Nathaniel Le Sage (fl. first half to mid 17th cent.)

OFMRec. Belgian friar. Guardian of Nivelles (Nijvel).

works

Traicté de la reformation de l'ordre su seraphic Père S. François auquel est monstré comment ceste Reformation a esté faicte plusieurs fois, et pourquoy (Arras: Robert Maudhuy, 1605/Arras: Robert Maudhuy, 1645).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 381; P. Moracchini, 'Notes sur l'histoire des premiers récollets français', Franciscana 1 (1999), 319-340; Pierre Moracchini, 'Quand le témoin réplique à l'historien... Notes sur les origines des Récollets de France Parisienne (1597-1612)', in: Ecrire son histoire. Les communautés religieuses régulières face à leur passé: actes du 5e colloque international du CERCOR, Saint-Etienne, 6-8 novembre 2002 (Saint-Étienne: Publications de l'Université de Saint-Étienne, 2005), 469.

Nazarius Schlesianus (Nazarius aus Schlesien, d. 1733)

OFMCap. Bohemian friar. He entered the order on 18 May 1673. Following his own formation, he was theology lector and later provincial minister. He died in Znaim/Znojmo on 3 February 1733 at the age of 81.

works

Ebener und kurtzer Fußsteig, welcher ohne Umschweif zur Erlangung, und Vermehrung der christlichen Tugenden, und Vollkommenheit, und folglich zu der ewigen Seligkeit führen kann, das ist Evangelischer Wegweiser (Brünn, 1729).

literature

Jaroslaus Schaller, Beschreibung der Königlichen Haupt und Residenzstadt Prag sammt allen darinn befindlichen sehenswürdigen Merkwürdigkeiten, I (Prague: Franz Gerzabeck, 1794), 307-308; Otto Kamshoff, 'Schriftsteller der böhmischen Kapuzinerprovinz', Mitteilungen des Vereines für Geschichte der Deutschen in Böhmen 50 (1912), 281-285 (at 285).

Nicolaus Bambergensis (Nikolaus von Bamberg/Nikolaus Casseder, 1767-1823)

OFMCap. German friar (between 1785-1803), secular priest and ascetical author. Important for the transference (as transator and/or editor) of older mystical traditions into the nineteenth century.

works

Schriften des heiligen Makarius des Großen aus Egypten (...), ed. & trans. Nikolaus Casseder(Bamberg: Kunz, 1819).

Johann Tauler's Nachfolgung des armen Lebens Christi, ed. Nikolaus Casseder (Frankfurt am Main: Hermann, 1821).

Nachfolgung des armen Lebens Christi. Nach dem Ur-Texte, ed. Nikolaus Casseder, (Luzern: Anich, 1823).

Johann Tauler's Medulla animae, oder von der Vollkommenheit aller Tugenden, Nebst zehn Briefen gleichen Inhalts des heiligen Johannes vom Kreuz, trans. ed Nikolaus Casseder (Luzern: Anich, 1823).

Sieben kleinere Schriften des heiligen Kirchenlehrers Bonaventura, trans. Nikolaus Casseder (Frankfurt: Hermann, 1824).

Des ehrwürdigen Albert des Großen goldenes Büchlein: wie man Gott anhangen soll, trans. Nicolaus Casseder (Cologne: Heberle, 1851).

literature

Joachim Schnürle, 'Nikolaus Casseder (1767-1823) alias Nikolaus von Bamberg (Kapuziner 1785-1803), ein vergessener katholischer Priester und aszetischer Schriftsteller - zum 250. Geburtstag mit einer Würdigung seiner literarischen Arbeit', Würzburger Diözesangeschichtsblätter (2018), 341-351.

Nicolaus Barsottus (Nicolaus Lucensis/Niccolò Barsotto, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Born in Lucca, Italy around 1600. He joined the Capuchins in Bohemia on 21 May 1621 and there he became active in the Bohemian province as a preacher and as a teacher in the order’s school network. His knowledge also extended to the mathematical and astronomical disciplines. For about 40 years he was the socius/companion of the Capuchin preacher Valeriano Magni, and he was the first to write a vita of Valeriano after the death of the latter. Barsotto had good contacts with the Habsburg court and played a role in the re-catholization of Bohemia. He died at Passau on 7 July 1669. He left behind two sermon collections and a variety of other works.

works

Spirituale humanae semper peregrinae mortalis vitae remigium habens portum suum immortalem, aeternam vitam, destinatum agonizantium iustis ac pijs suffragijs. Italico primum idiomate fusius nunc succinctius Latino donatum (Vienna: Joannes Jacobus Kurner [?excudebat Matthaeus Rictius acad. typographus], 1647). This Latin issue was based on a more extensive Italian first version. Later a German version would follow

Cynosura, seu Maria Stella Polaris Duodecim Diffusa Radiis, Septenisque Sphaerica Planitia Circumplexa Orbibus/Cynosura seu Mariana Stella Polaris Disticis 180,592,312,320. eundo, totidem redeundo, hoc est Carminibus 722,369,249,280 (...) (Vienna: J. Kurner, 1655/Vienna: J. Kurner, 1657). This work includes geometric and mathematical formulas to determine the cosmic value of verses in honor of the Virgin Mary and her qualities. The 1655 and 1657 editions are accessible via the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna, and via Google Books (creative search).

Sermones de Sanctis per Annum Occurrentibus (Vienna: Joannes Jacobus Kurner, 1667).

Sermones Evangelici de Adventu et Quadragesima (Vienna: Joannes Jacobus Kurner, 1667/8).

Paradisus Interior olim italice a P. Paulo Manassaei editus, cum additione quorumdam opusculorum at aliorum exercitiorum spiritualium (Cologne, ca. 1660 (German original)/Vienna, 1667 (Latin version)). This work, a translation of a work by his fellow friar Paolo Manassaei (Paradiso interiore ovvero Corona spirituale), and which saw several editions in German and Latin. Barsotto's German translation, entitled Innerliches Paradeys oder geistlicher Rosengarten (Vienna, 1643, 1645 & 1659; Cologne, 1644 & 1646), had pronounced quietist tendencies, and as such had an impact on pietist circles in Germany. The work and its several translations was put on the Index of forbidden books in 1689.

literature

Dionysius a Genova, Bibliotheca scriptorum capuccinorum (Genoa, 1680), 384-387; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca scriptorum ordinis minorum S. Francisci capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 198-199; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 383; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 552 & (ed. Rome, 1921) II, 268-269; Giammaria Mazzuchelli, Gli scrittori d'Italia, 427; Édouard d'Alençon, Bibliotheca mariana ordinis Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum (Rome, 1910), 58-59; Otto Kamshoff, 'Schriftsteller der böhmischen Kapuzinerprovinz', Mitteilungen des Vereines für Geschichte der Deutschen in Böhmen 50 (1912), 281-285 (at 282-283); Ferdinando da Montignoso, L'Ordine dei Minori Cap. in Lucca (1571-1789) (Lucca, 1910), 69-70, 130-131. — Francesco da Vicenza, Gli scrittori cappuccini della provincia serafica (Foligno, 1922), 74; DThCat XI (1931); A. Teetaert, ‘Barsotto’, DHGE VI, 957.

Nicolaus Berthuldi Senensis (Nicolaus Bertuldi/Nicolò Bertoldi da Siena, d. ca. 1444)

OMObs. Italian (Sienese) friar, companion of Bernardine of Siena

manuscripts

Sermones super Epistolas et Evangelia Quadragesimale: Siena?.

literature

Zawart, 323; Diego Ciccarelli, 'Su alcuni codici del vescovo Giovanni Rosa da Caltagirone', in: Francescanesimo e cultura nella Provincia di Catania atti del convegno di studio (Catania 21-22 dicembre 2007) (Palermo: Officina di Studi Medievali, 2008), 13ff (at 15);

Nicolaus Bodius (Nicolaus Boidius/Nicolas Bode, fl. ca. 1600?)

OFM. Belgian (Flemish) friar. Guardian of the Dixmuide friary.

works

Apologie contra la lettre (...) de Améric sur l'apparition des esprits?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 383; Annales (...) Histoire et les Antiquités/Genootschap voor Geschiedenis Brugge 3 (1841), 279; Biografische Index van de Benelux, 142.

Nicolaus Bolando (Nicolás de Jesús Belando/Nicolao Bolando/Nicolao de Gesú, 1699-after 1747)

OFMDisc. Spanish friar from Alicante. Took the habit in the San Juan de La Ribera Convent (Valencia) in the San Juan Bautista province on July 4, 1719. Preacher and author. At least one of his works (Historia civil de España) drew the attention of the Inquisition, a feat that was commented upon by Voltaire (Le siècle de Louis XIV, I (Paris, 1744), 19).

works

Avisa para el mayor peligro en la hora de la muerte (Valencia, 1730).

Vida bien ordenada para todo Christiano. Escrita por Fr. Nicolas de Jesus, Predicador, hijo de la Provincia de San Juan Bautista (Valencia: Joseph Garcia, 1730). Accessible via Google Books. It amounts to a detailed book of Christian comportment, for every day and night, with attention to the major vices, the human passions, the proper behaviour and actions during the liturgy, etc. It also deals in a separate treatise with Christian perfections, and in a third treatise with indulgences.

Historia civil de España, sucesos de la guerra y tratados de la paz, desde el ano de 1700 hasta al de 1733, 3 Vols. (Madrid, 1740-1744). The second 1740 volume, containing the 'Parte segunda y tercera', is accessible via Google Books. This work was condemned by the Inquisition, as as an apologetic Memoria written by Nicolao some time thereafter. A defense of Nicolao’s regalist positions was given in M. de Macanaz, Apologia de la defensa escrita por Fr. N. Bolando a favor de la Historia civil de España prohibida injustamente por la Inquisición. The same author wrote a commentary on Nicolao’s Historia civil, which was included in later editions and can also be found in MS Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional 2768. Nicolao also produced an abbreviated version of the third volume of the Historia civil, entitled Breve Compendio de la Historia civil de España con adiciones (Madrid, 1744).

Manual para sacerdotes (Madrid-Valencia, 1744).

Actos christianos para conseguir la verdadera felicidad (Valencia, 1745).

Historia de la Pasion (Valencia, 1746).

Historia de los milagros de San Pascual Baylon, con un resumen de su vida (Valencia, 1747). 

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 387; Index Librorum Prohibitorum, ed. F. Perez del Prado (Madrid, 1747) II, 879-880; V. Ximeno, Escritores del reino de Valencia (Valencia, 1749) II, 296-297; J.A. Llorente, Histoire critique de l’inquisition d’Espagne (Paris, 1818) II, 428-429, 527; J.P. Fuster, Biblioteca de escritores de Valencia (Valencia, 1830) II, 27; >>, ‘Censura de la ‘Historia de España’, escrita por el P. Nicolás de Jesús Belando’, Revista de archivos, bibliotecas y museos 3 (1973), 151; M. Menendez Pelayo, Historia de los heterodoxos españoles (Madrid, 1881) III, 59; M. Rico, Ensayo biobibliografica de escritores de Alicante (Alicante, 1888), 140-141; AIA 4 (1915), 420; H. Diez, ‘Bolando’, DHGE IX, 598-599; Juan Ruiz de Larrínaga, `El P. Fr. Nicolás de Jesús Belando, historiador franciscano descalzo, y sus obras impresas e inéditas', AIA, 8 (1948), 395-405; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 92 (no. 155).

Nicolaus Bonetus (Nicolas Bonet/Nicholas Bonnet, d. 1360; `Doctor pacificus'/`Doctor Proficuus')

OM. French friar (probably) from the Touraine region (cf. MSS. Erfurt, Amplon. 314; Prague, University Library 1569; Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale, 203; Saint-Omer, Bibliothèque communale 237). Probably a disciple of Scotus, which would place his date of birth around 1280. He probably joined the order in Tours and became master of theology in Paris in 1333. Took part in the visio beatifica discussion, organised by King Philip VI to examine the viewpoints of John XXII (1333). At that time, Nicolas Bonet was already royal chaplain. Took part in the organisation of a diplomatic envoy to the Mongol Khan in Peking (Kublai Khan) in 1338, but could not go himself, as the pope called him to the Curia. Made bishop of Malta by pope Clemens VI (ovember 27, 1342). Died a year later (some older bibliographers place his date of death in 1352 or 1360), as a bull appointing Bonet's successor mentions his demise.
Exegete and theologian, as well as innovative philosopher. Follower of Scotus in general, but not a slavish disciple, especially not in matters of physics and mathematics. He figures prominently in the writings of fifteenth-century Franciscan theologians and also in late medieval Scotist handbooks of theology and philosophy (such as John Foxal, Johann von Köln, Guillaume de Vorrillon, and Pelbart de Témesvar).

works

Philosophia Naturalis/In Libros Physicorum Aristotelis Commentaria: a.o. MSS Rome, BAV Vat.Lat., 3039 ff. 1r-83r; Paris, BN Lat. 6678 (14th cent.); Padua, Biblioteca Antoniana 504 (15th cent.); Prague, University Library 1569 [VII.F.15]; Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marc. 203.
The In Libros Physicorum Aristotelis Commentaria seu Philosophia Naturalis Lib. VIII was edited in the 1505 Venice edition of the Expositio in Metaphysicam Aristotelis. Some translations of these texts have been made available on academia.edu by William Duba!

De Formalitatibus/Formalitates in Via Scoti: Rome, MSS BAV Vat.Lat. 4847 (15th cent.) ff. 2r-8v; Cracow, Jagell. Library 2713 (copy of the printed edition). Attributed. Possibly the work of Anthonius Andrea or closely related to a work by Anthonius Andrea.
For incunable and early modern imprints, see: Formalitates secundum Viam Doctoris Subtilis Nicolai Boneti (Venice: Bernardus de Choris & Simon de Luero, 1489/Venice: Albertus Rubeus Vercellensis, 1500/Venice, 1516). Cf. Hain n. 12051.

Praedicamenta de Decem generibus/Commentarium in X Libros Priores Praedicamentorum Aristotelis: a.o. MSS Rome, BAV Vat.Lat. ff. 85r-125v; Erfurt, Bibliotheca Amploniana 314 (14th cent.); Cracow, Jagell. Library CC.VIII.411 (15th cent.); Paris, BN Lat. 6678 (14th cent.); Tarragona, Biblioteca Prov. 111 (15th cent.); Prague, University Library 1569 [VII.F.15] ff. 165a-203b.
The Commentarium in X Libros Praedicamentorum Aristotelis was printed in the 1505 Venice edition of the Expositio in Metaphysicam Aristotelis.

Expositio in metaphysicam Aristotelis/Commentarium in Aristotelis metaphysicam: a.o. MSS Durham, Cathedral Library 139 (15th cent.); Rome, BAV Vat.Lat. 3040 ff. 1r-82r; Rome, BAV Vat.Lat. 3041 ff. 1r-101rb; Rome, Biblioteca Angelica 558 (15th cent.); Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marc. 202; Oxford, Bodleian Library Canonic. Misc. 327 (15th cent.); Monte Cassino 336 (15th cent.); Padua, Biblioteca Antoniana 504 (Schaff. XXII); Padua, Biblioteca Universitaria 1567 (15th cent.); Naples, Naz., VIII.F.17 ff.1r-54v; Madrid, Nac. 4232 ff. 9-125v; Toledo, Biblioteca S. Juan del Rey II.21 (15th cent.); Paris, BN Lat. 6678 (14th cent.); Paris, BN Lat. 14716 (15th cent.); Erfurt, Bibliotheca Amploniana 314 (14th cent.); Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek 18788 (15th cent.); Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek 26867 (15th cent.); Saint-Omer, Bibliothèque Comunale 237 (early 16th cent.)
For incunable imprints, see: Expositio in Metaphysicam Aristotelis (Barcelona, 1473 [?], 1483 & 1493/Venice, 1505). Both the 1493 and the 1505 editions are now accessible via Google Books.

Topica: Not found

Quaestiones de Anima: Mentioned in MS Prague, University Library 997. Work itself not yet found? See also the 2014 study by Paul Bakker.

Commentarius in I-IV Sent.: ? Check. This work was apparently used by Pelbartus de Temesvar. Did it survive?

Tractatus de Conceptione Beatae Virginis Mariae Jussu Clementis V ad Modum Dialogi: Attributed. Did it survive?

Theologia Naturalis: a.o. MSS Cracow, Jagell. Library CC.VIII.411 (15th cent.); Erfurt, Bibliotheca Amploniana 314 (14th cent.); Saint-Omer, Bibliothèque Comunale 237 (early 16th cent.); Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marc. 203; Oxford, Merton College 199 (15th cent.)
The work was apparently issued in print as well:Theologia Naturalis (Venice, 1505).

Postilla in Genesim (Venice, 1504). Can the work still be found? The attribution is not secure.

literature

Wadding, Annales, VII (ed. Quaracchi, 1932), 247-259; Juan de San Antonio, BUF II, 384; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 552-553 & (ed. Rome, 1921) II, 269-270; Chronica XXIV Generalium, AF 3 (1897), 530; Nicolaus Glassberger, Chronica, AF 2 (1887), 178; Biographie Universelle, Ancienne et Moderne, 99; Stegmüller RB, IV, 5692; Édouard d’Alençon, ‘Bonet, Nicolas’, DThCat II, 986-987; Martin de Barcelona, ‘Nicolás Bonet (d. 1343), Tourangeau, doctor proficuus, O.M.’, Études franciscaines, 37 (1925), 638-657/Estudios franciscanos, 37 (1926), 99-111/AIA, 25 (1925), 403-4; F. O’Brian, ‘Bonet’, DHGE IX, 849-852 (with additional bibliographical references to early studies); Antonianum 20 (1945), 348ff; Etzkorn, IVF, 13-14; Vassili Zoubov, 'Walter Catton, Gerard d'Odon et Nicolas Bonet', Physis. Rivista di storia della scienza 1 (1959), 261-278; Manfred Gerwing, ‘Nikolaus Bonetus, Franziskaner (ca. 1280 -1343 oder 1360)’, Lexikon des Mittelalters VI (1993), 1177-1178; Guido Alliney, ‘‘Tempus naturae’ e ‘tempus mathematicum’ in Nicola Bonet’, in: Revirescunt chartae. Codices documenta textus. Miscellanea in honorem P. Caesaris Cenci OFM, ed. Alvaro Cacciotti & Pacifico Sella, Medioevo, 5, 2 Vols. (Rome: Edizioni Antonianum, 2002) II, 1089-1113.   Isabel Mandrella, ‘La controverse sur l’univocation de l’étant et le surtranscendental. La métaphysique de Nicolas Bonet’, in: La posterità di Giovanni Duns Scoto = Quaestio 8 (2008 [2009]), 150-175; Isabelle Mandrella, ‘Metaphysik als Supertranszendentalwissenschaft?: zum scotistischen Metaphysikentwurf des Nicolaus Bonetus’, Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie Médiévales 75 (2008), 161-193; William Duba, ‘Three Franciscan Metaphysicians after Scotus: Antonius Andreae, Francis of Marchia, and Nicholas Bonet’, in: A Companion to the Latin Medieval Commentaries on Aristotle's Metaphysics, ed. Fabrizio Amerini & Gabriele Galluzzo (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2014), 413-494; Paul J.J.M. Bakker, ‘The Anonymous Liber de anima Ascribed to Nicholas Bonet († 1343)’, Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale 56 (2014), 201-219; Christopher Schabel, 'Projectile Motion in a Vacuum According to Francesc Marbres, Francis of Marchia, Gerald Odonis, and Nicholas Bonet?', Early science and Medicine 22 (2017), 55-71.

Nicolaus Bozon (Bosoun/Boun/Boioun/Bohun/Baron, d. 1320)

OM. English friar and priest. Probably from the English North Midlands (counties of Nottingham, Leicester and Derby; York diocese). Probably a member of the Nottingham convent (Oxford custody). Might have studied theology (lectorate program) at Oxford . Active in the English North Midlands and maybe also in France. Prolific and popular author of pastoral works in (Anglo-Norman) French Most famous is his exempla collection, edited as the Contes Moralisés. It consists of 145 little tales. Some of these are outright exempla, others stories with a moral narrative followed by a supporting anecdote. Work makes heavy use of old tales, fabliaux and other popular lore (aside from Bartholomaeus Anglicus’ De Proprietatibus Rerum, which is one of Nicholas’ most important sources) and provided suitable material for preachers. Work stands in long tradition of Franciscan exempla collections. Both in the Contes and separately, Nicholas produced a large number of poems and related versified pieces. He is known for an intricate Gospel poem on the love of God, several poems on the Virgin (a versified supplication prayer, two Ave Maria’s, an Annunciation poem and a Plainte Nostre-Dame), eleven saints´lives (the materials of which are predominantly drawn from the Legenda Aurea), several allegorical works (Debat de l’Yver et de l’Esté [attributed]; Desputeyson du cors et de l’alme), a Passion allegory (two versions), two poems on the sin of pride (Le Char d’Orgueil; La Lettre de l’Empereur Orgueil), a series of poems on moral, behavioral, and educational issues (notably the Plainte d’Amour on the lametable state of Church and State; Proverbes de bon enseignement, Les femmes de la pie (anti-feminist satyre) and De la bounté des femmes (extolling the virtue of women), and the Tretis de denaturesse on ‘un-natural’ behaviour), and nine ‘verse-sermons’ (La parole Deu ke est preché a rai de solail est cumparee; Peynes e joies cy lisez k’en l’autre vie serrunt trovez (warning of sinners about last judgment and descriptions of the infernal feasts of hell and the feasts pf the blessed in heaven); Ke fous funt a seynz moleste ke meynent treche par jour de feste (how wayward behaviour, presented as a carnival dance, leads to hell); Coment nous sumus si contrarious a nostre seygnur k’est sy dous (on man’s perversity and stubborness); Coumparisoun al haust de ceste vie (on the ‘harvest’ of our lives); Une courte ditee de longe folie usee (on foolish chatter) Coment les fole genz se affient trop en testamenz; Vous purveez en ceste vie de soustenaunce en l’autre vie (how to prepare for the coming life); Ke plusours unt aÿe par un homme de bone vie (on humility, the good life, and hypocrisy)).

works

Contes Moralisés: MS London, Gray's Inn, 12 ff. 17-49v [with index on ff. 15-16]; British Library Additonal 46919 [=Phillips MS 8336. This manuscript, which is a composite, in a great variety of hands, contains a variety of French (the majority), Latin, and English pieces (amounting to a wealth of devotional, allegorical, dicactic and otherwise instructive poetry/narrative). There are indications to think that the various elements were assembled into one volume by a Franciscan friar, maybe William Herebert, Franciscan lector at Oxford, who once possessed the manuscript and who added to it some of his own Latin sermons on Hell, and a number of translations of Latin Hymns).]; etc. [in all three Anglo-Norman MSS] A partial Latin translation of the first part can be found in British Library Harley 1288.
For an edition, see: Les contes moralisés de Nicole Bozon, frère mineur, ed. Lucy Toulmin Smith & Paul Meyer (Paris, 1889). Work is thematically organized under 145 rubrics itemising particular vices and virtues. Work explicitly produced for the benefit of preachers in need of homiletic materials

Tretis de denaturesse: British Library Additonal 46919 [=Phillips MS 8336]; etc.

Passion poems: British Library Additonal 46919 [=Phillips MS 8336]; etc.

Char d’Orgueil: British Library Additonal 46919 [=Phillips MS 8336]; etc. [in all 4 MSS]

Desputeyson: British Library Additonal 46919 [=Phillips MS 8336]; etc. [in all 4 MSS]

Plainte d’Amour: British Library Additonal 46919 [=Phillips MS 8336]; etc. [in all seven MSS]

Proverbes de bon enseignement: [in all nine MSS]

Poemata: MS Oxford, Bodl. Bodley 425 (14th cent.); British Library Additonal 46919 [=Phillips MS 8336]; etc. This included the poem De bonne femme la bounté

Sermones Versificatae [nine short Anglo-Norman verse sermons]: MS London, British Library Additonal 46919 [=Phillips MS 8336] ff. 80r-85v; British Library Sloane 1611 [sermon number eight]; Lambeth Palace Library 522 [sermon number eight]

Nicholas Bozon: Three Saints’ Lives, ed. M.A. Klenke (New York, 1947).

Seven More Poems by Nicholas Bozon, ed. M.A. Klenke (New York, 1951).

Critique, edition et traduction de quelques poemes de Nicole Bozon, ed. Diane Samuel, PhD. Thesis (University of Waterloo, Ont, 1993).

‘An Anglo-Norman Gospel Poem by Nicholas Bozon, ed. M.A. Klenke, in: Studies in Philology 48 (1951), 250-266.

Nine Verse Sermons by Nicholas Bozon, ed. & comm. Brian J. Levy, Medium Aevum Monographs New Series XI ((Oxford, 1981). [One of the verse sermons was translated into English by friar William Herebert. On questions concerning the origin of such ‘verse sermons’ as a genre (which include Hélinant de Froidmont’s Vers de la Mort, and Raoul de Houdenc’s Songe d’Enfer), whether these ‘verse sermons’ were actual sermons held in the pulpit, or had a wider application, etc. see the the introduction of Levy, p. 13ff]

literature

P. Meyer, ‘Notice and extraits du Ms. 8336 de la Bibliothèque de Sir Thomas Phillip, à Cheltenham’, Romania 13 (1884), 497-541; M. Hewlett, ‘A Medieval Popular Preacher’, The Nineteenth Century 28 (1890), 472-473; Philip Warner Harry, A Comparative Study of the Aesopic Fable in Nicole Bozon, PhD. Thesis (Johns Hopkins University, 1903); Ludwig Karl, ‘Vie de sainte Elisabeth de Hongrie par Nicolas Bozon’, Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 34 (1910), 295-314; A.G. Little, Studies in English Franciscan History (Manchester, 1917), 136-139; A. Thomas, ‘Nicole Bozon’, Histoire littéraire de la France 36 (1924), 400-424; Egon Küter, Die Predigtmärlein (Contes Moralisés) des Fr. Nicole Bozon: ein Beitrag zur anglonormannischen Literatur des 14. Jahrhunderts (Werl, 1938); M. Amelia Klenke, ‘Nicholas Bozon’, Speculum 15 (1940), 444-453; >> Franciscan Studies New Ser. 4 (1944), 79-88, 171-178, 267-271; Alan Strode Campbell Ross, ‘English in Nicole Bozon's ‘Contes moralisés’’, Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 50 (1949), 200-220; M. Ameila Klenke, ‘Nicholas Bozon’, Modern Language Notes 69 (1954), 256-260; M.A. Klenke, ‘Stevenson Priory and a Bozon Manuscript’, Speculum 30 (1955), 218-221; M.D. Legge, Anglo-Norman Literature and Its Background (Oxford, 1963), 229-232; D.L. Jeffrey & B.J. Levy, The Anglo-Norman Lyric (Ottawa, >>>>),>> ; Hugh Shields, ‘A Text of Nicole Bozon’s ‘Proverbes de bon enseignement’ in Irish Transmission’, The Modern Language Review 69 (1974), 274-278; Yvonne Régis-Cazal, ‘Nicole Bozon: métaphores et moralités’, in: Prêcher d'exemples. Récits de prédicateurs du Moyen Âge, ed. Jean-Claude Schmitt (Paris, 1985), 139-149; Baudouin van den Abeele, ‘L’exemplum et le monde animal: Le cas des oiseaux chez Nicole Bozon’, Le Moyen Age 94 (1988), 51-72 (esp. 60-64); Gabriella Parussa, ‘La nature "merveilleuse" des animaux dans la prédication d'un frère franciscain: Nicole Bozon et ses Metaphorae’, Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society / Annuaire de la Société internationale renardienne 5 (1992), 143-156; Yvonne Regis-Cazal, ‘Nicole Bozon, ‘Contes Moralisés’’, in: Les Exempla médiévaux. Introduction à la recherche, suivie des tables critiques de l'Index exemplorum de Frederic C. Tubach, ed. Jacques Berlioz & Marie-Anne Polo de Beaulieu (Carcassonne, 1992), 235-242; Richard Trachsler, ‘Nicole Bozon (Bouzon, Boujon) OFM, Prediger (Ende 13./Anfang 14. Jh.)’, Lexikon des Mittelalters VI (1993), 1135; Laurie Postlewate, Moral and Spiritual Instruction in the Works of Nicole Bozon, PhD. Diss. (New York University, 1996); Annette Kehnel, ‘The Narrative Tradition of the Medieval Franciscan Friars on the British Isles. Introduction to the sources’, Franciscan Studies 63 (2005), 461-530 (500); Laurie Postlewate, ‘Preaching the Sins of the Ladies: Nicole Bozon's ‘Char d'Orgueil’’, in: Cultural Performances in Medieval France: Essays in Honor of Nancy Freeman Regalado, ed. Eglal Doss-Quinby (Cambridge, 2007), 195-202; Laurie Postlewate, ‘Eschuer peche, embracer bountee: Social Thought and Pastoral Instruction in Nicole Bozon’, in: Language and Culture in Medieval Britain: The French of England, c.1100 - c.1500, ed. Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Carolyn P. Collette, Maryanne Kowaleski, Linne R. Mooney, Ad Putter & David A. Trotter (Woodbridge etc.: Boydell, 2009), 278-289.

Nicolaus Bucholt (Nikolaus Bucholt, fl. late 15th cent.)

OM. German friar. Obtained a doctorate in theology at Erfurt on 13 September 1473. Active as Professor sacrae paginae at the University of Greifswald in the late 1470s or early 1480s. Known to have been custos in the Lübeck custody and present in the Lübeck friary in 1487, 1490, and 1492. According to the studies of O. Schwencke and others, Nikolaus would have been the editor/creator of the so-called Lübeck Bible (Lower German printed Bible from the late 15th century, combining a translation with explanatory glosses, many of which were taken from Nicholas of Lyra's Postilla Literalis). Together with various other Franciscan friars, Nikolaus would have been one of the authors of a series of additional edificatory writings in German that were printed in Lübeck, such as the so-called Lübecker Mohnkopf-Offizin. More recent studies, notably those by Kötter, Nix, Colenbrander and Fromm) have created doubts concerning Nickolaus' involvement with the Lübeck Bible and the Mohnkopf-Offizin, yet without a specific ascription to other authors (although the possibility that the authorship should first and foremost be sought among members of the Modern Devotion, is mentioned by various authors).

literature

O. Schwencke, ‘Ein Kreis spätmittelalterl. Erbauungsschriftsteller in Lübeck’, Neud. Jahrbuch 88 (1965), 20-58; O. Schwencke, Die Glossierung der atl. Bücher der Lübecker Bibel von 1494 (1967); B. Dehrendorf, ‘Die Lehre von der Unbefleckten Empfängnis Mariens als Kriterium für die Einordnung des in Lübeck gedruckten spätmittelalterl. Erbauungsschrifttums’, Neud. Wort 20 (1989), 75-97; T. Sodmann, ‘Die Druckerei mit den drei Mohnköpfen’, in: Franco-Saxonia. Festchrift Jan Goossens (1990), 343-360; R. Kötter, ‘Hans von Ghetelen als Drucker der Mohnkopfoffizin’, Zeitschrift des Vereins für Lübeckische Geschichte und Altertumskunde 71 (1991), 353-367; H. Colenbrander, ‘Steffen Arndes’ neudeutsche Biblie mit vltigher achtinghe - eine ‘Kölnische Bibel’?’, Künstlerische Austausch, ed. T. Gaethgens (1993) II, 139-150; A. Bruns & D. Lohmeier, Die Lübecker Buchdrucker im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert (1994); A. Fromm, ‘Die Kölner und Lübecker Bibel’, Jahrbuch des Oswald-von-Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft 10 (1998), 153-168; Anna Katherina Hahn, ‘Bucholt, Nikolaus OFM’, Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon XI (2004), 301-302.

Nicolaus Buico (Nicolò Buico da Spinazzola, 1650-1732)

OFMConv. Italian friar from the Naples region. Scholar. Theologian with Scotist leanings, who held a public chair of theology at the University of Padua (from October 1702 onward) and was known for his Scotist positions. He died in Padua at the age of 82.

works

Excellentissimis, & reverendissimis patribus sacri theologorum collegii Proponuntur rationes, & argumenta, quibus, nedum valida ostenduntur duo Matrimonia a Viro Dei Pyrausta contracta, sed etiam demonstratur eumdem in illis duobus prudentissime se gessisse, & herocium in virtute prudentiae attigisse. (Rome: ex typographia Vaticana, 1722). Accessible via Google Books. Work was directed against the positions of P. Serry Dominicano.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 384; Giammaria Mazzuchelli, Gli scrittori d'Italia cioe notizie storiche, e critiche II,iv, 2282-2283; Enthel Sollazzo, Spinazzola e i suoi uomini. Nicolò Buico (1650-1732), Personalità umana e scientifica (Lavella, 1999) [Cf. Miscellanea Francescana 101 (2001), 411-413]

Nicolaus Buzjaki (Nicolaus Buzjáki, fl. early 16th cent.)

OFM. Hungarian Observant friar. Chronicler. He was one of the continuators of the Cronica fratrum minorum de observantia provinciae Boznae et Hungariae (continuing the work of Blasius Szalkai, Gregorius Újlaki, and others). Buzjáki was responsible for the years 1510-1533.

works

Cronica fratrum minorum de observantia provinciae Boznae et Hungariae: a.o. MS MS Prague, National Museum sign. VIII F 75.

literature

Elod Nemerkényi, Elod, 'Cronica fratrum minorum de observantia provinciae Boznae et Hungariae', in: Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle, ed, Graeme Dunphy & Cristian Bratu. [First published online: 2016; consulted online on 14 November 2021].

Nicolaus Caesaraeus (Nicolaus Caesareus/Niccolò Cesareo dalla Serra di S. Quirico, fl. later 16th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Master of theology and important Lenten preacher (1571 in Rome, in 1572 in Milan, in 1573 in Florence). Order secretary, provincial of the Holy Land in 1571 and of the Piceno province in 1574. Also guardian of the Naples friary in 1583. General commissarius of the Piceno province in 1586 after the death of the provincial minister, and commissarius of the Florence friary in 1599.

works

Orazio in funere Isabellae Vitelliae de Ruvere, Marchionissae &c. habita in aedibus D. Francisci Pisaurensis die 15. Julii 1598 (Pisa: Girolamo Concordia, 1598).

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 507-508; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 553.

Nicolaus Calingus (Nicole Caling, fl. early 16th cent.)

OFM. French Observant friar from the Aquitaine province. In 1517 he translated at the request of the Annonciade nuns of Albi Le sentier et adresse de dévotion et contemplation intellectuelle jadis composé en latin (Toulouse: Colomiez Ed., 1517)/ Le Sentier et l’adresse de Dévotion et contemplation intellectuelle, jadiz composé en latin, et nouvellement translaté en françoys à l'edification et instruction de tous bons et loyaulx chre//stiens (Toulouse: Jacques Colomiès, 1530).

works

Le sentier et adresse de dévotion et contemplation intellectuelle jadis composé en latin (Toulouse: Colomiez Ed., 1517)/ Le Sentier et l’adresse de Dévotion et contemplation intellectuelle, jadiz composé en latin, et nouvellement translaté en françoys à l'edification et instruction de tous bons et loyaulx chrestiens (Toulouse: Jacques Colomiès, 1530).

literature

Robert Sauzet, Mendiants et réformes. Les réguliers mendiants acteurs du changement religieux dans le royaume de France (1480-1560) (Tours: Publications e l’Université de Tours, 1994), 49-50.

Nicolaus Cardell (Nicolas Cardell, d. 1725)

OFM. Spanish Observant friar from Palma de Majorca. Philosophy lector in the San Francisco de Asis friary and provincial definitor. He died on September 12, 1725.

works

Tractatus in simbolum apostolorum, seu de articulis fideli, juxta mente Doctoris Joannis Duns Scoti (1682): MS Palma de Majorca, Biblioteca Provincial?

literature

Biblioteca de Autores Baleares, ed. Joaquin María Bover (Palma: P.J. Gelabert, 1868) I, 164 (no. 238).

Nicolaus Carnattus (Nicolao Carnatto, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian Conventual friar from Novara and member of the Milan province.

works

Antidoti e remedii spirituali per preservare l'anima dalla contaggione del Carnevale (MilanL 1611).

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), Appendix, no. 631; Lazaro Agostino Cotta ·Museo novarese formato da Lazaro Agostino Cotta (...) e diviso in quattro stanze con quattro indici (Milan: Heredi Ghisolfi, 1701), 235.

Nicolaus Caroli (Niklaus Caroli, d. 1483)

OMObs. German friar. Joined the order after he had been a secular cleric. Became a promotor of the regular observance, introducing its reform in Heidelberg (1426), Rufach (1435), Pforzheim (1443) and Basel. Became the first provincial Observant vicar for the German provinces in 1450. He died at Mainz on 3 October 1483. Author?

literature

AF 2 (1887), 284, 310-313; AF 6 (1917), 289; Eubel, Geschichte der oberdeutsche (Strassburger) Minoriten-Provinz (Wurzburg, 1886), 61-63; Minges, Geschichte der Franziskaner in Bayern (Munich, 1896), 44-46, 54, 58; Walter, Das Minoritenkloster zu Katharina in Rufach (Freiburg, 1906); Straganz, ‘Die ältesten Statuten des Klarissenkloster zu Brixen’, Franziskanische Studien (1919), 143-144; A. Van den Wyngaert, ‘Caroli’, DHGE XI, 1107.

N[icolaus?] Chrismann (18th cent.)

OFM. German friar.

works

Regula Fidei Catholicae see: J. Beumer, Franz. Stud., 46 (1964), 321-334.

Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresc

OFMCap. French friar.

literature

Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresc, Correspondance avec plusieurs missionaires et religieux de l’Ordre des Capucins, 1631-1637, ed. Apollinaire de Valence (Paris: Alphonse Picard libraire – éditeur, 1891/Nabu Press Paperback, 2010. short review in CF 82 (2012), 436-437.

Nicolaus Crassellus (Niccolò Crassello, fl. later 15th cent.)

OMObs [or OMConv?]. According to Juan de San Antonio an Italian Observant friar from Pavia. Canonist and theologian. Yet Sbaralea suggests that he maybe should be identifed with the Conventual friar and inquisitor Nicolaus Grassetus.

works

Opusculum de gradis consanguinitatis/De gradibus affinitatis.

Quodlibeta theologica?

Summa de Casibus

Tractatus de Usuris et restitutionibus

None of these works have as yet been traced.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 384; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 554 [with explanations concerning a possible identification of Nicolaus Crassellus with Nicolaus Grassetus (Nicolao Crasseto)]; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto, 237.

Nicolaus Crane (Nikolaus Crane)

OM. German friar.

literature

C. Schröder, `Kann der Franziskaner Nikolaus Crane als der Übersetzer der mitteldeutschen Apostelgeschichte des Königsberger Codex 191.A.fol. angesehen werden? (...)' Franz. Stud., 5 (1918), 27-50.

Nicolaus Amersfordiensis (Nicolaus Amersfortius/Nikolaas van Amersfoort/Nicolaus van Estveldt, d. 1656)

OFMCap. Dutch friar. Author

works

Chronycke, ende gheslacht-boom van den seraphycken vader S. Franciscus (...) (Brussels: Jan Mommaert, 1656). This work, apparently finished by 1647 and issued nine years later, is accessible via the Dutch Royal Library in The Hague and via Google Books.

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 549; Hildebrand van Hooglede, ‘Joan Mommaert’s uitgave van de Chronycke van S. Franciscus (1656)’, in: Idem, Miscellanea II, 1055-1066.

Nicolaus de Aquavilla (Nicolaus de Haqueville/Nicolas d'Hacqueville, d. 1317?)

OM. French Franciscan priest, theologian and preacher, for instance active in the Lyon area. It would seem that his sermon collections have survived in about 23 different medieval manuscripts, some incunable editions, and now in part can be accessed in the 2018 edition of Odelman. Individual sermons by Nicolas also appear separately in medieval manuscripts, and at least one of his sermons found its way in the famous Dormi Secure collection. The information below is fragmentary.

works

Sermones de Nativitate:?

Sermones de Tempore/Sermones Dominicales in Evangelia per Anni circulum: MS British Library, Egerton 3086 (122ff, 13th cent.); Oxford, Christ Church, 91 [check https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_3965]; Oxford, Bodleian, Bodl. 153; Oxford, Bodleian, Bodl. 857; Oxford, Bodleian, Rawl. C. 696; Oxford, University College, 60; ... to be continued. See also the remarks in the introduction to the edition of Eva Odelman mentioned below and the manuscript references suggested by Sbaralea. These sermons were also printed in several fifteenth-, and early sixteenth-century editions.
See for editions for instance: Sermones Dominicales in Evangelia per Anni circulum (s.a., s.l.). Hain, no. 8353, issued under the name of Jean Quintin; Sermones Dominicales Reverendi Patris Nicolai ab Aquaevilla Doctoris Theologi, natione Anglici, & professione Minoritae quos ob sententiarum pondera Venerabili Bedae in antiquo exemplari falso ascriptos deprehendimus (Jodocus Badius Ascensius, 1519). Accessible via the Staatsbibliothek Wien and via Google Books; Sermones moralissimi atque ad populum instruendum itilissimi supra Evangelia Dominicarum totius anni, ed. Eva Odelman, Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis, 283 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018). Cf. Review in Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 112 (2019), 681-685.

Sermones de sanctis; Sermones de communi sanctorum/Sermones de sanctis et festis: MSS Vatican City, BAV, Vat.lat. 1251; Bordeaux, Bibliothèque Municipale 285; Tours, Bibliothèque Municipale 482; Oxford, Bodleian, Laud. Lat. 94. Schneyer mentions quite a few other manuscripts, and yet another manuscript of this work was for sale at Les Enluminures (www.lesenluminures.com).

Sermones: MSS Oxford, Bodleian, Laud. Misc. 323-Part 2 ; Oxford, Bodleian, Laud Misc. 172 – Part C , ff. 93v-95v.

literature

Fabricius, V, 103; Wadding, 176; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 382; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 550 & (ed. 1921) II (ed. 1921), 265; Schneyer, Repertorium der Lateinischen Sermones des Mittelalters IV, 189; B. Hauréau, Notices et Extraits de quelques manuscrits latins de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3-6 (Paris, 1891-1893) (Table); Histoire littéraire de la France 31 (1893), 95-100; Monica Hedlund, ‘The Use of Model Sermons ad Vadstena: A Case Study’, in: Constructing the Medieval Sermon, ed. Roger Andersson, Sermo: Studies on Patristic, Medieval, and Reformation Sermons and Preaching, 6 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), 117-164; Eva Odelman, ‘Editing the Sermones moralissimi de tempore’, 165-176. in: Constructing the Medieval Sermon, ed. Roger Andersson, Sermo: Studies on Patristic, Medieval, and Reformation Sermons and Preaching, 6 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), 165-176.

Nicolaus de Arimino (Nicolaus Ariminensis/Niccolo d'Arimino/Nicolo da Rimini/Nicola da Rimini, d. ca. 1435)

OM. Italian friar, theology lector, and later magister theologiae; guardian of the Ravenna friar, as well as confessor of Opizone Polentano, prince of Ravenna. Hagiographer, known in any case for a life of Rinaldo da Concoregio, bishop of Ravenna, and of Galeotto Roberto Malatesta.

works

Vita et miracula B. Raynaldi Ravennatis Archiepiscopi, nec non tres Sermones in illius laudem: Ravenna, Archivio arciv. [check1]
The Vita was issued in the Acta Sanctorum. See: Nicola da Rimini, Acta et miracula beati Raynaldi, in: AA.SS. Aug. III (ed. Venice, 1752), 692-696.

Vita B. Roberti Malatestae, Arimini, & Caesenae Domini Tertii Ord. S. Francisci an. 1432 defuncti(...). Mentioned in later Franciscan chronicles. A manuscript of the work was once present in the Franciscan friary of Rimini. A version, entitled Tractatus de vita et morte religiosi viri beati Galeocti Roberti de Malatestis Tertii Ordinis Sancti Francisci, was published in G. Giovanardi, 'Vitae duae b. Galeoti Roberti de Malatestis', Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 21 (1928), 62-85.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 382; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 550; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto, 195-196.

Nicolaus de Arimono

OM. Italian friar.

works

Praedicamenti: Naples, Naz. VIII.F.22 ff. 73c-80bd

literature

To be continued...

Nicolaus de Auximo (Nicolaus de Auximo/Nicolaus de Osimo/Hosmo/Niccolò da Osimo/Nicolò da Osimo, d. ca. 1453/4)

OMObs. Italian friar from a noble family in the March of Ancona. Studied law at Bologna, where he reached the magisterium. After some years of practising law, he entered the Observants before 1438 in the Ara Coeli convent in Rome, in order to save his soul. Was sent back to the March of Ancona to preach and teach moral theology. In and after 1431, he fulfilled several functions (a.o. as provincial vicar). Bernardino da Siena, then general vicar of the Cismontan observants, appointed him as general commissioner at the papal court. There he defended the Observant cause against Conventual complaints. In 1446, he was provincial vicar of the March of Ancona province, and in 1453, he took part in the committee that examined the papal bul Ut Sacra Ordinis Minorum Religio of Eugenius IV (January 1446), which had given the Observants full autonomy. Niccolo died shortly thereafter at the Aracoeli convent. Niccolo produced several important canonist/moral theological works, such as the Supplementum Summae Pisanellae and the Interrogatorium Confessorum. Besides, he produced sermons, and ascetical works, such as the Quadriga Spirituale (1442), which amounts to a Christian handbook expounding the necessary elements of a good christian life. More directly geared to the religious life within the order of Friars Minor are his Della Religione, his Declaratio super Regula Fratrum Minorum, the Esposizione della nuova dichirazione sopra lo Regola, the Declaratio Praeceptorum Regulae Sanctae Clarae, a Memoriale, and the Apologia contra Robertum de Lecce. To him is also ascribed a Zardino de oration fructuoso (first printed in 1494), yet without further evidence. For more information on his life, see esp. the entry in the DBI by Letizia Pellegrini mentioned below, as well as the monograph study by Picciafuoco.

works

Compendio de Salute (ital.): Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vittorio Emanuele III, MS VII.F.34 ff. 40v-44v; XII.F.23 ff. 75r-85v; Assisi, S. Maria degli Angeli, Biblioteca della Porziuncola D 8, ff. 109-121.
The work received an early incunable edition as well: Compendio de Salute (Toscolano: Gabriele di Pietro da Treviso, 1479). [See also Anne Jacobson Schutte, Printed Italian Vernacular Religious Books 1465-1550: A Finding List, 279]

Quadriga Spirituale (Ital.): a.o. MSS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vittorio Emanuele III, MS XII.F.15 & MS XII.F.20 (see Cenci, Napoli, II, 898-899, 1093, a MS copied by Evangelista da Teramo); Bergamo, Bibl. Com. Angelo Mai MA 497 (an. 1445/6] [CDRom, Omnia Opera Angelo Mai, AM00049,1]; Brussels, Royal Library IV 513; Vienna, Österreich. Nationalbibl. 3290 (an. 1447); Assisi, S. Maria degli Angeli, Biblioteca della Porziuncola D 8, ff. 1-92.
The work received several imprints: Quadriga Spirituale (Jesi: Federico Conti, 1475/Brescia: Heinrich von Koeln & Eusthatius Gallicus, 1475/MIlan, 1503/Bologna: Baldassare Zaaoguidi, s.a.). [For these and later editions, see Hain n. 2173-2175. See also the study of Spezi (1865), and Anne Jacobson Schutte, Printed Italian Vernacular Religious Books 1465-1550: A Finding List, 279] The work was initially printed under the name of Bernardino da Siena. It amounts to a handbook for christians, first issued in 1442, and deals in its four parts with faith, the works of charity, the confession of sins, and prayer. The book had an immediate and great succes, as can be charted via the many manuscripts and editions (both of the complete work, and of its individual parts]

Liber Sermonum: check!

Supplementum super Magistrutiam Bartholomaei Pisani (written ca. 1444): a.o. MSS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale XII.A33; VII.F.6; XII.A.26, XII.A.32; Bergamo, Bibl. Com. Angelo Mai MA 238 (15th cent.] [CDRom, Omnia Opera Angelo Mai: AM00058]; Budapest, Magyar Tudományos Akedémia Könyvtára K. 455 (15th cent.) ff. 1ra-187rb; Országos Széchényi Könyvtár Lat. 471 (15th cent.) ff. 1ra-163vb
For early editions, see: Summa Pisani cum supplemento, ed. Niccolò da Osimo (Ulrich Zell, 1483), as well as Supplementum Summae Pisanellae (Venice, 1473/1474/Venice: Franciscum de Hailbrun et Petrum de Bartua socios, 1477/1485). Some of these incunable editions are accessible via the digital collections of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Yale University Library) [https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/9998922 ], Boston Public Library, Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/supplementumsumm00nich ], the Mediathèque of Lyon (check Numelyo), and via Google Books. There were at least nine editions between 1474 and 1479 and quite a few afterwards. See the studies by Pellegrini.

Interrogatorium (=Interrogationes Necessariae in Confessionibus): MS Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale VII.F.23 ff. 90r-174v

Dubia Resoluta: Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale XII.F.24 ff. 109v-110r; XII.G.37 ff. 166v-168r (?)

Della religione (work in 24 chapters), edited in: Tre operette volgari di Frate Niccolò da Osimo, testi di lingua inediti tratti da'codici vaticani, ed. Giuseppe Cavaliere Spezi (Rome: Tipografia delle Scienze Matematiche e Fisiche, 1865). This edition is completely accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich, and via Google Books. The first of the works in this edition, namely Della religione, deals in 24 chapters with the search for evangelical perfection in the (Franciscan) religious life. After a defense of the religious life and its merits, the work explains in detail the obligations and tasks of those who have chosen to follow the path of perfection, and want to engage in the spiritual battle leading to the negation of the self, trust in God, commemoration of Christ and his passion, reflection on death and the afterlife. The many references to the Bible, the Church fathers and many theologians of the via antiqua testify to Niccolo’s (traditional) theological erudition.

Regole dell'Ordine (Rule commentary), edited in: Tre operette volgari di Frate Niccolò da Osimo, testi di lingua inediti tratti da'codici vaticani, ed. Giuseppe Cavaliere Spezi (Rome: Tipografia delle Scienze Matematiche e Fisiche, 1865). This edition is completely accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich, and via Google Books.

Declaratio super Regula Fratrum Minorum (1440) [This work, which was approved by his Observant superiors (such as Bernardino da Siena), who had it published on 31 July 1440, gives a clear insight into the precepts of the Franciscan rule for the Observant friars. Cf. A. Wilmart, ‘Le commentaire de Nicolas d’Osimo sur la règle de saint François’, Analecta Reginensia, Studi e testi 59 (Vatican City, 1933), 301-310]

Esposizione della nuova dichiarazione sopra la Regola , available via Tre operette volgari di Frate Niccolò da Osimo, testi di lingua inediti tratti da'codici vaticani, ed. Giuseppe Cavaliere Spezi (Rome: Tipografia delle Scienze Matematiche e Fisiche, 1865), which is completely accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich, and via Google Books. See also A. Wilmart, ‘Le commentaire de Nicolas d’Osimo sur la règle de saint François’, Analecta Reginensia, Studi e testi 59 (Vatican City, 1933), 301-310. The commentary gives an overview of the constitutions edited by John Capistran and approved by pope Martin V, and argues that these Observant constitutions are fully coherent with the Rule of Francis. For manuscript witnesses of versions of this wext, see: MSS Naples, Naz. VI.F.34 ff. 91v-98v; VII.G.66 ff. 187v-196r; XII.F.24 ff. 28a-29c; XII.G.5 ff. 328v-335v; XII.G.37 ff. 79r-84v; Vatican City, BAV, check!

Declaratio Praeceptorum Sanctae Clarae. See L.-M. Nuñez, ‘Explicatio regulae S. Clarae auctore Nicolao de Auximo’, AFH 5 (1912), 299-314 & Z. Lazzeri, ‘Novae animadversiones circa Declarationes Regulae S. Clarae a S. Ioanne a Capistrano et a Fr. Nicolao Auximano conscriptas’, AFH 9 (1916), 445-447]

Memoriale (1441). See the studies of C. Piana in AFH 71 (1978), and AFH 72 (1979) The Memoriale, presented to a papal committee, is a refutation of allegations against Bernardino da Siena and his Observant reform ideals.

Apologia contra Robertum de Lecce (1453). See the studies of C. Piana in AFH 71 (1978), and AFH 72 (1979). The Apologia atacks Roberto Caracciolo’s denunciations of the Observant cause (after the latter’s defection to the Conventuals), and once again stresses the legitimacy of the bull Ut sacra Ordinis Minorum religio (1446).

Giardino de oratione fructuoso/Zardino de oratione fructuoso (Venice, 1494/Florence, s.a./Venice: Simone Bevilacqua, 1496)/Libro deuoto e fruttuoso a ciascun fedel Christiano chiamato Giardino de orationi (Venice: Agostino Bendone, 1543). Cf. Hain n. 7772 & Hain, Supplement n. 2734. This is probably a spurious ascription. See the work of Stanislao da Campagnola and the 1980 study by Picciafuoco.

For more information, see the works of Picciafuoco, Campagnola and Pellegrini mentioned below.

literature

Fabricius, V, 104; Wadding, Script., 176; Wadding, Annales Minorum X , 139-141, 201 XI, 45-53, 117, 126-127, XII, 33-34, 199; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 382-383; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 550-552 & (ed. 1921) II, 261-268; Schulte, II, 435ff.; J. Dieterle, Zeitschrift f. Kirchengeschichte, 27 (1906), 183-188; AFH, 5 (1912), 308-314; Zawart, 293; AFH 9 (1916), 445-447; A. Wilmart, 'Le commentaire de Nicolas d’Osimo sur la règle de saint François', in: Analecta Reginensia, Studi e testi, LIX (Rome, 1933), 301-310; Enrico Bulletti, 'Guidantonio da Montefeltro per frate Niccolò da Osimo?', Bullettino di Studi Bernardiniani 6 (1940), 224-225; C. Cenci, 'Biblioteche e bibliofili francescani a tutto il secolo XV', Picenum Seraphicum 8 (1971), 66-80; A. van Hove, Prolegomena ad Codicem Iuris Canonici (Mechelen, 1945²), 516; Stanislao da Campagnola, 'Il "Giardino di orazione" e altri scritti di un anonimo del Quattrocento. Un'errata attribuzione a Niccolò da Osimo', Collectanea Franciscana 41 (1971), 5-59; Umberto Picciafuoco, Fr. Nicolò da Osimo: vita, opera, spiritualità (Monteprandone: Officine graf. Anxanum, 1980); P. Péano,' Nicolas d’Osimo', Dictionnaire de Spiritualité XI (Paris, 1981). 293-295; Diego Ciccarelli, ‘Nikolaus von Osimo (de Auximo) OFM, wichtiger Vertreter der Franziskanischen Observanz († 1446)’, Lexikon des Mittelalters VI (1993), 1186; Klaus-Gunther Wesseling, ‘Nikolaus Osimo, florentiner Generalvikar u. Präfekt des hl. Landes († nach 1453)’, Biographisch-bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon VI (1993), 921-923; Daniela Durissini, 'La voce "usura" nel Supplementum Summae Pisanellae di Niccolò da Osimo', Studi medievali Ser. 3, 35 (1994), 217-258; R. Avesani, ‘Cultura e istanze pastorali nella biblioteca di san Giacomo della Marca’, in: San Giacomo della Marca nell’Europa del ’400, ed. S. Bracci (Padua, 1997), 398-399; Letizia Pellegrini, 'Niccolò da Osimi', Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 78 (2013) [http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/niccolo-da-osimo_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/]

Nicolaus de Bitonto (Niccolò d Bitonto/Bittonio, d. ca. 1413)

OM. Italian (Umbrian) friar. Provincial minister of the San Francesco province.

works

Sermones Quadragesimales: ? Check!

literature

Fabricius, V, 105; Wadding, Script., 177; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 383; Zawart; M. Sensi, DBI 46, 413-417.

Nicolaus de Burgo (Nicholas de Burgo/Niccolo di Borgo, fl. 1517–ca. 1537)

OFM. Italian Franciscan friar from Florence, who studied in Paris (lectorate or degree program?) before he started as a baccalaureus Sententiarum in Oxford from 1517 onwards. Baccalaureus formatus in 1523. He asked for his doctorate degree in January 1524 and incepted in August of the same year. He became public lecturer of theology at Magdalene College, for a yearly remuneration of £10. He resigned this position by 1536 but he had by then also obtained a lecturer position at Cardinal College, Oxford, for £20 a year, thanks to an invitation of Cardinal Wolsey in 1529. In 1532, he became reader in theology at King Henry VIII College (the successor of Cardinal’s College). Initially under the protection of Cardinal Wolsey and later of the king, Nicholas received additional counselor remunerations, as well as a prebend (Timsbury, of Romsey Abbey). As a client of the king, Nicholas lobbied alongside of Thomas Cranmer, Edward Foxe, and Edward Lee on the king’s behalf to obtain papal approval, as well as support of the university of Oxford, for the first royal divorce. In collaboration with Foxe and John Stokesley, Nicholas wrote the Henricus octavus (1529), an expanded version of which was published by Spring 1531 as Gravissimae, atque exactissimae illustrissimarum totius Italiae, et Galliae Academiarum censurae. It was subsequently translated into English translation by Cranmer (Determinations of the moste famous and mooste excellent universities of Italy and Fraunce (1531)). Late 1531, Nicholas Burgo retired to the London friary, and tried to return to Italy, but did not obtain royal permission to do so, due to his involvement with the divorce proceedings. After complaints, Nicholas received additional remunerations by Thomas Cromwell, and three years later, in August 1534, was found in Oxford. Yet in October of the following year he had been allowed to return to Italy. He probably died there in or shortly after 1537.

works

Henricus octavus (1529).

Gravissimae, atque exactissimae illustrissimarum totius Italiae, et Galliae Academiarum censurae.

Determinations of the moste famous and mooste excellent universities of Italy and Fraunce (1531).

literature

Emden, Oxford IV, 85-86; Virginia Murphy, ‘Burgo, Nicholas de (fl. 1517–1537)’, in: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/20094).

Nicolaus de Byard (Nicolaus Biard/Nicolaus Bajardus/Nicolaus de Biordo/Nicolaus e Broido/Nicolaus de Brachio/Nicolas de Byard/Nicolas de Biard, d. 1261)

OM. French friar. Famous preacher and moral theologian. Was one of the most well-renowned and influential Franciscan preachers in Paris, even though he had received no higher theological education. A large number of manuscripts have survived that contain full series of his Sermones de Tempore, his Sermones de Sanctis, and his Sermones de Communi Sanctorum. Besides, many medieval sermon manuscripts contain individual sermons of Nicholas alongside sermons of sermons by other (Franciscan and non-Franciscan) preachers. To some extent, it is difficult to separate some of his sermons from the homiletic production of Petrus de S. Benedicto. Nicholas’ sermons have a popular character and make much use of popular sayings and anecdotes. He is also known for his distinctions collections, namely the Distinctiones seu Conceptus Praedicabiles (which amount to an alphabetical collection of praedicabilia) and his even more popular Summa de Abstinentia seu Dictionnarius Pauperum (also alphabetically organised). His pre-occupation with the production of distinction collections enticed some scholars in the past to think that Nicholas must have been a Dominican, even though several surviving manuscripts attest to his Franciscan provenance. His minorite status has finally been secured by B. Hauréau. Cf. his Notices et extraits de quelques manuscrits latins de la Bibliothèque Nationale II (Paris, 1891), 91 (which refers for instance to MS Paris BN Lat. 12419 f. 120).

works

Distinctiones sive Conceptus Praedicabiles [relation with the Distinctiones of Maurice of Provins?]: a.o. MSS Naples, Naz., VII.F.14 ff. 1r-200v; Chartres 222 f. 1-233; Paris, BN, Lat. 3529A ff. 150v-155 (13th-14th cent.); Paris BN 12424 (thirteenth cent. Contains alphabetical index on ff. 107-114); Paris BN 13474; Paris BN 14890; Paris BN 16487; Paris BN 16488; Paris BN 16489; Paris BN 18081; Paris, Bibl. Mazarine 1024 (one of the oldest manuscripts, which mentions him as a Franciscan and and contains an alphabetical index on ff. 178-185); Paris Bibl Mazarine 1030; Chartres 222; Laon 150; Oford Bodl. Bodley 563; Avignon 308; Bordeaux 137; Bruges 515; Cambrai 521; Cambridge, Pembroke College C. 238; Oxford Magdalen C. 145; Oxford Merton C. 67. See also Stegmüller, Repertorium Biblicum IV (Madrid, 1954), no. 5693-4; Biblioteca Universitaria di Cagliari (Sardinia - Italy) MS 81 (parchment, XVth century, I+212 ff., mm. 275 x 195. Possibly transcribed by Emiliano Brondat, a Dominican friar from Aragon, who lived in Sardinia. With thanks to Prof. Graziano Fois Cagliari, who sent us this manuscript reference).

Summa de Abstinentia:(=Dictionarius Pauperum) [abbreviation of the Distinctiones]: a.o. MSS Paris, BN Lat. 3509 (14th cent.) & 3510 (14th cent.); Székesfehérvár Püspöki Könyvtár 162 (15th cent.) ff. III 1ra-102rb; Trento, Bibl. Com, 1587 ff. 1ra-131vb (an. 1444); Uppsala, UB, C. 607 (15th cent.) ff. 54-60ra; Frankfurt a.M. Dominikanerkloster 99 ff. 15t-150v; Hamburg, S. Petruskirche Petri 57 ff. 1r-100r (14th cent); Notre Dame, Ind. University Library 15 ff. 1-156; Ghent, Univ. Libr. 952 (16th cent.); Angers, bibliothèque municipale 419 (early 14th cent.) [see: http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/documentation/enlumine/fr/BM/angers_320-01.htm]. See also Stegmüller, Repertorium Biblicum IV n. 5695. With thanks to Marc-Edouard Gautier, Directeur adjoint, Conservateur chargé des fonds patrimoniaux Bibliothèque municipale d’Angers.
For editions, see: Summa de Abstinentia=Directorium Pauperum/Dictionarius Pauperum. See for instance: Dictionarius pauperum omnib[us] v[er]bi diuini predicatorib[us] p[er]neccessarius in quo mirabili artificio p[er]stringu[n]tur materie seu sermones singulis festiuitatib[us] totiu[s] anni (Cologne, 1505); Dictionarius pauperum omnibus praedicatoribus verbi divini pernecessarius de tempore et de sanctis (Strasbourg, 1516). This work, which also has survived in numerous manuscripts, has been printed several times (o.a. Paris, 1498; 1500; 1512; 1530; Cologne 1504; 1505; Strassbourg, 1516; 1518) The printed versions go back to a manuscript version, which in itself is an abbreviation of the Distinctiones seu Conceptus Praedicabiles. Some of the editions can now be accessed digitally via the websites of the Bibliothèque nationale of Paris and the Staatsbibliothek Munich, or via Google Books or www.archive.org

Sermones/Collationes de Sanctis et de Tempore: many mss, o.a. Arras, Bibl. Municipale 421 & 534; Avranches, Bibl. de la Ville 133; Basel, Universitätsbibliothek B.IX.9 & B.X.2; Bologna, Bibl. Comunale dell’Archiginnasio A.1183 & A. 1035; Erlangen, Universitätsbibliothek 328; Kopengahen, Royal Library 119b; Laon, Bibl. Communale 297 & 308; Milan, Ambrosiana L.23 sup; Munich, Bib. naz. Clm 9588, 13585 and 16028; Paris BN 3295, 18081, 3283 and 3529A ff. 127v-131 & 155v-159v; Paris BN Lat. 15971 ff. 80va-82va [four sermons in a larger collection compiled by Pierre de Limoges]; Paris BN Lat. 12419 f. 120 [Sermo ‘Ductus est Iesus’. Cf. Collectanea Franciscana 10 (1940), 302-303]; Augsburg, UB, Cod. II.1.2° 80 (ca. 1460) ff. 4ra-164va Stuttgart, Würtenb. Landesbibl. HB I 73; etc. A more or less complete listing of the manuscripts (both manuscripts with complete series of Nicholas’ sermons and manuscripts with individual sermons), replete with a list of initia is given by Schneyer, AFH 60 (1967), 8ff. Cf. also Schneyer, Horae eruditae 1 (1966), 191-192.

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 553 & (ed. 1921) II, 270-271; Histoire littéraire de la France 18 (1835), 530-531 & 21 (1847), 164-166; A. Lecoy de la marche, La Chaire française au Moyen Age (Paris, 1886), 134-135; B. Hauréau, Notices et extraits de quelques manuscrits latins de la Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris, 1890-1894) I, 206, II, 84-100, 275-292, III, 114, IV, 67, V, 142, VI, 264-265; Zawart, ‘The History of Franciscan Preaching (…), Franciscan Studies/The Franciscan Educational Conference 9 (Washington, 1927), 356-7; A. Wilmart, `Note sur les plus anciens recueils de distinctions bibliques', Mémorial Lagrange (Paris, 1940), 343ff; A. Teetaert, in: Dict. De Théol. Cath., XI (1931), 589-592; Stegmüller, Repertorium Biblicum, IV, n. 5693-5695; Schneyer, Repertorium der lateinischen Sermones des Mittelalters IV, 228-250; J.-B. Schneyer, ‘Eine Sermonesliste des Nicholas de Byard’, AFH 60 (1967), 3-41; Sacris Erudiri 17 (1966), 188-202; Clément Schmitt, ‘Nicolas de Byard’, DSpir XI, 254-255; G. Hödl, `Nicolaus de Byard', Biogr. Bibliogr. Kirchenlexikon VI (1993), 692f.; Sophie Delmas, ‘La Summa de abstinentia attribuée Nicolas de Biard: circulation et reception’, in: Entre stabilité et itinérance: livres et culture des ordres mendiants, XIIIe - XVe siècle, ed. Nicole Bériou, Martin Morard & Donatella Nebbiai-Dalla Guarda (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014), 303-328 [accessible via http://www.academia.edu/6561902 ].

Nicolaus de Calvi (Nicolaus de Carbio/Nicolaus de Curbio/Niccolò da Calvi, fl. 13^th cent.)

OM. Italian friar, confessor of Innocent IV, and bishop of Assisi.

works

Vita Innocentii Papae IV, included in: Stephanus Baluzius, Miscellanea. Hoc Est, Collectio veterum monumentorum quae hactenus latuerant in variis codicibus ac bibliothecis, VII (Paris: Muguet, 1715), 353.

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 554; Olivarius Oliger, 'De iuventute Fr. Nicolai de Carbio, O. F. M., Innocentii IV poenitentiarii et biographi', Antonianum 15 (1940), 275-278; Nicolangelo D’Acunto, ‘La cattedra scomoda. Niccolò da Calvi, frate Minore e vescovo di Assisi (1250-1273)’, in: Il difficile mestiere di vescovo (secoli X-XIV), ed. Giuseppina De Sandre Gasparini, Quaderni di Storia Religiosa (Caselle di Sommacampagna: Cierre Edizioni, 2000), 189-216; Williel R. Thomson, Friars in the Cathedral: The First Franciscan Bishops, 1226-1261 (Toronto: PIMS, 1975), 101ff.

Nicolaus de Conceptione (Nicolao de Concepção, fl. early 18^th cent.)

OFMDisc. Portuguese friar. Member of the St. Anthony province. Provincial secretary and preacher.

works

Sermão sobre a Indulgência de Porciúncula (Coïmbra: Antonio Simón, 1707).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 384.

Nicolaus de Cordoba (Nicolás de Córdoba, fl. 18^th cent.)

OFMCap. Spanish friar. Chronicler.

works

Historia instrumental de la fundación del Convento de Capuchinos de Cabra: MS Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, 1321. A digital copy of the manuscript is available via the virtual library of Analucia (http://www.bibliotecavirtualdeandalucia.es ).

literature

Antonio Valiente Romero & Jaime Galbarro García, 'Entre el legajo y la pluma. Teoría y práctica de las crónicas de fray Nicolás de Córdoba, OFMCap', Estudios franciscanos117:460 (2016), 151-190.

Nicolaus de Dijon (Nicolas de Dijon, fl. late 17th cent.)

OFMCap. French friar. Lector, provincial minister of the Lyon province, preacher and general definitor. He would have died in 1694.

works

Pharaon reprouvé, ou L'avocat de la providence de Dieu sur la reprobation des pecheurs (Lyon: Claude Muguet, 1685). Accessible via Google Books.

Octave de l'Assomption de la Sainte Vierge, prechée par le R. P. Nicolas de Dijon (...) (Lyon: Jean-Baptiste de Ville, 1687). Accessible via Google Books (search creatively, for it does not always appear).

Sermons sur les mystères de la Vièrge Marie (...) (Lyon: Jean-Baptiste de Ville, 1687).

Sermons prechez pendant L'Avent, par le R.P. Nicolas de Dijon Ex-Provincial des Capucins de la Province de Lyon, 2 Vols., Seconde Edition revueë & corrigée (Lyon: Leonard Plaignard, 1688). The second edition is accessible via Google Books (the individual volumes do not always appear in searches).

L'Esprit de l'Ecclesiastique formé sur celui de Jesus-Christ. Exhortations à la perfection ecclesiastique, 2 Vols. (Lyon: Jean-Baptiste de Ville, 1688). In any case the second volume is accessible via Google Books.

Panegiriques sur les misteres de Notre Seigneur prechez par le R.P. Nicolas De Dijon (...) (Lyon: Jean-Baptiste de Ville, 1688). Accessible via Google Books.

Contre l'opinion damnée du Michel de Molinos (...) (Dijon: Jean Ressayre, 1688). Published anonymously?

Sermons sur tous les Évangiles du Carême prêchez par le R. P. Nicolas de Dijon, Provincial des Capucins de la Province de Lyon, 3 Vols. (Lyon: Jean-Baptiste de Ville, 1692). In any case the first and the third volumes ar accessible via Google Books (creative search).

Sermons Sur Les Evangiles De Tous Les Dimanches De L'Année, 2 Vols. (Paris: Estienne Michallet, 1694).

Sermons pour des vêtures et professions religieuses (...) (Lyon: Thomas Amaulry, 1695). Accessible via Google Books.

Panégiriques des saints, prêchéz par le T. R. P. Nicolas de Dijon, Capucin, Definiteur General de son Ordre, 2 Vols. (Lyon: Thomas Amaulry, 1693). At least in part accessible via Google Books.

Sermons de l'octave des morts préchez par le T. R. P. Nicolas de Dijon (...) (Lyon: Thomas Amaulry, 1696/Paris: Jacques Colombat, 1699). The 1696 edition is accessible via Google Books.

Sermons pour les quarante heures, contre le mauvais usage du sacrement de l'Aucharistie (...) (Lyon: Jean-Baptiste & Nicolas de Ville, 1696). Accessible via Google Books.

Prediche Quaresimali del M.R. Padre Niccolo di Dijon Provinciale de'P.P. Cappuccini della Provincia di Lione. Tradotte dall'Idioma Francese nella Favella Italiana: Divise In Due Tomi, 2 Vols. (Venice: Francesco Storti, 1730). This Italian translation is accessible via Google Books.

Sermoni di vestiture e professioni di religiosi e religiose (...) Aggiuntivi altri Sermoni del medesimo Autore. Tradotti dall'Idioma Francese nella favella Italiana da D. Nicolo Maria La Porta (...) (Venice: Giambattista Regozza, 1732). This Italian translation is accessible via Google Books.

Außerlesene und Lehrreiche Predigen: Welche In Frantzösischer Sprach etlichmahl aufgeleget, Nunmehro aber Wegen ihrer Vortrefflichkeit in das Hoch-Teutsche übersetzet, und in drey Theile abgetheilet worden (...) (Bencard, 1737). Accessible via Google Books.

Sermons choisis de Nicolas de Dijon, ed. J.-P. Migne, Collection intégrale et universelle des orateurs sacrés, 17 (Paris: J.-P. Migne, 1845).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 385.

Nicolaus de Fakenham (Nicolaus Fachinhamus/Nicholas Fakenham, d. in or after 1407)

OM. English Franciscan friar, possibly from Norfolk. Obtained the doctorate of theology at Oxford around 1395. He was by then also provincial minister. On 5 November 1395 he gave at Oxford a magisterial determination on the papal schism at the request of the English king Richard II, arguing that if rivaling popes were unable to solve the issue, the collective of church dignitaties and secular princes could intervene. In addition to this determination, Fakenham also published two additional questions on the topic. John Fakenham left his charge as provincial minister in or around 1402, possibly at the general chapter of Assisi. Three years later, in 1405, he received the appointment of special commissioner from the order’s cardinal protector, to investigate charges against his successor as provincial minister, John Zouche, whose conduct and policies had caused strife among the English friars minor. Fakenham and others had Zouche deposed, organised a new provincial chapter at Oxford (3 May 1405) and chose a successor. Nevertheless, with support of the cardinal protector, Zouche was reinstated by the Franciscan general chapter and reconfirmed with papal approval in his office the following year. Fakenham probably died in 1407 and was buried in Colchester. Alongside of his writings on the papal schism, we have of Fakenham an Epistola fraternitatis. Other writings mentioned by Bale and others (De suffragiis viatorum, De fraternitate Christiana, De valore missae, De orationibus, Super unione ecclesiae) have not yet been found?

works

Epistola Fraternitatis pro Ioanne Caxton eiusque Muliere Mathilda, data ex Colchester (ca. an. 1395-1402), MS Oxford Bodl. Ashmole, 360

De valore missae?

De suffragiis Viatorum?

Determinationes super Schismate inter Bonifacium IX et Benedictum XIII die 1. Novembris an. 1395. See: Traktat des Minoritenprovinzials von England Fr. Nikolaus de Fakenham (1395) über das grosse abendländische Schisma, ed. Fr. Bliemetzrieder, Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 1 (1908) 577-600; 2 (1909), 79-91.

Quaestiones (on the schism), edited in: M. Harvey, ‘Two quaestiones on the Great Schism by Nicholas Fakenham’, Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 70 (1977), 97-127.

literature

Bale, Index Britanniae Scriptorum, 300-301; Bale, Scriptorum illustrium Maioris Brytanniae catalogus I, 530; Lucas Wadding, Annales minorum, ed. J.M. Fonseca et al., 2nd Ed. (1734) IX, 241, 278, 342; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 385; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 554; Bullarium Franciscanum, ed. Conrad Eubel 7 (Rome, 1904), 185-186 (no. 513); A.G. Little, The Grey Friars in Oxford (Oxford, 1892), 252-253; R.N. Swanson, Universities, Academics and the Great Schism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 109, 211; Richard Rex, ‘Fakenham, Nicholas (d. 1407)’, in: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004; http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/20093).

Nicolaus de Faro (Nicolaus Fara/Nicolaus Theatinus/Nicolaus Tellus/Nicolaus Tellius de Fara/Niccolo di Fará, fl. 15th cent.)

OMObs. Italian friar. Collaborator and later hagiographer of Giovanni of Capestrano. Provincial vicar in the San Bernardino province.

works

Epistolae: MS Naples, Naz. V.F.18 ff. 23r-233v [see Chiappini]; Epistola de rebus gestis a Johanne Capistranensi dum Germaniam ingrediatur: MS Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria 172, ff. 135r-140r & edited in Ludivico Frati, 'Il viaggio in Germania di S. Giovanni da Capistrano descritto da Fra Nicolò da Fara', Miscellanea francescana di storia, di lettere, di arti 3:1 (1888), 7-13.

Sermo: Naples, Naz. VIII.B.35 f. 24r-29v.

Vita de S. Joh. de Capistrano: MS Aquila Arch. vescovile, manoscritto non numerato.
This Vita de S. Joh. de Capistrano was apparently transcribed by Petrus Sifronius/Pietro Sifronio (another collaborator/socius of Giovanni of Capestrano) and issued in print in 1523. The work was also included in: AASS Oct. X, 439-483. See the information provided in Miscellanea Francescana 24 (1924), 138, and in the 2017 study by Daniele Solvi.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 385; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 554; Ludivico Frati, 'Il viaggio in Germania di S. Giovanni da Capistrano descritto da Fra Nicolò da Fara', Miscellanea francescana di storia, di lettere, di arti 3:1 (1888), 7-13; A. Chiappini, `Fr. Nicolai de Fara, epistolae duae ad S. Joh. de Capistrano', AFH, 15 (1922), 382-405; Daniele Solvi, ‘Un agiografo osservante alla crociata (Belgrado, 1456)’ , in: Franciscan Observance between Italy and Central Europe. Proceedings of the International Conference, 4-6 December 2014/L’Osservanza francescana fra Italia ed Europa Centrale. Atti del Convegno internazionale, 4-6 dicembre 2014, ed. György Galamb, Theme issue of Chronica. Annual of the Institute of History, University of Szeged 15 (2017), 247-258. [deals with the hagiographical production around the Belgrado events of Giovanni da Tagliacozzo, Pietro Jacovuccio (father of an observant friar), the vita of Nicoloa da Fara, several anonymous texts, the authors of which might have to be identified with Girolamo da Udine and again Giovanni da Tagliacozzo, both collaborators of Giovanni da Capestrano].
With thanks to dr. István Bejczy

Nicolaus de Freitas (Nicolas de Freitas, ca. 1634- half 17th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar, son of Juan de Freitas, a native of the Canary Islands, and Gerónima de Rueda, who had moved to Mexico. Nicolas took the habit in Mexico City on June 4 1650, at the age of sixteen. He went to New Mexico in December 1658 in the compagny of the Governor Bernardo López de Mendizábal and 18 other friars. In New Mexico he became activa as a missionary and an order administrator. Several times he was accused of excessive flogging and other punishments of Apache natives.

works

A number of testimonies, letters and administrative records can still be found in the archives, and a number of them saw modern editions. See the 2012 study Juan Domínguez de Mendoza as well as Charles Wilson Hackett, Historical Documents Relating to New Mexico, Nueva Vizcaya, and Approaches Thereto, 3 Vols. (Washington: Carnegie Institution, 1923-1937) III, passim.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 386; Juan Domínguez de Mendoza: Soldier and Frontiersman of the Spanish Southwest, 1627-1693, ed. France V. Scholes et al. (University of New Mexico Press, 2012), passim.

Nicolaus degli Spinelli (d. 1462)

OMConv. Italian friar. Preacher and theologian. A.o. active in Arezzo.

literature

AFH, 11 (1918), 565f;

Nicolaus de Haarlem (Nicolaas van Haarlem)

OMObs. Dutch friar.

works

‘Nikolaas van Haarlems Widerlegung von Vorwürfen gegen die Observanten’, AFH 73 (1980), 124-172.

Nicolaus de Haqueville (fl. second half 13th century)

PM French friar (probably). According to Sbaralea preacher in Lyon and magister theologiae. No further evidence to support his degree status. Schneyer thinks that he was active c. 1317, yet the manuscript evidence places him in the second half of the thirteenth century. He is predominantly known for his many sermons, which survive in a large number of manuscripts in French, English, German, and Italian libraries. Aside from individual sermons, we can distinguish two large scholastic collections: Sermones de Tempore/Sermones Domenicales in Evangelia per Anni Circulum, which also received printed editions, and the Sermones de Sanctis. These collections are clearly model sermon skeletons, without anecdotes. The first sermon of the Sermones de Tempore was borrowed by the compilor of the famous Dormi Secure collection.

works

Sermones de Sanctis: a.o. MS Frankfurt a.M. Dominikanerkloster 37 ff. 1r-130v; etc. See Schneyer, Repertorium der lateinischen Sermones des Mittelalters IV, 189-204

Sermones de Tempore/Sermones Domenicales: See Schneyer, Repertorium der lateinischen Sermones des Mittelalters IV, 189-204.

Sermones Domenicales in Evangelia per Anni Circulum, ed. Jean Quintin (Paris, c. 1495) [cf. Hain n. 8353]; Sermones Domenicales in Evangelia per Anni Circulum, ed. Jean Vasseur (Paris, c. 1500)

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum II, 265; B. Hauréau, Notices et Extraits de quelques manuscrits latins de la Bibliothèque Nationale 3-6 (Paris, 1891-1893), passim; B. Hauréau, ‘Nicolas d’Hacqueville’, Histoire littéraire de la France 31 (Paris, 1893), 95-100; J.-B. Schneyer, Repertorium der lateinischen Sermones des Mittelalters IV, 189-204; DSpir XI, 283.

Nicolaus de Kozle (Nikolaus von Kosel, d. ca. 1433 (or after 1443)?)

OM. Bohemian or Polish friar. Might have received his education in Oberglogau or in a neighbouring centre. Apparently entered the order in 1414 [according to notices in the autograph rapiarius MS Breslau (Wroclaw) I.Q. 466], and was made priest in 1415/16. In 1416 he is mentioned as preacher in a Bohemian convent of Poor Clares. Active in Olmütz in 1416 and again in Oberglogau in 1417. Maybe on pilgrimage to Rome and Assisi before 1420. After Eastern 1421 he is sacristian in Jägerndorf. He might have been chosen provincial minister in 1443 [See MS Breslau (Wroclaw) UB IV Q 198, p. 12]. The works of Nicolaus, which all stemm from a period in which the Hussite troubles began, all show a commitment to the established church.
The surviving autograph manuscript of Nicholas, MS Breslau (Wroclaw) I.Q. 466 is a so-called Rapiarius. It started out as a letter copy book, and subsequently was used to collect a load of (Latin, German and Czech) theological texts, songs, hymns, sequences, smaller notices, word lists, church songs, Bible pericopes, and a Hebrew alphabet. Ludwig Denecke remarks: ‘Das Breslauer Autograph des N.v.K enthält überaus vielfältige und großenteils nur hier überlieferte Texte und Aufzeichnungen. Es läßt erkennen, was einem Ordensmann und Prediger wert erschien, festgehalten und wiederverwandt zu werden. Als Verfasser einzelner Texte ist N.v.K. jedoch kaum irgendwo (vielleicht für die Glossen?) mit Sicherheit zu erschließen. Zahlreiche zum Auswendiglernen geeignete Merkverse lassen den Schluß auf Lehrtätigkeit zu.’ VL 2^nd ed. VI, 1090. It would suggest that Nikolaus was not only a preacher, but also might have been active as lector or reading master.

works

Rapiarius: MS Breslau (Wroclaw) I.Q. 466. It started out as a letter copy book, and subsequently was used to collect a load of (Latin, German and Czech) theological texts, songs, hymns, sequences, smaller notices, word lists, church songs, Bible pericopes, and a Hebrew alphabet. Denecke informs us that, spread out through the manuscript, we also can find wisdom sayings and proverbs, 52 Latin songs, hyms and sequences [all to be found in Klapper, 1937, 82-104], church songs [J. Klapper, Die Schriften Johanns von Neumarkt (1935), IV, 375-399, and the Czech ones by Feifalik, 1862], short pieces from canon law, on school education extracts from the Physiologus and the Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum, musical notations concerning the liturgy [Klapper, 1937, 56-58].

Rapiarius: MS Breslau (Wroclaw) I.Q. 466, ff. 4v-9r: Glosarius de Diversis Vocabulis [with German and some Czech interliniary glosses]

Rapiarius: MS Breslau (Wroclaw) I.Q. 466, f. 11r: Glosses on words and sentences of the Gospels

Rapiarius: MS Breslau (Wroclaw) I.Q. 466, f. 11r: Alphabetum Hebraicum

Rapiarius: MS Breslau (Wroclaw) I.Q. 466, ff. 13v-18v: Quaestiones optime curam animarum concernentes

Rapiarius: MS Breslau (Wroclaw) I.Q. 466, ff. 20v-21v: Summa Augustini de Penitencia [Peniteas Cito. Cf. John of Garlandia]

Rapiarius: MS Breslau (Wroclaw) I.Q. 466, ff. 22r-23v: catechetical texts and prayers

Rapiarius: MS Breslau (Wroclaw) I.Q. 466, ff. 36r-39v: catechetical texts and prayers

Rapiarius: MS Breslau (Wroclaw) I.Q. 466, f. 39v: extract from Augustine’s De Trinitate.

Rapiarius: MS Breslau (Wroclaw) I.Q. 46. , f. 39v: Interpretatio Alphabeti Hebraici

Rapiarius: MS Breslau (Wroclaw) I.Q. 466, ff. 43v-48r: Glosses on words and sentences of the Gospels

Rapiarius: MS Breslau (Wroclaw) I.Q. 466, ff. 57v-83v: Scintillarius [rather different from the corresponding pieces of the Librum Scintillarum found in PL 88, 597-718]

Rapiarius: MS Breslau (Wroclaw) I.Q. 466, ff. 85r-87v: catechetical texts and prayers

Rapiarius: MS Breslau (Wroclaw) I.Q. 466, ff. 89v-92r: catechetical texts and prayers

Rapiarius: MS Breslau (Wroclaw) I.Q. 466, ff. 93v-94v: catechetical texts and prayers

Rapiarius: MS Breslau (Wroclaw) I.Q. 466, ff. 94v and 140v: notices on the religious service

Rapiarius: MS Breslau (Wroclaw) I.Q. 466, ff. 94v-95v: Legenda Henrici

Rapiarius: MS Breslau (Wroclaw) I.Q. 466, ff. 97r-136v: Gospel pericopes

Rapiarius: MS Breslau (Wroclaw) I.Q. 466, ff. 141v-142r: Lime furnace exemplum

literature

H. Hoffmann von Fallersleben, ‘Nikolaus von Kosel, ein böhmischer und deutscher Dichter vom jahre 1417’, Monatschrift von und für Schlesien 2 (1829), 738-751; J. Feifalik, ‘Studien zur Geschichte der altböhmischen Literatur’, WSB 36 (1861), 211-246 [with editions of Latin poems]; J. Feifalik, ‘Untersuchungen über altböhmische Vers- und Reimkunst’, WSB 39 (1862), 281-344 [with editions of Czech songs]; J. Klapper, ‘Kirchliches Leben in Oberschlesien vor 500 Jahren. Bruder Nikolaus von Kosel’, Aus Oberschlesiens vergangenheit und Gegenwart 2 (1922), 3-20; J. Klapper, ‘Mal. Wandererzähkungen in Oberschlesien’, Mitteilungen der Schles. Geschichte für Volkskunde 24 (1923), 85-94; J. Klapper, ‘Das Volksgebet im Schlesischen Mittelalter’, Mitteilungen der Schles. Geschichte für Volkskunde 34 (11934), 85-116; J. Klapper, ‘Nicolaus von Kosel (…)’, Mitteilungen der Schles. Geschichte für Volkskunde 36 (1937), 1-106 [with several partial editions of the catechetical texts etc.]; J. Klapper, ‘Die ostmd. Evangelien-Perikopen des Nikolaus von Kosel’, Festschrift H. Vollmer (1941), 249-303; J. Janota, Studien zu Funktion und Typus des deutschen geistlichen Liedes im Mittelalter, MTU 23 (1968); W. Haug, Erzählforschung 2, ed. W. Haubrichs, LiLi Beiheft 6 (1977), 285f; J. Dabrina, Rocsnik Muzeum W Gliwicach, 7-8 (1991-2), 47-72; Ludwig Denecke, ‘Nikolaus von Kosel’, Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon 2^nd. ed. VI (1993), 1089-1093; Ludwig Deneke, 'Nikolaus von KoselDie deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon XI (2004), 1054 [some additional info]; Piotr Bielenin, ‘Twórczosc w jezykach narodowych w poczatkach XV w. zawarta w ‘Diariuszu’ Mikolaja z Kozla’, in: Klasztorne osrodki pismiennictwa, I kultury w krajach slowianskich, ed. Jordanka Georgiewa-Okon & Jan Stradomski (Cracow: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PAT, 2005), 29-35 (On the use of vernacular literary works in the Diary of Nicholas of Kozle).

Nicolaus de Lagonegro (Nicola Molinari da Lagonegro/Niccola vescovo Molinari, 1707-1792)

OFMCap. Italian Capuchin friar from the diocese of Policastro (Naples kingdom). Active missionary preacher and author of spiritual works and texts of religious instruction. Pope Pius VI wanted him as bishop of Scala e Ravello, which Nicola did not want but finally accepted out of obedience in 1778. In 1783, Pius VI translated him to the diocese of Bovino. He died on 18 January 1792 at the age of 85.

works

27 dialoghi sopra i precetti della Chiesa. Check. Should be in the Opere ascetice e morali mentioned further down.

36 dialoghi sopra i precetti della Chiesa e sopra alcuni sacramenti, nonchè sopra i contratti. Check. Should be in the Opere ascetice e morali mentioned further down.

Cosmofilo convertito in Teofilo. Check. Should be in the Opere ascetice e morali mentioned further down.

Breve Esercizio per avanzare nell'amore e nella servitù di Maria Santissima. Check. Should be in the Opere ascetice e morali mentioned further down.

Sette dialoghi sopra la dignità e i doveri del sacerdote. Check. Should be in the Opere ascetice e morali mentioned further down.

Opera omnia: Opere ascetiche e morali di monsignor F. Niccola vescovo Molinari cappuccino da Lagonegro, ed. Nicola Molinari, 6 Vols. (Parma, 1788).

literature

Michelangelo da Rossiglione, Cenni biografici e ritratti di padri illustri dell'Ordine Cappuccine sublimati alle dignità ecclesiastiche dal 1581 al 1804 I (Rome: G.A. Bertinelli, 1850), 102-106; 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), 33-34; Damiano Altieri, La spiritualità sacerdotale nel’700 italiano illustrata attraverso l’analisi di un’opera di p. Nicola Molinari vescovo cappuccino (1707-1792) (Rome, 1997); Vincenzo Criscuolo, Nicola Molinari da Lagonegno, 1707-1792. Predicatore e missionario cappuccino, Vescovo di Scala-Ravello (1778-1783) e di Bovino (1783-1792). Profilo bio-bibliografico e documenti inediti, Bibliotheca Seraphico-Capuccina, 66 (Rome: Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, 2002). [cf. review in Collectanea Franciscana 72 (2002), 468-471]; Vincenzo Criscuolo, Padre Nicola Molinari da Lagonegro, Vescovo Cappuccino (Lagonegro 10.3.1707 – Bovino 18.1.1792) (Lagonegro: Convento San Francesco, 2005); Stefania Nanni, ‘Le missioni popolari di Nicola Molinari da Lagonegro’, Laurentianum 49 (2008), 139-153.

Nicolaus de La Chau (Nicolas de La Chau, fl. ca. 1600)

OFMConv. French friar active in the Grand Couvent de Paris.

works

Manuel du repos de conscience. Pour les trois grandes provinces de ce Royaume, France, Touraine, & sainct Bonaventure, depuis le temps de S. François tousiours conventuelles, avec le Convent de Paris jusques auiourd'huy. Par le R. Père F. Nicolas de La Chau, Professeur en Théologie de la faculté de Paris, Docteur es Langues, Conseiller, et Prédicateur ordinaire du Roy, et Vicaire général des Pères Conventuels en France (1622).

literature

Pierre Moracchini, 'Quand le témoin réplique à l'historien... Notes sur les origines des Récollets de France Parisienne (1597-1612)', in: Ecrire son histoire. Les communautés religieuses régulières face à leur passé: actes du 5e colloque international du CERCOR, Saint-Etienne, 6-8 novembre 2002 (Saint-Étienne: Publications de l'Université de Saint-Étienne, 2005), 469.

Nicolaus Delgado (Nicolás Delgado, d. 1698)

OFM. Spanish friar. Bishop of Nicaragua between 1688 and his death on November 25, 1698.

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Informe al Consejo Supremo de las Indias sobre reducción de Talamanca por misioneros Fray Melchor López y Fray Antonio Margil. Cf. I.F. de Espinosa, El Peregrino Septentrional Atlante (Valencia, 1742), Chapters 13, 14, 17, as well as the work of Eleanor B. Adams mentioned below.

literature

A Bio-Bibliography of Franciscan Authors in Colonial Central America, ed. Eleanor B. Adams (Washington D.C.: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1953), 28.

Nicolaus de Lorenzano (Nicolás de Lorenzano, fl. ca. 1740)

OFM. Spanish friar. Guardian of the Colegio de Cristo Crucificado in Talamanca (Ibiza).

works

Relación sobre las misiones del Colegio de Cristo Crucificado (June 1748). This text was published by G. Sánchez, in: Archivo Ibero-Americano 19 (1917), 133-143.

Nicolaus de Linna (Nicholas of Lynn, fl. 14th cent.) Probably erroneous ascription

OM? Allegedly an English Franciscan, later Carmelite, active at Oxford, and maker of astrolabes and compasses for nautical purposes, who would also have had success among the women as a singer and and went on secret espionage and exploration missions for the English king (he would have traveled the Arctic beyond Norway during the later 14th cent.). To him is ascribed an account of this expedition, entitled Inventio Fortunata that even described Greenland, was well as a work entitled De Mundi Revolutione. Much of this information seems highly fanciful, and it seems doubtful that Nicholas of Lynn was a Franciscan friar. There is much more evidence pointing out that he was a Carmelite. The link with the Franciscan order is probably due to a misattribution of details that are connected with the Franciscan friar Hugh of Ireland.

literature

Most of the literature that we have been able to find seems highly speculative and often based on erroneous remarks by Hackluyt and other old bibliographers, including Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 388 & Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 556. For the most fanciful statements see Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Inventio Fortunata: Arctic Exploration, with an Account of Nicholas of Lynn (1881); Clements R. Markham, The Lands of Silence. A History of Arctic and Antarctic Exploration (Cambridge: CUP, 1921/Reprint 2015), passim; Gunnar Thompson, Secret Voyages to the New World (Lulu.com, 2010), 102, 109f]. For probably correct info, see: Sigmund Eisner, 'Lynn, Nicholas', in: The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) [https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-20091;jsessionid=ABF15ABED8F48767CED340DD019F5098 ]

Nicolaus de Lyra (Nicolas de Lyre, ca. 1270/80-1349), doctor planus, doctor utilis

OM. French (Norman) friar. Theologian and important exegete. Born in Lyre (La-Neuve-Lyre, Normandy) in the Évreux diocese. Entered the Franciscan order at Verneuil c. 1300. beforehand might already have been engaged in Hebrew scholarship (there were important centres of Jewish lerning at Évreux). Shortly after his entrance into the order as an adult, he was sent to Paris to follow the theology degree programme. As such this was exceptional for a friar who had not received a lectorate training beforehand. Shows that Nicholas of Lyra must have impressed order leadership for the (Hebrew?) learning acquired before his entrance into the order. Baccalaureus Biblicus 1301-1302 and Baccalaureus Formatus in 1307 (during which year he is one of the bachelors present in the Templar affair on 26 october 1307). Master of theology at Paris in 1308, and regent master between 1308-1309 (possibly until 1310. He succeeded Alexander of Alexandria and was in turn succeeded by James of Ascoli). In 1309, while active as magister regens at Paris, he gave a quodlibetal disputation (published as the Quaestio de Adventu Christi) and on 11 April 1310 he was involved (together with his successor James of Ascoli) with the heresy process of Marguerite Porete. Between Spring 1319 and 1324 he was provincial minister of the Francia province. In this capacity, he witnessed the veil-taking ceremony for Blanche, the daughter of King Philip the Fair, in 1319. In may 1322, he signed as provincial minister with 40 other Franciscan theologians at the general chapter of Perugia a series of documents challenging pope John XXII’s bull Quia Nonnumquam. At the age of ca. 52, on 11 April 1322 or 1323, he began the compilation of his large Postilla litteralis, a work based on his cursory biblical lectures as baccalaureus biblicus but now greatly expanded. (By 1326 he had reached the Psalms, and his commentary on Isaiah was finished in 1327. In the years thereafter he revised and completed his literal commentary on the other books, until he completed the complete work by 1331). In the mean time, his administrative duties continued. Hence, in 1324 or 1325 he became provincial minister of Burgundy. In that position, he apparently distanced himself sufficiently from the party of Michael of Cesena to be able to participate in the general chapter of 1329 which elected Guiral/Guriol Ot as the new minister general. In 1330, Nicholas asked his order to be allowed to return to Paris, to finish his biblical works, notably the compilation of a moral commentary on the Bible. Yet initially, this permission was not given. Instead, he was asked by Ot to assist in the creation of a college for Burgundian students at the University of Paris, an outflow of testament of the Duchess of Burgundy. Nicholas wrote the constitutions for this college and helped to bring it into being. On 19 December 1333, Nicholas participated in the theological debates organised at the request of Philip VI to condemn pope John XXII’s positions regarding the beatific vision (A disputation with 28 other theologians). Yet from 1333 onwards, Nicholas was granted the time to work on his exegetical endeavours at the Grand Couvent de Cordeliers at Paris. He finished his moral postills in 1339. He died ca. ten years later in the Grand Couvent (possibly in October 1349).
Nicolas, who was remarkable for his relatively good knowledge of Hebrew, (which he might have acquired at a jewish school at Evreux. Cf. also AFH 60 (1967), 52) is predominantly renowned for his exegetical works. Among his most important works are reckoned his gigantic and ubiquitous Postilla litteralis super totam Bibliam (compiled between 1322 and 1331, which shows the influence of rabby Schelomo Içaki, or Rashi (d. 1105)), and the Postilla moralis seu mystica (1339). The first work was meant for the use of theologians in the schools and the universities. The second book was meant to be a concise and practical handbook for lectors and preachers, providing short typological and allegorical notes on those passages of Scripture that lend themselves for moral interpretation. Both the Postilla Litteralis and the Postilla Moralis have survived (partially and complete, often in combination with the Glossa Ordinaria) in many manuscripts and editions, as these Postilla became more or less the standard biblical textbook in higher theological education during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries throughout Europe. Very interesting is Nicholas’ Apocalypse commentary, which is historising without becoming Joachimist (combining the insights of traditional Apocalypse exegesis with the interpretations of Alexander Minorita and Peter Aureol).

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Comm. In I-IV Sent. Only fragments survive. Cf. Langlois, 368.

Postilla Litteralis. This work has survived in a large number of manuscripts and a fair number of incunable and early modern editions. For these editions, see for instance: Postilla Litteralis, 5 Vols (Rome, 1471-1472); Glossa Ordinaria cum expositione Lyrae litterali & Morali, necnon additionibus ac replicis, 6 Vols. (Basel: Joannis Froben, 1502) [in part accessible via Google Books]; Biblia cum Glosa ordinaria et Nicolai de Lyra Postilla, 6 Vols (Basel, 1506-1508/1516); Biblia sacra cum glossis, interlineari et ordinaria, Nicolai Lyrani Postilla et moralitatibus, Burgensis Additionibus, et Thoringi Replicis, 6 Vols (Lyon, 1545) [Several volumes of this edition accessible via the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Google Books, and other digital portals. See for access opportunities also the Post-Reformation Digital Library (http://www.prdl.org/author_view.php?s=60&limit=20&a_id=1201&sort=)]; Postillae majores totius anni cum glossis, quaestionibus et figuris (Lyon, 1549) [accessible via the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books]; Biblia Sacra cum Glossa Ordinaria et Postilla Litteralis Nicolai de Lyra (Antwerpen, 1717) [and several other editions]. It is not uncommon to find in early editions Nicholas or Lyra’s Postilla Litteralis and his Postilla Moralis together with a copy of the biblical text, the Glossa ordinaria, the Additiones ad Postillas Nicolai Lyrani by Paul of Burgos (d. 1435: a converted Jew and corrector of Lyra), and the Defensarium Nicolai Lyrani seu Replicationes contra Paulum Burgensem by the Franciscan friar Matthias Doering.
For modern translations, see: Nicholas of Lyra's Apocalypse Commentary, transl. Ph. Krey (Kalamazoo, 1997); The Postilla of Nicholas of Lyra on the Song of Songs, ed. & trans. James George Kiecker, Reformation Texts with Translation, Biblical Studies Series 3 (Milwaukee Michigan: Marquette UP & Association of Jesuit UP, 1998); Nicholas of Lyra, Literal Commentary on Galatians, ed. & trans. Edward Naumann, TEAMS Commentary Series (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2016) [cf review in TMR 16.12.05]. See on medieval translations of Nicholas's works: E. Valli, `Das Verhältnis des Claus Cranc [fl. 1350] zu Nicholas v. Lyra', Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 53 (Helsinki, 1952), 331-338; F.W. Ratcliffe, `The Psalm Translation of Heinrich von Mügeln [ca. 1360]', Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 43/2 (1961), 426-451; Idem, Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie, 84 (Berlin, 1965), 46-76; Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon VI, 1119ff & XI, 1054; A.-K. Hahn, ‘Die ebreyschen sprechen dorobir - die ‘Postilla' des N.v.L. in der Historienbibel Berlin SBBPK, mgf 1277', in: Metamorphosen der Bibel, ed. R. Plate et al., Vestigia Bibliae 24/25, 2003/2004 (2004). See for German and Medieval Dutch translations of Nicholas of Lyra’s works also VL² VI, 1117-1122.
There are also excerpt editions of the Postilla Litteralis adjusted for the pericope readings of the liturgical year. See for instance Postilla seu expositio litteralis et moralis Nicolai de Lira ordinis minorum super epistolas et evangelia quadragesimalia cum quaestionibus fratris Antonii Betontini eiusdem ordinis, ed. Niccolò da Modena (Venice: Johann Emerich, 1494) [Accessible via Archive.org. See https://archive.org/details/ita-bnc-in2-00000695-001/page/n10/mode/1up?view=theater ]
The late medieval manuscript dissemination of the Postilla Litteralis is highly complex. See for instance: Postilla super Libros Veteris Testamenti: Bologna Coll. Hispan. S. Clemente 30 (a. 1475); Madrid, Nac., 259, 260, 261, 262, 263; Münster, Universitätsbibliothek 5 ff. 98r-339r; Oxford, Bodl. Bodley 251; Vienna, Österr. Nationalbibl. 1431 (an. 1331) & 2158 (an. 1326) & 4863 (=In Iob); & 1386 & 1393 & 1394 & 1410 & 1462 & 1518 & 4192; Oxford, Bodl. Canon Bibl. Lat. 70; Oxford, Laud, Misc. 152 & 154; Besançon, Bibl. Munic. 31 (ca. 1461-3); Reims, Bibl. Munic. 171-172 & 174-177 [=OT & NT]; Troyes, Bibl. Munic. 152 (an. 1350); Toulouse, Bibl. Munic. 26 (an. 1348) [=OT & NT]; Colmar, Bibl. Publ. 139 (15th cent.) & 140; Sydney, Univ. Library, Nicholson 17; Reims, Bibl. Munic. 173 (an. 1392-5); Prague, National Museum XIII B 1; Prague, National Museum XV B 8 (no. 3553) [Super libros regum et alios]; Rome BAV Lat. 110 [‘Scaliger’ manuscript. Cf. Miscellanea Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae V, ed. W. Berschin, Studi e Testi 365 (Vatican City, 1997), 53-60]; Hamburg S. Petruskirhe Jacobi 15 ff. 1r-48v (15th cent., Postilla super Proverbias); Prague, National Museum XIV B 16 (3434; Postilla super Libros Salomonis et Libros qui non Sunt de Canone); Augsburg, UB, Cod II.1.2° 26, ff. 139va-142va (Postilla super Psalterium); Hamburg, S. Petruskirche Jacobi 11 (Postilla super Psalterium); Brussels, Royal Librry 371 (ca. 1430, Postilla super Psalterium [Prologus]); Colmar Bibl. Publique 127 (Postilla super Psalterium); Clermont Ferrant Bibl. Municip. 31 (an. 1427, Postilla super Psalterium); Avignon, Bibl. Municip. 55 (>Psalterium Hebraicum cum Praefatione Nic.de Lyra). The Psalm commentary of Nicholas is the most popular of his biblical commentaries, with at least 700 mss until 1450.
Postilla super Libros Novi Testamenti: Bologna Coll. Hispan. S. Clemente 31 (saec. XIV-XV): Sydney, Univ. Library, Nicholson, 1; Vienna, Österr. Landesbibl. 1477; Colmar, Bibl. Publ. 141; Avignon, Bibl. Munic. 84-85; Prague, National Museum, XII A 17 (3 A 10); Prague, National Museum XIV C 8 (2 D 11, cat. no. 3447); Hamburg S. Petrus Jacobi 2 ff. 234v-235v (15th cent., Postilla super Matth.); London, Dr. William's Library Anc. 3 ff. 146-151v (15th cent. Fragment, Postilla super Matth.); Postilla super Evangelia: Heverlee-lez-Louvain, Abbaye de Parc 19 (an. 1437-1438, Postilla super Evangelia); Oxford, Bodl. Hamilton, 16 (Postilla super Evangelia); Sélestat Bibl. Municip. 70 (an. 1434. January 2, Postilla super Evangelia); London, Dr. William's Library Anc. 4 (15th cent., Postilla super Evangelia); Augsburg, UB, Cod II.1.2° 7, ff. 1-124 (Postilla super Evangelia Joh. et Marcum: ff. 1-84: Joh., ff. 86-124: Marc.); Kraków, Jagell. 1483 , ff. 1-176 (ca. 1435, Postilla super Epistolis Pauli); Vesoul, Bibl. Munic. 10 (an. 1453, Postilla super Epistolis Pauli); Namur, Musée Archeol. 32 (an. 1383, Postilla super Epistolam ad Hebraeos).

Postilla Moralis. Often printed together with the Postilla Litteralis. See there for incunable and early modern editions. For some manuscripts, see for instance: Vienna, Österr. Nationalbibl. 1498 (an. 1383, Januari, 2; Moralitates super Primam Partem Veteris Testamenti); Vienna, Österr. Nationalbibl. 13823 (an. 1382, Moralitates in Iesaiam); Luzern, Zentralbibl.KB 42 (Moralitates in Iesaiam); Hamburg, S. Petruskirche Petri 26 ff. 84r-151r (Breves Moralitates in IV Evangelia); Vienna, Österr. Nationalbibl. 3666 (an. 1446, March 30) & 4535 (an. 1402, May 23; Expositio Mystica Veteris et Novi Testamenti).

Repertorium Nicolai de Lyra super Bibliam/Repertorium in Postillam Nicolai de Lyra super Vetus et Novum Testamentum (Memmingen: Albrecht Kunne, 1492; Sevilla: Meinardus Ungut & Stanislaus Polonus, 1492; Nurenberg: Anton Koberger, 1494) [=a homiletic dictionary in alphabetical order, presenting extracts from the Postilla Litteralis for preaching purposes. This work also influenced later dictionaries, such that of William Norton OFM. Some other extracts from the Postilla Litteralis are to be found in MS Oxford New College 14015 and in MS Paris, Mazarine, 49-50]

Tractatus de Differentia Litterae Hebr. et Nostrae Translationis: Paris, BN, Lat. 3359 ff. 25v-53v; Vienna, Österr. Landesbibl. 1478 [a concise handbook version of his Postilla Literalis]

Quodlibeta & Quaestiones des Nikolaus von Lyra, ed. F. Pelster, in: Mélanges J. de Ghellinck (Gembloux, 1951), II, 951-973. The quodlibeta of Nicholas survive in more than 100 mss and 29 or more printed editions. They date from 1309. H. Labrosse, ‘Oeuvres de Nicolas de Lyre’, Études Franciscaines 19 (1923), 153-75, 369-79 & 35 (1923), 170-187, 40-431 argued that the text of the quodlibeta survived in two redactions, one from 1309 and one from the early 1330s. Deeana Copeland Klepper, ‘The Dating of Nicholas of Lyra’s Quaestion de Adventu Christi’, AFH 86 (1993), 297-312 shows that there is only one version.

Quaestiones disputatae contra Judaeos (Johannes Hamman, 1477).

Expositio Orationis Dominicae sive Pater Noster (Mainz, 1495).

Expositio super Lectiones Vigiliae Mortuorum: Colmar, Bibl. Munic. 205 ff. 1-4 (an. 1477).

Dicta de Quatuordecim Conditionibus ad Digne Eucharistiam Sumendam: Colmar, Bibl. Publ. 251 ff. 245-249 (an. 1438)

Quaestio de Usu Paupere, ed. Franz Pelster, AFH 46 (1953), 211-250.

Super decem Praecepta: Colmar, Public Library 7 ff. 103-132.

Tabula Concordantium Evangeliorum (written ca. 1329) (ed:???)

Probatio Incarnationis Christi, Red. I (written ca. 1309/10) (ed.:???)

Probatio Incarnationis Christi, Red. II (written ca. 1331-4) (ed.:???)

Responsio ad Quendam Judaeum (written ca 1334): Paris, BN, Lat. 3359 ff. 9-17v; Vat.Lat. 4272 ff. 143-163v; Brussels, Royal Library 2590-2602 (an. 1436).

Reprobatio Tractatus cuiusdam Iudei: Frankfurt a.M. Dominikanerkloster 70 (15th cent.) ff. 240r-253v.

De Differentia Translationis Nostrae et Hebraica Littera Veteris Testamentum (=Tractatus Discrepantium) (written in 1333) (ed.:???)

Tractatus de Visione Divinae Essentiae: Paris, BN, Lat. 3359 ff. 17v-24v [on the beatific vision. This work was edited by Michael Woodward, in Franciscan Studies 63 (2005), 325-407 (text on pp. 331-407). For more MSS see the introduction of Woodward’s edition.

Lyra preceptorium sive expositio tripharia putilis in decalogum legis diuine (1505). Accessible via Ghent University Library, via the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich, and via Google Books.

Compendium de Vita Antechristi, in: Henricus de Friemar, Preceptorium super decem Preceptis (Zwolle: Petrus van Os van Breda, 1492-1500). (Pseudo-Nicholas of Lyra?) Check also Probatio Adventus Christi: Paris, BN, Lat. 3359 ff. 1-9 (a. 1462): Basel, UB A.V. 13 ff. 346v-361; Kraków, Jagell. 1483 ff. 176v-189v; Vat.Lat. 4272 ff. 167r-184r; Washington D.C. Holy Name College no. 29.

Oratio Devota seu Contemplatio ad Honorem S. Francisci.

Sermones de Tempore (Postilla super Evangelica Domenicalia; Super Quadragesimalia; Super Quatuor Evangelia): Augsburg, UB, Cod II.1.2° 19, ff. 1ra-175va. see Stegmüller & Schneyer, Repertorium IV, 338-357 [259 sermons].

More and more adequate info on printed editions in Gosselin's 1970 Traditio article.

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Hailperin, Rashi and the Christian Scholars (Pittsburg, 1963), 135-246, 282-357; B. Blumenkranz, `Nicolas de Lyre et Jacob ben Ruben', Journal of Jewish Studies, 16 (1965), 47-51; H. Rüthing, `Kritische Bemerkungen zu einer mittelalterlichen Biographie des Nicolaus von Lyra', AFH, 60 (1967), 42-54; The Cambridge History of the Bible, ed. G.W.H. Lampe, vol. 2 (Cambridge, 1969); Schneyer, IV, 338-357; E.A. Gosselin, 'A listing of the printed editions of Nicolas de Lyra.' Traditio. 26 (1970) 399-426; ); H. Rosenau, Helen, `The Architecture of Nicolaus de Lyra's Temple Illustrations and the Jewish Tradition', Journal of Jewish Studies, 25 (1974), 294-304; E.H. Merrill, ‘Rashi, Nicholas de Lyra and Christian Exegesis’, Westminster Theological Journal 38 (1975), 66-79; J. Kiecker, The Hermeneutical Principles and Exegetical Methods of Nicholas of Lyra, O.F.M., PhD Thesis (Marquette University, Milwaukee, 1978); J. Cohen, The Friars and the Jews. 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Krey, `Many Readers but few Followers; The Fate of Nicholas of Lyra's Apocalypse Commentary in the Hands of his Late Medieval Admirers', Church History 64 (1995); W.Bunte, Rabbinische Traditionen bei Nikolaus von Lyra (Frankfurt a.M.-New York, 1994); Deeana Copeland Klepper, Nicholas of Lyra’s ‘Quaestio de Adventu Christi’ and the Franciscan encounter with Jewish tradition in the Late Middle Ages, PhD Diss. (Northwestern University Chicago, 1995); P. Buc, ‘Exégèse et pensée politique: Radulphus Niger (vers 1190) et Nicolas de Lyre (vers 1330)’, in: Représentation, pouvoir et royauté à la fin du Moyen Age, ed. J. Blanchard (Paris, 1995), 145-164; Bert Roest, Reading the Book of History, Diss. (Groningen, 1996), passim; Philip Krey, ‘Nicholas of Lyra and Paul of Burgos on Islam’, in: Medieval Christian Perceptions of Islam, ed. J.V. Tolan (New York-London, 1996), 153-174; Bert Roest, ‘Franciscaanse apocalyptiek in middeleeuws perspectief’, in: Visioenen aangaande het einde. Apocalyptische geschriften en bewegingen door de eeuwen heen, red. J.W. van Henten & O. Mellink (Zoetermeer, 1998), 189-220; Nicholas of Lyra, The senses of Scripture, ed. Philip D.W. Krey & Lesley Smith, Studies in the history of Christian Thought, 90 (Leiden - Boston - Köln, Brill Academic Publishers, 2000). [Cf. Reviews in Collectanea Francescana 70 (2000), 590-592 & Franciscan Studies 59 (2001), 271-275. This volume contains for instance: Corrine Patton, ‘Creation, fall and salvation: Lyra’s commentary on Genesis 1-3’ 19-43; Lesley Smith, ‘The rewards of faith: Nicholas of Lyra on Ruth’, 45-58; Frans van Liere, The literal sense of the books of Samuel and Kings: From Andrew of St Victor  to Nicholas of Lyra’, 59-81; Philippe Buc, ‘The Book of Kings: Nicholas of Lyra’s Mirror of Princes’, 83-109; Theresa Gross-Diaz, ‘What’s a Good soldier to do? Scholarship and Revelation in the Postills on the Psalms’, 111-128; Mary Dove, ‘Literal senses in the Song of Songs’, 129-146; Michael A. Signer, ‘Vision and history: Nicholas of Lyra on the prophet Ezechiel’, 147-171; Mark Zier, ‘Nicholas of Lyra on the book of Daniel’, 173-193; Kevin Modigan, ‘Lyra on the Gospel of Matthew’, 195-221; Lesley Smith, ‘The Gospel truth: Nicholas of Lyra on John’, 223-249; Philip D.W. Krey, ‘The Old Law prohibits the hand and not the Spirit: The Law and the Jews in Nicholas of Lyra’s Romans commentary of 1329’, 251-266; Philip D.W. Krey, ‘The Apocalypse commentary of 1329: Problems in Church history’, 267-288; Deana Copeland Klepper, ‘Nicholas of Lyra and Franciscan interest in Hebrew Scholarship’, 289-311]; Lydwine Scordia, ‘L’exégèse au service de l’impôt royal; la Postille du Franciscain Nicolas de Lyre (1349)’, Revue d’Histoire de l’église de France 89:223 (2003), 309-323; Felipe Pereda, ‘Le origini dell’architettura cubica: Alfonso de Madrigal, Nicola da Lira e la ‘querelle salominista’ nella Spagna del Quattrocento’, Annali di Architettura 17 (2005), 21-52; Deeana Copeland Klepper, ‘First in Knowledge of Divine Law: The Jews and the Old Law in Nicholas of Lyra's Romans Commentary’, in: Medieval Readings of Romans, ed. William S. Campbell et al. (New York, 2007), 167-181; Deeana Copeland Klepper, The Insight of Unbelievers: Nicholas of Lyra and Christian Readings of Jewish Texts in the Later Middle Ages (Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2007); James M. Matenaer, Franciscan Studies 65 (2007), 349-369; Jos J. van Heel, ‘De lotgevallen van een Romeinse incunabel te Leuven: Nicolaus de Lyra, ‘Postilla litteralis super totam Bibliam’ (1472) uit het bezit van Henricus van Zomeren’, in: Manuscripten en miniaturen. Studies aangeboden aan Anne S. Korteweg bij haar afscheid van de Koniklijke Bibliotheek, ed. J.A.A.M Biemans, K. van der Hoek, K.M. Rudy & E. van der Vlist, Bijdragen tot de geschiedenis van de Nederlandse boekhandel. Nieuwe reeks, 8 (Zutphen: Walburg Pers, 2007), 133-146; Ari Geiger, ‘‘In hebraeo habetur’: The Hebre Bible Text in the literal commentary of Nicholas of Lyra on the Book of Lamentations’, Revue des Études Juives 166 (2007), 147-173; Philip D.W. Krey, ‘Nicholas of Lyra’s Commentary on Daniel in the Literal Postill (1329)’, in: Die Geschichte der Daniel-Auslegung in Judentum, Christentum und Islam. Studien zur Kommentierung des Danielbuches in Literatur und Kunst, ed. Katharina Bracht, Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentische Wissenschaft, 371 (Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 2007), 199-215; Guido Bartolucci, ‘Marsilio Ficino, Yohanan Alemanno e la ‘scientia divinum nominum’, Rinascimento 48 (2008), 137-164 [also deals with Nicholas of Lyra]; Christoph Fasbender, ‘Zur Datierung des ‘Buchs der Makkabäer’. Zugleich eine Vorstudie zur Rezeption der ‘Postilla litteralis’ des Nikolaus von Lyra im Deutschen Orden’, in: Mittelalterliche Kultur und Literatur im Deutschordensstaat in Preussen: Leben und Nachleben: [interdisziplinäres Symposion über die Kultur und Literatur im Deutschordensstaat in Preußen, 22. bis 26. September 2004, Kwidzyn], ed. Jaroslaw Wenta, Sacra bella septentrionalia, 1 (Torún, 2008), 423-444; Sophie Delmas & Lydwine Scordia, ‘Nicolas de Lyre, franciscain du XIVe siècle, exégète et théologien. Compte rendu du colloque international de Troye’, Etudes Franciscaines n.s. 2 (2009), 403-407; F.A. van Liere, ‘Andrew of Saint-Victor and His Franciscan Critics’, in: The Multiple Meaning of Scripture. The Role of Exegesis in Early-Christian and Medieval Culture, ed. Ineke van’t Spijker, Commentaria. Sacred Texts and Their Commentaries: Jewish, Christian and Islamic, 2 (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2009), 291-310; Walther Cahn, ‘Notes on the Illustrations of Ezekiel's Temple Vision in the Postilla litteralis of Nicholas of Lyra’, in: Between Judaism and Christianity: art historical essays in honor of Elisheva (Elisabeth) Revel-Neher ed. Katrin Kogman-Appel, The medieval Mediterranean, 81 (Leiden: Brill, 2009), 155-177; Ari Geiger, ‘Nicholas of Lyra’s literal commentary on Lamentations and Jewish exegesis: a comparative study’, Medieval encounters 16 (2010), 1-22; Klaus Reinhardt, ‘Die Kontroversen des 15. Jahrhunderts um die "Postilla litteralis super totam Bibliam" des Nikolaus von Lyra OFM’, Wissenschaft und Weisheit 73 (2010), 56-66; Nicolas de Lyre franciscain du XIVe siècle exégète et théologien, ed. Gilbert Dahan, Collection des Études Augustiniennes. Série Moyen Âge et Temps Modernes, 48 (Paris: Institut d'Études Augustiniennes, 2011) [review in CF 82 (2012), 421-422. Contains a number of interesting articles by Philip Krey, Gilbert Dahan, etc.]; Reinhard Schwarz, ‘Die Stiftung der christlichen Religion und Kirche durch Jesus Christus nach der Matthäus-Auslegung des Nikolaus von Lyra’, in: Religiöse Erfahrung und wissenschaftliche Theologie: Festschrift für Ulrich Köpf zum 70. Geburtstag (Tübingen, 2011), 471-492; Anette Löffler, ‘Neue Fragmente mit der Postilla des Nikolaus von Lyra aus dem Duisburger Stadtarchiv’, Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 86 (2011), 81-84; Sarah Emily Bromberg, The context and reception history of the illuminations in Nicholas of Lyra's "Postilla litteralis super totam bibliam": Fifteenth-century case studies, Ph.D. Thesis University of Pittsburgh (2012) [http://search.proquest.com/docview/1328162084?accountid=14632]; Lesley Janette Smith, 'The Imaginary Jerusalem of Nicholas of Lyra', in: Imagining Jerusalem in the Medieval West, ed. Lucy Donkin & Hanna Vorholt, Proceedings of the British Academy, 175 (Oxford, 2012), 77-155; Giulio Michelini, ‘Nicola da Lira e l’esegesi giudaica’, Studi Francescani 110:3-4 (2013), 277-296; Klaus Reinhardt, ‘Die “Postilla super Psalmos” des Nikolaus von Lyra (ca. 1270-1349) im Licht der Additiones des Paulus von Burgos (ca. 1350-1435), Archa verbi. Yearbook for the Study of Medieval Theology 10 (2013), 88-105; Pilar Martín Cabreros & Santiago García Jalón, ‘La traducción medieval española del Prologus secundus de Nicolás de Lira’, Archa verbi. Yearbook for the Study of Medieval Theology 10 (2013), 106-127 [This article studies the Spanish translation by Alfonso de Algeciras (including his own comments on predestination) and also includes an edition of Nicholas of Lyra's Prologus secundus. De intentione auctoris et modo procedendi]; Ian Christopher Levy, ‘Nicholas of Lyra (and Paul of Burgos) on the Pauline Epistles’, in: A Companion to St. Paul in the Middle Ages, ed. Steven Richard Cartwright (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2013), 265-296; Raquel Sáenz Pascual, ‘Las biblias con comentario de Nicolas de Lyra conservadas en Asturias: los ejemplares del Archivo Capitular de Oviedo’, Memoria Ecclesiae 38 (2013), 455-466; Ian Christopher Levy, ‘Nicholas of Lyra (and Paul of Burgos) on the Pauline Epistles', in: A companion to St. Paul in the Middle Ages, ed. Steven Richard Cartwright (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2013), 265-296; Sarah Bromberg, 'Exegetical Imagery for King Manuel I of Portugal: Solomon's Temple in Nicholas of Lyra's Postilla', Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 77 (2014), 175-198; Sophie Delmas, ‘F.R.A.N.C.I.S.C.U.S. L'hagiographie de saint François vue par Nicolas de Lyre, Normes et hagiographie dans l'Occident latin (VIe-XVIe siècle). Actes du colloque international de Lyon, 4-6 octobre 2010, ed. Marie-Céline Isaïa & Thomas Granier, Hagiologia, 9 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014), 235-247; Yosi Yisraeli, ‘A Christianized Sephardic Critique of Rashis Peshat in Pablo de Santa Marias ‘Additiones ad Postillam Nicolai de Lyra’, in: Medieval Exegesis and Religious Difference: Commentary, Conflict, and Community in the Premodern Mediterranean, ed. Ryan Szpiech (New York, 2015), 128-141; Pietro Delcorno, In the Mirror of the Prodigal Son: The Pastoral Uses of a Biblical Narrative (ca. 1200-1550), PhD Thesis Radboud University (Nijmegen: Bookbuilders, 2015), 104-108 & passim; Ian Christopher Levy, 'Nicholas of Lyra. The Biblical Prologues', in: Handbuch der Bibelhermeneutiken: Von Origenes bis zur Gegenwart, ed. Oda Wischmeyer & Michaela Durst, Michaela (Berlin, 2016), 239-254; Catherine Delano-Smith, ‘Some Contemporary Manuscrips of Nicholas of Lyra’s Postilla Litteralis (1323-1332): Maps, Plans and Other Illustrations’, in: Orbis disciplinae. Hommages en l'honneur de Patrick Gautier Dalché, ed. N. Boulou, A. Dan & G. Tolias (Turnhout: Brepols, 2017), >>; Canty Aaron, 'Nicholas of Lyra's Literal Commentary on Job', in: A companion to Job in the Middle Ages, ed. Franklin T. Harkins & Aaron Canty (Leiden: Brill, 2017), 225-253; Ari Geiger, 'Talmudic Quotations in Nicholas of Lyra's Postilla lateralis', in: Studies on the Latin Talmud, ed. Ulisse Cecini & Eulalia Vernet Pons (Bellaterra, 2017), 161-176; Florian Wöller, 'The Bible as Argument: Augustine in the Literal Exegesis of Peter Auriol (c. 1280-1322) and Nicholas of Lyra (c. 1270-1349)', Studia Patristica 87 (2017), 67-80; Hellmut Rosenfeld, 'Nicolaus von Lyra', in: Lexikon des gesamten Buchwesens online (2018) [https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/lexikon-des-gesamten-buchwesens-online/nicolaus-von-lyra-COM_140284 ]; Santiago García-Jalón de la Lama, 'Sobre la adhesión a santo Tomás, de la reacción de la exégesis hispana a la obra de Nicolás de Lyra', Helmantica 69:201 (2018), 137ff; Marco Rossi, 'I due manoscritti delle Postillae bibliche di Nicolò de Lyra commissionati da Gian Galeazzo Visconti', Arte Cristiana 106 (2018), 30-39; Santiago García-Jalón de la Lama, 'La labor lexicográfica de Alfonso de Algeciras en su traducción de la Postilla in Psalmos de Nicolás de Lyra', Boletín de la Real Academia Española 99 (2019), 85-109; Annet den Haan, 'Sources, pools and runnels: The humanist reception of the Ordinary Gloss and Lyra's Postils', in: Cultural Encounter and Identity in the Neo-Latin World, ed. Camilla Plesner Horster & Marianne Pade, Analecta Romana Instituti Danici. Supplementa, 54 (Rome: (2020), 33-46.

Nicolaus de Montenach (Nikolaus von Montenach, 1664-1707).

OFMConv. Swiss friar. Son of Jean-Nicholas von Romont and Elisabeth Gobet. He joined the order after studies at the Jesuit gollege of Freiburg, making his profession as a Franciscan in 1684. Between 1692 and 1696 guardian of the Freiburg friary. Other guardian positions followed in Thann, Solothurn etc. Provincial secretary in 1702 and provincial minister of the Upper Germany province in 1705. Died on 12 September 1707 in Valduna, during the visitation of the Clarissan monastery there. Author?

literature

Urban Fink, ‘Montenach, Nikolaus von, conv (1664-1707)’, Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz 8 (2009), 675/ Dizionario storico della Svizzera 8 (2009), 573.

Nicolaus Mutinensis (Niccolò da Modena, fl. late 15th cent.)

OMConv. Italian friar and member of the Bologna province. He was declared master of theology by decree in Venice in 1488 (see the remarks of Sbaralea), and was involved with the 1494 edition of Postilla seu expositio litteralis et moralis Nicolai de Lira ordinis minorum super epistolas et evangelia quadragesimalia cum quaestionibus fratris Antonii Betontini eiusdem ordinis, ed. Niccolò da Modena (Venice: Johann Emerich, 1494) [Accessible via Archive.org. See https://archive.org/details/ita-bnc-in2-00000695-001/page/n10/mode/1up?view=theater ]

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 560.

Nicolaus Mutius (fl. second half 14th cent.)

OM. Italian friar from Venice. Created magister theologiae at the request of Pope Gregory XI on 21 November 1373 [in January according to Sbaralea?] and around the same time appointed inquisitor in Verona.

works

(as compiler) Omneloquium S. Gregorii papae (1372, expl.: Explicit Beati Papae Gregorii compilatum et dicatum Sanctissimo Patri, et Domino, Domino Gregorio divina providentia Romano Pontifici dignissimo Papae II. Pontificatus sui anno, et ab Incarnatione D.N. J.C. 1372 per Fratrem Nicolaum Mutium de Venetiis Minorum Ordinus Professorum), 2 Vols.: Cf. Josep Serrano i Calderó & Josep Perarnau i Espelt, 'Darrer inventari de la biblioteca papal de peníscola (1423). Barcelona, Biblioteca de Catalunya, MS. 233', Arxiu de Textos Catalans Antics 6 (1987), 49-183 (at 62); Marie-Henriette Jullien de Pommerol & Jacques Monfrin, La Bibliothèque pontificale à Avignon et à Peñiscola pendant le Grand Schisme d'Occident et sa dispersion. Inventaires et concordances (Rome: École Française de Rome, 1991), 390.

literature

Wadding, Annales Minorum, (ed. Rome, 1733) VIII, 277-279; Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1906), 179; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, Appendix, Supplementa, et Correctiones; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 560 & (ed. Rome, 1921) II, 283; Bullarium Franciscanum, ed. Eubel (Rome, 1902)) VI, nos. 1247, 1313, 1319.

Nicolaus Denyse (Nicolaus de Nyse/Nicolas de Niise/Nicolas Denyse, d. 1509, Rouen)

OMObs. French friar, born in Beuzeville (Normandy). Was already a secular priest, canon, and general vicar of the Coutances diocese before entering the Observant branch of the order in the Valogne convent (which had been established in 1477). Participated in the provincial chapter of Ath as custos of the Basse-Normandie custody. Was elected vicar of the French Observants (13 June, 1500). As vicar, he presided over the chapters of Nancy (September 1501) and Bruges (May, 1503). Was re-elected as provincial vicar at the chapter of Ghent (June 1505), and kept this position until the general chapter of Écluse (August, 1508). He died in Rouen on 18 May, 1509. Nicolas was a renowned preacher, whose sermons and homiletic manuals (such as the Gemma Praedicantium) received several editions during his lifetime and after his death. Besides, he is known for his Opus super Novissimos/Speculum Mortalium and the Resolutio Theologorum/In Quatuor Libros Sententiarum. The latter work amounts to a concise Scotist theology manual, divided in seven parts. [for more biographical info, see esp. Wegerich]

works

Summa seu Gemma Predicantium in Tribus Libris: Aedificatoris, Destructorio, Reparatio (Rouen: Martin Morin, s.a. [ca. 1500]/1506/Paris: Jacob de Pfortzen, 1508/1512/1516/Paris: A Franciscus Regnault, 1517/Paris: [Jean Cornillau], Jean Petit, 1522/Basel, 1508/Brescia & Strasbourg, s.a./Basel, 1516); Svmma Qvae Gemma Praedicantivm Dicitvr: Opvs Sane Pretiosvm, Et cunctis tum Concionatoribus, tum Parochis perutile, ac necessarium (Basel, 1580/Bressanone: Petrus Bozzola, 1585) [Homiletic manual/sermon collection for the use of preachers] Several editions (in any case the 1508, 1516 and the 1585 editions!) are for accessible via the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, via the Bibliothèque Nationale of France (and also via Gallica), via the Mediathèque of Lyon (check Numelyo), the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich, Europeana.eu, and via Google Books.

Sermones de Hyemales de Tempore/Sermones magistri Nicolai deniise sacre pagine professoris, fratrum Minorum de observantia patris, et provincie Francie provincialis vicarii. De Tempore Hyemalis. In Adventu per singulas Dominicas et ferias Sermones duplices; In Quadragesima periformiter per singulas ferias (Hagenau, 1510). Accessible via the Mediathèque of Lyon (check Numelyo), the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich, and via Google Books.

Sermones estiuales de tempore (Hagenau, 1510). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, and via Google Books.

Sermones duplices pro toto adventu (Martinus Morin, 1509/Paris: F. Regnault, 1510).

Sermones residui (Martinus Morin, 1509/Paris: F. Regnault per Joannem Barbier, 1510).

Sermones (…) de Solemnitatibus Christi (Martinus Morin, 1507).

Sermones Sanctorum Evangeliorumque Communium (Paris: Jean Barbier, s.a./Paris: F. Regnault, 1510/1511).

Sermones de sanctis anni per speram occurentes (Martinus Morin, 1511).

Sermones de Sanctis (Strasbourg, 1510/Neurenberg, 1510/Augsburg, 1510 [=Sermones de Sa[n]ctis Hyemales, Estiuales, De festiuitatibus Jesu christi. b[ea]t[a]e virginis et alior[um] Sanctor[um] ... Venera[n]di patris. fratris Nicolai deniise Ordinis Minor[um]). For instance accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich, and via Google Books.

Sermones pro Adventu & de Quadragesima (Rouen, 1508)

Sermones XII de S. Francisco (Paris, 1510)

Compendium seu Resolutio Theologorum/In Quatuor Libros Sententiarum/Opus super Sententias, quod resolutio Theologorum dicitur (Rouen: Martin Morin, 1504 & 1506/Lyon: Simon Benelaqua, 1516/Venice: Heredes Melchioris Sessae, 1568/Paris: Michaelis Sonnicus, 1573 & 1574/Venice: Heredes Melchioris Sessae, 1574). The work is divided in seven parts. It deals respectively with God, creation, original sin, the incarnation and redemption mysteries, the working of grace, the virtues, the sacraments, and the final judgment. It looks like a Scotist re-working of Bonaventure’s breviloquium and comparable works (such as the Dominican Compendium Veritatis). It is for instance accessible via the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, the Mediathèque of Lyon (check Numelyo), and via Google Books.

Sequuntur alique breves questiones (F. Regnault, 1507/1509/Paris: Johannes Parvo, 1518/Lyon: Constantin Fradin, 1520).

Opus super Novissimis seu Speculum Mortalium/Sermones quattuor novissimorum reverendi patris Magistri Nicolai Deniise quondam Prelati provincialis Francie super fratres de observantia editi quibus Speculum mortalium titulus profertur: nuperrrime emendati cum adnotationibus in margine additis necnon cum tabula perutili noviter impressa (Rouen: Martin Morin, 1506/Paris, 1509/1518/Antwerp: Henricus Eckert de Homberg, 1518/Lyon: Jacques Myt, 1519/Constantin Fradin, 1519/...). The 1519 Fradin edition is accessible via the Mediathèque of Lyon and via Google Books, and the 1518 edition is also accessible via Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp.

More info on these editions is to be found in Wegerich (1942), 165-166.

Several early editions of his sermon collections can also be accessed digitally via the website of the Munich State Library.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 391-392; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 560-561 & (ed. 1921) II, 283-284; Catalogue général des livres imprimés de la Bibliothèque Nationale XXXVIII, 636-641; Zawart, ‘A History of Franciscan Preaching (…)’, Franciscan Studies/The Franciscan Educational Conference 9 (Washington, 1927), 360-1; H. Lippens, ‘Les Chapîtres et les Vicaires Observants de la Province de France (1415?-1517)’, Revue d’Histoire Franciscaine 6 (1929), 277-278; E. Wegerich, ‘Bio-bibliographische Notizen über Franziskanerlehrer des 15. Jahrhunderts’, Franziskanische Studien 29 (1942), 164-166; Clément Schmitt, ‘Nicolaus Denyse’, DSpir XI, 269-270; Robert Sauzet, Mendiants et réformes. Les réguliers mendiants acteurs du changement religieux dans le royaume de France (1480-1560) (Tours: Publications e l’Université de Tours, 1994), 83; Bert Roest, Franciscan Literature of Religious Instruction before the Council of Trent (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2004), 668.

Nicolaus de Ockham (Nicolaus Occamus/Nicholas of Ockham, ca. 1245-ca. 1320)

OM. English friar from Ockham, not far from London. Entered the order at a young age. Ordained priest around 1267. Might have followed the lectorate theology program in Paris between 1270 and 1275. Read the Sentences in Oxford ca. 1282. Successor of Alanus of Wakefield as lector and magister regens at Oxford (1286-1288). Probably died in or around 1320.

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Comm. In I-IV Sent.: Assisi, 152; 165; 671; Florence, Bibl. Naz. G. 5. 858; Oxford Merton College 134; Sarnano E. 82; Vat. Ottob. 623 etc. (in all ca. 10 mss).
For some editions, see: In I Sent. Partial edition [d. 3, q. 2] by A. Daniels, in: Quellenbeiträge und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der Gottesbeweise im dreizehnten Jahrhundert, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie und Theologie des MA, 8, 1-2 (Münster, 1909), 82ff. The Prologue to his Sentences commentary has been edited in: Mikolaj Olszewski, ‘‘Theologia ut medicina supernaturalis’. The nature of theology according to Nicholas of Ockham. With an edition of the prologue to his Commentary on the Sentences’, Archa Verbi 5 (2008), 143-165.

Quaestiones Disputatae de Dilectione Dei, ed. César Saco Alarçón, Spicilegium Bonaventurianum, 21 (Grottaferrata, 1981). Based on MS Assisi, 158 ff. 239-341 and several other mss.

Quaestiones Disputatae de Traductione Humanae Naturae a Primo Parente, ed. César Saco Alarçón, Spicilegium Bonaventurianum, 27 (Grottaferrata, 1993).

Quaestio an Dona sint Virtutes, ed. O. Lottin, in Idem, Psychologie et morale au XIIe ett XIIIe siècle, IV (Louvain-Gembloux, 1954), 693

Principia I-IV: Assisi, 671.

Sermo: Worcester Cath. Q. 46 f. 97v.

Oxford lecture, see: Joshua C. Benson, ‘A Witness to the Early Reception of Bonaventure's Collationes in Hexaëmeron: Nicholas of Ockham's Lectio at Oxford (c. 1286) - Introduction and Text’, Medieval Sermon Studies 58 (2014), 28-46.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 392; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 561; A.G. Little & F. Pelster, Oxford Theology and Theologians (Oxford, 1934), 88f, 124f; Stegmüller, RS, I, nn. 552ff; Doucet, AFH, 47 (1954), 146ff; A. Emmen, Franz. Stud., 39 (1957), 113ff, 131f.; C. Saco Alarçón, `Nicolás de Ockham OFM (d. 1320), Vida y Obras', Antonianum, 53 (1978), 493-573; L. Sileo & F. Zanatta, `I maestri di teologia della seconda metà del Duecento', in: Storia della teologia nel medioevo. III, La teologia delle scuole, ed. G. d'Onofrio (Casale Monferrato, 1996), esp. 40-42, 138-9; Putallaz, Figures Franciscaines, p. 166; Stephen F. Brown, ‘Nicholas of Ockham (ca. 1242-ca. 1320)’, in: Historical Dictionary of Medieval Philosophy and Theology, ed. Stephen F. Brown & Juan Carlos Flores (Lanham etc., 2007), 198; Mikolaj Olszewski, ‘‘Theologia ut medicina supernaturalis’. The nature of theology according to Nicholas of Ockham. With an edition of the prologue to his Commentary on the Sentences’, Archa Verbi 5 (2008), 143-165; Joshua C. Benson, ‘A Witness to the Early Reception of Bonaventure's Collationes in Hexaëmeron: Nicholas of Ockham's Leccio at Oxford (c. 1286) - Introduction and Text’, Medieval Sermon Studies 58 (2014), 28-46.

Nicolaus de Ophida (Nicola d'Offida, d. 1762)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Member of the Capuchin della Marca province. Lector and provincial minister.

works

Nuova, ragionata e pratica istruzione per apprendere con facilità e tempo breve la Sintassi grammaticale e figurata dei latini (Fermo: Dom. Ant. Bolis, 1758).

Prediche per le Domeniche 2 Vols. Check!

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), 34; Cultura e società nel Settecento: Istruzione e istituzioni culturali nelle Marche (1987), 182.

Nicolaus de Orbellis (Nicolas Dorbelles/Dorbeau/De Orbellis/Des Orbeaux, second half 15th century, d. ca. 1473)

OMConv, later OMObs. French friar from Angers. Friar in the province of Tours. Had considerable fame as theologian, historian and mathematician. Regent master of theology at Paris. Also active as public lector in several studia of Western France (Poitiers and/or Angers). Compiled, among other things, an interesting Compendium Sententiarum (alongside of comparable compendia for the other disciplines), which is judged to be the classical handbook of the later fifteenth century `Franciscan School' [14 editions in 26 years]. [see for more biographical info Wegerich]

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Egregia sapientissimi doctoris magistri Nicholai de Orbellis in quatuor sententiarum libros expositio cum tabulis per ordinem alphabeti (Paris: Felix Baligaut, 1488/Rouen: Morin, s.a./Paris: Baligaut, 1498/ Paris: Joh. Petit, s.a../Paris: Joh. Richard. 1498). Check editions! The 1498 incunable edition is accessible via the Biblioteca Nacional of Madrid (see http://www.bibliotecanacionaldigital.gob.cl/bnd/632/w3-article-331880.html )

Compendium super Sententias/Eximii doctoris magistri Nicolai de Orbellis super Sententias Compendium perutile, elegantiora doctoris subtolis dicta summatim complectens (...) (Rouen: Morin, s.a./Paris: Joh. Petit, s.a../Paris: Joh. Richard. 1499/Lyon: F. Fradin, 1499/Hagenau: Heinrich Gran, 1503/Venice: Laz. De Soardis, 1507/Paris: Joh. Petit, 1509/Paris: Joh. Barbier et Fr. Regnault, 1511/Paris: Fr. Regnault, 1515, 1517, 1520, 1521/Paris: Jean Barbier, 1590 [check editions!]). The 1503, 1515, and 1517 editions are accessible via digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich, the library of the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, the British Library, and via Google Books (creative search). The 1503 Hagenau edition can also be accessed via the SIEPM Virtual Library [http://capricorn.bc.edu/siepm/books.html]. The work itself might have been finished shortly after 1465.

Declaratio Quorundam Terminorum theologicarum/Tractatus declarationum quorumdam terminorum secundum doctrinam illuminati Doctoris: edited in several of the Compendium super Sententias editions. Also edited separately under the name of Francis of Meyronnes (Venice, 1520 [also already in 1498 and 1511? Check Sbaralea]).

Sermones in Omnes Epistolas Quadragesimales (Lyon, 1491). [dubious: probably the work of Petrus de Orbellis]

Expositio Logicae (Parma: Damianus de Moylis & Joh. Antonius de Montalli, 1482/Basel: Michael Furter, 1494). Is this the same work as the Summula philophiae rationalis seu logica magistri Nicolai Dorbelli in doctrinam subtilis Scoti (Basel: Michael Furter, 1494)?

Super Summulas Petri Hispani ad mentem Scoti (Parma: 1482).

Logica magistri Nicolai de Orbellis una cum textu Petri Hispani, edited together with the Quaestiones de Tribus Principiis rerum Naturalium Antonii Andreae and the Formalitates secundum Viam Doctoris Subtilis Nicolai Boneti (Venice: Bernardus de Choris & Simon de Luero, 1489/Venice: Albertus Rubeus Vercellensis, 1500/Basel, M. Furter, 1494/Venice, 1516). The 1516 edition is accessible via the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, and via Google Books.

Logica, Compendium Scientiae Speculativae (Mathematicae, Physicae, Metaphysicae) Ethica (Basel, 1503).

Super Summulas Petri Hispani ad Mentem Scoti: ?

Compendium Mathematicae.: Bologna Univ. 1114?; Stuttgart, Württemb. Landesbibl. HB X 10 ff. 162-168r; Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 28671 [accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.] See for an early imprint of this and related works also Compendium Scientiae Speculativae (Mathematicae, Physicae, Metaphysicae) Ethica (...) (Basel: Michael Further, 1494/Basel: Michael Furter, 1503)/Compendium Mathematicae, Physicae et Metaphysicae, 3 Vols. (Bologna: Henricus de Harlem, 1485).

De Scientia Mathematica et Physica (Bologna: Baldasar de Azzoguidis, 1473/Bologna: Henricus de Harlem & Matthaeus Crescentinus, 1485).

Compendium Mathematicae, Physicae et Metaphysicae, 3 Vols. (Bologna: Henricus de Harlem, 1485)/Logica, Compendium Scientiae Speculativae (Mathematicae, Physicae, Metaphysicae) Ethica (...) (Basel: Michael Further, 1494/Basel: Michael Furter, 1503).

Commentarii in Libros Aristotelis de Anima (Basel: Fratres de Gregoriis, 1492). Part of a version/edition of his Compendium Mathematicae (...)?

Compendiosa et Optima Expositio Duodecim Librorum Metaphysicae Aristotelis secundum viam Scoti per Nicolaum de Orbellis (Bologna: Henricus de Harlem & Matthaeus Crescentinus, 1485). [=Book III of the Compendium Mathematicae, Physicae et Metaphysicae]. This edition is for instance accessible via the SIEPM Virtual Library [http://capricorn.bc.edu/siepm/books.html ]

Summula philophiae rationalis seu logica excellentissimi artium et theologiae professoris magistri Nicolai Dorbelli secundum doctrinam doctoris subtilis Scoti (Basel: Michael Furter, 1494/Basel: Michael Furter, 1503). Accessible via the Narodni Knihovna National Library in Prague, the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, and via Google Books.

Cursus Librorum Philosophiae Naturalis venerabilis magistri Nicolai de Orbelli ordinis minorum secundum viam doctoris subtilis Scoti (Basel: Michael Furter, 1494/1503). Both the 1494 and the 1503 edition (in fact an exemplar once in the possession of Pierre Duhem!) are available via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, via the Narodni Knihovna National Library in Prague, and via Google Books.

To be continued...

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 392-393; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 561-562; Jean-Louis Chalmel, Histoire de Touraine, depuis la conquête des Gaules par les Romains, jusqu'a l'année 1790 (...) IV, 148; Zawart, 303; Wegerich, Franz. Stud, 29 (1942), 174-178; Doucet, AFH, 47 (1954), 149; Wolfgang Breidert, 'Nicolaus d'Orbellis (Dorbellus), französischer Franziskaner († 1455)', Lexikon des Mittelalters VI (1993), 1134; Robert Sauzet, Mendiants et réformes. Les réguliers mendiants acteurs du changement religieux dans le royaume de France (1480-1560) (Tours: Publications e l’Université de Tours, 1994), 89-90; Repertorium edierter Texte des Mittelalters aus dem Bereich der Philosophie und angrenzender Gebiete, A-Z, ed. Rolf Schönberger et al., 2nd Ed. (Akademie Verlag, 2012), 2929f [with additional information and corrections].

Beniamin Evangelicus, Sive Conciones Quadragesimales De Conversione D. Pauli Ecclesiae Persecutoris in Vas Electionis et Doctorem Gentium (..), 2 Vols. (Cologne: Joannes Kinckius, 1624). Accessible via the digital collections of the Staatsbibliothek Regensburg/the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich, and via Google Books.

Conversio Cornelii Centurionis triginta concionibus explicata (Mons: F. Waudré, 1632).

Conciones trium horarum Passionis Domini (Cologne, 1634)

Tractatus de Translatione Beati Alberti Episcopi Lovaniensis.

Tractatus in Regulam S. Francisci ad literam de decem plagis paupertatis FF. minorum ex veterib. opuscul. R.P.F. Gabriel Maria, alias Gilberti Nicolai (...) A.V.P.F. Nicolao Orano (Luxembourg: Hubertus Reuland, 1626). See the copy in Grottaferrata, Collegium S. Bonaventura F303.3 Or 63.

Commentaria in Matthaeum, Lucam, et Joannem ?

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Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 392; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 561 & (ed. Rome, 1921) II, 285; Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae in Academia Oxoniensi II, 900; S. Dirks, Histoire littéraire des Frères Mineurs en Belgique (Antwerp, 1885), 174-175; Biographie Belge IX, 328-329; J.-F. Bonnefoi, ‘Bibliographie de l’Annonciade’, Collectanea Franciscana 13 (1943), 241; DThCat XI, 625; DSpir X\I, 846-847; Cl. Schmitt, ‘2. Heur’, DHGE XXIV, 315.

Nicolaus Papini (Nicolò Papini, 1751-1838)

OFMConv. Italian friar from Villaggio di San Giovanni. Member of the Tuscany province. Regent lector of philosophy and theology and public professor of rhetoric in Modena. Vicar of the inquisition in Pisa and guardian (custode) of the Sacro Convento in Assisi, as well as guardian of the Dodici Apostoli friary & studium in Rome. By papal brief of Pius VII he was made general of the Conventuals in 1803, a position he held for seven years. He died in Terni in 1803. Important for the modernisation of Franciscan historical studies, applying critical philological and historical methods.

works

L'etruria francescana o vero raccolta di notizie storiche interessanti l'ordine de' FF. Minori conventuali di S. Francesco in Toscana. Opera del P. M. F. Niccolo Papini (...) 1 (Siena: Torchi Pazzini Carli, 1797). Accessible via Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_mTxs6g2SrkgC/page/n9/mode/2up].

Notizie sicure della morte, sepoltura, canonizzazione e traslazione di S. Francesco d'Assisi e del ritrovamento del di lui corpo, raccolte e compilate da un religioso minor conventuale (...) (Florence, 1822/Foligno: Tomassini, 1824). The second edition is accessible via Google Books and the Bibliothèque Numérique de Lyon (check Numelyo).

Storia de S. Francesco, opera critica, 2 Vols. (Foligno, 1825).

Lectores Publici Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Conventualium a saec. XIII ad saec. XIX, issued in Miscellanea Francescana 31 (1931), 95-102, 170-174, 259f; 32 (1932), 33-36, 72-77.

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Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 858-859.

Nicolaus Philippus (Nicholas Philip, fl. c. 1433)

OM. English friar and itinerant preacher (preaching tours from Lynn, via Oxford and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to Lichfield between 1430 and 1436). Maybe also diffinitor. Compiled an interesting series of ‘sermon booklets’, consisting of an unique collection of sermons and preaching materials, most of which are in Latin (sometimes with English elements, such as English verse, or outright macaronic passages). Some of the sermons in these booklets which, possibly already during Philip’s own lifetime, were gathered in one Oxford manuscript, were directed to clerics/friars (at synodal meetings, during visitations, at Oxford University, and at the occasion of receiving novices). Most of them seem to have been preached (in English) to the populace at large, or to mixed congregations of clerical and lay people (esp. the sermons for Lent and the Passion period). The collection alludes to possible socii of Philip during his travels, namely friar Holbeche and friar William Melton (possibly the same Melton who found fault with the vocal ecstasies of Margery Kempe). They also contain some musical annotations, some information that might indicate that Philip was diffinitor for the English province, some allusions to the selection of a cursory lecturer for the London studium, and information on the rotation of custodies in which the provincial chapter was to be organised. After Philip’s death, his booklet collection remained in used by Franciscan friars well into the sixteenth century.

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‘sermon booklets’ (consisting of an unique collection of sermons and preaching materials): MS Oxford, Bodleian Library Lat.th.d.1. Alan Fletcher has given an exhaustive description of the manuscript, identifying 70 different items, most of which are sermons. Philip might have been the author of many of these, yet it is likely that some of them were originally the work of other preachers. An edition of the sermon Sustinuit crucem confusione contempta can be found in Appendix B of Holly Johnson's 2012 article.

literature

Alan J. Fletcher, ‘The Sermon Booklets of Friar Nicholas Philip’, Medium Aevum 55 (1986), 188-202 [reprinted in: Alan J. Fletcher, Preaching, Politics and Poetry in Late-Medieval England (Four Courts Press, 1998), 41-57.]; Holly Johnson, ‘A Fifteenth-Century Sermon Enacts the Seven Deadly Sins', in: Sin in Medieval and Early Modern Culture: The Tradition of the Seven Deadly Sins, ed. Richard G. Newhauser, Richard Newhauser & Susan J. Ridyard (Boydell and Brewer, 2012), 107-132.

Nicolaus Plumbensis (Nikola Ogramic Olovcic, 1630-1700)

OFM. Bosnian friar. Later Bishop in the same region.

works

Opusculum vitae, virtutum, et miraculorum ven. serui Dei Fr. Sebastiani ab Apparitio Ordinis Min. de Observantia Laici Professi Provinciae Mexicanae (...) (Rome: Ex Officina Reverendae Camarae Apostilicae, 1696). Accessible via the British Library and via Google Books. The work was re-issued in 1942.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 393; Croatia Sacra 11-14 (1941), 133f.; John Eade & Mario Katic, Politics and Place-Making in Eastern Europe: Crossing the Borders (London-New York: Routledge, 2016), 66.

Nicolaus Radulph (Nicolas Radulph, fl. early 15th cent.)

OMObs. French friar. To him is assigned by Sbaralea the Querimonia proposita in Concilia Constantiniensi contra Fratres Communitatis Ordinis Minorum (1414), written to obtain Observant autonomy from ordinary (Conventual) authority structures in the Franciscan order, and which was granted by the Council in 1415. Nicolas was then appointed general vicar of the Observant or Reformed Franciscan friars in the Francia, the Burgundia and Turonia provinces.

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Querimonia proposita in Concilia Constantiniensi contra Fratres Communitatis Ordinis Minorum. For this text check Monumenta Ordinis Minorum (Salamanca, 1511), Tractatus 2, & Firmamentum Trium ordinum S. Francisci (ed. Venice, 1514).

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Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 562 & (ed. 1908) I, 52.

Nicolaus Ramos (Nicolas Ramos/Nicolás de Ramos y Santos, 1531-1599)

OFM. Spanish friar from Villasabariego, (near León) and member of the Concepción province. Master of theology after studies at Alcalà, lector, guardian of the Valladolid friary, consultant for the inquisition. Provincial and in between 1588 and 1592 bishop of Puerto Rico (appointed by Philip II of Spain and confirmed by Pops Sixtus V). According to Juan de San Antonio, he would have died before he could access his diocese, yet it seems that he embarked on a ship as late as 1 July 1588 to Puerto Rico and subsequently was promoted to the Archdiocese of Santo Domingo (Hispaniola) in 1592. Sbaralea mentions 1597 as the year of his death, but more recent studies mention 1 December 1599 as the moment of his death [see also the Catalogo de pasajeros and the study of Hurtado mentioned below].

works

Assertio Veteris Vulgatae editionis iuxta decretum Sacrosancti Oecumenici & Generalis Concilii Tridentini, Sessione quarta (...) (Salamanca: Mathias Gastius, 1576). Accessible via the library of the Universidad Complutense in Madrid and via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 396-397; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 562; Catalogo de pasajeros a Indias durante los siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII, VI-VII, 25; Konrad Eubel, Hierarchua Catholica, 2nd Ed. (Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana, 1923), 187 & 278; Antonio Moreno Hurtado, Estudios sobre el Franciscanismo, 2nd Ed. (2019), 219. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_de_Ramos_y_Santos

Nicolaus Ruiz (Nicolas Ruiz, fl. early 18th cent.)

TOR. Spanish friar. Theology lector, general preacher and provincial definitor of the Andalucia (Baetica) province. Visitator of the Discalceate San Juan Bautista and Valencia provinces. Alleged author of Señora de la Consolación, de terciarios regulares and of a life of the Dominican preacher Vicent Ferrer.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 397; Archivo Ibero-Americano (1981), 20.

Nicolaus Senensis (ca. 1266)

OM. Italian Franciscan preacher. His sermons (Sermones super Epistolas & Evangelia Quadragesima) did not survive? Not to be confused with the early fifteenth-century friar Nicolaus Berthuldi Senensis.

literature

Wadding, Annales Minorum, ad an. 1266 (no. 19) Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 397; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 563.

Nicolaus Specialis (first half 14th cent.)

OM. Italian (Sicilian friar minor). Author of the Historiae Siciliae Suorum Temporum, also known as the Historia Sicula, starting in 1282 and continuing until 1337. The work was later continued by Michael de Platia. There exist several editions of this work. To the same friar has been ascribed a Historia Gestorum in Controversia de Paupertate Christi, et Sociorum Ejus, but there are doubts concerning this ascription, due to stilistic discrepancies. It is probably the work of another friar.

works

Historiae Siciliae Suorum Temporum/Historia Sicula: MSS Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale [check signature!]; Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, Ottob. Lat. [check signature!]. For editions, see for instance: Nicolai Specialis (...) rerum Sicularum libri octo; qui historiam bellorum inter reges Siciliae et Aragoniae gestorum ab anno Christi MCCLXXXII. usque ad annum MCCCXXXVII. continent: Primùm e veteri codice ms. Bibliotheca Regis Galliarum editi, ed. Baluze (Paris, 1688/Leiden: Sumptibus P. Van der Aa, 1723); Historia Sicula. in: Rerum Italicorum Scriptores, ed. Muratori, X, col. 914-1092; Rosarius Gregorio (ed.), Bibliotheca scriptorum qui res in Siciliae gestas sub Aragonum imperio retulere (Palermo, 1791) I, 285-508.

(ascribed) Historia Gestorum in Controversia de Paupertate Christi, et Sociorum Ejus: MSS olim Florence, Bibl. S. Crucis scam. 2 versus Ecclesiam [wat are the current whereabouts?]; Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, Ottob. Lat. [check signature!]. Cf. for he incipit and other information the remarks of Sbaralea.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 397; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 563.

Nicolaus Spinellius (Nicolaus Spinellus/Nicolò Spinelli, d. after 1459/1461)

OMConv. Italian friar from Florence. Theologian who lectured on Scripture and the Sentences of Lombard. After reaching the magisterium in Florence in 1439, he became a professor at the theology faculty at Florence, and he eventually also became dean (1447). Provincial minister of the Tuscany province (1448) and general vicar. Preacher in Padua, Venice and other towns in Northern Italy. He would have written several logical, philosophical and logical treatises, but we are not informed about their whereabouts. If our Nicolò is the preacher asked to come to the town of Arezzo for the 1461 Lenten season he must have been alive during the early Spring of that year.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 398; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 564; Niccolò Papini, L'etruria francescana, o vero Raccolta di notizie storiche interessante l'ordine de'FF. Minori Conventuali di S. Francesco in Toscana I, 102-103; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto, 205-206.

Nicolaus Spinellus (Nicolò Spinelli da Cremona, d. 1630)

TOR. Italian Franciscan Tertiary from Cremona. Musical specialist and composer. he would have died during a plague epidemic in Pavia in 1630.

works

Musical compositions

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 398; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 564; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 604.

Nicolaus Succi (Nicolaus Sucius/Nicolò Succi/Niccolò Fucci, d. 1348)

OM. Italian friar from Assisi. Chaplain of Cardinal Matteo Orsini in and after 1339 Later bishop of Assisi (1339) and papal vicar. He would have died in 1348 or 1349.

works

Tabula super II & IV Sent. D. Thomae Aquinatis: MS Assisi 552. It amounts to an alphabetical register.

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 564 [providing additional information on the Assisi manuscript]; Doucet, Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 47 (1954), 149.

Nicolaus Taunaeus (Nicholas Taunay, fl. 15th cent.?)

OM. French Friar Minor in the Laval friary and preacher. Apparently created 'tableaux vivants', in that he put dressed up people on a stage to re-enact the message of his sermons, providing a running commentary or drawing attention to the stage at certain junctures in his sermon, calling out 'ostendatis', at which moment the curtains would be raised and the topic discussed would be shown on stage. Did some of his sermons survive?

literature

Hervé Martin, Le Métier de prédicateur en France septentrionale à la fin du Moyen-âge: (1350-1520) (Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 1988), 584.

Nicolaus Ursus (Niccolò Urso, d. 1504)

OMObs. Italian (Sicilian) Observant friar from Mazara. Provincial vicar of the Observant Sicilian province. Religious poet, known for works on the five martyrs of Marocco, on the flight from the world (De Fuga Mundo), the nativity of Christ (De nativitate Christi) and related texts (needs checking). He also would have left behind a sermon collection and a work on the triumph of death. He died in Catania in 1504.

works

Religious poetry?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 399; Archivio Storico Siciliano (1951), 331.

Nicolaus Valla (Niccolò Valla, ca. 1475-1568?)

OFMConv. Italian friar from Agrigento. Theologian with humanist inclinations. Received the license of theology in 1502 [MS, Siena, Biblioteca Comunale cod. A XI 1, f. 46r]. Show preacher at the court of Pope Alexander VI. Also preached and taught elsewhere on the Italian peninsula. Later (1516) titular bishop of Madaura (Algeria) and coadjutor in the Malta diocese. Lexicographer.

works

Seraphica Sylva, idest Vita S. Francisci/Nicolai Vallae Seraphica silva flosculi ad Franciscum Sansonem (Florence, 1498). According to Juan de San Antonio, a manuscript copy of this work would have been/be present in the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid.

De daemonibus: An sint daemones, & quando naturali ratione eos esse probari potest, si sint corporei, vel qua sint forma. Si possunt corpora hominum ingredi, et animalium, et quando. An cognoverint Christum esse Filium Dei ante passionem, et multa id genus scitu dignissima (...) (1502)? Based on disputations and sermons held in Sicily, Tuscany and especially the S. Celso church in Rome.

Vallilium. Vocabularium vulgare cum latino apposito (Florence, 1500). See also Dizionario siculo-latino (tratto dal Vallilium di Nicolo Valla) (Palermo: Edizioni Librarie Siciliane, 1991), as well as Giuseppe Gulino, Il Vallilium di Nicola Valla, ed. Mario de Matteis, Bochumer Italien-Studien (Aachen: Shaker Verlag, 2000).

Vocabularium vulgare cum latino apposito, nuper correctum per proprium autorem M. N. Vallam, additis fere tercentum vocabulis reconditis (Venice: Giovanni Tacuino, 1512/1515/1516/1522/1546). Revised and extended versions of the Vallilium. The 1512 edition is accessible via the Biblioteca Casanata in Rome, and via Google Books.

Gymnastica litteraria. Praeludium octo partium orationis. De nominum declinationibus. De generibus nominum (Venice: Lazzarus de Soardis, 1516).

De unione apostatica Christi coram Alexandro VI Pont. Max.

Based in part on remarks in an introductory letter to Niccolò Valla's Vallium, Giuseppe Maria Mira, Juan de San Antonio and Sbaralea lists a number of additional works. We have not yet been able to trace those works (see for some suggestions the study of Renata Fabbri).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 398; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 564-565; Giuseppe Maria Mira, Bibliografia siciliana: ovvero, Gran dizionario bibliografico delle opere edite e inedite, antiche e moderne di autori siciliani o di argomento siciliano stampate in Sicilia et fuori opera II (Palermo: G.B. Gaudiano, 1881), 445-446; Piana, Chartularium, 123; Renata Fabbri, 'Nota biografica sull'umanista Romano Nicolò della Valle (con un inedito)', Lettere Italiane 28:1 (Jan-March, 1976), 48-66.

Nicolaus Vercellensis (fl. ca. 1450)

OM. Italian Franciscan preacher. author? Check! [Kristeller, Iter Italicum VI, 111 ?, concerning MS Naples, Naz. V.F.18, f. 217v]

Nicolaus Vivianus (Niccolò Viviani/Nicolò Viviani, d. 1800)

OFM. Italian Observant friar from the Tuscany province. Studied at the Aracoeli in Rome and became general lector of theology in the San Francesco di Lucca friary. He died in Lucca in 1800.

works

(as editor) Disquisitiones biblicae R. P. F. Claudii Frassen,... Editio altera, plurimis notis et additionibus historicis, criticis, chronologicis illustrata per P. F. N. W. [Nicolas Viviani], 2 Vols. (Lucca: Riccomini, 1769-1770). Accessible via the Bibliothèque Municipale of Lyon (check Numelyo) and several other digital portals.

Annotazioni alla Enciclopedia. Check! We have not yet been able to trace that work.

Dissertationes de secta fraticellorum. Check! Mentioned by Sigismondo da Venezia as a work which argues not to confuse the Fraticelli with the group surrouncing Michele da Cesena. We have not yet been able to trace that work.

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 845-846.

Nicolaus Vigerius (Nicolaas Wiggers Cousebant, 1555-1628)

OFM. Dutch friar. First a secular priest. Active as (clandestine) Catholic preacher in Holland and Friesland, and later, in 1602/3, he joined the friars minor at Cologne. Three time provincial. In Holland, and notably in Haarlem he took on 'spiritual daughters', gathered in the so-called 'Vergaderinge der Maechden in den Hoek'. He left behind a correspondence, and would have issued a number of works defending and 'proving' the Catholic faith, and he would have been the producer of vernacular versions of works by John Climacus and John Tauler.

works

Letters: Dalmatius van Heel O.F.M., 'Brieven van en aan Nicolaas Wiggers Cousebant', Bijdragen voor de geschiedenis van het Bisdom van Haarlem 50 (1933), 24-120.

Works defending and 'proving' the Catholic faith?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 399; Bijdragen voor de geschiedenis van het Bisdom van Haarlem 2 (1874), 394-395; P. Schlager, `N. Vigerius', Franziskanische Studien 15 (1928), 1-24; Dalmatius van Heel, Nicolaas Wiggers van Cousebant als seculier priester 1555-1603 en als minderbroeder 1602-1628 (Haarlem: St. Jacobs Gasthuis, 1928); Christine Kooi, Calvinists and Catholics during Holland's Golden Age: Heretics and Idolaters (Cambridge: CUP, 2012), 103-104.

Nicolaus Vincentius Bonaventura (Nicola Vincenzo Bonaventura, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar and member of the San Niccolò province in Apulia. Known for a work on the lives of popes, for his involvement with church adornment and for his theological consultations.

works

De Vitis Romanorum Pontificum, additis carminibus ad Sixtum V (ca. 1588).

Catalogus Romanorum Pontificum: MS Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale [check manuscript signature]

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana II, 399; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 565; Miscellanea Francescana 67 (1967), 122; Michele Miele, I concili provinciali del Mezzogiorno in età moderna (Editoriale scientifica, 2001), 233.

Nicolaus Wanckel (fl. c. 1515)

OMObs & OFM. German friar from Southern Germany (maybe from Bamberg?). Travelled to the Holy Land in 1510/11, where he was active in the convent of Zion and also lived as custodian for a year in the church of the Holy Sepulchre. Together with the guardian of the Zion convent, Nicolaus was taken into custody by the Egyptian Sultan, and brought to Cairo, to become a diplomatic messsenger for the Sultan to the Papacy in Rome, in relation to a conflict between the Sultanate and the Knights of Rhodos. After his return to Western Europe in 1517, Nicolaus completed a detailed and innovative German travel and pilgrim guide to the holy places in Jerusalem and the whole of Palestine, the Kurtze Vermerckung der heyligen Stet des heyligen Landts. The work, which consists of a preface, an appraisal of Jerusalem (taken from Bernard of Clairvaux’ Temple Knight sermon), and ten chapters on the holy places, pilgrim routes, and rules for the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, differs considerably from the archetypical Peregrinationes Totius Terrae Sanctae, and betrays a thorough first-hand knowledge of Palestine. To Nicolaus Wanckel is also ascribed Die Geystlich Straß, a short pamflet on the stations of the cross in the city of Nürnberg. This ascription is not fully secured.

works

Eine kurtze Vermerckung der heyligen Stet des heyligen Landts. In und umb Jerusalem. Mit Verzeychung der mercklichsten Ding in den selbigen geschehen (Nürnberg: Jobst Gutknecht, 27 May 1517)

Die Geystlich Straß (Nürnberg: Jobst Gutknecht, 1521). Attributed. This discusses the places where Christ suffered his passion from Betania to Calvary.

literature

Röhricht, Bibliografia Geografiae Palaest., 169 (no. 587); L. Lemmens, Die Franziskaner im Heiligen Land. 1. Teil: Die Franziskaner auf dem Zion (1336-1551), Franziskanische Studien Beiheft 4 (Werl, 1916), 140; E. Kramer, Kreuzweg und Kalvarienberg. Historische und baugeschichtliche Untersuchungen, Studien zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte 313 (Strasbourg, 1957), 20-22; Europäische Reiseberichte des späten Mittelalters. Eine analytische Bibliographie. Teil 1: Deutsche Reiseberichte, ed. W. Paravicini & Ch. Halm, Kieler Werkstücke Reihe D, Band 5 (Kiel, 1994), 301 (no. 124); Randall Herz, ‘Wanckel, Nikolaus’, Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon X² (1999), 703-704; Itinerari e cronache francescane di Terra Santa (1500-1800). Antiche Edizioni a stampa sui luoghi santi, la presenza francescana e il pellegrinaggio nella provincia d’Oltremare, ed. Marco Galateri di Genola (Milan: Edizioni Terra Santa, 2017), 83.

Nicolaus Warter (c. 1372-1448)

OM. English friar and bishop

literature

Michael Robson, ‘Nicholas Warter, Franciscan Bishop of Dromore, c. 1372-1448’, Coll. Hibernica 42 (2000), 7-26.

Nicolaus Zegerus (Nikolaas Tacitus Zegers/Claes Zegers, ca. 1495-1559)

OFM. Belgian friar. Born in Brussels around 1495. Studied at the University of Louvain (matriculation in 1512). Entered the Observant branch of the Franciscan order in 1520, in the Germania Inferior province. Between 1536/1537 and 1548, he taught Sacred Scripture as regent master of the Franciscan Studium Theologicum at Louvain (succeeding Franciscus Titelmans). After 1548, when Adam Sasbout took over the lectorate position in Louvain, Nicholas Zegers subsequently lived (frequently as guardian or vicarius, his apparently precaious health notwithstanding) in the convents of Mechelen (Malines), Tienen (Tirlemont, 1550-1551), Diest (1553-1554), Amsterdam (1555-1556), Boetendaal near Brussels (1557), Brussels (1557), and Louvain (1558-1559, where his brother Egidius was guardian at the time), where he died on 27 August 1559. He is the author of a varied oeuvre, mopstly completed after his lectorate years. Between 1555 and his death, Nicholas published several works on the New Testament (Scholia and Epanorthotes). In these works, he defended the Latin Vulgate against some of the new translations (of Erasmus and others), yet did propose textual corrections in order to arrive at a more or less definite Latin New Testament. Beside these theological works, Nicholas Zegers published since 1548 a range of editions and translations of important spiritual and catechetical works. He also published a biblical concordance. On top of these biblical works, which eventually were also used by Protestants and as such were included in the famous Protestant Critici Sacri collections of 1660 and 1698, he published two volumes of edifying proverbs, namely the Proverbia Teutonica Latinitate Donata (Antwerp, 1550), and the Proverbia Gallicana (Antwerp, 1554), and he translated (into Latin and into Dutch) important devotional works.

works

Via Vitae (Antwerp: Joannes Loëus, 1551/Antwerp: Joannes Loëus, 1556). It is a Latin translation of Florenius of Haarlem (Cartusian)'s, Wech des Levens, ed. & trans. Niklaas van Winghe (Antwerp, 1442/Antwerp, 1544Antwerp, 1547/Antwerp. 1552/Antwerp, 1564). The original work had been written for female religious. Zegers changed the style and also several of the prayers (not including many specific monastic prayers) to make it suitable for a well-educated international Latin reading public].

Christianae Vitae Speculum (Antwerp: Simon Cock, 1549-1550/Cologne: Arnold Birckmann, 1555). It is a Latin translation of the Speghel des kersten Levens of Thomas of Herenthals (d. 1530).

Proverbia Teutonica Latinitate Donata, collectore et interprete T. Nicolao Zegero (Antwerp: J. Loëus, 1551/ Antwerp: J. Loëus, 1553/ Antwerp: J. Loëus, 1554/ Antwerp: J. Loëus, 1558/ Antwerp: J. Loëus,1563/Antwerp: J. Loëus, 1571). [Collection of ca. 700 proverbs, with their Latin and Greek pendants, possibly written to provide an alternative to Erasmus's Adagia. Between the Praefatio and the proverbs properly speaking can be found a Proverbiorum commendatio and a Proverbiis quatenus sit utendum, which clearly show an Erasmian inspiration. Editions from 1558 onwards have proper editions and additional laudatory poems by the Luxemburg humanist Nicolaes Mameranus and Antonius Hovaeus (abbot of Egmond Abbey)]

Den Beuckelere des Gheloofs (Louvain: Anthonis Maria Bergaigne voor Jan Waen, 1551/Antwerp: Pieter van Keerberghen, 1566/Antwerp: Pieter van Keerberghen, 1568/Antwerp: Mathias Rodius voor Hendrik Wouters, 1581). It is a Dutch translation of the Bouclier de la Foy (1548) of Nicole Grenier (Victorine). It amounts to a treatise on the doctrines and the practices of a good religious life, put forward in a dialogue between ‘die rechte wandelere’ and the ‘dolende.’]

Proverbia Gallicana, una cum interpretatione Teutonica tum Latina (Antwerp: J. Loëus, 1554) [Comparison of Dutch and French proverbs. Predominantly meant for language study.]

Die Collegie der Wijsheyt, ghefundeert ende ghesticht in die universiteyt der deuchden (Amsterdam: Simon Cock, 1556). It is a Dutch translation of the Collège de Sapience (1539) of Pierre Doré OP. Zegers devoted the book on October 7, 1555 to abbes Maria van Linghen (abbess of Ter Kameren in Brussels and sister of Jan van Linghen, Count of Arenberg).

Het Sweert des Gheloofs, om te beschermen die Christen Kercke teghen die vyanden des waerheyts, ghetogen uut die heylige scrifture, uut die heylige Concilien ende uut die alderoutste Vaders ende Doctoren der heiliger Kercken, Gemaect in Fransoysce tale van B. Nicolaes Grenier, Religioos van S. Victors. Ende overgestelt in duytsce, nu int licht ghebrocht doer B. Henrick Pippinck Minister Provinciael der Nederduyts landen. Ghededicteert aen de Vrome heeren ende ghemeynte der Stadt van Antwerpen uut liefde (Antwerp, 1558/Antwerp: Jan van Ghelen, 1568). It is a Dutch translation of the L’espée de la Foy (1557) of Nicole Grenier (Victorine). It amounts to a catholic apology. Although the title mentions Henrick Pippinck, the introductory words of the latter indicate that the translation was done by another, deceased friar, and this translator should be identified with Zegers.

Catechismus, dat is die Somme der christelijcker onderwijsinghen (Antwerp: Pieter van Keerberghen, 1558/Antwerpen: J. Verwithagen, 1565). It is a Dutch translation of the Catechism/Summa doctrinae christianae per quaestiones traditae of Petrus Canisius. This translation, which Zegers finished in Boetendaal, was not the first translator of Canisius’ Summa Doctrinae Christianae per Quaestiones Traditae. The first Dutch translation (by Jan van Hemert), appeared in Antwerp by Verwithagen & Simon Cock in 1557.]

Scholion in Omnes Novi Testamenti Libros, III Vols. (Cologne: Heredes Arnoldi Birckmanni, 1553/etc.). At least the third volume is accessible via Google Books. This work, a commentary on difficult places in the New Testament, was later incorporated in the Critici Sacri, sive Doctissimorum Virorum in SS. Biblia Annotationes et Tractatus,, ed. John Pearson et al., 9 Vols. (London: Jac. Flesher, 1660), Vols. VI-VII & Critici Sacri, sive Doctissimorum Virorum in SS. Biblia Annotationes et Tractatus,, ed. Henricus et Vidua Theodori Boom, 9 Vols. (Amsterdam: J. Boom, 1698), Vols. VI, VII & VIII.

Epanorthotes. Castigationes in Novum Testamentum, in quibus depravata restituuntur, adiecta resecantur et sublata addiciuntur (Cologne: Heredes Arnoldi Birckmanni, 1553/1555). The 1555 edition is accessible via Google Books. This work was part of Zegers's attempt at creating a more or less 'definite' correction of the Latin NT text, based on proper philological studies of old sources and comparisons with the works of Valla, Erasmus and Titelmans. It was later incorporated in the Critici Sacri, sive Doctissimorum Virorum in SS. Biblia Annotationes et Tractatus,, ed. John Pearson et al., 9 Vols. (London: Jac. Flesher, 1660), Vols. VI-VII & Critici Sacri, sive Doctissimorum Virorum in SS. Biblia Annotationes et Tractatus,, ed. Henricus et Vidua Theodori Boom, 9 Vols. (Amsterdam: J. Boom, 1698), Vols. VI, VII & VIII.

Novum Jesu Christi Testamentum juxta veterem Ecclesiae editionem, ex probatissimis eisdem vetustissimis tum Scriptoribus tum exemplaribus priscae suae fidei integrati restututum, brevibusque illustratum Adnotationibus, 2 Vols. (Louvain: Stephanus Valerius, 1559). Building on the Epanorthotes, this was part of Zegers's attempt at creating a more or less final NT text in answer to Erasmus's Novum Instrumentum. Zegares had sent a manuscript version of the work to Pope Julius III and even suggested in his address to the pope (Julius III or his successor Paul IV) to make his NT version the only accepted version in the Church. What the impact of Zegers's work was on further Catholic Vulgate editions needs further research.

Inventarium in Novum Testamentum (Antwerp: Joannes Latius, 1557/1558/Antwerp: Joannes Bellerius, 1566). This is a biblical concordance for preachers and theologians, finished by Zegers in Amsterdam on August 6, 1556, possibly to replace Anthony of Koenigsteyn's concordance, and informed by Zegers's own scriptural research.

Versus memoriales in IVuor Christi Evangelia: MS Mons, Bibliothèque Publique, 403. The seventeenth-century manuscript copy of the work shows it amounts to a mnemotechnic aid to learn by heart the chapter order of the four Gospels.

In 1554, Zegers also helped to publish a new vernacular edition of Thomas Herentals’ Speghel des Kersten Leven. This edition went in press with the title Den Spieghel des Christen Levens (Antwerp: Simon Cock, 1554), and was reprinted the same year and in 1569 (Antwerp: Simon Cock, 1554/Antwerp: Willem van Parijs, 1569). Zegers added several appendices (indices etc.) as well as a short treatise on the Ten Commandments, sin, confession, prayer, the ave maria prayer, the ceremonies and parts of the eucharist, and with additional prayers. See also under Thomas Herentals.

For more information on all these works, see also the studies of Benjamin De Troeyer mentioned below.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 110; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. S. Dirks, Histoire littéraire des Frères Mineurs des Pays Bas (Antwerp, 1885), 81-84; W. Schmitz, Het aandeel der minderbroeders, 104-105, 111, 113; P.J.M. Van Gils, ‘Proverbia teutonica Latinitate Donata, een spreekwoordenboekje van T. Nicolaas Zegers’, Tijdschrift voor Taal en Letteren (1941), 137-142; Benjamin De Troeyer, ‘De minderbroeder Nikolaas Zegers’, Franciscana 18 (1963), 8-29; Benjamin De Troeyer, Bio-Bibliographia Franciscana Neerlandica Saeculi XVI (Nieuwkoop, 1969-1970), I, 192-203 & II, 407-422; André Derville, `Zegers', Dict. de Spir., 16 (1994), 1611-1612.

Nicolaus Zito (Niccolà Zito da Porto Longone, d. 1773)

OFM. Italian friar from the Tuscany province. Lector of theology, provincial minister and court preacher for Charles of Bourbon, King of Spain. he died in 1773 in the Portoferraio friary.

works

Notizie di tutta la Morale in Compendio raccolte da i più acclamati dottori, conformw à decreti de'summo pontefici, sacri canoni, e concili. Divise in due tomi, 2 Vols. (Naples: Salvatore Troisi, 1778). Accessible via the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vittorio Emanuele and via Google Books.

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 819.

Nonnius de Conceptione (Nuno da Conceiçam, fl. first half 17th cent.)

TOR. Portuguese Franciscan tertiary.

works

Relaçam da viagem e sucesso que teve a nao capitania Nossa Senhora do Bom Despacho, de que era capitão Francisco de Mello, vindo da India no anno de 1630. Escrita pelo Padre Fr. Nuno da Conceiçam, da Terceyra Ordem de São Francisco Lisboa. Na Officina de Pedro Crasbeeck. Anno de 1631.

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 565; Bernard Martocq, 'Note bibliographique sur l’História Trágico-Marítima', Cahiers d'Études Romanes 1 (1998), 19-29 [https://journals.openedition.org/etudesromanes/3428?lang=it ]

Norbert Nimis (Johann Georg, 1754, Waldürn - after 1793)

OFMCap. German friar. Joined the order in 1772. Lector in 1783. In 1788 Professor in `Popular theology' at the University of Mainz. Became secular priest in 1790?? Supported by the secular authorities, but treated as an apostate by his own order superiors.

works

Entwurf exegetisch-praktischen Vorlesungen über das Neue Testament nach philosischer und theologischer Enzyklopädie (Mainz, 1787).

Katholisches Religions-Handbuch mit der heiligen Schrift des Neuen Testaments, 3 Vols. (Mainz: Franz Wendelin Gordon, 1788-92).

literature

Bonaventura von Mehr, Das Predigtwesen in der Kölnischen und Rheinischen Kapuzinerprovinz (Rome, 1945), 141f; Anton Philipp Brück, Die Mainzer theologischen Fakultät im 18. Jahrhundert, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Universität Mainz, 2 (Wiesbaden: F. Steiner, 1955), 90.

Norbert Viennensis (Norbert von Wien/Baumgartner, d. 1773)

OFMCap. Austrian Capuchin friar. Member of the Vienna province; painter.

works

Paintings?

literature

Lexicon Capuccinum (1951), 133.