Theodorus Foresti (Teodoro Foresti da Bergamo, d. 1637)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Born in Solto Collona. Joined the Capuchin order in Lombardy, Preacher and Theologian. Fulfilled several teaching and administrative charges for his order. Was provincial definitor in the Venice province, but was exiled by the Venetian government when he defended the papacy in a conflict with the Venetian Republic (1626). In 1633 general definitor and shortly therafter apostolic visitator for Urban VIII. He died in December 1637 at the age of 72. Would have left behind a number of manuscripts and would have edited various works.

works

De almae ac sanctissimae Trinitatis mysterio in Seraph. D. Bonaventuram cardinalem Ordinis Minorum paraphrases, commentaria et disputationes: quibus praeter diligentem textus et verborum expositionem divinarum litterarum locis Sanctorum Patrum assertis perpetuo fere cum D. Thomae asensu Seraphica doctrina illustratur et sustinetur: additur in fine ex eisdem Seraphico et Angelico doctoribus de modis dicendi in hoc divino Mysterio tractatus cum quadruplici indice I. Locorum Divinae Scripturae; II. Articolorum et Disputationum; III. Rerum notabilium; Earumdem rerum ad Conciones deservientium (Rome: Ex typographia Iacobi Mascardi, 1633).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 112-113; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed.1806), 669; Giancrisostomo da Cittadella, ‘Cenni sconosciuti della vita del P. Teodoro Foresti da Bergamo’, Collectanea Franciscana 16 (1946), 201-214.

Theodorus Gennarius (Teodoro Gennario, fl. later 17th cent.)

OFM. Italian friar. Appointed bishop by Innocent XI.

works

Manuale Confessorum (Pavia: Pietro Maria Frambotto, 1679).

Considerazioni sull'orazione domenica ed il salutazione angelico (Padua: Caldorino, 1696).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 113.

Theodorus Jiménez (Teodoro Jiménez, fl. ca. 1800)

OFM. Spanish Scotist theologian in the Cartagena province.

literature

AIA 38 (1935), 100; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 131 (no. 448).

Theodorus Monorius (Munarius, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar from Bologna. Baccalaureus in theology and active in the studium of Cracow.

works

David contritus ex septem Psalmis Paenitentialibus desumptus (Cracow: Christophorus Schedel, 1641).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 113; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 669-670.

Theodorus Pelleoni (Teodoro Pelleoni dall'Apiro, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Theologian and preacher, known for his sermon cycles in Turin. Regent lector in Milan, theologian at the Turin court and counselor of high secular ecclesiastical dignitaries in Savoye. Also appointed bishop of Montepeluso in 1626 by Urban VIII. He died after ca. a decade in office in 1636.

works

Predica della vita et miracoli di S. Bassano, Vescovo, & Protettore di Lodi (Lodi: Paolo Bertuetti, 1606). Accessible via the British Library and via Google Books (creative search! Use author's name).

Due ragionamenti della Santa Sindone, detti in Torino, l'uno nel terzo Venerdi di Queresima, e l'altro nella sesta della Santa Sindone (Turin: Antonio Seghino, 1610).

Predica in lode di S. Ignazio Loiola detta nella Chiesa de'Padri Gesuiti in Torino (Turin: Seghini, 1613).

Lettere diverse del M.R.P.M.F.Teodoro Pelleoni Dall'Apiro Minor Conventuale. Teologo del Serenissimo Prencipe Cardinal di Savoia Raccolte da S. Bianchi (Rome: Andrea Fei, 1625). Accessible via the British Library and via Google Books (creative search! Use author's name).

Della forza, che ha il Niente in Corte, pensieri Academici, per l'Academia del Card. di Savoia à Monte Giordano (Rome, 1625).

De titulo Regio, Duci Sabaudiae debito (ca. 1633).

Epigrammata varia.

Poesie diverse.

Vita della Beata Ludovica Figlia del Beato Amadeo di Savoia.

Vita della Beata Marguerita di Savoia.

literature

Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 552-553; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 670.

Theodorus Smising (fl. early 17th cent.)

OFM. German friar. Born in 1580? Member of the Germania Inferioris province. Lector of theology at Louvain. He would have died on 22 October 1626.

works

Disputationes Theologicae de Deo Uno et Trino, 3 Vols. (Antwerp: Gerard Wolffchat, 1624/Antwerp: Willem Lesteen, 1626-1527) [Disputationum theologicarum F. Theodori Smising, (...) Tomus Primus [Secundus/Tertius] De deo uno et trino (...)], Deel 264,Volume 1]. The first two volumes are accessible via the Bibliothèque Municipale in Lyon and via Google Books (look under author's name.).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 113-114. Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806).

Theodorus Ticiensis (Ticinensis, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Italian friar and member of the Genoa province. Professor of theology. Missionary in the subalpine regions of Northern Italy. He would have died in Pavia in 1625.

works

Volumina quatuor Quaestionum Scholasticarum & Moralium de Ecclesiae Sacramentis, & praecipue de Sacratissima Eucharistia?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 114; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 670.

Theodosius Bertet (Theodose Bertet, fl. late 17th cent.)

OFMCap. French friar from Tarascon, southern France.

works

Sermons prechés pendant l'Octave des Morts (Lyon: Anisson & Posuel, 1693). Accessible via the Narodni Knihovna National Library in Prague and via Google Books.

Sermons prechés pendant l'Octave du S. Sacrament de l'Autel (Lyon: Anisson & Posuel, 1694). Accessible via the Narodni Knihovna National Library in Prague and via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 114; Fortsetzung und Ergänzungen zu Christian Gottlieb Jochers allgemeinen Gelehrten-Lexicon (...) Erster Band. A und B, ed. Johann Christoph Adelung (Leipzig: Johann Friedrich Bledits, 1784), 1769.

Theophilus Brunus de Verona (Raffaele Bruni/Teofilo di Verona/Teofilo Bruni, 1568-1638)

OFMCap. Italian friar from Verona. Member of the Venice province, preacher, mathematician and astronomer. He died in Vicenza in 1638.

works

Modo del far gli orologi ed altri strumenti matematici (Venice: Niccolò Misserino, 1617).

Frutti singolari della Geometria. Nuova inventione della Linea que quadra il Circulo, e invenzione delle tre e quattro proporzionali. Con le Quali s'insegna la ragione di accrescere, & diminuire proportionatamente tutte le figure geometriche (...) (Vicenza: Francesco Grossi, 1623). Accessible via the University Library of Turin and via Google Books (creative search).

Dell'Armonia Astronomica, et Geometrica Di Theofilo Bruni Veronese (...), 2 Vols. (Venice: Giovanni & Varisco Varischi, 1622/Vicenza: Heredi di Francesco Grossi, 1625/Vicenza: Heredi di francesco Grossi, 1631). Accessible via the University Library of Turin and via Google Books

Nouo planisferio o astrolabio vniuersale (Vicenza: Francesco Grossi, 1625). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 114; Scipione Maffei, La notizia degli scrittori veronesi III, 434; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 670; Lexicon Capuccinum (1951), 142.

Theophilus Burgundus (Teofilo Burgondi da Rovigo, fl. second half 16th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar. Franciscan theologian, preacher and inquisitor (in the Treviso region between 1570 and 1591, and then, possibly until his death a few years later (possibly 1593), in Adria). Regent lector of the Verona and Treviso studia. Held quaresimal cycles in Pisa (1570), Verona (1571) and Padua (1572). Author of a Commentaria in Septem Visiones Apocalypseos.

works

Commentaria in Septem Visiones Apocalypseos Edition?

literature

Wadding, Scriptores, 214; Giovanni Franchini, Bibliosofia e memorie letterarie di scrittori Francescani conventuali Ch'hanno scritto dopo 'Anno 1585 (Modena: Eredi Soliani Stampatori, 1693), 554; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 114-115; Stegmüller, RB V, 8016.

Theophilus de Nola (Teofilo da Nola, fl. 17th cent.)

OFM. Italian friar. Custos of the Holy Land.

works

Processiones quae fiunt quotidie a PP. Franciscanis ad SS. Nascentis Christi Praesepe in Bethlehem, in ecclesia Annuntiationis B. Virginis Mariae in Nazarath, in Ecclesia SS. Et Gloriosissimi Sepulchri Christi, in Ecclesia S. Salvatoris in Jerusalem. Cum aliis Processionibus, & Officiis Divinis, quae fiunt sui temporibius in Sacro Monte Oliveti, in Sepulchro B.V. Mariae, in Loco Nativitatis S. Ioannis Baptistae (…) (Antwerp: Plantin-Moretus, 1670). A huge liturgical and processional guide to facilitate friars and pilgrims. It incorporates materials also included in the 1623 work by Obicini, and it also contains many matters found in the works of Goujon and Aquilante Rocchetta.

literature

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), 146.

Theophilus Palantius (Teofilo Palantius/de Bibiona, d. 1638)

OFM. Italian friar. Member of the Tuscany province. Preacher, philosopher, theologian, and religious poet. Would have died in Florence as an octagenarian on 26 December 1636.

works

Aenigmata, & Poemata sacra plura omnigena eruditione referta

Spectaculum Philosophiae Moralis mortalibus factum/Spectaculum mortalibis pro morali Philosophia (Florence, 1611).

Conciones Quadragesimales, & Adventuales: MSS in the Biblioteca Francescana in Pistoia and the Biblioteca Francescana of Incisa in Val d'Arno?

Academia Moralis Christi Domini nostri, & daemonis inimici nostri: MS Biblioteca Francescana Mons S. Miniato (outside Florence)?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 115; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 670.

Theophilus Salisburgensis (Theophilus von Salzburg, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMCap. German friar and preacher in the Tyrol province.

works

Seraphischer Paradeyß-Garten, oder Jahrs-Geschichten und Lebens-Beschreibungen deren sonders berühmten Männeren des Seraphischen Ordens der Mindern Brueder, die Capuciner genannt (Salzburg: Mayr, 1690). This might be an erroneous ascription, as it looks very much like a work with almost the same title issued in 1664 by the Capuchin priest Maximilian von Deggendorff that is accessible via Google Books: Seraphischer Paradeyß-Garten, Oder Lebens-Beschreibungen derer in Tugenden und Wunderwercken vortrefflicher Männer deß Ordens der Mindern Brueder die Capuciner genant, samt andern denckwuerdigen Geschichten, 2 Vols. (Salzburg: Mayr, 1664).

Theophilus von Salzburg was also the editor of a German edition of the second, third and fourth parts of the Annales of Zaccaria Boverio.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 115.

Thesaurus de Roma (Santi Tesauro da Roma)

OFMCap. Italian friar.

works

Esposizione sopra la Regola del Serafico Padre S. Francesco, in: I Frati Cappuccini I, 1126-1159.

Tiburtius Aenipontanus (fl. late 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Austrian friar. Member of the Tyrol province. Theologian and apostolic missionary among heretical groups and countryside dwellers.

works

Doctrina Christiana dogmatice pro juventute instruenda (Salzburg, 1688).

Flores in Via Crucis colligendi ad refocilandam animam (Bozen: Paulus Frijherr, 1684).

According to Juan de San Antonio, he also would have translated into German and issued a collection of sermons of Marco d'Ambiano OFMCap (Augsburg: Magdalena Utschneidering, 1690).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 129.

Tiburtius Bruxellensis (Frans van den Berge, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Belgian friar. Son of Frans and Maria Geest. Took the Capuchin habit on 20 April 1625. His first minor orders he received in Brussels on 7 April 1628. Received the other orders in subsequent years and became active as guardian of Ghent, Malines and Gasselt. Composer and chapel master. Known for his compositions for two voices on spiritual song texts by his fellow friar Lucas van Mechelen (such as the collection Boeck der gheestelijkcke sanghen, issued in three volumes between 1631 and 1674 (Den bliiden requiem (1631/reprinted in 1674 in Ghent with in addition the third volume); Cloosterken der gheestelijcke verryssenisse (1639); Den droeven alleluia (1674)), which were re-issued in one volume in Amsterdam around 1688/89), and Gabriel van Antwerpen (De gheestelijkcke tortelduyve (1648), consisting of 54 songs, six of which are Christmas songs). Tiburtius died of the plague after taking care of plague victims.

works

Litaniæ seraphicæ B. Mariæ Virginis 3, 4, 5, 6 et 8 voc. cum basso continuo ad organum: in septem libris, auctore Tiburtio Bruxellensis capucini (Antwerp: Phalesius, s.a.).

Compositions included in songbooks such as Den bliiden requiem (1631/reprinted in 1674); Cloosterken der gheestelijcke verryssenisse (1639); Den droeven alleluia (1674). Works by him were also included in Gabriel van Antwerpen. De gheestelijkcke tortelduyve (1648).

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 681; Natascha Veldhorst, Zingend door het leven: het Nederlandse liedboek in de Gouden Eeuw (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2009), 35. See also: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiburtius_van_Brussel

Tilmannus Hachemberg (von Hachenberg/Nechemberg/Nachemberg/Neezemburg, fl. later 15th cent.)

OM. German friar, active in the Trier diocese? Bible scholar and preacher.

works

Wadding and Juan de San Antonio ascribe to him a collection of sermons de tempore, a collection of sermons de sanctis and a quadragesimale collection. We have not yet been able to trace them down.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 129; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 681.

Timothaeus de Brescia (Timoteo Colpani da Brescia, fl. first half 18th cent.)

OFMCap. Italian Capuchin friar. Lector and preacher.

works

Panegirici de'santi e altri discorsi (Brescia, 1732).

Sopra le Lagrime di Maria Vergine recitato in Treviglio nella Chiesa delle Lagrime dal P. Timoteo da Brescia, included as Panegirico IX in Raccolta Di Discorsi Panegirici Varj Di Soggetti più celebri dell'Ordine De' Minori Cappuccini I (1745), pp. 236ff.

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 801.

Timothaeus Glegj (Timoteo Glegj, d. 1787)

OFM. Croatian friar from Ragusa. Member of the Dalmatia province. Preacher and popular missionary. Translator into Croatian of works by Luis Gonzaga, Tolomeo Nicolai SJ, and others, as well as the author of vernacular meditations. He died in Ragusa in 1787 at the age of 91.

works

To be continued.

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 805; Ivan Evandelista Kuzmic, Cenni storici siu minori osservanti di Ragusa (1864), 56

Timothaeus Schranger (Timotheus Schranger, fl. later 17th, early 18th cent.)

OFMRef. German friar, member of the Riformati Upper Germany province. Vicar of the Salzburg friary and instructor/master of clerical friars.

works

Morale sacri eloquii subsidium in viaticum pro itinerantibus dispositum ex quadraginta concionibus ad singulas Dominicas et Festa totius anni, ac Ferias Quadragesimales. Per quadringenta exordia formata (..) (Salzburg: Johann Baptista Mayr, 1665/1709). The 1665 edition is for instance accessible via the digital collections of the Bibliothèque Municipale of Lyon, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich and via Google Books.

Morale et extemporaneum Sacri eloguii subsidium ad singulas totius anni dominicas et festa, nec non ferias quadragesimales per quadraginta efformata exordia, & materiarum argumenta plurici applicatum, cum triplici manuductione. Prima, ad Sacramentum Poenitentia, & Eucharistiae. Secunda, ad memoriam Passionis Domini. Tertia, ad conformitatem voluntatis Humanae cum Divina (Cologne: sumptibus Joannis Schlebusch 1708/Cologne: sumpt. Schlebusch, 1709).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 129.

Thidericus Struve (d. 1421)

OM. German friar. He originated from Northern Germany. Known to be lector secundarius (1413-1415) in Erfurt. In 1414, during a sejourn in Hildesheim, he made a Latin translation of the Hiob treatise of Marquard von Lindau. In 1416, he acquired in Dresden a manuscript with the Ecclesiasticus commentary of Robert Holcot [now MS Braunschweig, StB 98]. According to the Franciscan chronicler Nicholas Glassberger, Thidericus was elected provincial minister of Saxony in 1421, only to die twelve days later. Aside from his translation of Marquard’s Hiob treatise, Thidericus probably translated another treatise of Marquard (namely the part ‘Von den Seelen’ from Marquard’s Decalogue treatise,translated as: Tractatus de Animabus[?] Decedentibus ad Purgatorium), which has survived in the same manuscript. Moreover, he produced several other works in the context of his teaching obligations at the Erfurt studium. These latter writings have survived in MS Hannover, Landeskirchlichen Archiv D 10 Nr. 1 (PfA Bissendorf HS 20). Together with the Franciscan lector Johan Reyneke, Thidericus also composed a treatise De discordia inter prelatos et religiosos.This treatise deals both in Latin and in German from a canon law perspective with major points of conflict over confession rights between the secular and the regular clergy.

works

Hiob treatise translation [translatus in latinum et extensus per fratrem thedericum struven]: MS Wroclaw, (Breslau) UB cod. I F 243 (ca. 1440) ff. 182v-192v.

Tractatus de animabus [?] decedentibus ad purgatorium: MS Wroclaw, UB cod. I F 243 (ca. 1440) ff. 235v-238v.

Radices scripturarum: MS Hannover, Landeskirchlichen Archiv D 10 Nr. 1 (PfA Bissendorf HS 20) ff. 178r-186r. [=alphabetically ordered excerpts from Joachim of Fiore’s De semine scripturarum. Cf. also Stegmüller, Rep. Bib. 4033-4034]

De numeris: MS Hannover, Landeskirchlichen Archiv D 10 Nr. 1 (PfA Bissendorf HS 20) ff. 186r-195v [inc: Quanta sit vis in numeris noverant hii…

De libro de amicitia seu de amicitiae isagogia: MS Hannover, Landeskirchlichen Archiv D 10 Nr. 1 (PfA Bissendorf HS 20) ff. 195v-197v [=Excerpts from Eilbert of Bremen’s Liber de amicitia seu de amicitiae isagogi]

De quinque impedimentis scientiae: MS Hannover Landeskirchlichen Archiv D 10 Nr. 1 (PfA Bissendorf HS 20) ff. 197v-199v [= excerpts from De quinque impedimentis scientiae of Eilbert of Bremen]

De discordia inter prelatos et religiosos: MS Hildesheim, Dombibliothek 672 ff. 236ra-239va.

literature

Glasberger, Chronica, AF II (1887), 277; E. Greifenstein, Der Hiob-Traktat des Marquard von Lindau (1979),..; D. Härtel, ‘Studien zu einer Handschrift des Braunschweiger Guardians Ludolfus Sunne OFM (d. 470), die Diözese Hildesheim in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart’, Zeitschrift des Vereins für Heimatkunde im Bistum Hildesheim 50 (1982), 109-118; Nigel F. Palmer, ‘Struve, Thidericus OFM’, Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon 2^nd ed., 460-461.

Thomas Acerbis de Olera (Thomas Bergomensis/Thomas Acerbis de Olera/Tommaso da Bergamo/Tommaso da Olera, 1563-1631)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Secular priest and subsequently lay Capuchin friar in the Bergamo province. Quester, cook and gardener. Also spiritual advisor of Giovanna Maria della Croce, socius on diplimatic missions with Lorenzo of Brindisi and others, and author of spiritual works. Died at the age of 68 in Innsbruck. Beatified

works

Fuoco d'amore, mandato da Christo in terra, per esser acceso: ovvero Amorose Compositioni di Fra Timaso da Bergamo, Laico Capucino: A gloria dell'amor increato, Iddio, et utile del prossimo; Per accender il cuore d'ogni Christiano nel puro, retto, e filial'Amore verso quello, che puramente ci amò (...), ed. Giuvenale Annaniense (Acosta: Appresso Simone Uzschneider, 1682/Naples: Francesco Benzi, 1683). Accessible via the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and via Google Books.

Other works by Olera would also have been made reasy for press by Giuvenale Annaniense and issued by the press of Simone Uzschneider, but I have not yet been able to trace these editions. Nevertheless, a number of them were issued more recently (see below).

Tommaso da Olera, Scritti, vol. I: Selva di contemplazione, ed. Alberto Sana, Biblioteca Morcelliana, 8 (Brescia: Editrice Morcelliana, 2005). Cf. review in CF 76,1-2 (2006), 417-419; Italia Francescana 81 (2006), 275-277; Studia Patavina 54 (2007), 484-486. A revised edition appeared as: Tommaso da Olera, Scitti I, Selva di contemplazione, ed. Alberto Sana, Biblioteca Morcelliana, 8, 2nd Ed. (Brescia: Editrice Morcelliana, 2013).

Tommaso da Olera, Scitti II, Scala di perfezione, ed. Alberto Sana, Biblioteca Morcelliana, 18, 2nd Ed. (Brescia: Editrice Morcelliana, 2013).

Tommaso da Olera, Scritti III, Concetti morali contro gl'eretici. Trattatelli ascetici, ed. Alberto Sana (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2016).

Ippolito Guarinoni, Detti e fatti, profezie e segreti del frate cappuccino Tommaso da Bergamo, ed. Daniela Marrone (Brescia: Editrice Morcelliana, 2013).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 115-116; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 671; Christopher John Popravak, Desire extinguished, desire enflamed. Ascetical construction of a capuchin subjectivity (1552-1628), Phil. Diss. (Michigan, 1998); Costanzo Cargnoni, ‘Doswiadczenie modlitwy mistycznej u brata Tomasza Acerbis z Olera’, in: Mistyka franciszkanska, 89-126; Costanzo Cargnoni, ‘L’esperienza della preghiera mistica di Fra Tommaso Acerbis da Olera’, in: Due volti del francescanesimo, Miscellanea in onore di Optatus Van Assendonk e Lazzaro Iriarte, ed. Andrzej Tomkiel, Dimensioni spirituali, 17 (Rome: Edizioni Collegio S. Lorenzo da Brindisi (Laurentianum) – Istituto Francescano di spiritualità: Antonianum, 2002), 219-153; Gaudentius Walser, Diener Gottes Thomas Acerbis von Olera-Bergamo, Kapuziner, der Bruder von Tirol (Innsbruck: Kapuzinerkloster, 2005); Ambrogio Amati & Laila Nyaguy, Fra’Tommaso da Bergamo. Il cappuccino di Olera nel cuore di papa Giovanni XXIII, I testimoni (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2006); La mistica parola per parola, ed. Luigi Borriello, Maria R. Del Genio & Tomás Spidlík (Milan: Ancora, 2007), 353f.; Ippolito Guarinoni, Detti e fatti, profezie e segreti del frate cappuccino Tommaso da Bergamo, ed. Daniela Marrone, I testimoni (Brescia: Società Editrice Morcelliana, 2007); A. Calloni, ‘L’ambientazione storica del beato fra Tommaso da Olera’, Italia Francescana 88:2-3 (2013), 437-457; A. Bartolomei Romagnoli, ‘Il beato Tommaso da Olera, mistico cappuccino e teologo del «puro amore»’, Italia Francescana 88:2-3 (2013), 459-479; “Heiliger Bruder von Tirol” Thomas von Olera (Innsbruck: Provinzialat der Kapuziner Österreich-Südtirol, 2013). Publication in the context of the beatification of Tommaso Acerbis da Olera (1563-1631). Review in Collectanea Franciscana 85:1-2 (2015), 329-330; Salvatore Rizzolino, Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariae. Poemetti mariani dimenticati fra Lagrime e Rime spirituali del Tasso. Appendice di testi mariani cappuccini tra XVI-XVII sec., ed. Costanzo Cargnoni, Centro Studi Cappuccini Lombardi. Nuova Serie, 4 (Milan: Edizioni Biblioteca Francescana, 2017), 497- 503 (on his mariological works).

Thomas Avenoniensis (Thomas d'Avignon, fl. early 17th cent.)

OFMCap. French friar.

works

Oraison funèbre sur le trespas de Tres Haute, Serenissime, & Tres-religieuse Princesse, Loyse de Lorraine Royne doüairiere de France, & de Pologne, Faicte & prononcée à Moulins en Bourbonnois, par le R .P. Thomas d’Avignon de l’Ordre des Capucins… (Paris: Douceur, 1601).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 115: Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 671; Ghislain Tranié, Tranié, Ghislain, Louise de Lorraine (1553-1601). L’esprit et la lettre d’une reine de France. Mémoire de maîtrise d’histoire moderne, sous la direction de Denis Crouzet, I.R.C.O.M./Centre Roland Mousnier, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 1999-2000. Publié sur Cour de France.fr le 1er septembre 2010 (http://cour-de-france.fr/article1582.html).

Thomas Beira (de Beyra, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFM? Portuguese friar.

works

Considerationes Litterales, & Morales super Hieremiam (Lisbon, 1633).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 115.

Thomas Belchiam (Belchian, d. 1537), beatus

OFM. English friar, member of the Observant Greenwich friary. which had been founded by King Edward IV and was under the active patronage of the Tudor dynasty (Henry VII, the young Henry VIII and his spouse Catherine of Aragon). When Henry VIII wanted to divorce from Catherine of Aragon, the Greenwich friars backed the queen. Royal agents entered the Greenwich monastery in June 1534, and deported Thomas and a substantial number of his fellow friars to the Tower. Early August, the convent itself was disbanded at the order of the King. At the intercession of Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, some of these friars were released, but Belchiam continued to oppose the King's procedures and wrote sermon booklet in which he disparaged the lack of courage of prelates and courtiers who went along with Henry’s wishes, based on the biblical theme 'Behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings' houses' (Matt. xi. 8). In this work, he denounced the king as a heretic. In retribution, Belchiam was kept in Newgate, where he probably died of starvation on 30 August 1537. A copy of his sermon, found in the prison after his death, was brought to King Henry VIII, who had it burnt. Another copy was preserved by the friars, and as late as 1583, Thomas Bourchier still expressed the hope that the text might be brought to press. Unknown whether this came to pass.

literature

Th. Bourchier, Historia ecclesiastica de martyrio fratrum ordinis divi Francisci (Paris, 1581), 17-24; Wadding, Annales Ordinis Minorum XVI> A. Parkinson, Collectanea Anglo-Minoritica (1726), 240-241; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 115; A.R. Martin, ‘The Grey Friars of Greenwich’, Archaeological Journal 80 (1923), 81-114, M. Bacheca, I martiri francescani d’Inghilterra (Rome, 1930), 115-120; Henry Summerson, ‘Belchiam, Thomas (1505/6–1534?)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004/On-line edition: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1982, accessed 3 Dec 2014)

Thomas Bellaci (Tommaso Bellacco/Tommaso da Firenze, 1370-1447), beatus

TOR. Italian friar. Was a butcher before his conversion after a false accusation made against him concerning a hideous crime. After he joined the Third Order in Fiesole, under the spiritual direction of the Franciscan friar Giovanni da Stronconio, he became active as a novice master and became involved with the promotion of the regular Observance in the Franciscan order family at large. In part at the request of Pope Martin V, he became active as a lay preacher throughout the Italian peninsula, sometimes alongside famous Franciscan homiletic practitioners, also to combat the 'heresy' of the 'Fraticelli'. He tried to become a missionary in the Islamic world and to travel onwards to Ethiopia, but was captured repeatedly by the Turcs, and had to be freed with financial and diplomatic assistance from Florentine merchants and the papacy. Between 1444 and 1446, he spent his time in some kind of eremitical retreat in the Abruzzi region, and died in Rieti on 31 October 1447 on his way to Rome to gain permission to return to the Middle East. After his death his grave became a cult site. He was officially beatified in 1771.

vitae

Vita del B. Tommaso da Firenze (testo inedito del sec.XV), ed. S. Mencherini, in La Verna 9 (1912), 514-522; 11 (1913), 31-41; Studi francescani 1 (1914), 87-102, 223-234; 486-495, 2 (1915), 41-48, 105-117; F.A. Savorini, Storia delle gesta del beato Tommaso da Firenze (Fermo-Rieti, 1773).

literature

L. Wadding, Annales minorum XI (ed. Quaracchi 1932), 81f., 336-345; S. Mencherini, 'Lettera ed epigrafe sul b. Tommaso Bellacci', Studi Francescani 11 (1925), 387-389; LThK² X, 136; Enrico Cerulli, 'Bellacci, Tommaso', Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 7 (1970) [https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/tommaso-bellacci_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/ ]

Thomas Bourchier (Bouchier/Beccaro/Thomas Lanctonus [pseudonym], d. ca. 1586)

OFM. English friar. Studied theology at Paris, and spent much time in Rome, where he became a penitentiary of St. John of Lateran.

works

Tractatus de judicio Religiosorum, in quo demonstratur, quod a Saecularibus judicari non debeant. Never edited?

Oratio ad Franciscum Gonzagam totius Ordinis Ministrum Generalem pro pace, & disciplina magni conventus parisiensis ordinis minorum instituenda... (Paris, 1582). [issued under the pseudonym Thomas Lanctonus]

Historia ecclesiastica de martyrio Fratrum ord. Divi Francisci, Dictorum de Observantia, qui partim in Anglia sub Henrico octavo Rege; partim in Belgio sub Principe Auriaco, partim & in Hybernia tempore Elizabethae regnantis Reginae, idque ab anno 1536 usque ad hunc nostrum praesentem annum 1582 passi sunt (Paris: Jean Poupy, 1582/Ingolstadt, 1583/Paris: Guillaume Bichon, 1586). The 1582 and 1586 editions are accessible via Google Books.
For a German version of this work, compiled by Valentin Friccius, see: Catalogus und ordentliche Verzeichnuß der newgekrönten anderthalbhundert streitbarn Barfuesser Martyrer, Welche alle in Engelland, Niderland, Flandern, Frankreich, Irland, Ungern unnd Oesterreich, in diesen unseren letzten und geschwinden Zeiten, von wegen deß Catholischen Glaubens, erbaermlichen und jaemmerlichen gemartert worden. Erstlichen durch die Ehrwirdigen Vaetter Thomam Bourchier Engellaendischen Barfuesser, und Fratrem Florentinum Leydanem Niderlaendischen Provincialn, in Latein der laenge beschrieben; Un jetzo aber kuertzlichen unnd Summarischer Weiß auß dem Latein ins Teutsch getreuliches Fleiß vertiert (...) (Ingolstadt: Wolffgang Eder, 1584/Reprint 1885). Both these editions are accessible via Google Books.

He also would have annotated and corrected the work Censura Orientalis Ecclesiae de Haereticorum dogmatibus, ed. Stanislao Scoluvi (Paris: Arnold Sittart, 1584).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 3 & 116; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 671.

Thomas Brookby (Thomas Brorbey, d. 1537)

OFM. English friar. Specialist in Greek and Hebrew and a renowned preacher. When he attacked the marriage politics of Henry VIII, he was thrown in prison and was executed there on July 19, 1537. Author?

literature

Thomas Bourchier, Historia Ecclesiastica de Martyrio Fratrum Ordinis Minorum Divi Francisci (Ingolstadt, 1583), 14-15; Marco da Civezza, Storia universale delle missioni francescane (Prato, 1883) VII, i, 539-550; Gasquet-Elsässer, Heinrich VIII. und die englischen Klöster, I (Mainz, 1890), 155; A.G. Little, The Grey Friars in Oxford (Oxford, 1892), 200.

Thomas Calona (fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Italian (Sicilian) friar and member of the Palermo province. Preacher and theologian. Acknowledged expert in Hebrew. Known for a commentary on the Book of Judges. He woyld gave died in Trepani in 1644.

works

Sacra Aristocratici Principatus Idea, sive Samuel expositus in librum Historialem Judicum una cum Catena morali (...) (Palermo: Alfonso da Isola, 1641).

Commentaria moralia super duodecim Prophetas Minores (Palermo: Alfonso da Isola, 1644).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 117; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 672.

Thomas Capponi (Capponus, fl. mid 17th cent.)

works

Opusculum contra experientias, quibus aliqui conantur probare existentiam vacui (Parma: typis Marii Vignae, 1649).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 117; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 672; Massimo Bucciantini, Massimo, 'La discussione sul vuoto in Italia: il caso di Valeriano Magni', in: Discussioni sul nulla tra Medioevo ed Età moderna, ed. Massimiliano Lenzi & Alfonso Maierù (Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2009), 298.

Thomas Coto (Tomás Coto, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFM. Guatemalan Creole friar. Theologian and linguist. Definitor and elected custos in 1641. In this capacity he traveled to the Franciscan general chapter at Toledo.

works

Vocabulario de la Lengua cakchiquel, v. Guatimalteca (…) En que se contienen todos los modos y frases elegantes con que los Naturales la hablan, y d. q. se pueden valer los Ministros estudiossos para su mejor educacion y Enseñanza (ca. 1651). Where is ths manuscript?

literature

Francisco Vázquez, Crónica de la Provincia del Santísimo Nombre de Jesús de Guatemala, 2nd Ed., Bibliotea “Goathemala”, 14-17, 4 Vols (Guatemala, 1937-1944) III, 33 & IV, 262, 263; Beristain II, 165; Nora B. Thompson, ‘Algunos manuscritos guatemaltecos en Filadelfia’, Anales de la Soc. de Geografia e Historia 23 (Guatemala, 1948), 27; A Bio-Bibliography of Franciscan Authors in Colonial Central America, ed. Eleanor B. Adams (Washington D.C.: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1953), 27; Manuel Castro y Castro, ‘Lenguas indigenas transmitidas por los Franciscanos del S. XVII’, in: Los Franciscanos en el Nuevo Mundo (siglo XVII), La Rábida, 18-23 septiembre de 1989 (Madrid: Editorial Deimos, 1992), 458.

Thomas Croset (fl. ca. 1700)

OFMRec. French friar. Active in Marseille and Lyon, and also in the Italian San Bernardino province as preacher (and guardian of the Bologna friary?). Translated several religious works into French.

works

Introduction aux vertus morales et héroiques, 2 Vols. (Brussels: François Foppens, 1712). A French translation of a work by Emmanuele Tesauro.

Lettre Que le R. P. Thomas Croset, Recolet, écrit au F. Bonice de Lyon, qui l'avoit prié de lui aprendre les Remedes & les précautions dont il usoit lorsqu'il étoit en Palestine assistant les Pestiferez (G. Belle, 1720).

Juan de San Antonio mentions several other works, but we have not yet been able to confirm those.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 117.

Thomas de Albeinga (Thomas de Albarenga/Tomas de Alba Renga, fl. first half 17th cent.)

OFM. Portuguese friar (First or third order?).

works

Sermones Quadragesimales (Lisbon, 1618).

Considerationes super Domenicas post Pentecosten(Lisbon, 1620)

Should these works be ascribed to Tomàs da Veiga? See the titles under the name of that friar.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 115; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 670-671; Christian Gottlieb Jöcher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon (...) Erster Teil: A-C (Leipzig: Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, 1750), 190.

Thomas Bourchier (d. 1586)

OFM. English friar and martyrologist. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. Took the habit at Greenwich around 1555/58 during the reign of Queen Mary. Went in exile when Elisabeth came into power. He first went to Paris, where he studied at the Sorbonne. Following this he went South and spent most of his remaining life in Italy, teaching theology at Genoa and Turin. Became apostolic penitentiary at St. John of Lateran and died in Rome. Thomas was a productive author. In addition, he would have acted as corrector and glossator for the Censura Orientalis Ecclesiae by Stanislaus Socolovius (Paris, 1584), although this is denied by Ignatius Fennessy (in the lemma on Bourchier in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

works

Tractatus de Iudicio Religiosorum, in Quo Demonstratur quod a Saecularibus Judicari non Debeant: Manuscript mentioned by Wadding.

Historia Rerum inter Catholicos et Haereticos Gestarum (Venice, 1570).

Sermones de Beata Maria Virgine (Venice, 1571).

Libellus Carminum Spiritualium (Turin, 1571).

Expositio Orationis Dominicae (Venice, 1578).

Oratio Doctissima et Efficacissima ad Franciscum Gonzagam pro Pace et Disciplina Regulari Magni Conventus Parisiensis Instituenda (Paris, 1582).

Historia Ecclesiastica de Martyrio Fratrum Ordinis S. Francisci, Dictorum de Observantia, Qui Partim in Anglia sub Henrico VIII, Partim in Belgio sub Principe Austriaco, Partim in Hibernia Tempore Elisabethae Regnantis Reginae, Idque ab Anno 1536 usque ad Annum 1582 Passi Sunt (Ingolstadt, 1583/Paris, 1586).

Sermones XX Familiares de Adventu Messiae et de SS. Trinitate (Venice, 1585).

literature

Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1906), 215; Wadding, Annales Minorum (Quaracchi, 1931) XIX, 104-105 & XX, 437-438;Thaddeus, The Franciscans in England, 1600-1850 (London, 1898), 18-19; A. Van den Wyngaert, ‘Bourchier’, DHGE X, 142; Ignatius Fennessy, ‘Bourchier, Thomas (d. ca.1586)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2994, accessed 3 Dec 2014])

Thomas de Barrios (Tomás de Barrios)

OFM. Spanish friar and preacher.

works

Sermon on the Feast of the Franciscan Protomartyrs. See: Timothy J. Johnson, 'Old and New World Martydrom: Fray Tomás de Barrios' Sermon on the Feast of the Franciscan Protomartyrs', in: Preaching and New Worlds: Sermons as Mirrors of Realms Near and Far, ed. Timothy J. Johnson, Katherine Wrisley Shelby & John D Young, Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture (Routledge, 2018).

literature

Timothy J. Johnson, 'Old and New World Martydrom: Fray Tomás de Barrios' Sermon on the Feast of the Franciscan Protomartyrs', in: Preaching and New Worlds: Sermons as Mirrors of Realms Near and Far, ed. Timothy J. Johnson, Katherine Wrisley Shelby & John D Young, Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture (Routledge, 2018).

Thomas de Brounceston de Anglia/Thomas Broundeston/Thomas Scotus/Thomas of Braunceston (fl. first half 14^th cent.)

OM. English friar, preacher and natural philosopher. He fell in disrepute with the partisans of Michael of Cesena, probably when he allegedly openly supported Pope John XXII’s viewpoints on Franciscan poverty as put forward in Ad conditorum canonum, Cum inter nonnullos and Quia quorundam mentes. Hence, in Michael of Cesena’s Appellatio in forma majori, edited in Nicolaus Minorita, Chronica , ed. Gedeon Gál &David Flood (St. Bonaventure, N.Y., 1996), 419f., Thomas is described as a necromancer, alchemist, heretic and evil-doer, who had apostized from the order and then had sought the support of pope John XXII, who had received him heartily. Whatever the exact background of Michael of Cesena’s allegations, fact is that pope John wrote on 11 July 1328 to the prior of the Dominicans in Carcassone, demanding him to receive Thomas of Brounceton into the Order of Friars Preachers (BF V, no.720). Thomas, in disfavour with his Franciscan superiors, apparently had made for the papal curia in order to obtain a special papal dispensation for his transfer to the Dominicans (as such a transfer was in normal circumstances forbidden). Patrick Nold suggests that, subsequently, Thomas might have become a lector in natural philosophy in the Dominican friary of Rieux (identifying Thomas Brounceton with the Thomas Anglicus assigned to this position, with reference to C. Douais, Essai sur l’organisation des études dans l’ordre des Frères Prêcheurs au treizieme et au quatorzième siècle, 1216-1342 (Paris, 1889), 222). Later, he seemed to have become the focus of scorn in the Collirium Fidei by Alvarus Pelagius (Alvaro Pelayo/Alvaro Pais) for a set of heretical positions in the field of natural philosophy, pointing towards Averroist tendencies in the work of a certain ‘Thomas Scotus’, who had transferred from the Friars Minor to the Dominicans, but subsequently would have left the Dominicans as well.

works

Collationes MS London Gray’s Inn Ms. 7 (following sermons by Bertrand de la Tour). The manuscript, once in the possession of the Franciscan friary of Chester, contains five of Brounceton’s collations on the Advent Gospel readings and a fragment of a sixth collation on an Advent Epistle reading

literature

Mario Esposito, ‘Les hérésies de Thomas Scotus d’après le Collirium Fidei’, Revue d’Histoire Ecclésiastique 33 (1937), 56-69; Paulo Durão, ‘Thomas Scotus, Aristotelicus, qui Saeculo XIV Olysipone docuit’, in: Die Metaphysik im Mittelalter. Ihr Ursprung und ihre Bedeutung, ed. Paul Wilpert (Berlin, 1963), 472-474; Neil R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, Vol. 1 (Oxford, 1969), 57; Mário Santiago de Carvalho, Estudos sobre Alvaro Pais e outros franciscanos (séculos xiii-xiv) (Lisbon, 2001), 95-201; Patrick Nold, ‘Thomas of Braunceton O.M./O.P.’, in: Kirchenbild und Spiritualität. Dominikanische Beiträge zur Ekklesiologie und zum kirchlichen Leben im Mittelalter. Festschrift für Ulrich Horst OP zum 75. Geburtstag, ed. Thomas Prügl & Marianne Schlosser (Paderborn-Munich-Vienna-Zürich: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2007), 179-195 (providing all information contained in this lemma)
With thanks to Patrick Nold for providing me with an offprint of his article

Thomas de Bungay (fl. ca. 1275)

OM. English friar. Tenth lector at Oxford, provincial minister of England (ca. 1272-5), 15th lector at Cambridge (ca. 1282). Wrote on Aristotle’s Physics and the Sentences of Lombard. His Sentences commentary doesn't seem to have survived.

works

Quaestiones super Libros de Coelo et Mundo: MS Cambridge, Caius College 509 ff. 209-252b.

Quaestiones: MS Assisi, Bibl. Com. 158 & 196.

Comm. in Romanos [extracts]: MS Cambridge, Pembroke College cod. 87.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 116-117; Little & Pelster, Oxford Theology and Theologians, 74-75 [on his non-surviving Sentences commentary], 105-108; Little, The Grey Friars of Oxford, 153-4; Moorman, The GreyFriars of Cambridge, 32, 157f; LThK² X, 138; Jenny Swanson, ‘Bungay, Thomas (fl. 1270–1283)’, in: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004/ http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3939); Deanne Marie Williams, ‘Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay and the rhetoric of temporality’, in: Reading the Medieval in Early Modern England, ed. Gordon McMullan & David Matthews (Cambridge, 2007), 31-50 [who is the 'friar Bungay' in this early modern drama piece?]

Thomas de Cantuaria (Tomas de Cantuaria, fl. early 18th cent.)

OFM. Portuguese friar. Preacher and provincial definitor.

works

Sacra semana de Santo Pedro d'Alcantara (Lisbon: Pilippo de Souza, 1720).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franiscana III, 117.

Thomas de Capua (d. 1239 or 1243)

OM. Italian friar from the Campania region. Franciscan poet. Composed hymns on Francis, employing the first lines of well-known breviary hyms as caudae in his own poems.

works

Liturgical hymns on Francis. See for instance Deus morum, dux minorum [hymn for the feast of St. Francis], ed. in: Analecta Hymnica, ed. G. Dreves, C. Blume & H.M. Bannister, 55 Vols. (Leipzig, 1886-1922), Vol. 52, 182; Deus morum, dux minorum, ed. in: Lateinische Hymnen des Mittelalters, ed. F.J. Mone, 3 Vols. (Freiburg i. br., 1853-1855), II, 229.

Thomas de Castelnuovo (Tommaso da Castelnuovo/Tommaso Guerra, d. 1797)

OFMRef. Dalmatian friar from the Venetian Riformati province. Renowned preacher.

works

Several bibliographers mention his Prediche sui sette peccati mortali, but we have not yet found an edition.

literature

Francesco Maria Appendini, Memorie spettanti ad alcuni uomini illustri di Cattaro (Ragusa: Antonio Martechini, 1811) 60; Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 840; Simeon Gliubich, Dizionario biografico degli uomini illustri della Dalmazia (Vienna: Leichner, 1856), 175.

Thomas de Celano (Tommaso da Celano, fl. 13th cent.)

OM. Italian friar. Born in Celano (near Aquila). He joined the young Franciscan movemeny in 1214 or 1215. Active as missionary in the German lands (under Julian of Speyer). Held several administrative functions on the German provinces. Wrote, on request of pope Gregory IX, the first official Vita of Francis (Vita Prima S. Francisci, 1228/30, in the context of Francis's canonization, This text of Celano received its first versification by Henry ofAvranches in 1232). Later, at the request of minister general Crescent of Jesu, he was asked to write a new Vita (Vita Secunda, 1246-47; approved on the general chapter of Lyon, 1247), including new materials (esp. eye-witness accounts of Leo, Angelo, and Rufino, collected after the call for testimonies by the general chapter of Genoa (1244)), and stressing different aspects of Francis's life. This second vita was supplemented with a Tractatus de Miraculis (1251-53, composed at request of minister general John of Parma). More recently, thanks to research by Jacques Dalarun, Sean Field and Laura Light, it has become clear that Thomas also made an abbreviated version of his first Vita of Francis at the request of Elias of Cortona, in all probability not long after Elias became minister general in 1232. This abbreviated version, first signalled in Dalarun's 2007 study on what he then called the Legenda Umbra, and studied more in-depth, edited and translated in 2015, was at least in part intended for liturgical commemorative purposes, as has been confirmed by manuscripts found by Dalarun, Field and Light. The work now goes by the provisional title Vie de notre bienheureux père François/Thome Celanensis Vita beati patris nostri Francisci (Vita brevior). This discovery also sheds new light on the composition history of the later Legenda ad usum Chori. Until recently, it was assumed that Thomas wrote this (still under Elias of Cortona) mainly on the basis of his first vita. Yet it now seems that it is at least in part a reworking/shortening of the abbreviated version now brought to light by Dalarun and others. Likewise, it seems that the newly discovered text by Thomas was itself a source for the works of Julian of Speyer and others. Thomas is also mentioned as the author of the Vita of Clare (on request of pope Alexander IV), and the liturgical sequences Dies Irae, Fregit Victor Virtualis, and Sanctitatis Nova Signa (Sequence for the 4 October Mass). The ascription of Claire’s first Vita to Thomas of Celano seems secure, yet two of the liturgical sequences (namely Dies Irae and Fregit Victor Virtualis) are probably the work of other friars. (see below). Scholars now agree that Thomas of Celano in all probability did not write the Vita Assidua on Anthony of Padua. Thomas died some time after 1253, when he was chaplan of the Clares of Val di Varri. His Vita Prima and Vita Secunda had a quick succes, which also is born out by several versified translations into German and French. Yet most copies of Thomas’ Vita Prima and Vita Secunda, like his liturgical abbreviations rediscovered by Field, Light and Dalarun were destroyed on the order of the 1266 general chapter, which adopted Bonaventure’s Legenda Major as the new official vita for the order.

works

S. Francisci Assisiensis Vita et Miracula Auctore Fr. Thoma de Celano, ed. E. d'Alençon (Rome, 1906); Vita Prima, Vita Secunda, et Tractatus de Miraculis, in: Analecta Franciscana 10 (Quaracchi, 1926-1941), 1-331, and in Fontes Franciscani (1995), 275-754; Tommaso da Celano, Vita di S. Francesco e Trattato dei miracoli, Introduzione, traduzione e note di Fausta Casolini, Fonti e testi francescani, 3 (S. Maria degli Angeli (Pg), Edizioni Porziuncola, ⁵2000); Jacques Dalarun, ‘Appendice: Nuova edizione dei ‘Miracula santi Francisci post mortem’, Frate Francesco 72 (2006), 28-43. Thomas of Celano’s First Life of St. Francis, trans. Christopher Stace (London, 2000); Thomas von Celano, Leben und Wunder des heiligen Franziskus von Assisi, ed. Engelbert Grau, New Edition, Franziskanische Quellenschriften, 5 (Kevelaer: Coelde, Butzon & Bercker, 2001); See also the Fonti Francescani and the series Francis of Assisi. Early Documents in the vita & miracula section of this site; Vie de sainte Claire: Texte latin, ed. F. Pennacchi (Assisi, 1910); D. Vorreux, Sainte Claire d’Assise, Documents (Paris, 1983), 17-77; Tommaso da Celano, Leggenda di santa Chiara Vergine, introd. & trans. Marco Guido (Milan: Paoline Editoriale Libri, 2015)..The liturgical sequences Dies Irae, Fregit Victor Virtualis, and Sanctitatis Nova Signa are edited in Analecta Franciscana 10 (Quaracchi, 1926-1941), 402-404. On the Vita Assidua of Anthony, see especially V. Gamboso, La Vita prima di S. Antonio (Padua, 1981). See for Celano’s work also the Vitae & miraculae section under Franciscus Assisiensis.

Memoriale: Thomas de Celano, Memoriale. Editio critico-synoptica duarum redactionum ad fidem codicum manuscriptorum, ed. F. Accrocca & A. Horowski, Subsidia scientifica franciscalia, 12 (Rome: Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, 2011). This is a new edition of Celano II, based on the idea that this ‘Memoriale’ actually exists in two redactions. A lengthy presentations of the work can be found in Miscellanea Francescana 111:3-4 (2011), 553-579. See also Filippo Sedda, ‘Questioni di ecdotica ‘Francescana’: Note a margine di una recente edizione critica del Memoriale in Desiderio Animae’, Collectanea Franciscana 82 (2012), 741-756, which is a critique of this new edition and the rationale behind it.

Legenda Umbra/Vita brevior: For the new developments with regard to the newly found abbreviation of the Vita Prima in MS Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, NAL 3245, first called the Legenda Umbra and now also Vie de notre bienheureux père François/Thome Celanensis Vita beati patris nostri Francisci (Vita brevior), see: Jacques Dalarun, Vers une résolution de la question franciscaine. La Légende ombrienne de Thomas de Celano (Paris: ed. Fayard, 2007), and subsequent studies by him, Laura Light and Sean Field, as well as Paul Bösch, 'Die 'Vita brevior' des Franziskus von Assisi und ihre entfernten Verwandten', Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 111 (2018), 3-32. The Legenda Umbra was included in a new French translation of Thomas' works, namely: Thomas de Celano, Les vies de Saint François d'Assise: ‘Vie du bienheureux François', ‘Légende de choeur', ‘Légende ombrienne', ‘Mémorial dans le désir de l'âme', trans. Dominique Poirel & Jacques Dalarun, with collaboration of Jean-François Godet-Calogeras & Jean-Baptiste Lebigue, Sources Franciscaines (Paris: Éditions franciscaines & Éditions du CERF, 2009) [o.a. reviews in CF 79 (2009), 695-697; AFH 102 (2009), 513-517; Revue d’Histoire Ecclésiastique 106 (2011), 285-287]. It was also issued in French as Thomas de Celano, La Vie de notre bienheureux père François. Traduction française annotée et concordances, trans. Jacques Dalarun, in: Études Franciscaines n.s. 8:2 (2015). In 2015, this was followed by a more in-depth study of the precise context of the work, its relation with the Vita prima and the Legenda ad usum Chori, as well as by a new critical edition and another French translation. See: Jacques Dalarun (ed.), 'Thome Celanensis Vita beati patris nostri Francisci (Vita brevior). Présentation et édition critique', Analecta Bollandiana 133:1 (2015), 23-86; Jacques Dalarun, La Vie retrouvée de François d'Assise, Sources franciscaines (Paris: Editions Franciscaines, 2015); Jacques Dalarun, Das neuentdecte Franziskusleben des Thomas von Celano, trans. Leonhard Lehmann & Johannes Schneider, Theologie der Spiritualität. Quellen und Studien, 9 (Sankt Ottilien: EOS Verlag, 2016). See also the review in Collectanea Franciscana 85:1-2 (2015), 295-296, Collectanea Franciscana 88 (2018), 408-409, and the 2016 collective volume Tommaso da Celano agiografo di San Francesco.

literature

Endless[see also under Vitae et miraculae] Here is just presented a selection:
Wadding, Scriptores, 215; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806, 672-674; Sbaralea, Supplementum III, 121-124; Bibliotheca Sanctorum XII, 567-573; Z. Lazzeri, ‘Le leggende di S. Chiarae il loro autore’, Studi Francescani (1916-1920), 209-224; P. Hoonhout, Het Latijn van Thomas van Celano (Amsterdam, 1947); S. Spirito, Il Francescanesimo di fra Tomasso da Celano (Rome, 1963); G. Odoardi, ‘La Patria di Tommaso da Celano’, Miscellanea Francescana 68 (1968), 344-369; Lawrence Damian Isabell, The Practice and Meaning of Confession in the Primitive Franciscan Community according to the Writings of Saint Francis of Assisi and Thomas of Celano (Assisi, 1973); Georges Mailleux, Thesaurus Celanensis, Vita prima, Legenda ad usum chori, Vita secunda, Tractatus de miraculis, Legenda sanctae Clarae virginis, concordance, index listes de fréquence, tables comparatives, Corpus des sources franciscaines, 1 (Louvain, 1974); A. Quaglia, ‘La regola francescana. Convergenze e divergenze in Celano, fra Giuliano da Spira e san Bonaventura', Miscellanea Francescana 82 (1982), 471-479; Tommaso da Celano e la sua opera di biografo di s. Francescno. Atti del convegno di studio: Celano, 29-30 novembre 1982 (Celano, 1985) [Conference acts with important contributions by Raoul Manselli and Edith Pasztor]; Catholicisme XIV, 1208-9; DSpir XV, 792-794; E. Grau,‘Thomas von Celano. Leben und Werk’, Wissenschaft & Weisheit 52 (1989), 97-140; E. Pasztor, `La fraternità di Francesco e Tommaso da Celano', in: I compagni di Francesco e la prima generazione minoritica (1992), 81-108; Willibrord-Christian van Dijk, ‘Une traduction française du XVe siècle de la vie de Sainte Claire de Thomas de Celano’, Laurentianum 36 (1995), 3-18; Frate Tommaso dfa Celano, storico e santo. Atti del convegno tenutosi nel convento di San Francesco nei giorni 6-7 agosto 1994, ed N. Petrone (Tagliacozzo, 1995); G. Barone, LMA 8 (1996), 714-5; J. Dalarun, La malavventura di Francesco d'Assisi. Per un uso storico delle leggende francescane (Assisi, 1996), esp. Ch. III & IV; N. Kuster, ‘Thomas von Celano und Klaras Armut in San Damiano. Beitrag zu einer Neuinterpretation der beiden Franziskanusviten und zu Diskussion über den Verfasser der Klaralegende’, Wissenschaft und Weisheit 59 (1996), 45-80; E. Wenneker,‘Thomas von Celano, Franziskanermönch und Historiker’, in: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon XI, 1379-1382; Roberto Paciocco & Felice Accrocca, La leggenda di un santo di nome Francesco. Tommaso da Celano e la Vita beati Francisci, Edizione Biblioteca Francescana Tau 9 (Milan, 1999) [focus on Thomas of Celano’s works and on several other 13th century saints’ lives on Francis. Cf. review in Wissenschaft und Weisheit 63 (2000), 145-149]; Marcos Weaver, ‘Tomás de Celano propone la virtud a los que exigen milagros’, Misc. Franc. 100 (2000), 215-235; Jacques Paul, ‘The image of St. Francis in the Treatise on the Miracles by Thomas of Celano’, Greyfriars Review 14 (2000), 257-276; Justin Lang, ‘Thomas v. Celano’, in: Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche ³ IX, 1526s; Daris Schiopetto, Interpretazione e attualizzazione della “norma vitae” nel “Memoriale in desiderio animae” di Tommaso da Celano, Centro Studi Antoniani, “Varia” (Padova, Centro Studi Antoniani, 2000). Cf review by F. Accrocca in Collectanea Franciscana 71 (2001), 213-215; Timothy J. Johnson, ‘Lost in sacred space: textual hermeneutics, liturgical worship, and Celano’s Legenda ad usum chori’, Franciscan Studies 59 (2001), 109-131; John Patrick Anselm Bequette, Constructing an image of St. Francis: A rhetorical investigation of Thomas Celano’s ‘Vita Prima Sancti Francisci, PhD. Diss. (Saint Louis University: University Divinity School and Dept. of Theological Studies, 2001); Sean Kinsella, ‘Athanasius’ life of Antony as monastic paradigm for the first life of St. Francis by Thomas of Celano: a preliminary outline’, Antonianum 77:3 (2002), 541-556; Thomas Renna, ‘St.Francis as prophet in Celano and Bonaventure’, Michigan Academician 33:4 (2002), 321-332; Sean Kinsella, “The Lord give you peace’: the preaching of peace in the writings and early lives of St. Francis of Assisi’, Mediaevistik 16 (2003), 51-99; Felice Accrocca, ‘Due diverse redazioni del Memoriale in desiderio animae di Tommaso da Celano? Una discussione da riprendere’,Collectanea Franciscana 74:1-2(2004), 5-22 (discusses two extant MSS of Celano’s Vita Secunda, arguing for a new study and a new edition of the text; this essay was also published in Idem, Sulla via di Francesco: saggi e discussioni sugli scritti e le agiografie francescani (Spoleto, 2017), 41-58); F. Accrocca, ‘La Vita beati Francisci di Tommaso da Celano. Un’opera elevata e complessa’, Frate Francesco n.s. 70/2 (2004), 485-505; John Bequette, The Eloquence of Sanctity: Rhetoric in Thomas of Celano's Vita Prima Sancti Francisci (St. Bonaventure NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2004); Oktavian Schmucki, ‘Thomas von Celano’, Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 4^thed. VIII, 376f; Beato Tommaso da Celano, biografo di s. Francesco. Documenti e Testimonianze (Tagliacozzo: Convento dei Conventuali, 2005); Tommaso da Celano nelle fonti medievali dei secoli XIII-XV. Atti del Convegno, Tagiacozzo 4 ottobre 2005 (Taglacozzo: Convento dei Conventuali, 2005); Maria Teresa Dolso, ‘Note a margine di Francesco d’Assisi e il paradosso della minoritas. La Vita beati Francisci di Tommaso da Celano’, Cristianesimo nella storia, 26:3 (2005), 683-696; Donald Patten, Biblical Typology in Thomas of Celano’s ‘Vita S. Francisci’, Diss. (Saint Louis University, Univ. Divinity School and Dep. of Theological Studies, 2005); Raimondo Michetti, Francesco d’Assisi e il paradosso della minoritas, Cortona Francescana, 2 (Cortona, Academia Etrusca, 2005). Also published as: Raimondo Michetti, Francesco d’Assisi e il paradosso della minoritas. La Vita beati Francisci di Tommaso da Celano, Nuovi Studi Storici, 66 (Rome: Ist. Stor. Ital. Peril Medio Evo, 2004) [cf. review in Il Santo 46/1-2 (2006), 285-287; Collectanea Franciscana 76,1-2 (2006), 310-316; Revue Mabillon 17 (2006), 271-272]; Felice Accrocca, ‘Le due redazioni del ‘Memoriale nel desiderio dell’anima’ di Tommaso da Celano’, Frate Francesco 72 (2006), 153-186l Felice Accrocca, ‘Francesco d’Assisi e il paradosso della ‘minoritas’. La ‘Vita beati Francisci’ di Tommaso da Celano’, Frate Francesco 72 (2006), 331-361; André Vauchez, ‘François d’Assise marchand et chevalier chez Thomas de Celano’, in: ‘Ubi neque aerugo neque tinea demolitur’. Studi in onore di Luigi Pellegrini per i suoi settanta anni, ed. Maria Grazia Del Fuoco (Naples: Liguori Editore, 2006), 781-795; Jacques Dalarun, ‘Tommaso da Celano autore della questione francescana’, Frate Francesco 72 (2006), 13-27; André Vauchez, ‘Thomas de Celano et saint François: à propos d'un ouvrage récent. Une réhabilitation: Thomas de Celano, premier interprète de saint François et du projet franciscain’, Revue Mabillon 17 (2006), 267-271; Marco Guida, ‘La pericope clariano-damianita di ‘Vita beati Francisci’ VIII, 18-20: un’aggiunta all’opera di Tommaso da Celano?’, Collectanea Franciscana 77:1-2 (2007), 5-26; Repertorium fontium historiae medii aevi primum ab Augusto Potthast digestum, nunc cura collegii historicum e pluribus nationibus emendatum et auctum, 11 Vols (Rome: Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, 1962-2007) IX, 3-4, 176-180; J.A. Wayne Hellmann, ‘Prayer in the ‘Life of Saint Francis’ by Thomas de Celano’, in: Franciscans at Prayer, 63-91; Felice Accrocca, ‘Francesco forma dei Minori. Il ‘Memoriale’ di Tommaso, scrigno prezioso’, Frate Francesco 73 (Rome, 2007), 239-275; Felice Accrocca, ‘I ‘miracoli’ del beato Francesco’, ovvero la forza narrativa di Tommaso’, Frate Francesco 73 (Rome, 2007), 557-590; Jacques Dalarun, Vers une résolution de la question franciscaine. La Légende ombrienne de Thomas de Celano (Paris: ed. Fayard, 2007) [Review in AFH 100 (2007), 561-564; Collectanea Franciscana 78 (2008), 364-369; Annales ESG 63 (2008), 183-185; Franciscan Studies 66 (2008), 479-510]; Wolfgang Bretschneider, ‘Bewundert-verstoßen-wiederentdeckt: Die Sequenz ‘Dies irae’. Ein musiktheologischer Beitrag’, in: Bibel und Kirche 63 (2008), 233-237; Timothy J. Johnson, ‘Wonders in Stone and Space: Theological Dimensions of the Miracle Accounts in Celano and Bonaventure’, Franciscan Studies 67 (2009), 71-90; Paul Bösch, ‘Der erste Aufenthalt auf La Verna in der ‘Vita beati Francisci’ des Thomas von Celano’, Wissenschaft & Weisheit 72 (2009), 18-54; Franziskus-Quellen. Die Schriften des Heiligen Franziskus, Lebensbeschreibungen, Chroniken und Zeugnisse über ihn und seinen Orden, ed. Dieter Berg, Leonhard Lehmann et al., Zeugnisse des 13. und 14. Jahrhunderts zur Franziskanischen Bewegung, Band 1 (Kevelaer: Butzon & Bercker, Ed. T. Coelde, 2009), notably: J.-B. Freyer, ‘Einleitung in die Trilogie des Thomas von Celano’, 187-194; J.-B. Freyer, ‘1. Lebensbeschreibung (Vita) Celanos, 2. Vita oder Memoriale des Thomas von Celano, 3. Das Mirakelbuch’, 195-486; L. Lehmann, ‘Chorlegende des Thomas von Celano’, 487-495; Silvia Romanelli, ‘Sequela, imitatio e confirmitas’ nell’opera di Tommaso da Celano’, Franciscana 11 (2009), 49-94; Paul Bösch, ‘Redaktionsgeschichtliche Beobachtungen zum Bericht über die Wundmale in der ‘Vita beati Francisci’ des Thomas von Celano’, Laurentianum 50 (2009), 111-150; Jacques Dalarun, Oltre la questione francescana: la leggenda nascosta di san Francesco (la ‘Leggenda umbra’ di Tommaso da Celano), Fonti e ricerche, 21 (Padua: Editrici francescane, 2009; Fernando Uribe, Introducción a las hagiografías de san Francesco y santa Clara de Asís (siglos XIII y XIV), Publicaciones Instituto Teológico de Murcia. Serie Mayor, 30 (Murcia: Instituto Teológico Franciscano-Editorial Espigas, 2010). Review in CF 81:1-2 (2011), 380-382; Timothy J. Johnson, ‘Meraviglie di pietre e spazi. La dimensione teologica delle narrazioni sui miracoli in Tommaso da Celano e Bonaventura da Bagnoregio’, in: Paradoxien der Legitimation: Ergebnisse einer deutsch-italienisch-französischen Villa Vigoni-Konferenz, ed. Cécile Caby, Gert Melville, Annette Kehnel & Cristina Andenna (Florence: SISMEL, 2010), 479-496; Felice Accrocca & Teofilo Domenichelli, ‘Tommaso da Celano e l’Archivum Franciscanum Historicum’, AFH 104 (2011), 183-226; Alberto Torra, ‘El titulado ‘Liber de Penis infernalibus’ en un manuscrito de la ‘Vita Prior’ de T. de Celano’, Estudios Franciscanos 112 (2011), 261-282; Achim Wesjohann, Mendikantische Gründungserzählungen im 13. und 14. Jahrhundert: Mythen als Element institutioneller Eigengeschichtsschreibung der mittelalterlichen Franziskaner, Dominikaner und Augustiner-Eremiten, Vita Regularis. Ordnungen und Deutungen religiosen Lebens im Mittelalter, Abhandlungen, 49 (Münster: LIT Verlag, 2012), 66-75; J.A. Wayne Hellmann, ‘A Theology of Preaching – A Theology of Transformation. The Life of St. Francis by Thomas of Celano’, in: Franciscans and Preaching. Every Miracle from the Beginning of the World Came about through Words, ed. Timothy Johnson, The Medieval Franciscans, 7 (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2012), 59-69; Daniele Solvi, 'Il Memoriale di Tommaso da Celano: due redazioni per un’unica opera?', Frate Francesco 78 (2012), 509-521; Felice Accrocca, Un santo di carta. Le fonti biografiche di san Francesco d’Assisi, Biblioteca di Frate Francesco, 13 (Rome-Milan: Centro Culturale Aracoeli-Biblioteca Francescana, 2013); Felice Accrocca, ‘‘Di statura mediocre, piuttosto piccola’. Il Francesco narrato da Tommaso da Celano’, Miscellanea Francescana 114 (2014), 54-72; Marco Guida, ‘La Legenda sanctae Clarae virginis di Tommaso da Celano’, in: Francesco e Chiara d'Assisi: percorsi di ricerca sulle fonti: atti delle giornate di studio Edizioni e traduzioni: Milano, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 28 ottobre 2011, Roma, Pontificia Università Antonianum, 9 marzo 2012 (Padua, 2014), 319-362; John W. Coakley, ‘The Conversion of St. Francis and the Writing of Christian Biography, 1228-1263’, Franciscan Studies 72 (2014), 27-71; Jacques Dalarun, La Vie retrouvée de François d'Assise, Sources franciscaines (Paris: Editions Franciscaines, 2015); Jacques Dalarun, ‘Tommaso da Celano: la Vita del beato padre nostro Francesco’, Frate Francesco 133 (2015), 289-386; F. Sedda, ‘La “malavventura” di Tommaso da Celano dal medioevo all’alba del XXI secolo’, in: Tommaso da Celano agiografo di san Francesco. Atti del Convegno Internazionale, Roma, 29 gennaio 2016, ed. E. Kumka (Rome, 2016), 11-45. The volume Tommaso da Celano agiografo di San Francesco as a whole is of course important. Cf. review in CF 87:1-2 (2017), 345-347; Jacques Dalarun, ‘The Rediscovered Manuscript A Story of Friendship’, Franciscan Studies 74 (2016), 231-238; Sean Field, ‘New Light on the 1230s: History, Hagiography, and Thomas of Celano’s The Life of Our Blessed Father Francis’, Franciscan Studies 74 (2016), 239-247; Timothy Johnson, ‘In the Workshop of a Theologian. The Life of Our Blessed Father Francis by Thomas of Celano’, Franciscan Studies 74 (2016), 249-262; Johannes Schneider, 'Ein neuer Franziskus!? Das neuentdeckte Franziskus-Leben des Thomas von Celano', Wissenschaft und Weisheit 79 (2016), 209-228; Edith Feistner, 'Der Laie Franziskus im Vergleich zum Kleriker Dominikus. Ordensgründerlegenden und Ordensidentität von Thomas von Celano bis Jacobus de Voragine', Wissenschaft und Weisheit 79 (2016), 101-117; Jacques Dalarun, Das neuentdeckte Franziskusleben des Thomas von Celano, trans. Leonhard Lehmann & Johannes Schneider, Theologie der Spiritualität. Quellen und Studien, 9 (Sankt Ottilien: EOS Verlag, 2016). Review in Collectanea Franciscana 88:1-2 (2018), 408; Jacques Dalarun, 'Pour poursuivre le dialogue sur la “Vie retrouvée” de Thomas de Celano', Collectanea Franciscana 86:3-4 (2016), 759-763; Paul Bösch, 'Die Vita brevior und drei verslegenden als Spiegel verschollener Franziskus-viten', Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 110:1-2 (2017), 125-194; Joshua C. Benson, 'Reflections on Memory in Thomas of Celano's Vita Prima', in: Ordo et Sanctitas: The Franciscan Spiritual Journey in Theology and Hagiography. Essays in Honor of J. A. Wayne Hellmann, O.F.M. Conv., ed. Michael F. Cusato, Timothy J. Johnson & Steven J. McMichael, The Medieval Franciscan, 15 (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2017), 11-31; Jacques Dalarun, 'The New Francis in the Rediscovered Life (Vita brevior) of Thomas of Celano', in: Ordo et Sanctitas: The Franciscan Spiritual Journey in Theology and Hagiography. Essays in Honor of J. A. Wayne Hellmann, O.F.M. Conv., ed. Michael F. Cusato, Timothy J. Johnson & Steven J. McMichael, The Medieval Franciscan, 15 (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2017), 32-46; Felice Accrocca, 'Tommaso da Celano e la testimonianza dei compagni di Francesco', in: Idem, Sulla via di Francesco: saggi e discussioni sugli scritti e le agiografie francescani (Spoleto, 2017), 59-68 [Check also other essays in this volume on the writings of Celano and modern critical engagements with them]; Michael F. Cusato, 'Mercy Evanescent: Thomas of Celano's Rewrite of the Encounter of Francis with the Leper (2 Celano 9)', in: Ordo et Sanctitas: The Franciscan Spiritual Journey in Theology and Hagiography. Essays in Honor of J. A. Wayne Hellmann, O.F.M. Conv., ed. Michael F. Cusato, Timothy J. Johnson & Steven J. McMichael, The Medieval Franciscans, 15 (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2017), 66-89; Paul Bösch, ‘Die Vita brevior des Franziskus von Assisi und ihre entfernten Verwandten’, Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 111:1-2 (Jan.-June 2018), 3-32; Gustavo da Silva Gonçalves, 'Tempo, histórica e a construção da santidade de Francisco de Assis em um recente documento: A 'Vita Beati Patris Nostri Francisci', de Tomás de Celano', Revista Cantareira 28 (2018), 138-149; François Delmas-Goyon, Nouveaux Regards sur la 'question franciscaine', Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 111 (2018), 317-364; Stephen Jaeger, 'The Saint's Life as a Charismatic Form: Bernard of Clairvaux and Francis of Assisi', in: Faces of Charisma: Image, Text, Object in Byzantium and the Medieval West, ed. Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak & Martha Dana Rust, Explorations in Medieval Culture, 9 (Leiden: Brill, 2018), 181-204; Nunzio Bianchi, 'La Finalis conclusio di Tommaso da Celano. Motivi e modelli classici nell'epilogo del Tractatus de miraculis', Franciscana. Bollettino della Società internazionale di studi francescani 22 (2020), 57-98.

Thomas de Charmes (Thomas de Charmes, d. 1765)

OFMCap. French (Lotharingian) friar from Charmes on the Moselle (Vosges). Issued in six and later again in seven volumes a Theologia universa ad usum sacrae theologiae candidatorum, dedicated to Pope Benedict XIV.

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Theologia universa ad usum sacrae theologiae candidatorum, 6 Vols. (1750); Theologia universa ad usum sacrae theologiae candidatorum, 7 Vols. (1755/1760). Venetian and Augsburg editions were issued as well.

Theologia redacta in compendium per interrogata et responsa ad usum examinandorum (1755/1760).

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Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorirono nel francescano istituto (...) (Venice: G.B. Merlo, 1846), 812; Enciclopedia ecclesiastica in cui trattasi della Sacra Scrittura, della dogmatica, morale, ascetismo, passioni, vizii, virtu', diritto canonico, liturgia, riti, storia ecclesiastica, missioni, concilii (...) VII (Venice, 1862), 245-246; Lexicon Cap., 1696.

Thomas de Cori (Tommaso da Cori, 1655-1729)

OFM. Italian Observant friar. Member of the provincia romana.

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La vita dei frati nel Ritiro secondo il B.Tommaso da Cori: Studio critico del testo autografo delle sue ordinazioni per i Retiri, ed. Umberto Vittorio Buttarelli (Assisi: Porziuncola, 1996).

Lettere inedite del B. Tommaso da Cori dei frati minori (1655-1729), ed. Umberto Vittorio Buttarelli (Assisi, 1993).

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U. Butarelli, ‘Ritrovati autografi di lettere di San Tommaso da Cori (1655-1729)’, Frate Francesco 65,2 (1999).

Thomas de Frigano (Frignano, d. 1381)

OM. Italian friar. In 1349 he was among the electors of the provincial minister of Bologna. Probably custos of Ferrara. Regent lector at the convent of Bologna when elected provincial minister in 1354. Once more elected in 1360. Minister general in 1367. Shortly thereafter deposed after complaints. Rehabilitated by a commission installed by Urban V. Career again on the upswing after 1370: Patriarch of Grado in 1372, Cardinal in 1378. Juan de San Antonio and Sbaralea attribute to him several works. For a more detailed biography, see Cl. Schmitt, ‘Frignano’, DHGE XIX, 99-100.

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Opera Varia:?

De providentia:? Apparently in the Vatican Library. Check Bibliotheca Bibliothecarum Manuscriptorum, ed. B. de Montfaucon, Vol. 1 (Paris, 1789), 139a.

Commentarii Theologici:?

Conciones:?

Actus Examinis Canonizationis S. Birgittae Viduae. A letter of approbation of the rule of Brigitta of Sweden: MS Venice, Marciana. See: AASS Oct. IV, 535ff. & Bibliotheca manuscripta ad S. Marci Venetiarum, ed. J. Valentinelli, Vol. 2 (Venice, 1869), 204-205.

Constitutiones Synodales (constitutions for the archdiocese of Grado), edited in: Mansi, XXXI-A (Gratz, 1961), col. 289-368.

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Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 120; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1936) III, 127b-128a; G. Tondini, Delle memorie istoriche concernenti la vita del cardinale Tommaso da Frignano (Macerata, 1782); AFH 2 (1909), 202, 204, 211, 214; AFH 3 (1910), 563, 573, 706; AFH 4 (1911), 346, 523; A. Callebaut, ‘Thomas deFrignano, ministre général, et ses défenseurs: Pétrarque, Philippe de Cabassole et Philippe de Maizières, vers 1369-1370’, AFH 10 (1917), 239-249); B. Pergamo, ‘I Francescani alla Facoltà Teologica di Bologna’, AFH 27 (1934), 9-10; G. Pistoni, ‘Un Modenese amico del Petrarca, il cardinale Tommaso Frignani, con lettera inedita di Coluccio Salutati’, Atti e memorie della Accademia di scienze, lettere e arti di Modena 12 (1954); G. Mollat, ‘Thomas de Frignano et la diplomatie pontificale’, AFH 55(1962), 521-523; U. Betti, I Cardinali dell’Ordine dei Frati Minori (Rome, 1963), 43-44; Cl. Schmitt, ‘Frignano’, DHGE XIX, 99-100.

Thomas de Hales (Halesis/Thomas of Hales, fl. ca. 1240)

OM. English Franciscan preacher and poet. Probably born at Hales in Worchestershire. Allegedly studied theology at the University of Paris (if so, he probably would have followed a lectorate program and not a degree program, as older bio-bibliographical resources suggest) and embarked on an impressive preaching career in France and England (His name is mentioned in two letters by Adam Marsh, cf. the edition of J.S. Brewer, in Monumenta Franciscana (London, 1858), 181-185 (n. 75) and 394-396 (n. 227)). For a considerable time, Thomas held positions at the Franciscan London friary, which had close ties with the English crown. Horrall (1986), 296f suggests that Thomas wrote for an aristocratic female religious audience. He composed ‘ad instantiam cuiusdam puelle Deo dicate’ (a Poor Clare?) a song in medieval English (in 26 strophes) on the love of/for God and the vanities of the world, entitled the Luue Ron. He also is mentioned as the author of a Vita Beatae Virginis (which received a middle English translation as The Lyf of Oure Lady). In addition, Thomas would have compiled several rather meditative sermons. Only one of these, an anglo-norman text, seems to have survived.

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Luue-Ron (Love Song, composed between 1252-1272): MS Oxford, Jesus College 29. The text has been edited four times, namely as The Luue-Ron, ed. R. Morris, in: Old English Miscellany (Oxford, 1872), 93-99, as Luue Ron, in: English Lyrics of the Thirteenth Century, ed. Carleton Brown (Oxford, 1932), 68-74 (no. 43), as The Luue-Ron, in: Early Middle English Texts, ed. B. Dickens & R.H. Wilson (Cambridge, 1952), 104-109, and again in Moral Love Songs and Laments, ed. Susanna Greer Fein (1998), an edition that is accessible on the url http://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/fein-moral-love-songs-and-laments-thomas-hales-love-rune [The poem hails Christ the saviour as the model of authentic and perfect love. It also contrasts the love of Christ with the famous fatal passions of mythological figures, like Paris and Helena, and Tristan and Isolde. The earthly love of the latter is vain, precarious, and passing (emphasised with an ubi sunt-approach, signalling that all these lovers have returned to the clay from which they were formed) whereas Christ is the model of authentic love: ‘Mayde, if thu wilnest after leof mon/ ich techne enne treowe king./ Aswete, if thu inowe/ the gode thewes of thisse childe,/ he is feyr & bryhton hoewe,/ of glese chere, of mode mydle,/ of lufsum lost, of truste treowe,/ freo of teorte, of wisdom wilde,/ ne thurhte the neuer rewe,/ mythe studo the in his ylde.’ vv. 87-96 (Maiden, if you long for a lover/ Teach you of one who is a true king./ Ah, sweet, if you but knew/ the good strengths of this Lord./ He is fair and bright of hue./ of gladsome cheer, of manner mild,/ he is pleasing in love and worthy of trust,/ noble of heart and full of wisdom./ Never would you have to rue/ if you put yourself under his protection.) The poem was possibly made for an aristocratic Poor Clare, maybe a member of the monastry of Northampton. Thomas’ work has a strong emotional appeal.].

Vita Beatae Virginis/ The Lyf of Oure Lady: MSS Cologne, Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln, G.B. Fol. 86; Madrid, Bib. Nac. 8769; MS Oxford, Bodl. Hatton 102; Oxford, Bodleian Rawlinson D. 1236; Schägl 158 [454.a] 67; Oxford, Bodleian Bodley 655; Oxford, Bodleian Add. A. 268; Basel, Universitätsbibliothek B. VIII 1; Basel, Universitätsbibliothek N VI 13; Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek Cod. M.ch. f.109; Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Vind. Pal. 4670; Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College 437; Paris, BN Lat. 18324; Mainz, Stadtbibliothek I 343 f. 109r [‘compilata a Fratre Thoma de halis anglico ordinis fratrum minorum’]; Graz, Universitätsbibl. Cod. Gracensis 241; London, Gray’s Inn 12; Marmoutier, ?. The translation and the Latin text have been edited by Sarah M. Horrall, in: Idem, The Lyf of Oure Lady: The ME Translation of Thomas of Hales’ Vita Sancte Marie, Middle English Texts 17 (Heidelberg, 1985) [The work has survived in at least 16 manuscripts. Two others have been lost. Sarah Horrall (1986) has indicated that the manuscripts of this work were transmitted through religious houses (esp. Franciscans, Dominicans, Carthusians, Benedictines, Cistercians and Regular Canons. Thomas’ Vita is very encyclopaedical and compiles passages from no less than 47 different sources by at least 27 different writers. At the same time, the text exhibits a very emotional appeal, stressing emotional responses to religious events. Horrall (1986), 296 suggests that ‘Thomas is in fact writing almost exactly the same kind of work as the slightly later and enormously influential Meditationes vitae Christi…’]

The one surviving anglo-norman meditative sermon ‘Secundum Fratrem Thomam a Hales’: MS Oxford, St. John’s College 190, has been edited by M. Dominica Legge, ‘The Anglo-Norman Sermon of Thomas of Hales’, Modern Language Review 30 (1935), 212-218.

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Fabricius, IV, 235; Wadding, Scriptores, 216; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 121; Sbaralea, Supplementum III, 129-130; DHGE XXIII, 135-136; DSpir XV, 816-817; Victorin Doucet, ‘Maitres franciscains de Paris: Supplément au Répertoire (…) de P. Glorieux’, AFH 27 (1934), 536-537; Betty Hill, ‘The Luve Ron and Thomas de Hales’, Modern Language Review 59 (1964), 321-330; G. d’Angelo, ‘Poesia francescana inglese prima di Geoffrey Chaucer’, AFH 75 (1982), 338-341 & Franciscan Studies 43 (1983), 235-239; James W. Earl, ‘The ‘Luue-Ron’ of Thomas of Hales’, in: Magister Regis. Studies in Honor of Robert Earl Kaske, ed. Emerson Brown Jr., Giuseppe F. Mazzotta, Thomas D. Hill, Joseph S. Wittig & Arthur Groos (New York, 1986), 195-205; Ian Bishop, ‘Lapidary formulas as topics of invention - from Thomas of Hales to Henryson’, The Review of English Studies N.S. 37 (1986), 469-477; S.M. Horrall, ‘Thomas of Hales. His Life and Works’, Traditio 42 (1986), 286-298; Elaine Golden Robison, ‘Thomas of Hales’, Dictionary of The Middle Ages XII (1989), 35; Sharpe, Handlist, 659; Thomas J. O'Donnell, 'Thomas of Hales, English Franciscan, poet, and scholar, fl. 1250s', in: International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages-Online. A Supplement to LexMA-Online (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2006), in Brepolis Medieval Encyclopaedias

Thomas de Herenthals (Thomas van Herentals, d. 1530)

OFM. Belgian friar. Probably born at Herenthals in Belgian Brabant, ca. 1480. After his entrance in the Franciscan order (provincia Flandriae), he became active as guardian and theology lector in the Franciscan friary of Ypres. In addition, he became a rather successful preacher and religious educator of the local youth. On the Sunday after New Year’s day 1519 (1520 according to the new calendar), Thomas preached at the St. Martin church in Ypres (he might have preached there at regular intervals). On that particular occasion, he warned against the dangers of Luther’s doctrines. Therewith, Thomas was one of the first public critics of Luther. Thomas died in the Herenthal convent on 29 December 1530, after a long illness. The ancient Liber defunctorum Fratrum ac benefactorum Conventus Iprensis says in this context: ‘Die 29 Decembris 1530, obitus piae memoriae venerabilis Patris fratris Thomae de Herentals, Sacerdos, Praedicator, Confessarius, huius conventus quondam Guardianus ac etiam Juvenum director sollicitus, qui tandem Lector existens in hoc conventu in medio vitae suae cursu languore diutino extenuatus diem clausit extremum, sepultus vero ante capitulum sub lampade quadrato. Anno 1530.’ [the original obituary was lost during the first world war. A nineteenth-century copy stil exists in the archives of the Franciscan friary of St. Trond. Cf. for this the studies of De Troeyer, 1963, 30, no. 1 & Vandenpeereboom, 1882, 243-245, from which studies I derived my citation.] He was a significant spiritual and catechetical author, famous for his Den Speghel des Kersten Levens, which consists of three texts, namely Tverclaers van den X geboden (finished on 29 July, 1529), een Cort verclaers op dat Pater noster, and Dat verklaers van den seven sacramenten (finished on 10 September, 1530). Thomas had meant to publish these texts and to have them distributed widely among families and schools, in order to establish proper catechistic instruction, so that heresies, ignorance and false beliefs could be battled effectively. He died before this plan could be realised. After his death, the treatises were edited and published together for him by Frans Titelmans as Den Speghel des Kersten Levens (1532).

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Den Speghel des Kersten Levens. Beslutende tverclaers vanden thien gheboden gods ende vanden .vij. sacramenten der heleger kercken, also verre alst den ghemeenen kerstenen noot est te ghelooven ende profijt te weten om metten ghewercken te beleven, ed. F. Titelmans (Antwerp: Simon Cock, 1532). [Den Speghel received ten editions between 1532 and 1569. It is a proper Catechism for adults, providing an exposition of the ten articles of faith, the Pater Noster, and the seven sacraments. It is clearly also written to provide the christian populace at large with an antidote against Lutheran ideas. The prologue therefore states: ‘Ende es dit selve boecxken leerende wat een yeghelijc goet kersten mensche behoort te weten nopende de geboden gods ende de .vij. sacramenten der heleger kercken ende hoe dat hi naard bewijs van dyen kerstelijc leven sal, alsoot van god ende van ons moeder de helege kercke elckerlijc geleert ende bevolen es…’ In its first edition, it contains (after a commendatio by Titelmans and the prologue by Thomas) Een cort onderwijs omtrent den Gods thien geboden; een seer cort verclaers op dat Pater noster; een cort verclaers van den seven sacramenten. The first part is not as short as the title does suggest. After a rather thorough chapter on the nature and the importance of the ten commandments (with recourse to the biblical theme ‘si vis ad vitam ingredi, serva mandata’ (Matthew 19, 17), a general chapter on the obligations imposed by the precepts of the ten commandments (chapter two, heavily indebted to Bonaventure’s sermon De Praeceptis), a chapter on the lack of adherence to the commandments (which is presented not simply as a danger to our soul, but also is presented as a lack of love, a lack of thankfulness and a sin in itself), and a chapter on the way in which christians should every day engage in prayer exercises, in order to reach a state of grace and purgation, Thomas moves on to a treatment of the individual commandments (always dealing with three main points: ‘Deerste puntken sal segghen wat elck ghebot es. Tweetste wat dat ghebot ons es eeschende ende water toe dattet ons verbindt. Tderde in wat manieren van sonden wi daer teghen misdoen.’). The seer cort verclaers op dat Pater noster is attached to the treatment of the tenth commandment, and is seen to be a natural extension of the commandments, namely as Christ’s commandment to pray. The intrinsic link between the Pater Noster and the Ten Commandments also shows in the fact that the subsequent treatment of the seven sacraments is presented as the second (and not the third) part of the work: ‘Hier volcht dat tweetste deel van dit speghel oft hantboecxken des kerstelijcke levens. Te weten een cort verklaers vanden seven sacramenten der helegher kercken.’ The sacraments are presented as the instruments of man’s sanctification. Thomas starts with a general chapter on the nature and institution of the sacraments, which reaches back to the sacramental teachings of Bonaventure, Scotus and Gabriel Biel. For each and every sacrament Thomas subsequently deals with its signification for our Christian life, its salutary sanctifying effects, and the way in which (or proper conditions under which) it should be received. The sacraments of baptism, eucharist, marriage, and (particularly) penitence receive most attention (predominantly based on Biel and (to a lesser extent) on Bonaventure). Through the sacrament of penitence, Christ forgives us our frequent lapses and acts of ingratitude, and reconciles our soul with God. The chapter on the sacrament of ordination (‘Tpriesterschip’) stresses the intercessory role of priests and their special status in this world: they alone can offer the eucharist and have the sacramental power to absolve sins (important issues in the struggle with the Lutherans). For the third edition (Antwerp, 1533), Titelmans also added a more detailed table of contents. This edition also included another work by Herentals, namely the Thien artikelen nopende tghemeyne heylige kersten gheloove, as well as an explanatory word list by Titelmans (Declaratie von sommige woorden in dit boecxken). This explantory word list also includes a defense of Thomas’ interpretation of the story of Moses getting water from the rocks). The first of these works is a genuine work of Thomas based on his sermons in the St. Martin's church of Ypres in 1519/20 (1520 according to te modern style). This work would have been published as early as 1520, and is a clear Catholic declaration of faith, with clear information on the sacraments, free will, and the merits of good works, directed against Luther (who is not mentioned by name). This would make it the first published statement of Catholic doctrine in the face of Lutheranism. Yet the version included in the 1533 edition of Den Speghel seems to be the oldest surviving witness.

Corte declaracie van den thien gheboden & Thien artikelen nopende tghemeyne heylige kersten gheloove. In the prologue of the Den Speghel des Kersten Levens Thomas Herentals also refers to another work, namely the Corte declaracie van den thien gheboden. This Corte declaracie had been printed at Bruges without Thomas’ consent (sonder syn weten uut sinen [that is, Herentals’] sermonen gheraept te brugghe in prenten onder sinnen name uut ghegeven. Waer in hi bevindt vele saken achterghelaten, dier nootsakelijck an behooren, ende vele saken anders ghestelt dant rechtvaerdelijc om simpel menschen te leeren naer ons gheloove wel betaemt, sonderlinghe in tijden als quade valsche leeringen ende ketterijen op risen, als wi nu in onsen tiden sien, god betert.) This text apparently had been in circulation after Thomas’ renowned 1519/1520 sermons on the Ten Commandments at Ypres (which formed the basis of the text) and amount to a short declaration of Catholic faith (with special attention for the sacraments, the role of free will, and the importance of good works), clearly directed against Lutheran ideas (although Luther’s name is not mentioned). This, then, would be the unautorized version of the work issued with the author's permission as the Thien artikelen nopende tghemeyne heylige kersten gheloove.

Christianae Vitae Speculum F. Thomae Herentalini, Nicolao Zegero Interprete, ed. Nicholas Tacitus Zegers (Antwerp: Simon Cock, 1549 & Cologne: Erven Arnold Birckmann, 1555). [Latin version of Den Speghel des kersten Levens. Available via Google Books.

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Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana III, 121; A. Vandenpeereboom, ‘Les Frères Mineurs Franciscains, leur couvent et leur église à Ypres’, Ypriana 6 (Bruges, 1882), 241-320; A. Troelstra, De toestand der Catechese in Nederland gedurende de vóór-reformatorische eeuw (Groningen, 1901), 50, 61, 70-71, 102, 120, 144, 205-207; J. Goyens, ‘Thomas de Hérenthals’, Biographie nationale (Brussels, 1930) XXV, 34-36; D. van Heel, ‘De Minderbroeder Thomas van Herentals’, Bijdragen voor de Geschiedenis van de provincie der Minderbroeders in de Nederlanden 7 (1951), 75-85; DSpir V, 1386 & DSpir VII, 279; B. De Troeyer, ‘Thomas Herentals’, Franciscana 18 (1963), 30-34; Nationaal Biografisch Woordenboek II, 322-324; B. De Troeyer, Bio-Bibliographia Franciscana Neerlandica Saeculi XVI, I: Pars Biographica (Nieuwkoop, 1969), 47-50; Adriaan Pattin, ‘Thomas de Hérenthals’, Franziskanische Studien 65 (1983), 205-214.

Thomas de Interamna (Tommaso di Terni, d. 1807)

OFMCap. Italian friar and member of the Umbria province. Provincial minister.

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I mezzi più atti per accendere la passione del bene nell'animo del giovane nobile. Opuscolo speculativo-pratico (Florence, 1784).

De scientia Dei, Praedestinatione et Gratia Christi. Dissertatio triplex ad mentem D. Augustini (Sondri, 1780).

Bibliotheca manuale dei Padri della Chiesa, che contienne il Compendio della loro vita, l'analisi delle loro opere, li testimoni più illustri del Domma, dei Costumi, della disciplina, e li più scelti documenti alla vita spirituale, 10 Vols.: MS. Once present in the Capuchin library of Terni. Check also the Biblioteca Comunale di Terni!

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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), 39.