossell Hope Robbins, ‘Dives et Pauper’, Lexikon des Mittelalters III, 1132A; Hudson & H.L. Spencer, ‘Old Author, New Work: The Sermons of MS Longleat 4’, Medium Aevum 53 (1984), 220-238 [See also: An Edition of Selected Sermons from MS Longleat 4, ed. Adrian Willot, Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis (University of Bristol, 1994)]; Mark Amsler, 'Poverty as a Mobile Signifier: Waldensians, Lollards, Dives and Pauper', in: Experiences of Poverty in Late Medieval and Early Modern England and France, ed. Anne M. Scott (London: Routledge, 2012); Elizabeth Harper, “‘The ryche man hatz more nede than the pore’: Economics and Dependence in Dives and Pauper,” in Money, Commerce, and Economics in Late Medieval English Literature, ed. Craig E. Bertolet and Robert Epstein (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

 

 

 

 

Author of Doctrinae Bonaventurae de Modo Praedicandi (fl. 13th cent.)

OM. Italian friar and author of a Pseudo-bonaventurian preaching manual.

works

Doctrinae Bonaventurae de Modo Praedicandi: MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale VII.F.29.

 

 

 

 

Author of Een cransken van minnen (fl. early 16th cent.)

OMObs & OFM. Dutch Observant friar known for compiling Een cransken van minnen is dit boecxken genoemt ende sijn al ghebedekens van die passie ons heren vergadert van eenen devoten broeder vander observancien, wiens naem geschreven moet staen in dat boeck des levens. This booklet, which is in fact a compilation of many late medieval sources, was printed in 1518 in Delft. The work does not limit itself to the passion of Christ in the strict sense of the word. The introduction to the work already makes that clear: ‘Dit is een boecxken van minnen ende is een rosecransken om dancberheit te tonen onsen heer iesum christum ende is roerende van dat beginsel sijns geboorte met sijn heilighe leven ende sijn bitter passie met die verrisenis ende opvaert. Met die seven ween ende seven blijscappen van Maria, elck vervolghende in sijn plaets. Welck boecxken heeft vergadert een broeder vander observancie uut veel devote boecken, en heeftse gedeelt in lv gebeden.’ Hence, it amounts to a series of 55 prayers/devotional considerations about the life of Christ and the Virgin. Many of the prayers are translations of medieval texts, brought into recycling in a new configuration.

works

Een cransken van minnen (Delft: Henricz Lettersnijder voor Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten te Antwerpen, 1518).

literature

W. Schmitz, Het aandeel der minderbroeders in onze Middeleeuwse Literatuur. Inleiding tot een bibliografie der Nederlandse Franciscanen (Nijmegen, 1936), 131; B. de Troeyer, Bio-Bibliographia Franciscana Neerlandica Saeculi XVI, I: Pars Biographica (Nieuwkoop, 1969), 41.

 

 

 

 

Author of Een devoot ende profitelijck boecxken, inhoudende veel gheestelijcke liedekens ende leysenen (fl. first half 16th cent.)

OFM. Belgian friar active in the Franciscan friary of Mechelen (Malines) or a neighbouring house and compiler of a collection of religious songs. It was put together in the 1530s and published in Antwerp in 1539 under the title Een devoot ende profitelijck boecxken, inhoudende veel gheestelijcke liedekens ende leysenen. It contains no less than 259 religious songs from the later medieval period to contemporary productions, with an emphasis on christmas songs, Maria songs, and religious love songs (both Franciscan and non-Franciscan). As such it is one of the most important Dutch collections of religious songs from the period.

works

Een devoot ende profitelijck boecxken inhoudende veel ghestelijcke liedekens ende leynsenen (Antwerp: Simon Cock, 1539); D.F. Scheurleer, Een devoot ende profitelyck boecxken. Geestelijk liedboek met melodieën van 1539. Opnieuw uitgegeven en van een inleiding, registers en aanteekeningen voorzien (’s Gravenhage, 1889) [the many songs are grouped around the melodies they share. Sometimes, the profane provenance of some of the melodies is mentioned. The compilor is clear in his objectives. Instead of the ‘veel ontamelike, oneersame weerlike liedekens ende refereynen’, he wants to provide a stimulating corpus of religious songs for ‘leecke lieden, religiosen ende baghinen.’]

literature

J.G.R. Acquoy, ‘Het geestelijk lied in de Nederlanden voor de Hervorming’, Archief voor Nederlandsche Kerkgeschiedenis 2 (1887), 1-112 (esp. 18-20); J.A.N. Knuttel, Het geestelijk Lied in de Nederlanden voor de Kerkhervorming (Rotterdam, 1906), 70-73; AFH 5 (1912), 454; B. de Troeyer, Bio-Bibliographia Franciscana Neerlandica Saeculi XVI, I: Pars Biographica (Nieuwkoop, 1969), 168-169.

 

 

 

 

Author of Een wandelinghe der Kersten menschen met Ihesu den brudegom der sielen inden hof der bloemen (fl. late 15th cent.)

OMObs. Dutch friar. Member of the Cologne province. Author of a devotional treatise entitled Een wandelinghe der Kersten menschen, also known as Die wandelinghe der bloemen, and as Indica mihi (after the first words of the text). At the moment of writing the text (sometime between 1486-1497), the author was confessor of the female tertiaries/penitents of Amsterdam. Parts of the work were also published separately, a.o. as Die bloemkijns der passien. Een wandelinghe der Kersten menschen contains exercises of passion devotion for all days in the week, for the evening hours of Thursday evening to Friday evening, for the seven daily offices (getijden), with additional prayers and devotional exercises focusing on specific issues of the passion, and a treatise on the exercise of virtues (which freely follows Bonaventure’s Epistola continens viginti quinque memoralia, in: Bonaventura, Opera Omnia, ed. Quaracchi, VIII, 491-498.

works

Een wandelinghe der Kersten menschen: MS Archive of the Friars Minor at St. Truiden, MF 45. The end of the work gives an indication concerning the immediate intended public, namely the female tertiaries of Amsterdam: ‘Voleijndt dese teghenwoerdighe oefeninghe doer die begheerten der devoter biechtkinderen. Op dat si hen altijt souden moghen becommeren mitten brudegom der sielen Opten xvi dach van februario Int iaer ons heren xvc in die goede stadt van amstelredamme Bi mi die naem bekent moet wesen onder die observanten inden hemel alsoe hi nu bekent is inder aerden Jhesus Maria Barbara Disce mori B/V.’
The work received imprints as Een wandelinghe der Kersten menschen met Ihesu den brudegom der sielen inden hof der bloemen (Leyden: Jan Severz, 10 November 1503); Een wandelinghe der Kersten menschen met Ihesu den brudegom der sielen inden hof der bloemen (Amsterdam: Hugo Jansz. van Woerden, 1506 (2x)); Een wandelinghe der Kersten menschen met Ihesu den brudegom der sielen inden hof der bloemen (The Hague: Hugo Jansz. van Woerden, 1518); Een wandelinghe der Kersten menschen met Ihesu den brudegom der sielen inden hof der bloemen (Antwerpen: Simon Cock, 1530). A modern edition (based on the St. Truiden manuscript) appeared as: Indica mihi (…), handschrift der XVe eeuw, in het licht gegeven door P. Fr. Stephanus Schoutens, Minderbroeder (Hoogstraten, 1906).

literature

M. Verjans, ‘Het handschrift ‘Indica mihi’ (1503) en de drukjes ‘Wandelinge der kersten menschen’ (1503) of ‘Wandelinge der bloemen’ (1518)’, Ons Geestelijk Erf 8 (1934), 202-206; W. Schmitz, Het aandeel der minderbroeders in onze Middeleeuwse Literatuur. Inleiding tot een bibliografie der Nederlandse Franciscanen (Nijmegen, 1936); A. Stracke, Ons Geestelijk Erf 18:2 (1944), 74-76; W. van Eeghen, ‘Wandelinghe der Kersten Menschen (1503)’, De Brusselse Post 9 (1959), no. 2-3; B. de Troeyer, Bio-Bibliographia Franciscana Neerlandica Saeculi XVI, I: Pars Biographica (Nieuwkoop, 1969), 5-6.

 

 

 

 

Author of Eisenacher Franziskanerchronik, II (fl. early 14th cent.)

OM. German friar. Author of an early fourteenth century chronicle compiled in the Franciscan friary of Eisenach, surviving in MS Dresden K.316. This work, its basis in the Historia Pistoriana and its complex relation with other convent chronicles and other annals (including the probably Franciscan Historia de Lantgraviis) has been studied by Oswald Holder-Egger.

works

Eisenacher Franziskanerchronik. Check the studies of Holder-Egger and Honemann.

literature

Oswald Holder-Egger, 'Studien zu Thüringer Geschichtsquellen', Neues Archiv 20 (1895), 373-421, 569-637 & 21 (1896), 235-297, 441-546; Volker Honemann, ‘Franziskanische Geschichtsschreibung’, in: Geschichte der Sächsischen Franziskanerprovinz, 1: Von den Anfängen bis zur Reformation, ed. Volker Honemann (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015), 801-802.

 

 

 

 

Author of Encyclopedia Theologica, Elaborata ex Ioannis de Erfurt Tabula Originalium (fl. 15th cent.)

OM. German friar.

works

Encyclopedia Theologica, Elaborata ex Ioannis de Erfurt Tabula Originalium: MS Lüneburg, Ratsbücherei theol. 2° 46 ff. 2ra-275ra (15th cent.)

 

 

 

 

Author of Epitome Historial, de la vida, virtudes, y portentos de el Invicto, y glorioso Padre San Juan de Capestrano (fl. later 17th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar, active in the San Francisco de Madrid friary. Author of a compilatory life of Giovanni da Capestrano.

works

Epitome Historial, de la vida, virtudes, y portentos de el Invicto, y glorioso Padre San Juan de Capestrano, de el Sagrado Orden de los Menores Observantes, Defensor de el Santissimo Nombre de Jesus, Azote de los Hebreos, Terror de los Herejes, y Protector de las Armas Cathólicas contra los Lurcos, Colegido de los Annales de la Orden y de otros graves autores (...) Por el Guardian, y Convento de San Francisco de Madrid (Madrid: Juan García Infanzón, 1691). Accessible via Google Books.

 

 

 

 

Author of Estatutos por que se regián las casas de recolección de la Provincia (fl. early 16th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar. Author of statutes for recollect houses/hermitages of the immaculate conception province.

works

Estatutos por que se regián las casas de recolección de la Provincia (franciscana descalza) de la Immaculada Concepción (1523), ed Carrión, in: AIA 9 (1918), 264-272.

 

 

 

 

Author of Fasciculus Mirre or Dat Cleyne Bondeken van Mirre (fl. early 16th cent.)

OMObs & OFM. Dutch Observant friar from the Cologne province. To him is ascribed a work that has come down to us as the Fasciculus Mirre and as Dat Cleyne Bondeken van Mirre. It amounts to a treatise on the suffering of Christ influenced by Ludolf of Saxony’s Vita Jesu Christi ex IV Evangeliis. Point of departure of the Fasciculus is that the contemplation of the Passion is the most important element of a proper spiritual life, both for beginners and for the advanced. In three books, the work provides i.) an evocative description of the bodily and moral sufferings of Christ, ii.) a method for engaging in veritable Passion devotion exercises, iii.) ten chapters of seven and more articles each, in which are presented a long series of pious considerations and exercises, starting with the Last Supper and ending with Christ’s ascent into heaven. The exercises of the third book are spread out over the week and are organised in such a way that, depending on the disposable time, that can be performed in four (more concise or more extended) different ways. It is one of the few early sixteenth-century Passion devotion treatises that provide a systhematic elaboration of the exercises for each day of the week. As such the book had considerable success after its first edition in 1517, under the care of the Franciscan friar Matthias Weynsen, who continued to promote the book, thereby contributing to its success. The Fasciculus Mirre should not be confused with the Spanish Fasciculus Myrrhe (before 1524), which apparently also was of Franciscan provenance, nor with the Nyeuw Devoet Boecxken (c. 1550). Both these latter works apparently ended on the lists of prohibited books of 1550 and 1569. This was not the case with the Fasciculus Mirre/Dat Cleyne Bondeken van Mirre. Between 1517 and 1565, it received at least 24 editions. In 1677, it received a new lease on life (resulting in four additional editions until 1705), when the Franciscan friar Franciscus Cauwe re-edited it, updating its language and style.

works

Fasciculus Mirre/Dat Cleyne Bondeken van Mirre (Delft: Hugo Jansz., 1517). For the other 27 editions until 1705, see B. de Troeyer, Bio-Bibliographia Franciscana Neerlandica Saeculi XVI, I: Pars Biographica (Nieuwkoop, 1969), 32-33

literature

B. de Troeyer, ‘Het Fasciculus Myrrhe’, Franciscana 14 (1959), 1-18; B. de Troeyer, Bio-Bibliographia Franciscana Neerlandica Saeculi XVI, I I: Pars Biographica (Nieuwkoop, 1969), 31-35

 

 

 

 

Author of Fasciculus Mirrhe. El cual trata de la Pasión de nuestro redentor Jesucristo. (fl. early 16th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar.

works

Fasciculus myrrhe. El cual trata de la Pasión de nuestro redentor Jesucristo. Nuevamente impreso y corregido (Sevilla: Juan Varela de Salamanca, 1524/Sevilla: Dominico de Robertis, 1536/Antwerp: Martinus Nutius, 1553). A reprint can be found in Justas poéticas sevillanas del siglo xvi (1531-1542), Floresta: poéticas españolas VI (Oxford-Valencia, 1955).

literature

Isaías Rodríguez, ‘Autores espirituales españoles (1500-1700)’, Repertorio de Historia de las Ciencias eclesiasticas en España 3 (siglos xiii-xvi) (Salamanca, 1971), 433.

 

 

 

 

Author of Fasciculus Morum (Robert Selke?, fl. ca. 1300)

OM. English friar. Author of a preachers handbook. The work has been ascribed to various friars (especially to Robert Selke, see also there under the letter S). At least 32/28 manuscripts still survive. Cf. the 1989 edition of Wenzel, as well as the additions in Sharpe, Handlist, 572.

works

Fasciculus Morum: A Fourteenth-Century Preacher’s Handbook, ed. & trans. Siegfried Wenzel (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1989). This edition clearly shows that the Fasciculus Morum is a handbook for preachers. Written in the early 14th century by an English Franciscan friar, and surviving in twenty-eight manuscripts, it contains a large mass of preaching material, complete with more than fifty short English poems within the otherwise Latin text. The materials are organized in the order of the seven deadly sins and their opposite virtues. Whereas its poems have attracted the attention of scholars of Middle English literature (as also is the case with Grimestone's commonplace book!), the remainder of the work has not drwn the same attention, even though it shows what popular preachers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries would present their audiences: a combination of doctrinal and moral messages, replete with biblical references, quotations, similes, fables, stories, etc..

literature

S. Wenzel, Verses in Sermons: Fasciculus Morum and its Middle English Poems (Cambridge MA: The Medieaval Academy of America, 1978), 36-41; C. Casagrande & S. Vecchio, ‘La classificazione dei peccati tra settenario e decalogo’, in: Documenti & studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale 5 (Spoleto, 1994), 369; Sarah Anne Gray, "The use of "exempla" in 'Fasciculus morum'" (1995). Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive). Paper 110. http://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/110; A.S.G. Edwards, ‘Unrecorded verses from the Fasciculus Morum’, Notes and Queries n.s. 48,2 (2001), 108-109. (on verses from the preachers’ handbook found in MS Cambridge, University Library, ii.6.11).

 

 

 

 

Author of Flores temporum (Hermannus Minorita?/ Martinus Minorita?, fl. late 13th cent.)

OM. German (Swabian) friar (sometimes mentioned in the manuscripts as Hermannus or Martinus Minorita). Compiler of a late thirteenth-century chronicle. It is a typical concise pope-emperor chronicle, but in contrast with the famous chronicle of Martin of Troppau OP, it contains also the history of the world before Christ. The Flores Temporum divide the history of the world in six ages, and provides information from the creation of the world until 1290 (Pope Nicholas IV and Emperor Rudolf of Habsburg). Universal history and more local/regional events from the Swabian world are intermixed. The emphasis is on the sixth age of the world, with more original and extensive information for the period after 1250. The work probably used Martin of Troppau's work as well as the Legenda aurea, alongside of other prior historical compilations. The structuring element is the double list of popes and emperors,treated separately. As the author mentions himself, the work is meant as an instrument for homiletics for mendicant preachers (cf. Roest, 1996). The work has survived in more than 100 manuscripts (full text) and an additional number of smaller and bigger excerpts, from all over Middle Germany and Eastern Europe. The work was frequently used as basis for later regional and other small universal chronicles in the German lands, including the chronicles of Johannes of Winterthur, Andreas of Regensburg and the so-called universal chronicle of Konstanz. There are also several continuations and elaborations of the Flores Temporum, some of which continue the timeline until 1349 (a so-called second redaction).

works

Flores temporum. The work has survived in many manuscripts and both in full and partial versions, both in Latin and in the (German) Vernacular. The full text (Latin and/or German) can for instance be found in: Ansbach, Staatliche Bibliothek, Ms. lat. 88; Aschaffenburg, Hofbibliothek, Ms. 34; Augsburg, Stadtarchiv Schätze 121 ff. 2r-100v (German version); Augsburg, Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. II 1 2o 192; Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. D II 9, Cod. D IV 10 & Cod. E II 72; Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Cod. lat. fol. 179, Cod. lat. qu. 21, Cod. lat. qu. 368 & Cod. lat. qu. 409; Bernkastel-Kues, Bibliothek des St. Nikolaus-Hospitals, Cod. 158; Budapest, Orszàgos Szèchènyi Könyvtàr, Cod. 140; Cambridge (MA), Harvard University, Houghton Library, Riant Collection, Cod. 23; Colmar, Bibliothèque municipale, MSS 221, 248 & 594; Eichstätt, Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. 698; Erlangen, Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. 409; Frankfurt am Main, Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. Barth. 92 & Leonh. 9; Fulda, Hessische Landesbibliothek, Cod. B 11; Gdansk (Danzig), Biblioteka Gdanska Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Cod. 1955; Gniezno (Gnesen), Archiwum Archidiecezjalne i Bibilioteka Kapitulna, Cod. 42; Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. hist. 4; Hannover, Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek, XIII 757a, Bd. 4 & XIII 762; Innsbruck, Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. 68 & Cod. 81; Klosterneuburg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 697 & 699; Koblenz, Landeshauptarchiv, Abt. 701, Nr. 198; Kraków (Krakau/Cracow), Biblioteka Muzeum Narodowego, Ms. 1310; Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. rep. II. 4o 129; Lindau, Stadtarchiv und Stadtbibliothek, Cod. P I 1; London, British Library, Arundel 371; Melk, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 945 (olim 406), München (Munich), Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, clm 502, clm 1222, clm 1802, clm 3070, clm 5106, clm 5524, clm 7021, clm 7522, clm 8977, clm 9503, clm 11463, clm 12276, clm 14281, clm 16223, clm 17833, clm 18377, clm 18439, clm 18464, clm 18770, clm 18775, clm 18776, clm 21664, clm 23724, clm 24020, clm 26737; München (Munich), Universitätsbibliothek, 4o Cod. ms. 311, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Ms. lat. 4930, Ms. lat. 10344 & Ms. lat. 10770; Partridge Green, St. Hugh's, Parkminster, bb3 (B.71); Praha (Prague), Knihovna Metropolitiní Kapituli, Cod. C 41; Praha (Prag), Národní Knihovna Ceskí Republiky, Cod. IV. H. 18 & Cod. VII. E. 27; Przemysl, Archiwum Pánstwowe, Akta miasti Przemysla, Hs. 428; Regensburg, Fürstlich Thurn und Taxis'sche Hofbibliothek, Ms. pap. 156; Rottenburg, Bibliothek des Priesterseminars, Hs. 3; Salzburg, Stiftsbibliothek St. Peter, Cod. chart. a VII 38 & Cod. chart. b IX 19; Salzburg, Universitätsbibliothek, Ms. lat. V 1. J. 219; St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 953; Sigmaringen, Fürstlich Hohenzollern'sche Hofbibliothek, Hs. 22; Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Cod. theol. 2o 100, HB III 39, HB V 86, Cod. hist. 2o 269, Cod. hist. 2o 270, Don. Cod. 506; Trier, Stadtbibliothek, Hs. 1197; Tübingen, Wilhelmsstift, Gb 692 2o; Rome, Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Cod. Vat. lat. 10075, Cod. Pal. lat. 438, Cod. Pal. lat. 1356 & Cod. Ottob. lat. 2087; Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, cvp 2162, cvp 3284, cvp 3284*, cvp 3332, cvp 3402, cvp 3408, cvp 3456, cvp 4265, cvp 4573, cvp 12465 & Cod. ser. nov. 4844; Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Helmst. 360 & Cod. Extravag. 110; Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek, M. p. th. q. 60 & M. ch. q. 387. For a full listing that includes the excerpts as well, see http://www.uni-muenster.de/Geschichte/MittelalterSchriftlichkeit/ProjektF1/Manuscripts.html
A partial edition by Oswald Holder-Egger can be found in the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores XXIV. See also under Flores temporum II

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 337-338 (Martinus Minoritae); F. Baethgen, ‘Franziskanische Studien’, Historische Zeitschrift 131 (1925) 435-437; Peter Johanek, ‘Flores temporum (‘Martinus Minorita’)’, Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon II (Berlin-New York, 1980), 753-758; Anna-Dorothee von den Brincken, `Anniversaristische und chronikalische Geschichtsschreibung in den `Flores Temporum' (um 1292)’, in: Geschichtsschreibung und Geschichtsbewusstsein im späten Mittelalter, ed. Hans Patze, Vorträge und Forschungen XXXI (Sigmaringen, 1987), 195-214; Heike Johanna Mierau, Antje Sander-Berke & Birgit Studt, Studien zur Überlieferung der `Flores Temporum’, MGH Studien und Texte, 14 (Hannover, 1996); Hiram Kümper, ‘Flores temporum’, in: Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle (Brill Online, 2013) Reference. 15 February 2013 http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopedia-of-the-medieval-chronicle/flores-temporum-SIM_01014>

 

 

 

 

Author of Flores Temporum II/Chronicon universale Hermanni Gygantis ordinis fratrum minorum (Hermanys Gygas?/Martinus Minorita?, fl. ca. 1340?)

OM. German friar. To him is assigned a polemical universal chronicle which also seems to incorporate in some of its surviving redactions many materials from the Flores temporum. See on this also the work of Gudrun Tscherpel within the German Sonderforschungsbereich 231/K. The work, sometimes ascribed to a certain Hermannus Gygas ordinis fratrum minorum but sometimes also to a certain Martinus Minorita, criticizes the Roman papacy, and in particular Boniface VIII and John XXII. The chronicle embraces the idea of universal imperial power and hails the reign of Louis of Bavaria. The author was probably part of the circle of Franciscan supporters of that ruler. There seem to be connections with the chronicle of Nicolaus Minorita and the compiter of Projectus est draco ille.

works

Flores temporum, ed. J.C. Eccard, in: Corpus historicum medii aevi (Leipzig, 1723) I, 1551-1640; Hermanni Gygantis ordinis fratrum minorum Flores temporum seu Chronicon universale ab o. C. ad annum Christi 1349 et abhinc ad annum 1513 continuatum a Michaele Eysenhart presbytero Erythropolitano, ed. J.G. Meuschen (Leyden, 1743/2nd imprint 1750) [this edition also contains a continuation of the work of Michael Eysenhart from Rothenburg].

literature

Peter Johanek, ‘Flores temporum’ (‘Martinus Minorita’)’, Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon (Berlin-New York, 1980) II, 752-758; Gedeon Gál, ‘The chronicle of Nicolaus Minorita’, in: Editori di Quaracchi, 100 anni dopo (Rome, 1997), 337-344; R. Lambertini, ‘Projectus est draco ille: note preliminari all’edizione di un pamphlet theologico-politico di tendenzia Michelista’, in: Editori di Quaracchi, 100 anni dopo, 345-361.

 

 

 

 

Author of Floreto de San Francisco (fl. late 15th cent.)

OMObs. Spanish friar. Translator/editor of the Floreto de San Francisco, a Spanish transformation of the Fioretti, which differs quite considerably from its Italian namesake. It had a considerable dissemination in Spain and Portugal, and also impact on Franciscan spiritual life and early mission in the New World from 1524 onward, when it traveled in the luggage of one of the 'Twelve Franciscans'.

works

Floreto de San Francisco (Seville: Apud Menardum Ungut, 1492); Floreto de San Francis (siglo XV), ed. José Martí Mayor, Eva Cardoma Recasens & Emilio Blanco (Editorial Cisneros, 1998); Floreto de Sant Francisco, Sevilla, 1492: 'Fontes franciscani" y literatura en la península Ibérica y el Nuevo Mundo, ed. Juana Mary Arcelus Ulibarrena, Espirituales españoles: Lecturas, 7 (Fundación Universitaria Española, 1998) [with lengthy introduction]. The work contains 150 chapters with stories about the miracles and prophecies of Francis and a large number of 'fechos maravillosos' of his early companions, as well as an additional 19 exempla concerning other friars with links to the order founder.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, BUF III, 3; Armando Quaglia, ‘El Floreto’, Studi Francescani 50 (1953), 107–112 & 54 (1957), 40–49; José Adriano Carvalho, ‘Para a história de um texto e de uma fonte das Crónica de Fr. Marcos de Lisboa: o Floreto – ou os Floretos? – de S. Francisco’, in: Frei Marcos de Lisboa: cronista franciscano e Bispo do Porto (Porto, 2002), 7-57; Francisco Morales, ‘New World Colonial Franciscan Mystical Practice’, in: A New Companion to Hispanic Mysticism, ed. Hilaire Kallendorf (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2010), 71-102 (esp. 94).

 

 

 

 

Author of Formalitates Doctoris Subtilis & Alius Tractatus et Brevior de Formalitatibus (fl. 15th cent.)

OM. French (?) friar. Scotist.

works

Formalitates Doctoris Subtilis & Alius Tractatus et Brevior de Formalitatibus: MS Colmar Bibl. Publ. 59 (190), ff. 1-8 & 8-12.

Tractatus de Formalitatibus: MS Strasbourg, Bibl. Nat. Univ. 292 (an. 1475).

 

 

 

 

Author of Forma Predicandi incipit Benigne Jesu (fl. 15th cent.)

OM. Spanish friar, who apparently as a novice or during his formative years thereafter produced a preaching aid.

works

Forma Predicandi incip. Benigne Jesu: MS Sevilla, Columb. Library, Y, cod. 13017 (15th cent.).

literature

Anscar Zawart, ‘The history of Franciscan preaching and of Franciscan preachers (1209-1927): a bio-bibliographical study’, Franciscan Studies 7 (1928), 323; AFH 16 (1923), 373

 

 

 

 

Author of Gebete zu den Wunden des Hl. Franziskus (fl. ca. 1510)

OMObs. German friar. Author of a prayer text on the wound of Christ.

works

Gebete zu den Wunden des Hl. Franziskus: MS Frankfurt a.M., Dominikanerkloster 12 ff. 94r-99r (ca. 1510).

 

 

 

 

Author of Friar Daw’s Reply ('Friar Daw'/John Walsingham?, fl. late 14th cent.)

OM. English friar, also active in an amanuensis/manciple function at Oxford. Known for a response in alliterative verse to the Wycliffite Jack Upland anti-fraternal poem.

works

Friar Daw’s Reply: MS Digby 41 [there might once have existed a longer version as well]. Edited in: Jack Upland, Friar Daw’s Reply, and Upland’s Rejoinder, ed. P.L. Heyworth (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968). See also: Six Ecclesiastical Satires, ed. James Dean, TEAMS Middle English Texts Series (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publucations, 1991), 145-200. Heyworth suggested 1419/1420 as a possible date for the text's composition, yet Fiona Somerset (1998) has provided convincing arguments for a date around 1488.

literature

James Dean, 'Introduction to Friar Daw’s Reply', in: Six Ecclesiastical Satires, ed. James Dean, TEAMS Middle English Texts Series (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publucations, 1991), 145–146; Fiona Somerset, Clerical Discourse and Lay Audience in Medieval England (Cambridge: CUP, 1998), 135f, 163–168, 216-220.

 

 

 

 

Author of Genealogia delle Provincie de'Beati e Santi della Religione di S. Francesco (fl. early 16th cent.)

OFM. Italian friar from Tuscany, who on the based on manuscripts of Mariano of Florence's work on tertiaries and the Fasciculus Chronicarum wrote a Genealogia delle Province de'Beati e Santi della Religione di S. Francesco.

works

Genealogia delle Provincie de'Beati e Santi della Religione di S. Francesco (Florence, 1525). The work as such does not seem to have survived in full, but fragments appear in later texts (see the study of Sancricca).

literature

Arnaldo Sancricca, 'La Genealogia delle Province de'Beati e Santi della Religione di S. Francesco, Un'Opera a Stampa Attribuita a Fra'Mariano da Firenze nel Summarium Super non Remotione Cultus di S. Liberato da Loro', Picenum Seraphicum 24 (2005), 147-189; Marianne Ritsema van Eck, 'Geneaology as a Heuristic Device for Franciscan Order History in the Middle Ages and Early Modernity: Texts and Trees', Franciscan Studies 77 (2019), 135-170 (151).

 

 

 

 

Author of Gesta beati Francisci confessoris (fl. ca. 1350)

OM. German (?) friar. Creator of a life of St Francis, based on the Legenda major and Legenda minor of Bonaventure and on additional Dominican liturgical legendary materials.

works

Gesta beati Francisci confessoris: MS Frankfurt a. Main, Universitätsbibliothek Barth. 4.
For an edition, see: Aleksander Horowski, ''Gesta beati Francisci confessoris': una compilazione postbonaventuriana della Collegiata San Bartolomeo in Francoforte sul Meno', Collectanea Franciscana 85:1-2 (2015), 19-57 [an edition with in-depth analysis of sources and relationships with other vitae of Francis].

 

 

 

 

Author of Gesta Romanorum cum Applicationibus Moralisatis et Mysticis (fl. late 13th cent.)

OM. English or German friar?. Supposedly a Franciscan author/compiler of Gesta Romanorum cum Applicationibus Moralisatis et Mysticis. This work can be understood, to paraphrase Brian Murdoch (2012), 140 as ‘...a cumulative compilation of entertaining tales with separate moralizating explanations, many of classical origin, though rarily to do with actual Roman history. It has been called a medieval bestseller, and its influenced writers from Shakespeare to Thomas Mann. As with many medieval works, however, it is impossible to speak of ‘the’ Gesta Romanorum, since the collection of between forty and nearly 200 stories survives in a variety of forms in a large number of different manuscripts and printed versions. It was also translated in a large number of European languages, again in varied forms. Its origins are disputed. It seems to have originated from the last decades of the thirteenth century, perhaps in England, or it may have had an English compiler working on the Continent. Germany has also been proposed as the country of origin, and the independent emergence of versions in both countries also has been suggested.’ The earliest or one of the earliest surviving manuscripts, MS Innsbruck 310 (1342), ascribed the initial version of the work to a Franciscan friar, an ascription that has been confirmed by the latest editor of the text, Brigitte Weiske. Yet there have been made other suggestions of non-Franciscan authorship as well. Of old, the work has also been assigned to Helinand of Froidmont and Petrus Berchorius, yet without much evidence. The discussion is still ongoing, as there is no scholarly consensus on this matter.

works

Gesta Romanorum cum Applicationibus Moralisatis et Mysticis. There are many manuscripts and early many printed versions of this work (most of them have been listed and compared in the 1992 edition of Weiske; see also Gesamtkatalog de Wiegendrucke [Gesamthttps://gesamtkatalogderwiegendrucke.de/docs/GESTROM.htm#GW10894 ]). The oldest printed editions might have been in Utrecht and Cologne around 1472-1474. A first English printed edition might have been issued around 1510. For some more recent editions, see: Gesta Romanorum, ed. Adelbert Keller (Stuttgart: Cotta, 1842). This edition has been digitized and can be found via Google Books and in the Haithi Trust Digital library. http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044024455891;seq=2;view=1up; Gesta Romanorum: A Record of Auncient Histories Newly Perused by Richard Robinson, ed. John Weld (Delmar NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1973); Gesta romanorum, ed. by H. Oesterley (Berlin: 1872; reprinted: Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1963); Die Gesta Romanorum, nach der Innsbrucker Hs. vom Jahre 1342 und vier Münchener Hss., ed. Wilhelm Dick (Erlangen: Deichert, 1890/Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1970), 148-159; Gesta Romanorum : das älteste Märchen- und Legendenbuch des christlichen Mittelalters, ed. Johann Georg Grässe & Herman Hesse (Leipzig: Löffler, 1905/Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1920). The current muster edition & study is the two-volume Gesta Romanorum, ed. Brigitte Weiske, Fortuna Vitrea, 3-4, 2 Vols. (Tübingen, 1992) [review of Marianne Kalinke, in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 93:4 (1994), 611-613 & of Nigel Harris in Medium aevum 64 (1995), 168]; The Anglo-Latin "Gesta Romanorum" from Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce MS 310, ed. Philippa Bright, Diane Speed & Juanita Feros Ruys (Oxford, 2019). For modern translations, see now also: Gesta Romanorum: A new translation, ed. Christopher Stace (Manchester: Manchester UP, 2018) and Gesta Romanorum (los hechos de los romanos): historias y cuentos medievales con sus explicaciones simbólicas o moralejas, ed. José Maria Diáz-Reganón López (San Lorenzo del Escorial (Madrid), 2018). For the ongoing discussion about the authorship of this work, see also more recent studies.

literature

Walter Röll, ‘Zur Überlieferungsgeschichte der Gesta Romanorum’, Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 21 (1986), 208-229; Volker Mertens, ‘Gesta Romanorum. II’, Lexikon des Mittelalters 4 (1989), 1409-1410; Nigel Palmer, ‘Das ‘Exempelwerk der englischen Bettelmönche’: Ein Gegenstück zu den ‘Gesta Romanorum’?’, in: Exempel und Exempelsammlungen, ed. Walter Haug & Burghart Wachinger (Tübingen, 1991), 137-172; C. Velay-Vallantin, ‘Gesta Romanorum’, in: Exempla médiévaux. Introduction à la recherche, ed. Jacques Berlioz & Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu (Carcassonne: Garae/Hesiode, 1992), 245-261; Gabriela Kompatscher, ‘Die Gesta-Romanorum-Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek Innsbruck’, Codices manuscripti 17 (1994),117-152; Genoveva García, ‘La colección ‘Gesta Romanorum’, receptora y transmisora de cuentos’, in: De Roma al siglo XX De Roma al siglo XX, Vol. 1 (Madrid, 1996), 291-295; María Victoria Fernández-Savater Martín, ‘La colección ‘Gesta romanorum’, receptora y transmisora de cuentos II’, in: De Roma al siglo XX De Roma al siglo XX, Vol. 1 (Madrid, 1996), 297-303; Jacques Cocheyras, ‘Le ‘Violier des histoires romaines’ (1521), traduction-adaptation des ‘Gesta Romanorum’’, in: Traduction et adaptation en France à la fin du Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance, ed. Charles Brucker (Paris, 1997), 133-139; Olaf Pluta, “Deus est mortuus’: Nietzsches Parole ‘Gott ist tot!’ in einer Geschichte der ‘Gesta Romanorum’ vom Ende des 14. Jahrhunderts’, in: Atheismus im Mittelalter und in der Renaissance, ed. Friedrich Niewöhner, Friedrich & Olaf Pluta, Olaf (Wiesbaden,1999), 239-270, Walter Röll, ‘Nachlese zur Überlieferung der ‘Gesta Romanorum’’, Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur 121 (1999), 103-108; Raymond Graeme Dunphy, ‘Gesta Romanorum, in: Medieval Germany. An encyclopedia (1999), 271; Gesta romanorum: ‘exempla’ europeos del siglo XIV / Anónimo, ed. Ventura de la Torre Rodríguez, Jacinto & Lozano Escribano, Jacinto (Tres Cantos, 2004); Udo Gerdes, ‘Gesta Romanorum’, in: Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon XI (2004), 526; Philippa M. Bright, ‘Anglo-Latin Collections of the ‘Gesta Romanorum’ and Their Role in the Cure of Souls’, in: What nature does not teach: didactic literature in the medieval and early modern periods, ed. Juanita Feros Ruys (Turnhout: Brepols, 2008), 401-426; Brian Murdoch, Gregorius: An Incestuous Saint in Medieval Europe and Beyond (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 140-141; Clark Andrews Colahan, 'Episodios del "Persiles" configurados a base de 'ejemplos bizantinos' de las "Gesta Romanorum"', >Hipogrifo 3:1 (2015), 129-139; Ryszard Grzesik, 'R. Blasi and Pastores Romanorum in the "Gesta Hungarorum" by an Anonymous Notary', Res Historica 41 (2016), 25-34 [http://dlibra.umcs.lublin.pl/dlibra/editions-content?id=29130 ]; Hans-Georg Schmitz, 'Gesta Romanorum', in: Lexikon des gesamten Buchwesens online [https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/lexikon-des-gesamten-buchwesens-online/gesta-romanorum-COM_070412?s.num=410&s.rows=100&s.start=400 ]; Udo Friedrich, 'Juristisches Argumentieren und Erzählen in den "Gesta Romanorum"', in: Rechtsnovellen: Rhetorik, narrative Strukturen und kulturelle Semantiken des Rechts in Kurzerzählungen des späten Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit, ed. Pia Claudia Doering & Caroline Emmelius, Caroline (Berlin, 2017), 27-50; Philippa Bright, 'An Overlooked Version of the Anglo-Latin Gesta Romanorum', Notes and Queries 67 (2020), 175-179.

 

 

 

 

Author of Glossa Tripartita super Cantica (fl. early 14th cent.)

OM. German (?) friar. Author of the Glossa Tripartita super Cantica. This is a Franciscan text from the early fourteenth century (in its final redaction possibly around 1320). This Latin commentary on the Song of Songs holds the middle ground between a fully academic commentary and a more devotionally oriented text. It was eventually (in the 15th century) reworked into the Dutch vernacular as the Bedudinghe op Cantica Canticorum (see also under that title). For a study of the Latin Glossa Tripartita super Cantica, the Dutch Bedudinghe op Cantica Canticorum, the manuscript tradition of these texts and their position in the later medieval tradition of commentaries on the Song of Songs, see the 2007 study of Schepers.

works

Glossa tripartita super Cantica: MSS Oxford, Balliol College 19 [created in Cologne, 1442-1444]; Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 21244 (Um 44) [possibly written in South Germany before 1349]; Utrecht, University Library, 334 (3 D 13) [c. 1405]; Assisi, Sacro Convento 354 (Olim Biblioteca Communale, fondo antiquo) [c. 1300]. For additional info see the work of Schepers.

literature

Kees Schepers, ‘Bonaventura super Cantica Canticorum and its source text Glossa Tripartita super Cantica’, Archivum franciscanum historicum 88 (1995), 473-496; Kees Schepers, ‘The genesis of Glossa Tripartita super Cantica’, Revue d’histoire des textes 29 (1999), 85-139; Kees Schepers, Bedudinghe op Cantica Canticorum. Vertaling en bewerking van ‘Glossa tripartita super Cantica’. Teksthistorische studies en kritische editie. I. Teksthistorische studies. II. Kritische editie, Miscellanea Neerlandica, 35 (Louvain: Peeters, 2006), esp. I, 65ff. Cf. Review in Collectanea Franciscana 77 (2007), 406f.

 

 

 

 

Author of a Graduale Santorale (Maestro dei Corali di Massa Maritinam , fl. early 14th cent.)

OM. Italian friar. Known for the production of illustrated liturgical manuscripts.

works

Graduale Santorale: MS Pisa, Museo Nazionale di San Matteo 1543 (sec. xiv, 1317-1320). Once present in the Pisa friary.

literature

L'arte di Francesco. Capolavori d'arte italiana e terre d'Asia dal XIII al XV secolo, ed. Angelo Taruferi & Francesco D'Arelli (Florence: Giunti, s.a.), 388-389.

 

 

 

 

Author of Harmonia del bien y del mal. Duo sonoro, ex operibus Capuccinorum Marci d’Aviano, & Joannis Baptista Bolduc (fl. second half 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Spanish friar.

works

Harmonia del bien y del mal. Duo sonoro, ex operibus Capuccinorum Marci d’Aviano, & Joannis Baptista Bolduc (Madrid: Bernard de Villadiego, 1682).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, BUF III, 3; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806); Dionysio da Genova et al., Bibliotheca scriptorum ordinis minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum retexta et extensa (…) (Venice, 1747), 18.

 

 

 

 

Author of Hetzpredigt gegen die Frauen (fl. ca. 1700)

OFM. German friar. Author of a misogynistic sermon text.

works

Hetzpredigt gegen die Frauen vor August dem Starken von Sachsen: MS Kassel, Stadt- und Landesbibliothek, Murhardische Bibliothek Ms. Iuridica 39 IX f. 128, an. 1702.

literature

Die Handschriften der Murhardschen Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel und Landesbibliothek, Band 2: Manuscripta Iuridica, ed. Marita Kremer (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1969), 50-51.

 

 

 

 

Author of Historia de Lantgraviis (Eccardiana) (early to mid 15th cent. ?)

OM. German friar. A chronicle on the Landgraves of Thuringia, included in a version of the chronicle of Martinus Polonus OP. The section of the Landgraves is probably of Franciscan provenance and is connected with the so-called Eisenacher Franziskanerchronik, II.

works

Historia de Lantgraviis (Eccardiana): MS Jena, Prov. f. 39.
For en edition, see: Historia de lantgraviis Thuringie (Eccardiana), ed. Georg Eccard, in: Idem, Historia Genealogica principum Saxoniae superioris (Leipzig, 1722), 351-468.

literature

Oswald Holder-Egger, 'Studien zu Thüringer Geschichtsquellen', Neues Archiv 20 (1895), 373-421, 569-637 & 21 (1896), 235-297, 441-546; Volker Honemann, ‘Franziskanische Geschichtsschreibung’, in: Geschichte der Sächsischen Franziskanerprovinz, 1: Von den Anfängen bis zur Reformation, ed. Volker Honemann (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015), 800-805.

 

 

 

 

Author of Istruzione chiara e piana ad un novello Confessore (1793)

OFMCap. Unknown Italian Capuchin friar.

works

Istruzione chiara e piana ad un novello Confessore (Faenza: Genestri, 1793).

literature

Catalogus Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum, ab anno 1747 usque ad annum 1852, sive Appendix ad Bibliothecam Scriptorum Capuccinorum a P. Bernardo Bononiensi (...) (Rome: Gaetano A. Bertinelli, 1852), 13.

 

 

 

 

Author(s) of Kilkenny Chronicle (fl. 14th cent.)

OM. Irish friar(s) from the fourteenth century involved with the compilation of a chronicle that has come down to us in three sections/redactions: I. years 1264-1312 (compiled in Castedermot); II. Years 1202-1264 (based on the Annales de Monte Fernandi and compiled in Lenister); III. 1316-1332 (produced in Kilkenny after 1330). See also the Annals of John Clyn and the relations with the Annals of Nenagh and the Annals of Ross.

works

Kilkenny chronicle: MS London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian, B. xi.

literature

B.A. Williams, The Latin Franciscan Anglo-Irish Annals of Medieval Ireland,Doct. Thesis U. of Dublin, 1991; Cotter, The Friars Minor in Ireland, 2ff.; Bernadette Williams, ‘The ‘Kilkenny Chronicle”, in: Colony and frontier in medieval Ireland. Essays presented to J. F. Lydon, ed. Terence Bernard Barry, Robin Frame & Katharine Simms, (Londen etc., 1995), 75-95.

 

 

 

 

Author of La giostra delle virtù e dei vizi (fl. mid 14th cent.)

OM. Italian friar to whom is assigned a ernacular poem on virtues and vices.

works

La giostra delle virtù e dei vizi: MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, XIII.C.98
For an edition, see: Percopo, `La giostra delle virtù e dei vizi, poemetto marchigiano del sec. XIV', Il Propugnatore, 20:2 (1887), 3-63.

literature

V. de Bartholomaeis, Studi Medievali 15 (1962), 91-206; Manoscritti francescani della Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli, ed. Cesare Cenci, Spicilegium Bonaventurianum, 7-8 (Quaracchi, 1971) II, 957-9.

 

 

 

 

Author of L’amore evangelico sopra la Regola di san Francesco (fl. 16th cent.)

OFMCap. Italian friar, known for an early Capuchin text with spiritual instructions concerning the Franciscan rule.

works

L’amore evangelico sopra la Regola di san Francesco, in: I frati cappuccini. Documenti e testimonianze del primo secolo, ed. C. Cargnoni (Perugia, 1988) I, 538-583.

literature

Felice Accrocca, ‘Il libro secondo De Amore evangelico nel codice Vaticano Capponiano 207’, Collectanea Franciscana 81:3-4 (2011), 559-570 [>> Important article that sheds new light on early Capuchin texts and that helps to contextualize the L’amore evangelico sopra la Regola di san Francesco].

 

 

 

 

Author of Lectionum de certis anni festis diligens sed tamen brevis descriptio (fl. 16th cent.)

OFM. German friar and member of the Germania Inferioris province. Author of an extended lectionary for the liturgical year. This work issued in 1543 by the Antwerp publisher Jan Steels in 1543. The author aimed to correct and add to existing Franciscan breviaries and the work apparently did have an impact on Franciscan liturgical works.

works

Lectionum de certis anni festis diligens sed tamen brevis descriptio, adiecta in calce libelli tam breviarii quam missalis, utique non segni sed potius ac curatissima diversorum passuum castigatione (Antwerp: Jan Steels, 1543). An exemplar of the work is kept in the Provincial library of Leeuwarden (Friesland, The Netherlands), bound together with a Franciscan Calendarium Perpetuam from 1528 and a few short Franciscan manuscript works. Another exemplar is kept in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich and has been digitized. It can now also be viewed via Google Books.

literature

C. Sloots, ‘Een merkwaardig verzamelbundeltje', BGPMN 6 (1950), 405; B. De Troeyer, Bio-Bibliographica Franciscana Neerlandica saec. XVI, I: Pars biographica (Nieuwkoop: B. De Graaf, 1969), 170.

 

 

 

 

Author of Le bonheur et l’amour de l’homme angélique et séraphique François d’Assise dans ses dévotions envers les SS. Anges (Constantin Letins?, fl. ca. 1700)

OFMRec. Belgian (Flemish) friar. Member of the Recollect Flanders province. Possibly to be identified with Constantin Letins. Known for Le bonheur et l’amour de l’homme angélique et séraphique François d’Assise dans ses dévotions envers les SS. Anges.

works

Le bonheur et l’amour de l’homme angélique et séraphique François d’Assise dans ses dévotions envers les SS. Anges, avec un traité des confréries neuvaines, associations et quelques prières à leur jonneur. Par un récollect de la province de Flandre (A. Broncart, 1710). The work was re-issued in 1712 as: Le solide amour de devotion et bonheur du vrai chant des SS. Anges dans la personne de l’homme angélique et séraphique St. Francois d’Assise, Seconde édition, en trois parties, revue, corrigée et augmentée (J.P. Gramme, 1712). It was probably the work of Constantin Letins, author of the Consolatorium (1713).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, BUF III, 5.

 

 

 

 

Author(s) of Legenda Sancti Francisci per sermones disctincta/Legenda Sancti Ludovici per sermones disctincta/Sermones de Sancta Clara etc. (fl. 15th cent.)

OM. German friar(s) from the Saxony province to whom are assigned collections with sermons on Francis of Assisi, Louis of Toulouse, Clare of Assisi and other saints found in the medieval Franciscan library of Braunschweig, such as MSS 159 and 160. Signalled alongside of other comparable manuscripts by Honemann.

works

Legenda Sancti Francisci per sermones disctincta/Legenda Sancti Ludovici per sermones disctincta/Sermones de Sancta Clara etc.: MSS Braunschweig, Franciscan Library, 159 & 160.

literature

Volker Honemann, ‘Das mittelalterliche Schrifttum der Franziskaner der Sächsischen Ordensprovinz unter besonderer Berücksichtigung deutschsprachiger Zeugnisse’, in: Geschichte der Sächsischen Franziskanerprovinz, 1: Von den Anfängen bis zur Reformation, ed. Volker Honemann (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015), 692.

 

 

 

 

Lezioni morali sopra l'ingratitudine umana a divini benefizi (1747)

OFMCap. Italian friar.

works

Lezioni morali sopra l'ingratitudine umana a divini benefizi (Cesena, 1747).

literature

Catalogus Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum, ab anno 1747 usque ad annum 1852, sive Appendix ad Bibliothecam Scriptorum Capuccinorum a P. Bernardo Bononiensi (...) (Rome: Gaetano A. Bertinelli, 1852), 13.

 

 

 

 

Authors of Legenda Trium Sociorum (The Three Companions/Leo, Rufino and Angelo, fl. 13th cent.)

OM. Italian friars normally identified as the ‘three companions’ of Francis: i.e. Leo of Assisi, Rufino (a cousin of Clare), and Angelo Tancredi from Rieti. In several late medieval manuscripts, the text of the Legenda Trium Sociorum is prefaced by a letter of the three companions, in which they explain that the created the dossier at the request of Crescencio of Jesi’s call for information on Francis at the general chapter of 1244, which eventually also would result in the Vita Secunda of Thomas of Celano. The question whether one accepts Leo’s, Rufino’s and Angelo’s authorship of the Legenda trium sociorum is heavily dependent on the question whether this prefatory letter and the text of the work belong together or not. Those scholars who do not accept this, frequently tend to give a late date for the work's composition, and sometimes even see the work as a complete falsification (following van Ortroy). Those who do accept the connection, tend to place the composition of the work early, for instance in the 1240s in connection with the appeal of Crescenzio. Those who accept the connection see the Legenda trium sociorum as a precious window on the early Franciscan movement (see also the polemic views on this by Sabatier). There is also scholarly discussion concerning the question whether the last chapters (XVII & XVIII (=Leg3Soc 68-73) on the stigmata, Francis’s death and beatification were part of the original composition or later additions. All such questions, including the relationship between this work, the Speculum Perfectionis and the Legenda Perusina/Compilatio Assisiensis are still under debate, although Jacques Dalarun (2009) claims to have a solution that fits the available evidence.

works

Legenda trium sociorum, ed. Théophile Desbonnets, in: Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 67 (1974), 38-144; Fontes Franciscani, ed. Enrico Menestò, Stefano Brufani, Giuseppe Cremascoli, Giovanni M. Boccali et al., First Edition (Assisi: Porziuncola, 1995), 1373-1445.
For translations, see: François d’Assise vu par les compagnions. Du commencement de l’Ordre. Légende des trois Compagnions, introd. & trans. Jacques Dalarun & François Delmas-Goyon, Sources Franciscaines (Paris: Éditions Franciscaines – Les Éditions du CERF, 2009. [o.a. reviews in CF 79 (2009), 699-701; AFH 102 (2009), 558]; The Legend of the Three Companions, in: Francis of Assisi: Early Documents, ed. Regis J. Armstrong, J. Wayne Hellmann, & William J. Short (New City Press, 2000) II,59-110; Leggenda dei Tre Compagni, trans. Felice Accrocca, Letture cristiane del secondo millennio, 53 (Milan: Paoline Editoriale Libri, 2014) [Review in Collectanea Franciscana 85:1-2 (2015), 296-298].

literature

Salvatore Minocchi, ‘La ‘Legenda trium sociorum’. Nuovi studi sulle fonti biografiche di San Francesco d’Assisi -II. Critica comparata delle Leggende francescane’, Archivio storico italiano Ser. 5, 26 (1900), 81-134; François van Ortroy, ‘La légende de S. François d'Assise dite ‘Legenda trium sociorum”, Analecta Bollandiana 19 (1900), 119-19; Sophronius Clasen, Legenda antiqua S. Francisci: Untersuchung über die nachbonaventurianischen Franziskusquellen, Legenda trium sociorum, Speculum perfectionis, Actus B. Francisci et sociorum eius und verwandtes Schrifttum (Leiden: Brill, 1967); Guy Philippart, ‘Les manuscrits perdus de la ‘Legenda trium sociorum’ de S. François d’Assise’, Analecta Bollandiana 91 (1973), 357-362; Guy Philippart, ‘Le Bollandiste François Van Ostroy et la ‘Legenda trium sociorum’, in: La ‘Questione Francescana dal Sabatier ad oggi’. Atti del I Convegno internazionale, Assisi, 18-20 ottobre 1973 (Assisi: Società internazionale di studi francescani, 1974), 171-197; Chiara Frugoni, ‘La giovinezza di Francesco nelle fonti (testi e immagini)’, Studi Medievali 25 (1984), 115-143; Chiara Frugoni, ‘Die Traüme in der Legende der drei Fefährten’, in: Traüme im Mittelalter. Ikonologische Studien, ed. Agostino Paravicini Bagliani & Giorgio Stabile (Zürich, 1989), 73-90; Engelbert Grau, Die Dreigefährtenlegende des heiligen Franziskus von Bruder Leo, Rufin und Angelus und Anonymus Perusinus, Franziskanische Quellenschriften, 8 (Werl: Coelde, 1993); Felice Accrocca, ‘La Legenda trium sociorum: una peculiare attenzione all'umanità di Francesco’, Frate Francesco 71 (2005), 543-574 (reprinted as ‘La ‘Leyenda de los tres compañeros’: una atención peculiar a la humanidad de Francisco’, Selecciones de Franciscanismo 38 (2009), 87-118); Ilaria Montanar, ‘Il processo di conversione di Francesco d’Assisi e la ‘scoperta’ del Vangelo nella ‘Legenda trium sociorum”, Frate Francesco 75 (2009), 407-435; Jacques Dalarun, ‘La ‘Légende des trois compagnons’. Quelques réponses simples à des questions inutilment compliquées;, Hagiographica 16 (2009), 105-129; L. Lehmann, ‘Dreigefährtenlegende’, in: Franziskus-Quellen. Die Schriften des Heiligen Franziskus, Lebensbeschreibungen, Chroniken und Zeugnisse über ihn und seinen Orden, ed. Dieter Berg, Leonhard Lehmann et al., Zeugnisse des 13. und 14. Jahrhunderts zur Franziskanischen Bewegung, Band 1 (Kevelaer: Butzon & Bercker, Ed. T. Coelde, 2009), 602-653; Achim Wesjohann, Mendikantische Gründungserzählungen im 13. und 14. Jahrhundert: Mythen als Element institutioneller Eigengeschichtsschreibung der mittelalterlichen Franziskaner, Dominikaner und Augustiner-Eremiten, Vita Regularis. Ordnungen und Deutungen religiosen Lebens im Mittelalter, Abhandlungen, 49 (Münster: LIT Verlag, 2012), 77-92; Marco Espositi, 'De inceptione vel fundamento Ordinis, Legenda trium sociorum e Liber de laudibus: verso un comune núcleo narrativo', Frate Francesco 78 (2012), 337-368; Felice Accrocca, Un santo di carta. Le fonti biografiche di san Francesco d’Assisi, Biblioteca di Frate Francesco, 13 (Rome-Milan: Centro Culturale Aracoeli-Biblioteca Francescana, 2013); John W. Coakley, ‘The Conversion of St. Francis and the Writing of Christian Biography, 1228-1263’, Franciscan Studies 72 (2014), 27-71; Matteo Ghezzi, ‘La trasformazione spirituale di San Francesco di Assisi nella Leggenda dei tre compagni’, Studi Francescani 116:3-4 (2019), 377-422; Pietro Maranesi, 'Pietro di Bernardone nella vicenda iniziale di Francesco: Analisi della Legenda trium sociorum', Collectanea Franciscana 88:1-2 (2018), 5-52.

 

 

 

 

Author of a Libellus ad Petendam Restitutionem in Integram

OM. Italian friar. Author of a small work of penitential theology.

works

Libellus ad Petendam Restitutionem in Integram: MS Bologna, Coll. Hisp. S. Clemente 56 ff. 29ra-29v. [This manuscript is in itself very interesting!]

 

 

 

 

Author of a Libellus Penitentalis

OM. Italian friar. Author of a small work of penitential theology.

works

Libellus: Bologna, Coll. Hisp. S. Clemente 56 ff. 118ra-120va,

 

 

 

 

Author of a Liber de Quolibet (Bernardinus de Agnone?, 15th cent.)

OM. Italian friar. Author of an Italian quodlibetal text, possibly the work of Bernardino de Agnone?

works

Liber de Quolibet: Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, XII. F. 11 ff. 1r-22v.

literature

Manoscritti francescani della Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli, ed. Cesare Cenci, Spicilegium Bonaventurianum, 7-8 (Quaracchi, 1971) II, 893.

 

 

 

 

Author(s) of Liber de Accidentibus, Liber de Vestibus Sacerdotalibus, Liber de Nominibus Dei apud Hebreos, De Quatuor Synodis & Quaedam Catena (fl. 15th cent.?)

OM. Italian friar(s), responsible for a collection of texts concerning liturgical and theological matters.

works

Liber de Accidentibus, Liber de Vestibus Sacerdotalibus, Liber de Nominibus Dei apud Hebreos, De Quatuor Synodis & Quaedam Catena: MS Bologna, Coll. Hisp. San Clemente 51 ff. 53-71vb.

literature

Piana, Antonianum 17 (1942), 118.

 

 

 

 

Author of the Liber exemplorum ad usum praedicantium (fl. ca. 1275)

OM. English or Irish friar active in the Irish province in the 1270s. Responsible for an Exempla collection.

works

Liber exemplorum ad usum praedicantium saeculo XIII compositus a quodam fratre minore Anglico de provinciae Hiberniae, ed. A.G. Little, British society of Franciscan studies, 1 (Aberdeen, 1908). The work has been digitized and can be read on-line via Archive.org.

literature

Anscar Zawart, ‘The history of Franciscan preaching and of Franciscan preachers (1209-1927): a bio-bibliographical study’, Franciscan Studies 7 (1928), 323; Nicolas Louis, ‘Entre vérité et efficacité: les stratégies de rédaction dans le ‘Liber exemplorum ad usum pradicantium’ (ca. 1275-1279)’, Revue Mabillon 19 (2008), 123-156.

 

 

 

 

Author of Liber miraculorum et visionum (fl. early 14th cent.)

OM. German friar from the Saxony province, responsible for a collection of 35 miraculous stories, predominantly concerning friars of the Saxony province. The work has come down to us in two different manuscripts, one from the 14th and one from the 15th century. The work also mentions various Saxonia convents. Around the same time another collection of vitae/miraculae from the Saxony province was created as well. see for that collection under Vitae sanctorum fratrum minorum provinciae Saxoniae

works

Liber miraculorum et visionum: MSS Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek MS 697 (14th cent., possibly from Leipzig), ff. 117va-134ra [the remainder of the MS predominantly sermons by Berthold von Regensburg]; Berlin, SBB-PK, theol. lat. fol. 94 (15th cent., originating from the Brandenburg friary).

literature

Leonhard Lemmens, 'Ex libro Miraculorum et Visionum in Provincia Saxoniae c. 1300 conscripto', AFH 2 (1909), 72-78; Michael Bihl, 'Franziskuswunder in Deutschland, besonders im Gebiet der alten sächsischen Provinz', Franziskanische Studien 17 (1930), 26-57 (37ff. also provides a few of the miracle stories); Volker Honemann, 'Ein spätmittelalterliches Visionen- und Mirakelbuch der Sächsischen Franziskanerprovinz', in: Für Gott und die Welt (2008), 67-76 (68f).

 

 

 

 

Author of Liber Sapientiae Spiritualis (fl. first half 15th cent.)

OM. Italian friar. Author of a work that treats in a Bonaventurian fashion in seven steps with the ways of spiritual ascent and wisdom (the step of devout prayer, the step of perfect contrition, the step of holy confession, the step of penitence, the step of satisfaction, the step of almsgiving, the step of fasting and abstinence).

works

Liber Sapientiae Spiritualis: Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, XIII.AA.8, f. 1r-79v.

literature

Alfonso Miola, ‘Le scritture in volgare dei primi tre secoli della lingua ricercate nei codici della Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli (continuazione)’, Il Propugnatore 20:2 (Bologna: G. Romagnoli, 1887), 237-53 (250-253).

 

 

 

 

Author of Libro del conosçimiento (fl. ca. 1360?)

OM. Spanish friar. The Libro del conosçimiento (ca. 1360?) ascribed to him amounts to a rather fictive geographical description of Europe, Asia and Africa. It offers a series of fictive travel routes, mostly based on other travel stories.

works

Libro del conosçimiento: o.a. Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, 1997 & 9055.
For editions, see: Sinica Franciscana, ed. A. van den Wyngaert I, 563-575; Libro del conosçimiento de todos los reynos y tierras y señorios que son por el mundo y de las señales y armas que han cada tierra y señorio por sy y de los reyes y señores que los proven, ed. M.J. de la Espada (Madrid, 1877); Book of the Knowledge of all the Kingdoms, Lands, and Lordships that are in the World, and the Arms and Devices of Each Land and Lordship, or the Kings and Lords who Possess them; Written by a Spanish Franciscan in the Middle of the XIV Century, trans. C. Markham, Hakluyt Society, Second Series, 29 (London, 1912); Libro del Conosçimiento de todos los regnos et tierras et señorios que son por el mundo, et de las señales et armas que han. Edición facsimilar del manuscrito Z (Múnich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. hisp.150), ed. María Jesús Lacarra, María del Carmen Lacarra Ducay y Alberto Montaner (Zaragoza: Institución Femando el Católico (CSIC), 1999).

literature

Anna-Dorothée von den Brincken, Die `Nationes Christianorum orientalium' im Verständnis der lateinischen Historiographie von der Mitte des 12. bis in die zweite Hälfte des 14. Jahrhunderts, Kölner historische Abhandlungen, 22 (Cologne: Böhlau, 1973), 450; B. Roest, Reading the Book of History, Ch. II; J. Richard,`Voyages réels et voyages imaginaires, instruments de la connaissance géographique au moyen-âge', Culture et travail intellectual médiévale dans l'occident médiéval, Bilan des `Colloques d'humanisme médiéval' (1960-1980) (Paris, 1981), 211-220; Peter Edward Russell, 'La heráldica en el Libro del conosçimiento', in: Studia in honorem prof. M. de Riquer, 4 Vols. (Barcelona, 1986-1991) II, 687-697; Martín de Riquer, 'La heráldica en el Libro del Conoscimiento, por tercera vez', in: Letters and Society in Fifteenth-Century Spain. Studies Presented to P. E. Russell on his Eightieth Birthday, ed. Alan David Deyermond & Jeremy N.H. Lawrence (Llangrannog, 1993), 149-151; Paloma García Alonso, 'La leyenda de Gog y Magog en el 'Libro del conosçimiento'', in: Actas do XIX Congreso Internacional de Lingüística y Filología Románicas (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 1989), Bd. 7: Sección IX. Filoloxía medieval e renacentista (Coruña, 1994), 827-842; María Jesús Lacarra Ducay, 'Un nuevo manuscrito del 'Libro del conosçimiento', in: Nunca fue pena mayor: estudios de literatura española en homenaje a Brian Dutton, ed. Victoriano Roncero López & Ana Menéndez Collera (Cuenca, 1996), 435-442; María Jesús Lacarra Ducay, 'El "Libro del conoscimiento de todos los reinos del mundo": la lectura sapiencial de un libro de viajes imaginarios', Memorabilia. Boletín de literatura sapiencial 4 (2000) [http://parnaseo.uv.es/Memorabilia/Lacarra.htm ]; Julia Roumier, 'El Libro del conosçimiento: l'imaginaire cartographique dans un voyage à travers les images', in: Image et voyage: représentations iconographiques du voyage, de la Méditerranée aux Indes orientales et occidentales, de la fin du Moyen Âge au XIXe siècle, ed. Loïc Guyon (Aix-en-Provence, 2012), 41-52; Kiril Nenov, 'Bulgaria and the Western Black Sea region in Libro del conosçimiento, 14th century', Bulgaria Mediaevalis 7 (2016), 99-115; Jorge Simón Izquierdo Díaz, 'Los nombres de enclaves de los países nórdicos en el "Libro del conoscimiento de reynos, tierras y señoríos? (s. XIV) y en una relación del diplomático Juan Scheffer (1627). Una comparación diacrónica', Brocar 41 (2017), 37-51.

 

 

 

 

Author of Libro llamado Fuente de vida (fl. early 16th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar. Author of a complex Libro llamado Fuente de vida that contains a Doctrina cristiana que trata de los vicios y virtudes; Vita Christi muy devoto que trada de la vida virtuosísima de nuestro Señor Jesu-cristo y de nuestra señora su santísima madre; Declaración de los misterios de la misa; De los tres grados de la contemplación; Centiloquio; Escalera del paraíso que trata de los efectos que hacen en el ánima los vicios y las virtudes y de los cuatro novísimos. Some scholars attribute this work to Barnabas da Palma. Other mention (for some of these works) the Franciscan friars Juan de Cazalla and Francisco de Borja. The Escalera del paraíso can be found in several editions of the collected works of the latter.

works

Libro llamado Fuente de vida, hecho por un fraile de la Orden de nuestro seráfico padre San Francisco, y contiene este libro seys tratados muy devotos y muy provechos (Valencia, 1527/Burgos, 1528/Medina del Campo: Pedro de Castro, 1542).

literature

Isaías Rodríguez, ‘Autores espirituales españoles (1500-1700)’, Repertorio de Historia de las Ciencias eclesiasticas en España 3 (siglos xiii-xvi) (Salamanca, 1971), 433-434.

 

 

 

 

Compiler of a Manuale (ca. 1500)

OMObs. Italian friar. Compiler or assembler of a manual/commonplace book with citations, proverbs and maxims, prayers, catechistic elements, the rule of the Third Order, privileges and indulgences granted to the TOR, confession guidelines (derived from Giacomo della Marca), etc.

works

Manuale (1497 or after, with citations, proverbs and maxims, prayers, catechistic elements, the rule of the Third Order, privileges and indulgences granted to the TOR, confession guidelines (derived from Giacomo della Marca), etc.): MS Ascoli Piceno, Archivio di Stato, Fondo notarile di Ascoli Piceno, Codice liturgico. For an analysis, see: Valter Laudadio, '“Manuale” per un frate dell’Osservanza', Picenum Seraphicum n.s. 32 (2018), 175-190, who concludes near the end (pp. 188-189): 'È un manuale, dall’uso pratico e continuo, dal contenuto molto vario, di diseguale valore, con ripetizioni e doppioni; senza pretese artistiche o di pregio, realizzato in un centro scrittorio non necessariamente arretrato dal punto di vista culturale, ma che certo non dà importanza all’aspetto esteriore del prodotto. Insomma, è un libro professionale (come i manuali ad uso dei pastori, dei teologi, dei medici), realizzato per chi, già in possesso di un sicuro bagaglio culturale di base (tale da fargli padroneggiare il latino e le tematiche), ha bisogno di preziosi e pertinenti richiami di auctores (citazioni), documentazione inattaccabile (come anche la regola del TOF e i privilegi pontifici), spunti teorici e pratici per la predicazione (rintracciabili in tutto il codice), metodi per il confessore e il confitente (il manuale). Solo in un manuale hanno senso la compresenza di componenti tanto diverse e caratteristiche come praticità d’uso, maneggiabilità e portabilità. È, quindi, proprio un esemplare della tipologia libraria oggi definita tascabile, allora “libro da bisaccia”.'

 

 

 

 

Author of Massime e Riflessioni ascetico-morali proposte ad un novello Maestri dei Novizi Capuccini (1775)

OFMCap. Italian friar.

works

Massime e Riflessioni ascetico-morali proposte ad un novello Maestri dei Novizi Capuccini (Cesena, 1775).

literature

Catalogus Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum, ab anno 1747 usque ad annum 1852, sive Appendix ad Bibliothecam Scriptorum Capuccinorum a P. Bernardo Bononiensi (...) (Rome: Gaetano A. Bertinelli, 1852), 13.

 

 

 

 

Author of Meditatio Pauperis in Solitudine (fl. second half 13th cent.)

OM. English (?) friar. Author of a late thirteenth-century meditative treatise called Meditatio Pauperis in Solitudine. This text is clearly the product of a well-educated man. The editor of the text, Ferdinand Delorme shows special points of contact with the Canticum Pauperis pro Dilecto, attributed to John Pecham, suggesting that the Meditatio is dependent on the latter. It is also clear that the work has strong doctrinal and methodological links with the works of Bonaventura da Bagnoreggio, as well as with the Defensio Fratrum Mendicantium of Guido della Marca (ca. 1274). According to David Flood (2002), this text should be ascribed to John of Wales. But the question has not yet been settled.

works

Meditatio Pauperis in Solitudine: MS Assisi, Biblioteca Comunale 422 ff. 61a-128 (this MS also contains the Breviloquium of Bonaventura); Assisi, Biblioteca Comunale 439 ff. 1r-49b (this MS also contains some spiritual works of Bonaventura)
For editions and translations, see: Meditatio Pauperis in Solitudine, auctore anonymo saec. XIII, ed. Ferdinand Delorme, Bibliotheca Franciscana Ascetica Medii Aevi, 7 (Ad Claras Aquas, 1929). It has found an English translation in: Campion Murray, A Meditation in Solitude of One Who Is Poor (Box Hill, Australia: Franciscan Press, 1997). For an Italian translation, see: Meditaziones del Povero nella Solitudine, d. L. Temperino, in: I Mistici. Scritti dei mistici francescani secolo XIII, ed. L. Iriarte et. al. (Assisi, 1995), 883-987. The first part of the work (nos. 1-134 in Delorme’s edition) focuses on the themes of the conformity between Francesco d’Assisi and Christ and on evangelical perfection (following Celano, Bonaventura, and prefiguring the Fioretti, Bartolomeo da Pisa etc.). The second part of the work (nos. 134-269 in Delorme’s edition) identifies Francesco with the second angel who carries the sign of the living God (Apocalypse VII). The third part (nos. 269-365 in Delorme’s edition) deals with the virtues of the elect and the possible virtues of the true Franciscans. It is made clear throughout the work that Francesco d’Assisi has been conform with Christ in particular through his search for evangelical poverty, charity and humility. Christians who conform themselves to Francesco conform themselves with Christ.

literature

David Flood, ‘John of Wales’ Commentary on the Franciscan rule’, Franciscan Studies 60 (2002), 93-138.

 

 

 

 

Authors of Memoriale della Porziuncola

OFM. Italian friars: a series of anonymous chroniclers who between the early 18th and later 19th century produced the Memoriale della Porziuncola, with much interesting info on the friary, the province, the order and the wider world.

works

Memoriale della Porziuncola 1705-1860, ed. Bruno Pennacchini & Giovanni Boccali, 2 Vols, (Assisi: Edizioni Porziuncola, 2016). Short review in Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 111:1-2 (Jan.-June 2018), 298-300.

 

 

 

 

Memorie spettanti alla vita del P. Agostino Maria da Brescia (1775)

OFMCap. Italian friar

works

Memorie spettanti alla vita del P. Agostino Maria da Brescia (Cesena, 1775).

literature

Catalogus Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum, ab anno 1747 usque ad annum 1852, sive Appendix ad Bibliothecam Scriptorum Capuccinorum a P. Bernardo Bononiensi (...) (Rome: Gaetano A. Bertinelli, 1852), 13.

 

 

 

 

Author of Memorie subsidium metricum ad recolenda tum Geographiae et Chronologiae tum Artis oratoriae elementa (1763)

OFMCap. Italian friar.

works

Memorie subsidium metricum ad recolenda tum Geographiae et Chronologiae tum Artis oratoriae elementa (Milan: Mazzucchelli, 1763).

literature

Catalogus Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum, ab anno 1747 usque ad annum 1852, sive Appendix ad Bibliothecam Scriptorum Capuccinorum a P. Bernardo Bononiensi (...) (Rome: Gaetano A. Bertinelli, 1852), 13.

 

 

 

 

Author of Miracula Virginis Mariae - Collectio Exemplorum (fl. ca. 1400?)

OM. Italian friar. Author of an exempla collection.

works

Miracula Virginis Mariae - Collectio Exemplorum: MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, VIII.B.42

literature

Manoscritti francescani della Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli, ed. Cesare Cenci, Spicilegium Bonaventurianum, 7-8 (Quaracchi, 1971) II, 815-6.

 

 

 

 

Author of Misterios de la devoción & Misterios de los angeles (fl. first half 16th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar apparently responsible for two devotional works, known as Misterios de la devoción and Misterios de los angeles.

works

Misterios de la devoción (Burgos, 1537).

Misterios de los angeles, por un religioso de la orden de los menores (Burgos: Juan de Junta, 1539).

literature

Isaías Rodríguez, ‘Autores espirituales españoles (1500-1700)’, Repertorio de Historia de las Ciencias eclesiasticas en España 3 (siglos xiii-xvi) (Salamanca, 1971), 434.

 

 

 

 

Author of ‘Ms. Little’

OM. Italian friar. Author of a compilation of texts found by Andrew G. Little in an early fifteenth-century manuscript. It contains stories on Francis and his early companions but also on Anthony of Padua, several of which seem to have connections with the stories in the Speculum Perfectionis and sometimes seem to add materials to it. It also contains Latin versions of stories present in the Fioretti that are absent in the Actus beati Francisci et sociorum eius. According to some scholars, such as Moorman, some chapters of MS Little (such as chapters 153b, 154, 155, 187 , 194, 195 and 197) contain elements of Leo of Assisi’s Rotuli.

works

Andrew G. Little, ‘Description of a Franciscan Manuscript, formerly in the Philipps Library, now in the possession of A.G. Little’, in: Collectanea Franciscana, I, ed. A.G. Little, M.R. James & H.M. Bannister (Aberdeen, 1914/Reprint Ridgewood, 1965), 9-113.

literature

John R.H. Moorman, The Sources for the Life of St Francis of Assisi (Manchester, 1940), 135; Felice Accrocca, ‘Un’inedita incompleta trascrizione del MS. Little ad opera di Paul Sabatier’, Archivum franciscanum historicum 90 (1997), 587-590; Achim Wesjohann, Mendikantische Gründungserzählungen im 13. und 14. Jahrhundert: Mythen als Element institutioneller Eigengeschichtsschreibung der mittelalterlichen Franziskaner, Dominikaner und Augustiner-Eremiten, Vita Regularis. Ordnungen und Deutungen religiosen Lebens im Mittelalter, Abhandlungen, 49 (Münster: LIT Verlag, 2012), 105-106.

 

 

 

 

Author of Modus Reponendi Sermones per Artem Memorativam (Theophilus of Bydgoszcz?, fl. ca. 1500)

OMObs. Polish friar. Author of an anonymous treatise on the art of memory in the context of preaching. This work, originating within Polish Observant (Bernardine) circles, has survived in MS Polish Academy of Sciences, Kornik Library 119, ff. 107v-109r, also known as the codex of Theophilus of Bydgoszcz (after the main scribe of the manuscript), and also in MS Petersburg, Russian National Library Lat. Q III 86. The Kornik manuscript was written around 1507 and is a typical miscellany. It probably originated from the library of the Observant convent of Bydgoszcz. Aside from the art of memory, it contains copies of papal letters, bulls and statements concerning Observant issues, excerpts taken from constitutions and statutes, excerpts from important authoritative authors (including (Aristotle, Plato, Sophocles, Socrates, Homer, Ovid, Demosthenes, Hesiod, Quintilian, Salomon, Gellius, Augistine, Isidore, Origenes, Terentius), a list of important historical figures who were members of the Franciscan order (entitled Tabula continens summam doctorum, magistrorum, baccalaureorum, summorum pontificum, cardinalium, regum et principum qui fuerunt de ordine fratrum minorum), a series of sermons, Bernardinus de Bustis’ De corona beatae Virginis, historical anecdotes concerning the Observance and a list of Observant convents in Poland; a poem De virtutibus monasticis, and several other works. For a more in-depth description see the literature mentioned below. The whole miscellany was probably compiled as a workbook/notebook by a Polish Observant friar, and was used chiefly as a notebook. He maybe should be identified with the manuscript compiler Theophilus of Bydgoszcz, but that ascription is not secure.

works

Modus Reponendi Sermones per Artem Memorativam (ca. 1507): MS Polish Academy of Sciences, Kornik Library 119, ff. 107v-109r. For an edition, see: The Art of Memory in Late Medieval Central Europe (Czech Lands, Hungary, Poland), ed. Farkas Gabor Kiss (Budapest-Paris: L'Harmattan, 2016), 297-301.

literature

Rafal Wojcik, 'The art of memory in Poland in the Late Middle Ages (1400–1530)', in: The Art of Memory in Late Medieval Central Europe (Czech Lands, Hungary, Poland), ed. Farkas Gabor Kiss (Budapest-Paris: L'Harmattan, 2016), 65-106 (esp. 102-104. See also the introduction to the edition of the text mentioned above).
With many thanks to Farkas Gabor Kiss.

 

 

 

 

Author(s) of Necrologium conventus O.F.M. Coburgensis

OM & OFM. German friars from the Coburg friary (Bavaria, Würzburg diocese), responsible for maintaining a necrology (deathbook) of their friary. They continued an earlier text (from the 13th cent.) and was maintained until 1525.

works

Necrologium conventus O.F.M. Coburgensis: MS Neustadt an der Aisch, Kirchenbibl. saec. xv. ?
For an edition, see: Das Totenbuch des Franziskanerklosters in Coburg ca. 1257-1525 (1600), ed. K. von Andrian-Werburg, Veröffentlichungen der Gesellschaft für fränkische Geschichte, Ser. IV, 10 (Neustadt an der Aisch, 1990).

literature

Necrologium conventus O.F.M. Coburgensis, http://www.geschichtsquellen.de/repOpus_03513.html, 2016-03-17

 

 

 

 

Author of Necrologium Fratrum Minorum Hamburgensium

OM. German friar. Author of a necrology of the Hamburg Franciscans.

works

Patricius Schlager (ed.), 'Das Nekrologium des Hamburger Franziskanerklosters', Beiträge zur Geschichte der sächsischen Franziskanerprovinz vom Heiligen Kreuze 3 (1910), 1-57.

 

 

 

 

Author of No more ne willi wiked be, poetry (fl. 14th cent?)

OM. English Franciscan friar known for his religious poetry.

literature

D. Anderson, ‘‘No more ne willi wiked be’: religious poetry in Franciscan manuscript (Digby 2)’, in: Literature and Religion in the Later Middle Ages. Studies in Honor of Siegfried Wenzel, ed. R.G. Neuhauser & John A. Alford (New York, 1995).

 

 

 

 

Author of Pectorale Dominicae Passionis (fl. second half 15th cent.)

OM. Belgian (Flemish) friar, known for a Pectorale Dominicae Passionis (ca. 1486-1497).

literature

De Troeyer, Biobibliographia Franciscana Neerlandica ante Saec. XVI I, 139-140.

 

 

 

 

Author of Pharetra (Pseudo-Bonaventura. 14th cent?)

OM. Italian (?) friar. His work Pharetra for a very long time was seen as a work by Bonaventure and as such ended up in several Opera Omnia editions of the latter.

works

Pharetra: MSS Avignon, Bibliothèque Municipale 227 (an. 1490); Toulouse, Bibliothèque Municipale 175; Vienna, Österr. Landesbibliothek 4893 ff. 1-133 (an. 1377).
For editions, see: Liber Pharetra Vocatus seu Scintillarium, edited in S. Bonaventure, Libri et Tractatus Varii (Cologne, 1484-5/ Strasbourg, 1489/ Brescia, 1497/ Venice, 1504/ Paris, 1517); Liber salutaris beati Bonaventure, cardinalis Ordinis Fratrum minorum, Pharetra vocatus, ed. Johannes de Monte OFM (Paris: Berthold Rembolt, 1518); Pharetra, edited in Bonaventura, Opera Omnia, ed. A.C. Peltier (Paris, 1866), VII, 3-231

 

 

 

 

Author of Poeta Carceratus

OFM. Italian friar, Author of a poetic work from the seventeenth century.

works

Poeta Carceratus: Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale., V. H. 112.

literature

Manoscritti francescani della Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli, ed. Cesare Cenci, Spicilegium Bonaventurianum, 7-8 (Quaracchi, 1971) I, 241-3.

 

 

 

 

Author of Postillae Evangeliorum Dominicalium,Ferialium, et Quorundam Festivalium (c. 1450)

OM. Belgian or German friar. Author of a compilation of sermons and sermon outlines, with excerpts from the works of, among others, Bertrand de la Tour, Alexander of Hales, Nicholas of Lyra and Nicholas Gorran OP.

works

Postillae Evangeliorum Dominicalium,Ferialium, et Quorundam Festivalium: MS Liège, Grande Séminaire 6.H.7

literature

Anscar Zawart, ‘The history of Franciscan preaching and of Franciscan preachers (1209-1927): a bio-bibliographical study’, Franciscan Studies 7 (1928), 364-5

 

 

 

 

Author of Practica Inquisitionis ad Usum Donati de Sanct'Agatha et Fratrum Minorum Provincie Romandiolae

OM. French friar. Author of a Franciscan Inquisitorial treatise?

works

Practica Inquisitionis ad Usum Donati de Sanct'Agatha et Fratrum Minorum Provincie Romandiolae: MS Paris, BN, Lat. 3373 ff. 1-21, 35-71v.

 

 

 

 

Author of Prediche sul Terz’Ordine (fl. 15th cent.)

OM. Italian friar. Author of sermons on the third order and its qualities.

works

Prediche sul Terz'Ordine (15th cent.), edited in: Livarius Oliger, ‘VIImo centenario del Terz'Ordine Francescano’, Studi Francescani (1921), 62-68.

literature

Anscar Zawart, ‘The history of Franciscan preaching and of Franciscan preachers (1209-1927): a bio-bibliographical study’, Franciscan Studies 7 (1928), 323; AFH 16 (1923), 429.

 

 

 

 

Author of the Predigt des Barfüßer-Lesemeister (fl. ca. 1340)

OM. German friar. Lector in the Saxony province. This sermon is included in the German mystical sermon collection Paradisus anime intelligentis, produced in the Erfurt Dominican province in the 1340s, both to provide examples of preaching and to 'prove' the correctness of the Dominican position in a controversy between the Dominicans and the Franciscans concerning the role of knowledge/ratio and love/will in faith and obtaining beatitude.

works

Predigt des Barfüßer-Lesemeister (ca. 1340): MS Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibl., Cod. theol. 2057, ff. 160v-163v.

literature

Kurt Ruh, 'Paradisus anime intelligentis', in: Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon VII (1989), 208-303; Burkhard Hasebrink, 'Studies on the Redaction and Use of the Paradisus anime intelligentis', in: De l'homélie au sermon. Histoire de la prédication médiévale, ed. Jacqueline Hamesse & X. Hermand (Louvain-la-Neuve, 1993), 143-158; Volker Honemann, ‘Das mittelalterliche Schrifttum der Franziskaner der Sächsischen Ordensprovinz unter besonderer Berücksichtigung deutschsprachiger Zeugnisse’, in: Geschichte der Sächsischen Franziskanerprovinz, 1: Von den Anfängen bis zur Reformation, ed. Volker Honemann (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015), 690-691.

 

 

 

 

Author of Processo delli morti in servitio delli appestati e di quelli che havendo servito, turravia vivono (fl. 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Author of a work on Plague processions organized in 1656-1657.

works

Processo delli morti in servitio delli appestati. Contributo di un codice cappuccino alla storia dell’epidemia del 1656-1657 in Abruzzo, ed. Luigi Del Vecchio, Documenti e studi, 1 (L’Aquila (Convento S. Chiara): Edizioni Frati Minori Cappuccini d’Abruzzo, 2006). Cf review in Collectanea Franciscana 77 (2007), 747-748.

 

 

 

 

Author of Provinciale Omnium Ecclesiarum and related works

OM. Italian (?) friar. Compiler of a collection of provincial and general order statutes and related materials.

works

Provinciale Omnium Ecclesiarum; Acta Conc. Gen. Lugdunensis; Debita, Consuetudines et Ceremonie (...); Constitutiones Cancellarie: MS Bologna, Coll. Hisp. S. Clemente 275 (saex. XV).

 

 

 

 

Author of Quare detraxistis (fl. ca. 1360)

OM. Italian friar moving in Fraticelli circles. Author of a polemic work, probably dating from the period of the pontificate of Innocent VI, during heavy fraticelli persecutions. Sedda’s edition is based on the only surviving manuscript: Louvain, Catholic University, Theology Faculty Library, MS Grand Séminaire, 17. Sedda claims that the work is partly based on an older text, the so-called anonymous Veritatem sapientis. Yet Jan Ballweg (Picenum Seraphicum 20 (2001), 47-112 argues that Veritatem sapientis is based on the Quare detraxistis. In any case, the Quare detraxistis is a polemical work of a central Italian fraticello in the context of inquisitorial persecution. In Sedda’s opinion, the older Veritatem sapientis is itself composed some decade(s) prior to that in the cultual ambiance of Munich, where the party of friars was hovering near the court of Louis of Bavaria.

works

Quare detraxistis, see: Filippo Sedda, ‘Un testo fraticellesco dell’Italia Centrale. Edizione e studio di alcuni capitoli della ‘Quare detraxistis”, AFH 102 (2009), 135-174 & Quare detraxistis sermonibus veritatis. La disputa della povertà in un testo fraticellesco del XIV sec., ed. F. Sedda (Rome: Antonianum, 2011).>> Review in CF 82 (2012), 788-790.

 

 

 

 

Author of the Quadragesimale peregrini (fl. ca. 1410)

OM. German friar. Author of a Lenten collection that exploited the imagery and structure of Dante's Commedia.

works

Quadragesimale peregrini. See: Pietro Delcorno, 'Preaching Dante’s Commedia in the German World', in: Preaching and New Worlds: Sermons as Mirrors of Realms Near and Far, ed. T. Johnson, K. Wrisley Shelby & J.D. Young (New York-London: Routledge, 2018), 163-184.

 

 

 

 

Author of Quaestio de Imagine Recreationis

OM. Italian friar. Author of a ‘Bonaventurian’ question.

works

Quaestio de Imagine Recreationis: MS Assisi, Bibl. Comm. 186 (ed. in prep. by F. Chavero Blanco).

literature

F. Chavero Blanco, ‘La Quaestio de imagine recreationis del Ms Assisi, Comunale, 186 ¿Un escrito bonaventuriano? = The «Quaestio de imagine recreationis» of the Ms Assisi, Comunale, 186. A Bonaventurian script?’, AFH 92:1-2 (1999), 3-58.

 

 

 

 

Author of Quaestiones disputatae 'De productione rerum', 'De imagine' et 'De anima' e schola bonaventuriana (fl. 13th cent.)

OM. Italian (?) friar. Author of a number of disputed questions produced around 1260 in the ambiance of a Franciscan degree school (Paris?) and in line with Bonaventurian thought.

works

Quaestiones disputatae 'De productione rerum', 'De imagine' et 'De anima' e schola bonaventuriana (ca. 1260): MS Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Conv. Soppr. D.4.27.
For an edition, see: Quaestiones disputatae 'De productione rerum', 'De imagine' et 'De anima' e schola bonaventuriana (codex Conv. Soppr. D.4.27 Bibliothecae Nationalis Centralis Florentiae), ed. Mikolaj Olszewki, Bibliotheca seraphico-capuccina, 101 (Rome: Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, 2014). See review in Collectanea Franciscana 85:3-4 (2015), 760-761.

 

 

 

 

Author of a series of Quaestiones super III Sententiarum (fl. 14th cent.)

OM. German (?) friar. Author of a partial commentary on the third book of the Sentences in Scotist fashion.

works

Quaestiones super III Sent.., dist. 5-19, 29-40: MS Wolfenbüttel, Herzog Augustbibl. Extravagantes 20 (85ff, 14th cent.)

 

 

 

 

Author of the Quaranta Massime esposte ad una Religiosa (ca. 1760)

OFMCap. Italian friar.

works

Quaranta Massime esposte ad una Religiosa per formare il carattere di una vera Sposa di Cristo (Venice: Remondini, ca. 1760).

literature

Catalogus Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum, ab anno 1747 usque ad annum 1852, sive Appendix ad Bibliothecam Scriptorum Capuccinorum a P. Bernardo Bononiensi (...) (Rome: Gaetano A. Bertinelli, 1852), 13.

 

 

 

 

Author of the Registrum Anglie, (fl. ca. 1325)

OM. English friar. Compiler of a location list made by English friars of patristic works in libraries of the old orders.

works

Registrum Anglie: MS Cambridge, Peterhouse, 169; Oxford, Bodleian, Tanner 165.

literature

R. & M. Rouse, Authentic Witnesses. Approaches to Medieval Texts and Manuscripts (Notre Dame, IN, 1991), 423.

 

 

 

 

Author of Relazione fedele della grande controversia nata in Gerusalemme circa alcuni Santuari dai Greci usurpati ai Latini (1637)

OFM. Italian friar. Author of a work on the 17th-century disputes between the Greek Orthodox and the Franciscans about the Holy Places in Jerusalem. This work has been ascribed to several friars active in the Holy Land, yet all these ascriptions seem to be problematical.

works

Relazione fedele della grande controversia nata in Gerusalemme circa alcuni Santuarii dai Greci usurpati a’ latini (Lodi: C. Calderino, 1637).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, BUF III, 11; Girolamo Golubovich, Serie cronologica dei reverendissimi superiori di Terra Santa, ossia, dei provinciali, custodi e presidenti della medesima (…), Nuova serie (Jerusalem: Tipografia del Convento di S. Salvatore, 1898), 73 (no. 129); http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/francesco-quaresmi_(Dizionario-Biografico)/

 

 

 

 

Author of Sacrum Commercium Sancti Francisci cum Domine Paupertate (fl. 13th cent.)

OM. Italian friar. Author of the intriguing Sacrum Commercium Sancti Francisci cum Domine Paupertate. This partly allegorical and intriguing work sings the praises of the bond between Francis and ‘Lady poverty’. The authorship of the text is unknown. In the Chronica XXIV Generalium, the work is ascribed to Giovanni of Parma. Other friars mentioned as authors are Giovanni Parenti, Antonio of Padua, Crescenzio of Jesi and Caesarius of Speyer. None of these ascriptions can be fully ascertained. The date of composition is also highly contested. Although some of the manuscripts include a colophon suggesting that the work was written in July 1227, less than a year after Francis' death and before his canonization, the editor Stefano Brufani dates the work to the 1250s and therefore situates it in the context of the anti-mendicant polemics launched by the secular masters at Paris. For an evaluation of these various viewpoints, see also Wesjohann (2012), 115-119.

works

Sacrum Commercium Sancti Francisci cum Domine Paupertate, ed. Stefano Brufani, Medioevo Francescano, Testi 1 (S. Maria degli Angeli-Assisi, 1990); Sacrum Commercium Sancti Francisci cum Domine Paupertatis, ed. in: Fontes Franciscani, ed. Enrico Menestò & Stefano Brufani (Assisi: Ed. Porziuncola, 1995), 1693-1732.
For a modern German translation, see: Der Bund des heiligen Franziskus mit der Herrin Armut, Einführung, Übersetzung, Anmerkungen, ed. & trans. Kajetan Eßer & Engelbert Grau, Franziskanische Quellenschriften, 9 (Werl: Coelde Verlag, 1966).

literature

Paul Sabatier, ‘Kurze Bemerkungen zur historischen Bedeutung des Sacrum Commercium Beati Francisci cum Domina Paupertate’, Franziskanische Studien 13 (1926), 277-282; Martin Herz, Sacrum Commercium. Eine begriffsgeschichtliche Studie zur Theologie der röhmischen Liturgiesprache, Münchner Theologische Schriften, II. Systematische Abteilung, 15 (Munich, 1958); Auspicius van Corstanje, Gottes Bund mit den Armen, Biblische Grundgedanken bei Franziskus von Assisi, Bücher franziskanischer Geistigkeit, 10 (Werl: Coelde, 1964); Barbara Rosenwein & Lester K. Little, ‘Social Meaning in the Monastic and Mendicant Spiritualities', Past and Present 63 (1974), 4-32; David Flood, ‘The Domestication of the Franciscan Movement’, Franziskanische Studien 60 (1978), 311-327 (esp. 325-327); Engelbert Grau, ‘Das ‘Sacrum commercium sancti Francisci cum domina paupertate. Seine Bedeutung für die franziskanusche Mystik’, in: Abendländische Mystik im Mittelalter. Symposion Kloster Engelberg 1984, ed. Kurt Ruh, Germanistische Symposien, 7 (Stuttgart, 1986), 269-285; Stefano Brufani, ‘Il Sacrum commercium: l’identità minoritica nel mito delle origini’, in: Dalla ‘sequela Christi’ di Francesco d’Assisi all’apologia della povertà. Atti del XVIII convegno internazionale (Assisi, 18-20 ottobre 1990) (Spoleto: Società internazionale di studi francescani – Centro interuniversitario di studi francescani, 1992), 203-222; Marino Bigaroni, ‘Sacrum commercium Sancti Francisci cum Domina Paupertate. Nuova edizione critica’, Archivum franciscanum historicum 86 (1993), 99-103; Jean Lacroix, 'Significations de l'itinéraire bio- (hagio)graphique franciscain aux XIIIe et XIVe siècles (du Sacrum commercium aux Fioretti) (1227)-(vers 1380)', in: Litterature epique au Moyen Âge: hommage a Jean Fourquet pour son 100ème anniversaire, ed. Danielle Buschinger (Greifswald, 1999), 273-300; Annette Kehnel, ‘Der freiwillige Arme ist ein potentiell Reicher. Eine Unterscheidung zwischen freiwilliger und unfreiwilliger Armut’, in: In proposito paupertatis: Studien zum Armutsverständnis bei den mittelalterlichen Bettelorden, ed. G. Melville & A. Kehnel, Vita Regularis – Abhandlungen, 13 (Münster: LIT Verlag, 2001), 203-228; Barbara Newman, God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages, The Middle Ages (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), 3-9; Alviero Niccacci, ‘Riflessioni bibliche sul ‘Sacrum commercium sancti Francisci cum domina Paupertate”, in: Domini vestigia sequi: miscellanea offerta a p. Giovanni M. Boccali ofm. per il suo 75. di vita e 50. di sacerdozio, ed. Cesare Vaiani, Studi e ricerche, 15 (Santa Maria degli Angeli (Perugia), 2003), 99-129; Rosalind B. Brooke, The Image of St Francis: Responses to Sainthood in the Thirteenth Century, Reprint (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 157-159; Jean-Baptiste Auberger, ‘Presentación y análisis del Sacrum Commercium’, Selecciones de Franciscanismo 37 (2008), 95-106; Michael F. Cusato, ‘Commercium: From the Profane to the Sacred’, in: Idem, The Early Franciscan Movement (1205-1239) History, Sources and Hermeneutics (Spoleto: Centro Italiano di studi sull’alto medioevo, 2009); J. Schlageter, ‘Der hl. Bund des sel. Franziskus mit der Herrin Armut (Sacrum Commercium)’, in: Franziskus-Quellen. Die Schriften des Heiligen Franziskus, Lebensbeschreibungen, Chroniken und Zeugnisse über ihn und seinen Orden, ed. Dieter Berg, Leonhard Lehmann et al., Zeugnisse des 13. und 14. Jahrhunderts zur Franziskanischen Bewegung, Band 1 (Kevelaer: Butzon & Bercker, Ed. T. Coelde, 2009), 654-685; Achim Wesjohann, Mendikantische Gründungserzählungen im 13. und 14. Jahrhundert: Mythen als Element institutioneller Eigengeschichtsschreibung der mittelalterlichen Franziskaner, Dominikaner und Augustiner-Eremiten, Vita regularis - Abhandlungen, 49 (Münster: LIT Verlag, 2012), 115-119; Latifah Troncelliti, 'Sacrum Commercium', in: Idem, Thoughts on Francis of Assisi (New York, NY, 2013), 51-58; Vincenza Tamburri, 'Letteratura e povertà. Il Sacrum commercium sancti Francisci cum domina Paupertate', in: Letteratura e denaro: ideologie, metafore, rappresentazioni. Atti del convegno di Bressanone (11-14 luglio 2013), ed. Alvaro Barbieri & Elisa Gregori (Padua, 2014), 211-220; Alfonso Marini, 'Sacrum Commercium Sancti Francisci cum Domina Paupertate: Rivendicazione della novità del movimento minoritico', in: Storia della spiritualità francescana, I: secoli XIII-XVI, ed. M. Bartoli, W. Block & A. Mastromatteo (Bologna: Edizione Dehoniane, 2017), 241-256.

 

 

 

 

Author of the Saechsische Weltchronik (fl. 13th cent.)

OM. German friar?. Possible author of a vernacular universal chronicle, composed in three different redactions between ca. 1225/1230 and ca. 1255? The text used materials from the universal chronicle of Albert von Stade and one version of this text was used by Alexander Minorita for the construction of his Apocalypse commentary. The question remains whether this chronicle was a Franciscan production or not. The scholarly discussions concerning this question are complex, and there are also quite a few scholars who ascribe it to Eike von Repgow. It is possible that the work was conceived or at least copied in the Franciscan studium generale of Magdeburg and became a base for the construction of the Schwabenspiegel, but nothing is certain. The best up-to-date status quaestionis concerning this text is given in Honemann (2015), 734-739.

works

Das Buch der Welt. Kommentar und Edition zur ‘Sächsische Weltchronik’, Ms. Memb. I, 90 Forschungs- und Landesbibliothek Gotha, ed. Hubert Herkommer (Luzern, 2000).

literature

Hubert Herkommer, Überlieferungsgeschichte der ‘Sächsische Weltchronik’, Münchener Texte und Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters, 38 (M, 1972); Hubert Herkommer, ‘Eike von Repgows ‘Sachsenspiegel’ und die Sächsische Weltchronik’, Jahrbuch des Vereins für niederdeutsche Sprachforschung 100 (1977), 7-42; Michael Menzel, Die Sächsische Weltchronik. Quellen und Stoffauswahl, Vorträge und Forschungen. Sonderband, 34 (Sigmaringen, 1985); Hubert Herkommer, ‘Sächsische Weltchronik’, Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon VIII (1992), 473-500; Jürgen Wolf, Die Sächsische Weltchronik im Spiegel ihrer Handschriften. Überlieferung, Textentwickung, Rezeption, Münstersche Mittelalter-Schriften, 75 (Munich, 1997); Volker Honemann, ‘Franziskanische Geschichtsschreibung’, in: Geschichte der Sächsischen Franziskanerprovinz, 1: Von den Anfängen bis zur Reformation, ed. Volker Honemann (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015), 734-739; U. Rautenberg, 'Sächsische Weltchronik', in: Lexikon des gesamten Buchwesens Online [Consulted online on 10 March 2021 ]

 

 

 

 

Author of Scala divini amoris (c. 1300)

OM. French (Provencal) friar?. Author of a Spiritual text from Southern France with connection to the works of the beguine Mechthild of Magdeburg and Francis's Canticle of the Sun. Unclear whether the text was made by a man or woman connected with the Franciscan order or not. But Franciscan sensibilities are clear.

works

Scala divini amoris - Stufen zur Gottesliebe. Ein mystischer Weisheitstext aus der Provence, trans. Kurt Ruh & ed. Simon Peng-Keller (Freiburg im Breisgau: Kreuz Verlag, 2013). Cf. Review in Collectanea Franciscana 85:3-4 (2015), 742-744.

 

 

 

 

Author of the Schwarzwälder Predigten (fl. 13th cent.)

OM? German friar (?). Author a South German double sermon collection of Sunday sermons and sermons on saints from the late 13th century. This collection has been assigned to a secular cleric working in an urban environment (Ruh), but also to a Franciscan from either Augsburg, Ulm or Konstanz influenced by the sermons of Berthold of Regensburg & the Latin sermons of Conrad of Saxony (o.a. Franz, Schiewer and more cautiously Williams-Krapp). Others claim that the work might have been the work of an Augustinian Hermit (Cruel, Stamm). In any case these sermons do show considerable influence of Berthold of Regensburg & especially Conrad of Saxony. Aside from hat, the sermons on saints build on the Legenda Aurea, the Historia Scholastica, the Physiologus, and in particular the Old Testament. The text of the sermons contains many Latin citations, which is apparently quite exceptional for this type of vernacular collections. For a survey of the available manuscripts, see Werner Williams-Krapp (1978).

works

Schwarzwälder Predigten. These sermons were edited first in F.K. Grieshaber, Deutsche Predigten des 13. Jahrhunderts, 2 Vols. (Stuttgart, 1844-46); A number have been edited in Predigten des Schwarzwälder Predigers, ed. Gerhard Stamm, Kleine Deutsche Prosadenkmäler des Mittelalters, 12 (Fink, 1973), and in Fest- und Heiligenpredigten des ‘Schwarzwälder Predigers’, ed. Ulla Williams & Werner Williams-Krapp, Kleine Deutsche Prosadenkmäler des Mittelalters, 14 (Munich: Fink, 1982). Parts (?) have also been edited in Hans-Jochen Schiewer, Die ‘Schwarzwälder Predigten’. Entstehungs- und Überlieferungsgeschichte der Sonntags- und Heiligenpredigten. Mit einer Musteredition, MTU 105 (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1996). See also Kurt Ruh, ‘Das Autograph des ‘Schwarzwälder Predigers'? Zu H.-J. Schiewer, ‘Die Schwarzwälder Predigten, MTU 105’’, Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur 129:1 (2000), 35-37.

literature

Anscar Zawart, ‘The history of Franciscan preaching and of Franciscan preachers (1209-1927): a bio-bibliographical study’, Franciscan Studies 7 (1928), 343; Linsenmeyer, Geschichte der Predigt, 354-364; Gerhad Stamm, Studien zum ‘Schwarzwälder Prediger’ (Munich: Fink, 1969); Werner Williams-Krapp, Das Gesamtwerk des sog. Schwarzwälder Predigers’, Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur 107 (1978), 50-80 [with edition of the Christmas sermon ‘De nativitate Domini’ on pp. 66-80]; Kurt Ruh, ‘Deutsche Predigtbücher des Mittelalters’, in: K. Ruh, Kleine Schriften, ed. V. Mertens, 2 Vols. (Berlin-New York, 1984) II, 296-317; Hans-Jochen Schiewer, Die ‘Schwarzwälder Predigten’. Entstehungs- und Überlieferungsgeschichte der Sonntags- und Heiligenpredigten, MTU 105 (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1996); Kurt Ruh, ‘Das Autograph des ‘Schwarzwälder Predigers’? Zu H.-J. Schiewer, ‘Die Schwarzwälder Predigten, MTU 105’’, Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur 129:1 (2000), 35-37; Regina D. Schiewer, ‘Sub Iudaica Infirmitate – ‘Under the Jewish Weakness’: Jews in Medieval German Sermons’, in: The Jewish-Christian Encounter in Medieval Preaching, ed. Jonathan Adams & Jussi Hanska (Routledge, 2014), 59-87 (esp. 62-64).

 

 

 

 

Author of Scriptum super Hieremiam (fl. mid 13th cent.)

OM. Italian friar. Active in Northern Italy. Possible Author a mid thirteenth-century Joachimist text allegedly composed by Joachim of Fiore. The work might also have been the product of a Venetian Augustinian (?). The work had in any case quite an impact on the development of Joachimist thought within the Franciscan order and beyond an was printed at least two times in the early 16th century.

works

Eximii profundissimique sacrorum eloquiorum perscrutatoris ac futurorum prenunciatoris Abbatis Joachim Florensis scriptum super Hieremiam prophetam (...) Revisum ac correctum (Venice, 1516); Interpretatio preclara Abbatis Ioachim in Hieremiam Prophetam (Venice, 1525).

literature

Marjorie Reeves, The Influence of Prophecy, passim; Bernard McGinn, 'Circoli gioachimiti venetiani', Cristianesimo nella storia 7 (1986), 19-39; Robert Moynihan, 'The Development of the 'Pseudo-Joachim' commentary 'Super Hieremiam': New Manuscript Evidence', Mélanges de l'École française de Rome. Moyen Age, Temps Modernes 98 (1986), 109-142.

 

 

 

 

Author of Scutum Defensionis super Privilegiis Fratrum de Audiencia Confessionum et Sepultura (fl. 15th cent.)

OM. German friar. Author of a Scutum Defensionis super Privilegiis Fratrum de Audiencia Confessionum et Sepultura. See also a comparable work by Johannes Kanneman.

works

Scutum Defensionis super Privilegiis Fratrum de Audiencia Confessionum et Sepultura: MS Lüneburg, Ratsbücherei theol. 2° 49 ff. 37ra-65va.

 

 

 

 

Autor of a Sendbrief an geistliche Kinder

OM. German friar. Supposed author of an allegely Franciscan mystical-ascetical treatise in letter format found in two St. Gallen manuscripts.

literature

Kurt Ruh, Bonaventura deutsch. Ein Beitrag zur deutschen Franziskanermystik und scholastik (Bern, 1956), 52.

 

 

 

 

Author(s) of a thirteenth century collection of Sermones de Festis Sanctorum (fl. late 13th cent.)

OM. Author(s) or compiler(s) of a collection of 211 sermons, divided over three sections: De proprio sanctorum, De communi sanctorum and De proprio sanctorum. Apart from a few laudatory textfragments taken from preachers such as Bonaventure and Gilbert of Tournai, most of these sermons have not yet been attributed, although some of them show kinship with sermons in other anonymous collections, such as those in MS Uppsala, University Library C.415a.

works

Sermones de Festis Sanctorum: MS Barcelona, Archivo de la Corona de Aragón, Ripoll 195.

literature

Aleksander Horowski, 'Sermoni francescani "De Festis Sanctorum" Della Fine Del XIII Secolo nel Ms. Ripoll 195', Collectanea Franciscana 85:1-2 (2015), 83-152 [with an edition of several sermons on Franciscan saints (Francis, Claire, Anthony of Padua etc.].

 

 

 

 

Author(s) of Sermones de Sancta Clara

OM. Unknown Franciscan friars responsible for an as yet unassigned number of sermons on Clare by unknown Franciscan authors. Their provenance is not always very clear.

works

Sermones de Sancta Clara: Four anonymous sermons on Clare, found in MSS Assisi, S. Convento, Fondo Antiquo Comunale 434 f. 32v; Assisi, S. Convento, Fondo Antiquo Comunale 499 ff. 36v-38r; Assisi, S. Convento, Fondo Antiquo Comunale 466 ff. 84va-85r; Assisi, S. Convento, Fondo Antiquo Comunale 565 ff. 103va-104rb, and edited in Aleksander Horowski, ‘Chiara d’Assisi in alcuni sermoni medievali’, Collectanea Franciscana 81:3-4 (2011), 645-703.

Sermones de Sancta Clara: Two sermons on Clare of Assisi, one based on MS Troyes, Bibliothèque Municipale 1464 ff. 68va-69va, and another one based on MSS Assisi, S. Convento, Fondo Antiquo Comunale 540 ff, 172rv-172vb; Charleville-Mézières, Bibliothèque Municipale 92 ff. 176ra-176va; Monte Cassino, Biblioteca dell’Abbazia 213 ff. 142ra-142vb; Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale VIII.A.20 ff. 171vb-172va), edited in: Aleksander Horowski, ‘Chiara d’Assisi in alcuni sermoni medievali’, Collectanea Franciscana 81:3-4 (2011), 645-703.

 

 

 

 

Compiler of Sermones de Tempore Compilati ex Concionatoribus Franciscanis ut S. Bonav. Et Nicolao de Lyra (fl. 15th cent.)

OM. German (?) friar.

works

Sermones de T. Compilati ex Concionatoribus Franciscanis ut S. Bonav. Et Nicolao de Lyra: Lüneburg, Ratsbücherei theol. 2° 67 ff. 1ra-250va (15th cent.)

 

 

 

 

Author or compiler of Sermones Diversi, Sermones de T., Sermones de Passione et Resurrectione & Expositio Officii Missae (fl. 15th cent.)

OM. German (?) friar.

works

Sermones Diversi, Sermones de T., Sermones de Passione et Resurrectione & Expositio Officii Missae: Lüneburg, Ratsbücherei theol. 2° 70.

 

 

 

 

Author or compiler of a set of Sermones Dominicales (fl. 15th cent.)

OM. Spanish friar?

works

Sermones Dominicales: Madrid, Nac., 4200.

literature

M. de Castro, Manuscritos Franciscanos de la Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid (Madrid: Servicio de Publicaciones del Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia, 1973), no. 242.

 

 

 

 

Author of a collection of Sermones Evangeliares de Tempore (fl. 15th cent.)

OM. German friar.

works

Sermones Evangeliares de Tempore.: MS Lüneburg, Ratsbücherei theol. 2° 66 ff. 1ra-212rb, 263ra-273ra (15th cent.)

 

 

 

 

Author of a collection of Sermones Epistolares et Evangeliares (fl. 15th cent.)

OM. German friar.

works

Sermones Epistolares et Evangeliares: MS Lüneburg, Ratsbücherei theol. 2° 70.

 

 

 

 

Author of a collection known as Sermones, Partes VII-X Redactae a Quodam Frate Minore Saec. XIV (fl. 14th cent.)

OM. French friar.

works

Sermones, Partes VII-X Redactae a Quodam Frate Minore Saec. XIV: MS Paris, BN, Lat. 3303

 

 

 

Author of Sermoon vande bekeerde sonderesse Maria Magdalena & Sermoon vande groote liefde van Maria Magdalena (fl. 16th cent.)

OFM. Dutch friar. Creator of two long sermons in the Dutch vernacular that were printed in Antwerp in 1562. In both cases it concerned sermons on Mary Magdalen once made by an unknown Dutch friar Minor and edited/transformed by the canon Willem Frans Molaris, who was active at the St. Martin's church of Middelburg. Nothing else is known about the date and place of the initial composition of these texts.

works

Een troostelic Sermoon vande bekeerde sonderesse Maria Magdalena ghemaect over veel iaren van eenen devoten Minnebroer ende met grooter neersticheyt oversien in vele puncten ghecorrigeert ende verandert byden eerwerdigen Heere ende Meester M. Willem Frans Molaris, Canoninck ende Pastoor van sinte Mertijns Kercke binnen Middelburch ghenaemt Westmonster in Zeelandt (Antwerp: Jan van Ghelen, 1562).

Een devotelijck ende seer costelijck Sermoon vande groote liefde van Maria Magdalena by den selfden Minnebroeder, ghetoghen wt die Omelye van Origines den Griecxen Doctoor opt Evangelie datmen leest tsondaechs inde Octave van Paesschen, in vele puncten gecorrigeert ende verandert by den Eer. Heere ende Meester M. Willem Frans Molaris, Canoninck ende Pastoor van sinte Mertijns Kercke binnen Middelburch (Antwerp: Jan van Ghelen, 1562).

literature

B. De Troeyer, Bio-Bibliographica Franciscana Neerlandica saec. XVI, I: Pars biographica (Nieuwkoop: B. De Graaf, 1969), 253.

 

 

 

Author of Specchio dei religiosi (fl. 15th cent.)

OM. Italian (Venetian?) friar.

works

Specchio dei religiosi: MS Rovigo, Accademia dei Concordi, Silv. 376.

literature

Giorgia Bisio, ‘Un testimone della storia religiosa veneta del XV secolo: lo Specchio dei religiosi’, AFH 97:3-4 (2004), 347-378.

 

 

 

 

Author of Speculum humanae salvationis (fl. 14th cent.)

OM? German or Italian friar? Possible creator of a work called in some of its manuscript witnesses Liber fratris Amandi scilicet Speculum humanae salvationis. It is sometimes assumed to be a Franciscan work, yet it is more probably the product of a Dominican friar from Southern Germany or Northern Italy, and it was issued between 1309 and 1324.

works

Speculum humanae salvationis: MS Rome, Biblioteca dell’Academia Nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana 55.K.2; British Library, MS Cotton Vesp. E 1.; Etc. In all more than 300 surviving manuscripts.
There are a number of illustrated incunable and early modern editions. Speculum Humanae Salvationis. Texte Critique. Traduction Inédite de Jean Mielot (1448). Les Sources Et L'influence Iconographique Principalement Sur L'art Alsacien Du XIVe Siècle. Avec la Reproduction en 140 Planches, Du Manuscrit de Sélestat, de la Série Complète Des Vitraux de Mulhouse, de Vitraux de Colmar, de Wissembourg (ed.) J. Lutz Et P. Perdrizet

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 56; Paul Perdrizet, Étude sur le Speculum humanae salvationis (H. Champion, 1908); Chiara Frugoni & Francesca Manzari, Immagini di san Francesco in uno Speculum humanae salvationis del Trecento. Roma, Biblioteca dell’Academia Nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana 55.K.2, Biblioteca di Frate Francesco, 1 (Padua: Editrice Francescane, 2006). Review in CF 77 (2007), 670-674. See for more inforation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculum_Humanae_Salvationis

 

 

 

 

Author of Speculum Laicorum (John of Hoveden?, fl. late 13th cent.)

OM. English friar? Maybe to be identified with John Hoveden, and responsible for the Speculum Laicorum. For a description of the work, see Antonianum 2 (1927), 203-276

works

Speculum Laicorum: a.o. MSS Rome, Vat. Ottob. Lat. 522 ff. 142-321; Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, 94, 116 & 18465; El Escorial X.III.1
The work was edited as: Speculum Laicorum, ed. J.Th.Welter (Paris, 1914). Review by P. Gratien in Revue d’histoire de l’Église de France 6:31 (1920), 176-177
Check also: El Especulo de los lejos, Texto inédito del siglo XV, ed. J.M. Mohedano Hernández (Madrid, 1951) [on the basis of mss Madrid, Nac., 94, 116 & 18465 & El Escorial X.III.1

 

 

 

 

Author of Speculum Perfectionis (Anonimo della Porziuncola, fl. early 14th cent.)

OM. Italian friar and author/compiler of the Speculum Perfectionis. Paul Sabatier, the first editor of the text, saw the Speculum Perfectionis as an early work of friar Leo of Assisi, and dated it in 1227. Therewith, it would have been a fundamental document for finding the ‘true’ spirit of the early Franciscan movement. Later research has established that the Speculum Perfectionis is younger than asserted by Sabatier. The current communis opinio seems to be that the work was probably compiled in or around 1318. The Speculum Perfectionis which consists of thirteen thematical chapters, might be in part dependent on the Legenda Perusina/Compilatio Assisiensis and also shows the influence of the viewpoints of Ubertino da Casale.

works

Le Speculum Perfectionis ou Mémoires de frère Léon sur la seconde partie de la vie de saint François d’Assise, ed. P. Sabatier, 2nd ed. (Manchester, 1928); Anonimo della Porziuncola, Speculum Perfectionis Status Fratris Minoris, ed. Daniele Solvi, Edizione nazionale dei testi mediolatini, 16, Serie I, 9 (Tavarnuzze, Florence: SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzo, 2006). See review in AFH 100 (2007), 565-570, and the lengthy reviews by Johannes Schneider, ‘Das Buch ‘vom Stand des Minderbruders’. Zur Neu-Edition des ‘Speculum Perfectionis”, Collectanea Franciscana 77 (2007), 621-631, and by Dalarun and Lambertini, in Frate Francesco 73 (2007), 613-639.

literature

DSpir XIV, 1116-1117; Michael Bihl, ‘Zur Kritik des Speculum Perfectionis gelegentlich der Neuausgabe desselben von P. Sabatier’, Franziskanische Studien 22 (1935), 113-148; Sophronius Clasen, Legenda antiqua S. Francisci: Untersuchung über die nachbonaventurianischen Franziskusquellen, Legenda trium sociorum, Speculum perfectionis, Actus B. Francisci et sociorum eius und verwandtes Schrifttum (Leiden: Brill, 1967); Maurice Causse, ‘La question franciscaine: Du Speculum Perfectionis aux rotuli de Frère Léon’, Revue d'histoire et de philosophie religieuses 69 (1989), 285-307; Daniele Solvi, ‘Lo Speculum perfectionis e i rotoli di frate Leone’, Studi medievali Ser. 3, 34 (1994), 595-651; Daniele Solvi, ‘Lo Speculum perfectionis e sue fonti’, Archivum franciscanum historicum 88 (1995), 377-471; Jacques Dalarun, ‘Lo Speculum perfectionis, specchio della questione francescana. A proposito di un’edizione recente’, Frate Francesco 73 (2007), 613-632; Johannes Schneider, ‘Das Buch ‘Vom Stand des Minderbruders’: zur Neu-Edition des ‘Speculum perfectionis”, Collectanea Franciscana 77 (2007), 621-631; Maurice Causse, ‘La ‘Légende des Trois Compagnons’, le ‘Spéculum Perfectionis’ et la Question franciscaine’, in: Ens infinitum: à l’école de saint François d’Assise. Exposition, Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire de Strasbourg, 19 mars - 30 avril 2009, ed. Claude Coulot & Maurice Causse (Strasbourg, 2009), 201-220; J. Schneider, ‘Spiegel der Vollkommenheit’, in: Franziskus-Quellen. Die Schriften des Heiligen Franziskus, Lebensbeschreibungen, Chroniken und Zeugnisse über ihn und seinen Orden, ed. Dieter Berg, Leonhard Lehmann et al., Zeugnisse des 13. und 14. Jahrhunderts zur Franziskanischen Bewegung, Band 1 (Kevelaer: Butzon & Bercker, Ed. T. Coelde, 2009), 1207-1332; Achim Wesjohann, Mendikantische Gründungserzählungen im 13. und 14. Jahrhundert: Mythen als Element institutioneller Eigengeschichtsschreibung der mittelalterlichen Franziskaner, Dominikaner und Augustiner-Eremiten, Vita Regularis. Ordnungen und Deutungen religiosen Lebens im Mittelalter, Abhandlungen, 49 (Münster: LIT Verlag, 2012), 101-105; Felice Accrocca, Un santo di carta. Le fonti biografiche di san Francesco d’Assisi, Biblioteca di Frate Francesco, 13 (Rome-Milan: Centro Culturale Aracoeli-Biblioteca Francescana, 2013); Felice Accrocca, 'Oltre Sabatier. La nuova edizione dello Speculum perfectionis', in: Idem, Sulla via di Francesco: saggi e discussioni sugli scritti e le agiografie francescani (Spoleto: CISAM, 2017), 371-396.

 

 

 

 

Author of Speculum Perfectionis Minus/Speculum Perfectionis Lemmens(fl. late 13th cent.?)

OM. Italian friar. Author of a work known both as the Speculum Perfectionis Minus and as the Speculum Perfectionis Lemmens, after its first editor, Leonardus Lemmens, who saw this text as a proto-version of the Speculum Perfectionis. Although the non-systhematic way in which the materials in the SPM are organised could be seen as an argument to see it as a precursor to the SP, which is much more systhematical and thematical in its approach, there remains uncertainty about the relationship between these works, both of which seem to represent a Franciscan spiritual outlook. Parts of the Speculum Perfectionis Minus are probably inspired by and drawn from an early version of the Legenda Perusina/Compilatio Assisiensis.

works

Documenta Antiqua Franciscana, Pars II: Speculum Perfectionis (Redactio I), ed. Leonardus Lemmens (Quaracchi, 1901), 23-84; Speculum perfectionis (minus), ed. Marino Bigaroni, Biblioteca Francescana, Chiesa Nuova – Assisi, 3 (Assisi, 1983); Fontes Franciscani, 1745-1825.

literature

Massimiliano Zanot, Lo Speculum Lemmens fonte francescana (Rome, 1996); Achim Wesjohann, Mendikantische Gründungserzählungen im 13. und 14. Jahrhundert: Mythen als Element institutioneller Eigengeschichtsschreibung der mittelalterlichen Franziskaner, Dominikaner und Augustiner-Eremiten, Vita Regularis. Ordnungen und Deutungen religiosen Lebens im Mittelalter, Abhandlungen, 49 (Münster: LIT Verlag, 2012), 105; Felice Accrocca, Un santo di carta. Le fonti biografiche di san Francesco d’Assisi, Biblioteca di Frate Francesco, 13 (Rome-Milan: Centro Culturale Aracoeli-Biblioteca Francescana, 2013).

 

 

 

 

Author of Speculum vitae/Legenda antiqua/Fac secundum exemplar (fl. early 14th cent.)

OM. French (Provençal) friar. Alleged author of a compilation, probably made in Avignon, that has come down to us under different titles (Speculum vitae/Legenda antiqua/Fac secundum exemplar), and that incorporates many elements that we also find in the Actus beati Francisci and the Speculum Perfectionis, as well as sayings of Giles of Assisi, and materials taken from Francis's Testament and Admonitions (Cf. Walter W. Seton (1918/2010), 29-31). The Speculum vitae/Fac secundum exemplar was later apparently reworked into a Speculum Vitae Beati Francisci et Sociorum Eius, that saw the printing press in the early 16th century.

works

Speculum vitae/Legenda antiqua/Fac secundum exemplar. See especially the studies of Clasen and Honemann, as well as Speculum Vitae Beati Francisci et Sociorum Eius (Venice: Simon de Luere, 1504/Paris, 1509). See also: Antiquitates franciscanae, seu speculum Vitae beati Francisci & Sociorum Ejus, Auctoribus FF. Fabiano, et Hugolino, et aliis Minoritis, D. Francisco coeavis, ed. Philippe Bosquier (Cologne: Vidua Ioannis Crithii, 1623). This 1623 edition is accessible via Google Books.

literature

F. Ehrle, ‘Das Speculum vitae S. Francisci et Sociorum in den Handschriften', Zeitschrift für Katholische Theologie 12 (1888) 116ff; E. Lempp, Frère Elie de Cortone, Étude bibliographique, Collection d'études ... du moyen âge, 3 (Paris, 1898-1909), 163-169; P. Sabatier, ‘S. Francisci Legendae Veteris fragmenta quaedam. Ou de quelques chapitres de la compilation franciscaine connue sous le nom de Legenda Antiqua [circa 1322] qui paraissent provenir de la Legenda vetus [circa 1246]', in: Idem, Opuscules de critique historique I (Paris, 1903), 63-14; Walter W. Seton, Blessed Giles of Assisi, British Society of Franciscan Studies, 8 (The University Press, 1918/Reprint Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010), 29-31; John Richard Humpidge Moorman, The Sources for the Life of S. Francis of Assisi (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1940), 5, 165; Rosalind B. Brooke, Early Franciscan Government, 28ff;

S. Clasen, Legenda Antiqua S. Francisci. Untersuchung über die nachbonaventuranischen Franziskusquellen (Leiden, 1967), 3200f. Gransden, Historical Writing in England, 489; Volker Honemann, ‘Das mittelalterliche Schrifttum der Franziskaner der Sächsischen Ordensprovinz unter besonderer Berücksichtigung deutschsprachiger Zeugnisse’, in: Geschichte der Sächsischen Franziskanerprovinz, 1: Von den Anfängen bis zur Reformation, ed. Volker Honemann (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015), 610-624.

 

 

 

 

Author of Speigel der waren vnde rechten ynkere to gode (fl. ca. 1500)

OM. German friar from Braunschweig, who issued in Low German a text on conversion based on a (likewise Franciscan?) High German treatise Von der wahren Einkehr.

works

Speigel der waren vnde rechten ynkere to gode (Braunschweig: Hans Dorn, 1508).

literature

Volker Honemann, 'Der Spiegel der wahren und rechten Einkehr zu Gott', Niederdeutsches Wort 55 (2015), 71-91; Volker Honemann, ‘Das mittelalterliche Schrifttum der Franziskaner der Sächsischen Ordensprovinz unter besonderer Berücksichtigung deutschsprachiger Zeugnisse’, in: Geschichte der Sächsischen Franziskanerprovinz, 1: Von den Anfängen bis zur Reformation, ed. Volker Honemann (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015), 678.

 

 

 

 

Author of Spill de la Vida Religiosa/Espejo de Religiosos/Tratado llamado el Desseoso (early 16th cent.)

OFM. Spanish (Catalan) friar. He is seen as the author of Spill de la Vida Religiosa (Barcelona, 1515), which was quickly translated into Castilian, as the Espejo de Religiosos (Sevilla, 1533). It also appeared as the Tratado llamado el Desseoso (Toledo, 1536). The work had great succes in a range of European languages. It was claimed by the Hieronymites, who also took much effort in publishing Castilian editions and reworkings. Yet studies of J. Oriol seem to indicate that the first edition of the Spill de la Vida Religiosa, as well as the Libre de la Sancta Terçera Regla (published by the same publisher and in the same year as the Spill de la Vida Religiosa) are the work of an Observant friar minor from the Santa Maria de Barcelona convent. The Spill consists of two treatises, The first one tells the tale of a hermit, called Desitjós or Deseoso, a personification of the soul aspiring to reach perfection. At the beginning of his journey, he meets a sheep keeper who, as a real spiritual master, teaches Desitjós the means to arrive at his goal. The sheep keeper’s equipment, and the animals and plants surrounding him are symbols for the virtues leading to the love of God and for the vices that keep the soul away from is aspired goal. The remainder of the work is a journey via several additional personifications [cf. also the more in-depth analysis of Saturnino López Santidrian in DSpir XIV, 1136-1138]. The second treatise, which bears the title Psalteri de amor, explains how man (again the pilgrim Deseoso) can move from imaginative and discursive reflections towards affective prayer and an affective contemplation of human and divine love. The work uses the symbol of the psalterion (a musical instrument), that can only be played when one engages in proper charity, purifies oneself from mistakes, and builds on the base of humility. Then the psalterion will offer ten chords on which one can play to enlight the love of God. The ten chords themselves stand for a range of virtues, bringing about various degrees of love of/for God. It has been remarked that the Spill resembles externally the Blanquerna and the Félix of Ramon Llull.

works

Spill de la Vida Religiosa (Barcelona, 1515/Valencia, 1529); Espejo de Religiosos (Sevilla, 1533/11 additional editions until 1588). For additional Latin, Italian, English, German, Danish, Dutch, Irish, and Portuguese translations and (expanding) reworkings, see especially F. López Estrada, Notas sobre la espiritualidad española de los siglos de oro. Estudio del tratado llamado el Deseoso (Sevilla, 1972), 13-26.

Libre de la Sancta Terçera Regla (Barcelona, 1515).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 18; N. Antonio, Bibliotheca Hispana Nova II, 333; J. Oriol de Barcelona, ‘Un anónimo franciscano del siglo XVI’, Estudios Franciscanos 16 (1922), 21-38; L. Alcina, ‘El ‘Spill de la vida religiosa’ de Miquel Comalada’, Studia Monastica 3 (1961), 377-382 [according to which the work is made by the Hieronymite friar Miguel Comalada]; I. Rodriguez, ‘Autores espirituales españoles (1500-1572)’, Repertorio de Historia de la Ciencias Eclesiásticas en España 3 (Salamanca, 1971), 432; F. López Estrada, Notas sobre la espiritualidad española de los siglos de oro. Estudio del tratado llamado ‘El Deseoso’ (Sevilla, 1972) & AIA 35 (1971), 170-171; M. Andrés, Los Recogidos (Madrid, 1976), 77-87; DSpir XIV, 1135-1139; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 107 (no. 260).

 

 

 

 

Author of Spina et Rosa (fl. 15th cent.)

OM. Italian friar. Author of a fifteenth-century abbreviation in 25 chapters of the Compedium Theologicae Veritatis of Hugo Ripelin OP.

works

Spina et Rosa: Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale XII. F. 33, f. 1-55; XII. G. 6, f. 81a-149d.

 

 

 

 

Author of a Spiraculum/Liber Distinctionum (fl. 14th cent.)

OM. English (?) friar. Author of a Scotist Liber Distinctionum.

works

Spiraculum/Liber Distinctionum.

literature

W. Hübener, ‘Robertus Anglicus OFM (…)’, in: Philosophie im Mittelalter, ed. J.P. Beckmann et al. (Hamburg, 1994), 333.

 

 

 

 

Author of Spirituale Exercitium, ac Expositio Orationis Dominicae (fl. mid 16th cent.)

OFMDisc. Portuguese friar and author of a prayer guide.

works

Spirituale Exercitium, ac Expositio Orationis Dominicae (Coïmbra, 1549).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, BUF III, 7.

 

 

 

 

Author of Svegliarino spirituale ad uso dei novelli professi cappuccini (1760)

OFMCap. Italian friar.

works

Svegliarino spirituale ad uso dei novelli professi cappuccini (Milan, 1760).

literature

Catalogus Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum, ab anno 1747 usque ad annum 1852, sive Appendix ad Bibliothecam Scriptorum Capuccinorum a P. Bernardo Bononiensi (...) (Rome: Gaetano A. Bertinelli, 1852), 13.

 

 

 

 

Author of a Tabula Septem Custodiarum (fl. early 14th cent.)

OM. English friar (or friars). Possibly active in Oxford. He or they were behind a guide to exegetical passages in the works of the fathers.

works

Tabula Septem Custodiarum (ca. 1309): MSS Oxford, Harley, 3858; Oxford, Merton 205; Durham Univ. Cosin V.ii.4; Oxford, Balliol 217; Oxford, Magdalen, 78 & 150; Oxford, Balliol 26; Cambridge, Peterhouse 169; London, British Library Royal 3.D.i.

literature

R. & M. Rouse, Authentic Witnesses. Aapproaches to Medieval Texts and Manuscripts (Notre Dame, IN, 1991), 423 [info on the mss, scribes & owners]

 

 

 

 

Author of Tractatus de Decem Preceptis ‘fratris Stanton’ (‘friar Stanton’?, fl. 14th cent.?)

OM. English friar. Alleged author of a treatise on the ten commandments that also has been ascribed to John of Wales, Peter Aureol and others.

works

Tractatus de Decem Preceptis: MS London, Gray’s Inn MS 15 (15th cent.) ff. 1r-72r.

literature

Bloomfield et.al., Incipits of Latin Works on the Virtues and Vices, 1100-1500 AD (Cambridge MA, 1979), no. 3266; P. Glorieux, Répertoire des maîtres en théologie de Paris au XIIIe siècle, 2 Vols (Paris, 1933-1934), no. 3510; Sharpe, Handlist, 832.

 

 

 

 

Author of Tractatus de bono modo predicandi (fl. 15th cent.)

OM. German friar. Author of a preaching manual probably originating from the Franciscan friary of Brandenburg, where the manuscript was kept prior to its transferral to Berlin.

works

Tractatus de bono modo predicandi: MS Berlin, SBB-PK theol.lat.qu.45, ff. 46r-48r.

literature

Valentin Rose, Verzeichniss der lateinischen Handschriften der königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin, II Volume in 4 Bands (Berlin, 1893-1905), 772, Nr. 762.

 

 

 

 

Author of Tractatus de Hedificatione Domus Spiritualis (fl. 15th cent.)

OM. Italian friar. Author of a spiritual work.

works

Tractatus de Hedificatione Domus Spiritualis: MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, XII.F.17 f. 94b-103a.

literature

Manoscritti francescani della Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli, ed. Cesare Cenci, Spicilegium Bonaventurianum, 7-8 (Quaracchi, 1971) II, 897.

 

 

 

 

Author of Tractatus de Predicatione Evangelica (fl. early 16th cent.)

OFM. German friar active in the Eger friary and author of a preaching manual.

works

Tractatus de Predicatione Evangelica (ca. 1523): MS Prague, Cheb MS. 15/151 adl. 3.

literature

J. Marek, 'Stredoveke latinské Rukopisy z klastera frantiskanu v Chebu', Studie o rukopisech 42 (2012), 63-136 [there 130 (No. 41)].

 

 

 

 

Author of Tractatus de Significatione Litterarum Alfabeti & Tractatus contra Pestilentiam (fl. 15th cent.)

OM. Spanish friar. Possible author of two treatises found in MS Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, 480.

works

Tractatus de Significatione: Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, 480 ff. 198v-207.

Tractatus contra Pestilentiam: Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, 480 ff. 207-217.

literature

M. de Castro, Manuscritos Franciscanos de la Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid (Madrid: Servicio de Publicaciones del Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia, 1973),no. 40.

 

 

 

 

Author of Tractatus de Universalibus

OM. German (?) Friar.

works

Tractatus de Universalibus: Lüneburg, Ratsbücherei, Theol. 2°, 45.

 

 

 

 

Author of Tractatus Fraticellorum ad Rectores Urbis Romae (fl. 14th cent.)

OM. Italian friar.

works

Tractatus Fraticellorum ad Rectores Urbis Romae. See: P.L. Oliger, Documenta inedita ad Historiam Fraticellorum spectantia (Quaracchi, 1913). Also issued in Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 3 (1910) & 6 (1913).

literature

Repertorium fontium historiae medii aevi primum ab Augusto Potthast digestum, nunc cura collegii historicum e pluribus nationibus emendatum et auctum, XI Vols (Rome: Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, 1962-2007) XI/3-4, 220.

 

 

 

 

Author of Tractatus Fraticellorum Perusinorum (fl. second half 14th cent.)

OM. Italian friar.

works

Tractatus Fraticellorum Perusinorum (1379-1382), ed. L. Oliger, AFH 4 (1911), 697-712.

 

 

 

 

Author of a Tractatus Impugnatioris (fl. late 15th cent.)

OM. Dutch or Belgian (Flemish) friar.

works

Tractatus Impugnatioris (c. 1484-1492).

literature

De Troeyer, Biobibliographia Franciscana Neerlandica ante Saec. XVI I, 188.

 

 

 

 

Author of Utrum Liceat Adiurare Demones

OM. Italian friar. The author of this text has also been mentioned as the author the Concilium Domini Mediolanensis Presbiter Cardinalis, which has survived in the same manuscript.

works

Utrum Liceat Adiurare Demones: MS Bologna, Coll. Hisp. S. Clemente 56 f. 120v.

Concilium Domini Mediolanensis Presbiter Cardinalis: MS Bologna, Coll. Hisp. S. Clemente 56.

 

 

 

 

Author of a Vademecum (fl. first half 14th cent.)

OM. Italian friar. Learned compiler of a personal rapiarium, consisting of letters, letter forms, theological and legal notices, and additional remarks. In the words of Cesare Cenci: ‘Una raccolta di rare operette a servizio di un dotto francescano, che potevano servire alla sua formazione culturale - morale - canonica - sociale - oratoria, e probabilmente anche a suo insegnamento nelle scuole interne dell’ordine.’

works

Vademecum. See: C. Cenci, ‘Il Vademecum di un dotto francescano della prima metà del sec. XIV, con formulari di lettere’, Studi Francescani, 94:3-4) (1997), 427-477.

 

 

 

 

Author of Venerabilis Agnetis Blannbekin (…) Vita et Revelationes Auctore Anonymus (1290)

OM. Austrian friar active in Vienna and confessor of Agnes Bannbekin. He compiled Venerabilis Agnetis Blannbekin (…) Vita et Revelationes in 1290. This text was copied in 1318 by the monk Ermenrich.

works

Venerabilis Agnetis Blannbekin (…) Vita et Revelationes. This work was preserved in several mss. A manuscript from Neresheim was used by Bernardus Pez as a basis for his 1731 edition, but this manuscript is lost today. A more or less complete manuscript copy of the text survived as Zwettl, Zisterzienserkloster 384 (Peter Dinzelbacher used this manuscript and the text published by Pez in 1731 to prepare his new edition). In 1990, apparently two additional manuscripts with a censored version of Blannbekin’s text were discovered and described in G. List and G. Powitz, Die Handschriften der Stadtbibliothek Mainz (1990). A manuscript containing a Middle High German version of the text, described in Joseph von Goerres, Die christliche Mystik, 4 Vols. (Mainz, 1836-1842) was probably destroyed in the fire of the Strasbourg Library in 1870. Franz Lacker (2010) describes another manuscript copy of the text, namely MS Lilienfeld, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 145,45ra-70rb. The Jesuits, who were scandalized by Blannbekin’s mystical extatic experiences in relation to the foreskin of Jesus, tried to surpress the text in the early modern period. This might have resulted in the destruction of several manuscripts. The first edition of the work by Pez ended up on the index of forbidden books.
For editions and translations, see: Venerabilis Agnetis Blannbekin (…) Vita et Revelationes Auctore Anonymus, ed. Bernardus Pez (Vienna: Petrus Conrad Monath, 1731) [digitized and accessible via Google books]; Leben und Offenbarungen der Wiener Begine Agnes Blannbekin (+1315). Edition und Uebersetzung, ed. & trans. Peter Dinzelbacher & Renate Vogeler, Göppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik, 419 (Göppingen: Kuemmerle-Verlag, 1994); Agnes Blannbekin, Viennese Beguine, Life and Revelations, trans. Ulrike Wiethaus (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2002).

literature

Kurt Ruh, ‘Blannbekin, Agnes’, in: Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon I (1978), 887-890; Peter Dinzelbacher, ‘Agnes, Mystikerin († 1315)’, in: Lexikon des Mittelalters II (1983), 264; Peter Dinzelbacher, ‘Die ‘Vita et Revelationes’ der Wiener Begine Agnes Blannbekin (d. 1315) im Rahmen der Viten- und Offenbarungsliteratur ihrer Zeit’, in: Frauenmystik im Mittelalter, ed. P. Dinzelbacher & Dieter R. Bauer (Stuttgart: Schwabenverlag, 1985), 152-178; Anneliese Stoklaska, ‘Die Revelationes der Agnes Blannbekin: Ein mystisches Unikat im Schrifttum des Wiener Mittelalters’, Jahrbuch des Vereins für Geschichte der Stadt Wien 43 (1987), 7-34; Anneliese Stoklaska, ‘Weibliche Religiosität im mittelalterlichen Wien unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Agnes Blannbekin’, in: Religiöse Frauenbewegung und mystische Frömmigkeit im Mittelalter, ed. Peter Dinzelbacher & Dieter R Bauer (Cologne-Vienna: Böhlau, 1988), 165-184; G. Aron-Lewis, Bibliographie zur deutschen Frauenmystik des Mittelalters (Berlin 1989), 234f; Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz, ‘Blannbekin, Agnes (1250-1297)’, in: Biographisch-bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon I (1990), 612; Peter Dinzelbacher, ‘Die Wiener Minoriten im ausgehenden 13. Jahrhundert nach dem Urteil der zeitgenössischen Begine Agnes Blannbekin’, in: Bettelorden und Stadt. Bettelorden und städtisches Leben im Mittelalter und in der Neuzeit, ed. Dieter Berg, Saxonia Franciscana, 1 (Werl: Coelde, 1992), 181-191; Albrecht Classen, ‘The literary treatment of the ineffable: Mechthild von Magdeburg, Margaret Ebner, Agnes Blannbekin’, Studies in spirituality 8 (1998), 162-187; Christine Stöllinger-Löser, ‘Vita et revelationes ven. Agnetis Blannbekin’, Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon X (1999), 448-449; Albrecht Classen, ‘Die Suche nach dem Ich in der Gottheit: mystische Literatur als epistemologisches Phänomen im Spätmittelalter; zu Hildegard von Bingen, Mechthild von Magdeburg und Agnes Blannbekin’, Études médiévales. Revue 4 (2002), 21-34; Ulrike Wiethaus, ‘Street Mysticism: An Introduction to ‘The Life and Revelations’ of Agnes Blannbekin’, in: Women writing Latin: from Roman antiquity to early modern Europe, ed. Laurie J. Churchill, Phyllis Rugg Brown & Jane Elizabeth Jeffrey, 3 Vols. (New York, 2002) II, 281-307; Christina Landmann, ‘Agnes Blannbekin († 1315): lay female mysticism as a source of indigenous knowledge’, Acta patristica et byzantina 15 (2004), 219-232; Kurt Ruh, ‘Blannbekin, Agnes’, Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon XI (2004), 261; Franz Lackner, ‘Ein bisher unbeachteter Überlieferungsträger der Visionen der Agnes Blannbekin. Lilienfeld, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 145,45ra-70rb’, in: Code(x): Festgabe zum 65. Geburtstag von Alois Haidinger, ed. Martin Haltrich, Codices manuscripti. Supplementum, 2 (Purkersdorf, 2010), 68-76.

 

 

 

 

Author of Vergel de Virginidad, Misterio de los Angeles, Excelencias de la Fe, Misterios de Devoción (fl. first half 16th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar who was active in Salamanca and Toro. To him are ascribed Misterio de los Angeles, Excelencias de la Fe, Misterios de Devoción (dedicated to Catherine of Portugal)), as well as the Historia [abreviada] del (...) conde Fernán González. The friar in question at times took a strong stance against Luther.

works

Vergel de Virginidad: Madrid, Bibliotec Nacional R.-11863; Escorial 31-V-40.
The work was issued in print as: Vergel de Virginidad y Misterio de los Angeles (Burgos, 1539).

Misterios de devoción ? Check

Misterio de los Angeles. Issued in print as: Vergel de Virginidad y Misterio de los Angeles (Burgos, 1539).

Historia [abreviata] del (...) conde Fernán González?

Excelencias de la Fe (Burgos, 1537)

literature

Saturnino López Santidrián, `Vergel de Virginidad', Dict. Spir, 16 (1994), 403-409; E. Asensio, `El erasmismo y las corrientes espirituales afinés', Rivista de Filologia Española, 36 (1952), 36-38; J. Fuster, Rebeldes y heterodoxes (Barcelona, 1972); M. Andrés, Los recogidos (Madrid, 1976), 246-67; P. Sainz Rodríguez, Antología de la literatura espiritual española, II (Madrid, 1983), 191-202, 301-309.

 

 

 

 

Author of Vita Annae ducissae Silesiae (fl. 15th cent.?)

OM or OSC. German friar or Clarissan nun responsible for a late medieval vita of Duchess Anna of Schlesia (1204-1265), daughter of King Przemysl Ottokar I of Bohemia and spouse of Duke Heinrich II the Pious of Schlesia. The work has survived in two manuscripts from Breslau (Wroclaw). The text was created either in the Franciscan or in the Clarissan monastery of Breslau.

works

Vita Annae ducissae Silesiae, ed. Gustav Adolf Stenzel, in: Scriptores rerum silesiacarum, II (Beslau, 1839), 127-130.

literature

Volker Honemann, ‘Das mittelalterliche Schrifttum der Franziskaner der Sächsischen Ordensprovinz unter besonderer Berücksichtigung deutschsprachiger Zeugnisse’, in: Geschichte der Sächsischen Franziskanerprovinz, 1: Von den Anfängen bis zur Reformation, ed. Volker Honemann (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015), 636-637.

 

 

 

 

Vita della Ven. Suor M. Maddalena Martinengo (1775)

OFMCap. Italian friar.

works

Vita della Ven. Suor M. Maddalena Martinengo delle RR.MM. Capuccine di Brescia (Cesena, 1775).

literature

Catalogus Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum, ab anno 1747 usque ad annum 1852, sive Appendix ad Bibliothecam Scriptorum Capuccinorum a P. Bernardo Bononiensi (...) (Rome: Gaetano A. Bertinelli, 1852), 13.

 

 

 

 

Author of the Vita del P. Serafino da Vicenza (1750)

OFMCap. Italian author and hagiographer.

works

Vita del P. Serafino da Vicenza, insigne Predicatore Capuccino, unacum eijudem Quadragesimali (Venice: Bettinelli, 1750).

literature

Catalogus Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum, ab anno 1747 usque ad annum 1852, sive Appendix ad Bibliothecam Scriptorum Capuccinorum a P. Bernardo Bononiensi (...) (Rome: Gaetano A. Bertinelli, 1852), 13.

 

 

 

 

Author(s) of Vitae sanctorum fratrum minorum provinciae Saxoniae (fl. later 14th cent.?)

OM. German friar(s) responsible for two collections of vitae concerning brothers in the Saxony province. The first of these has survived in a late 14th-century manuscript from Greifswald (where it was kept in the convent library. Cf. Honemann). The surviving copy is not very well preserved. The collection was meant to contain both vitae of companions of Francis and vitae from holy brothers from the Saxony province, as well as a life of Giovanni di Pian del Carpine (the leader with Caesarius of Speyer of the successful mission of the friars into the German lands) and other provincial officials. The surviving manuscript only contains the German sections [?]. The second collection is a miscellaneous conglomerate from after 1375, which also was kept in the medieval library of the Greifswald convent and containing Legenda sociorum Sancti Francisci, indulgentiae, exempla & vitae sanctorum fratrum minorum provinciae Saxoniae, partly derived from the Actus beati Francisci and a host of other texts.

works

Vitae sanctorum fratrum minorum provinciae Saxoniae: MS Greifswald, Geistliches Ministerium, X.E.37a (late 14th cent.).
For an edition, see: De vitis Sanctorum fratrum Minorum Provinciae Saxoniae, ed. Edwinus Auweiler, in: AFH 18 (1925), 211-225; 19 (1926), 46-62 & 181-193.

Legenda sociorum Sancti Francisci, indulgentiae, exempla & vitae sanctorum fratrum minorum provinciae Saxoniae: MS Greifswald, Geistliches Ministerium, XII.E.78, ff. 104rb-174rb (after 1375).

literature

Volker Honemann, ‘Das mittelalterliche Schrifttum der Franziskaner der Sächsischen Ordensprovinz unter besonderer Berücksichtigung deutschsprachiger Zeugnisse’, in: Geschichte der Sächsischen Franziskanerprovinz, 1: Von den Anfängen bis zur Reformation, ed. Volker Honemann (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015), 632-636.

 

 

 

 

Author of Von der Gnade Gottes (fl. 15th cent.)

OM. German friar. Author of a short anonymous treatise on the essence, origin and usefulness of grace. The work, based on Bonaventure’s definitio magistralis in Sent. II, dist. 26, dub. II, where grace is decribed as forma. The anomymous treatise translates that as zierlikait in der sel. According to Georg Steer (VL² III, 71), the structure of the work is reminding of the style of Conrad Bömlin and Maruard von Lindau.

works

Von der Gnade Gottes: MS Berlin, mgo 605 ff. 271r-273v (15th cent.); Berlin mgo 640 ff. 115r-117v (15th cent.)
For an edition, see:Von der Gnade Gottes, ed. G. Steer, in: Scholastische Gnadenlehre in mittelhochdeutscher Sprache, MTU 14 (1966), Texte IV, 124-125, as well as in Scholastikforschung, I, Theologie und Philosophie 45 (1970), 221.

literature

Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon² III (1981), 71.

 

 

 

 

Author of Von der göttlichen Liebe (fl. 14th cent.?)

OM. German friar. Author of a spiritial text (Von der göttlichen Liebe ) that is heavily dependent upon Bonaventure's De triplici via and his Itinerarium mentis in Deum. It also using elements from Scotus’s Sentences commentary and parts of the Psalm commentary of Nicholas of Lyra, which puts the production date of the text at least in or after the 1320s. Kurt Ruh situates its composition in the later fourteenth century. The work survives in an early sixteenth-century copy from the Clarissan house of Nuremberg (then led by the abbess Caritas Pirckheimer).

works

Von der göttlichen Liebe: MS Bamberg SB Msc. Lit. 178 (ed. VIII. 6) ff. 206r-227r. This manuscript was once kept in the Poor Clare monastary of Nuremberg (St. Klara). The manuscript dates from 1508, but it seems that the text itself dates from the later 14th century. There might be a connection with other manuscripts from the St. Klara monastery in Nuremberg, such as those containing the St. Klara-Buch. the work starts from the biblical phrase taken from Matthew 22,35-40 (You should love God with your whole heart) and then discusses Divine Love in nine chapters: 1. The nobility and origin of Divine Love; 2. The order of love, making it a veritable art; 3. What draws us to the love of God, namely the works of creation (God's visible gift to us) and our understanding that the world was made for us, which should entice us to love God above all; 4. The greatest love gift of God, namely the incarnation of Christ and His suffering; 5. The love for others (the command of charity); 6. The two eyes of the soul (eyes of reason and love), explaining in line with ideas by Bernard of Clairvaux, Thierry of Chartres and Bonaventure, the nature and dignity of love; 7. Three elements pertaining to prayer (acceptance of poverty, calling upon God's mercy and praise of God); 8. How one should approach and meditate upon the passion of Christ (mainly citations taken from Bonaventure, Nicholas of Lyra etc.); 9. On silence as expression of the three virtues of faith, hope and love (with reference to John Climacus' Scala paradisi.
For an edition, see: Von der göttlichen Liebe, ed. Ruh, Franziskanisches Schrifttum II, 232-247.

literature

K. Ruh, ‘Von der göttlichen Liebe’, Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon XI, 550-552.