Accacius Gaetanus (Acacio Gaitán, fl. c. 1650)

OFM. Franciscan poet.

literature

AIA 15 (1955), 296; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 118 (no. 335).

Accursius Bonfantini (Accursio Bonfantini, fl. early 14^th cent.)

Franciscan inquisitor, very active against alleged heretics in Tuscany. Praised by John XXII in 1328 and also acknowledged by Benedict XII (1337).

literature

Wadding, Annales VII, 86, 208, 219 (ad an. 1328); A. de Sérent, ‘Accurse Bonfantini’, DHGE I (1912), 273.

Ackard (fl. early 16^th cent.)

Provincial minister of the Provence province and involved with the Observant reform of the Poor Clares of Marseille in 1516. Author?

literature

Wadding, Annales, VIII, 168 (check!)

Adalbert Angermann (fl. c. 1700)

OFM, German friar. Known for his Scotist treatise on the nature of relations.

editions

Aliquid et pene nihil, hoc est, minima relationis entitas ad mentem doctoris subtilis J. D. Scoti clare explicata (Augsbourg, 1708).

Adam Berwickensis (Adam of Berwick, fl. early fourteenth cent.)

English or Scotish friar from the Newcastle custody. Guardian of the Berwick convent. Acted as a negociator for various cardinals and for pope John XXII to establish peace between King Edward II and Robert Bruce of Scotland. Adam was instrumental in obtaining a two-year truce between the fighting parties in 1319. Author?

literature 

Wadding, Annales Minorum VI, 338 (ad ann. 1319). 

Adam Blunt (late thirteenth century)

Scottish friar, guardian of Roxburgensis. Alleged author of several Conciones

editions

?

literature

Sbaralea, Supp., I, 1.

Adam de Bechesoueres (Adam of Hekeshover, fl. mid 13^th cent.)

English friar and specialised in medicine. Known to have treated his fellow friars, students of Oxford, as well as Walter of Merton (the later bishop of Rochester) and Robert Grosseteste (bishop of Lincoln). He appears in the letters of Adam Marsh, for whom Adam brought a request to the Franciscan minister general (then in France). Author?

literature

Adae de Marisco Epistolae, ed. Brewer, Monumenta Franciscana (London, 1858) I, 137, 320, 333, 388, 405; A.G. Little, The Grey Friars in Oxford (Oxford, 1892), 181-187; Hilarin Felder, Geschichte der wissenschaftlichen Studien im Franziskanerorden bis um die Mitte des 13. Jahrhunderts (Freiburg im Breisgau, 1904), 400-412.

Adam de Buckfeldio (Buckfeldius/Adam of Buckfield, ca. 1220-1278/94)

English friar. Oxford master and commentator on the physical and metphysical works of Aristotle

manuscripts

Comm. In Libros Topicorum (mentioned by Wadding).

Comm. in Librum Meteorol.: Bologna, Coll. Hisp. S. Clem. 159 [Piana, Antonianum, 17 (1942), 127]

Comm de Anima: Kraków, Bibl. Jagell. 726 (ca. 1275), ff. 1-44v >> [See Lohr, 320-21, Powell and Sharpe, Handlist, 6]

Comm. super Arist. de Caelo et Mundo>> [See Lohr, 319 & Powell]

Comm. super (Pseudo)Arist. de Differentia Spiritus et Animae [See Lohr, 323 & Powell]: a.o. Lissabon, Bibl. Nacional Alcobaça 382 (13th cent.); Vat. Lat. 5988 ff. 24rb-26rb

Comm. super Arist. de Generatione et Corruptione:MS Oxford, Bodleian Library  Digby 55.[See also Weijers, (2003), Lohr, 319-320 & R.J. Long, `Adam of Buckfield and John of Sackville: some notes on Philadelphia Free Library, MS Lewis European 53' Traditio, 45 (1989-90), 364-367 ]

De Longitudine et Brevitate Vitae: Vat. Lat. 5988 ff. 22ra-24rb (early 14th cent.)>>> [Lohr, 322-3 & Powell]

De Memoria et Reminiscentia:Vat. Lat. 5988 ff. 26rb-29va >> [See Lohr 321-2 & Powell]

Comm. super Arist. De Sensu et Sensato: Vat. Lat. 5988 ff. 34ra-41va>> [See Lohr, 321 & ]

Comm. super Arist. De Morte et Vita:>> [Lohr, 323 & R.J. Long, `Adam of Buckfield and John of Sackville: some notes on Philadelphia Free Library, MS Lewis European 53' Traditio, 45 (1989-90), 364-367]

Comm. super Arist. De Sompno et Vigilia: Vat. Lat. 5988 ff. 41va-47rb>> [Lohr, 323]

Comm. super Arist. De Vegetabilibus: Vat. Lat. 5988 ff. 1ra-20ra>> [Lohr, 323 & R.J. Long, `Adam of Buckfield and John of Sackville: some notes on Philadelphia Free Library, MS Lewis European 53' Traditio, 45 (1989-90), 364-367]

Metaphysica Nova: a.o. Florence, Naz. Conv. Soppr. G.IV.355; Padua, Anton., 416 Scaff. XIX;>> [See Lohr, 318 and Sharpe, Handlist, 7-8]

Comm. super Arist. Metaphysica Vetus:Kraków, Bibl. Jagell. 763 ff. 13-114v>> [Lohr, 318]; Basel Universitätsbibliothek F II 29 ff 122-179 (inc: Consideratio quaedam in veritate…)

Comm. super Arist. Meteora:>> [Lohr, 320]

Notulae super Physicam Arist.:a.o. Oxford, Bodl. Lat. misc. c.69 ff. 1r-55r; Paris, BN, Lat. 16609 ff. 62r-108r; Kraków, Bibl. Jagell. 763 ff. 115-204 >> [See also Lohr, 319 and Sharpe, Handlist, 8, as well as Silvia Donati, `Per lo studio dei commenti alla Fisica del XIII secolo (...)', Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale, 2 (1991), 361-442 & Idem, ‘Il commento alla Fisica di Adamo di Bocfeld e un commento anonimo della sua scuola. Parte I & II’, Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale, 9 (1998), 111-178 & 10 (1999), 233-297]

editions

Comm. de Anima: Edited in Powell, The Life an Writings, 5-232; D.A. Callus, `Two early Oxford masters on the Problem of plurality of forms', Revue néo-scolastique de philosophie, 42 (1940), 41-445 (extracts on pp. 433-438)

De longitudine et Brevitate Vitae: Michael Dunne (ed., trad., comm.), Magistri Petri de Ybernia Expositio et Quaestiones in Aristotelis Librum de Longitudine et Brevitate Vitae (Louvain-la-Neuve - Paris, 1993)

De Somno et Vigilia: Recensio I edited in Doctoris Angelici Divi Thomae Aquinatis Opera Omnia (Paris, 1871-1880), XXIV, 293-310 & S. Thomae Aquinatis Opera Omnia, ed. R. Busa (Stuttgart, 1980), VII, 14-17.

Metaphysica Nova: Partial edition (Book II) by A.Maurer in J.R. O'Donnell, Nine Mediaeval Thinkers (Toronto, 1955), 99-144.

literature

Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1906), 1; M. Grabmann, `Die Aristoteleskommentaren Adam von Bocfeld und Adam von Bouchermerfort', Mittelalterliches Geistesleben (Munich, 1926-56), II, 138-182, 614-616 (174); F. Pelster, `Adam von Bocfeld (Bockingfeld), ein Oxforder Erklärer des Aristoteles um die Mitte des 13. Jahrhunderts', Scholastik, 11 (1936), 196-224; S.H. Thomson, `The works of Magister Adam of Bocfield (Bouchermefort)', Mediaevalia et humanistica, 2 (1944), 55-87; H. Powell, The Life and Writings of Adam of Buckfield, Diss (Oxford, 1964); Lohr, Traditio 23 (1967), 317-323; LMA, I, 106-7; Traditio, 45 (1989-90), 364-7; R.A. Gauthier, in: Sancti Thomae de Aquino Opera Omnia, XLV/2 (Rome-Paris, 1985), 117-121*; R. Plevano, `Two British Masters and the Instant of Change', in: Aristotle in Britain during the Middle Ages, ed. J. Marenbon (Turnhout, 1996), 91-115; Sharpe, Handlist, 6-8; Silvia Donati, `Per lo studio dei commenti alla Fisica del XIII secolo (...)', Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale, 2 (1991), 361-442 & Idem, ‘Il commento alla Fisica di Adamo di Bocfeld e un commento anonimo della sua scuola. Parte I & II’, Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale, 9 (1998), 111-178 & 10 (1999), 233-297; Olga Weijers, ‘La Questio de augmento d’Adam de Bocfeld’, in: Ratio et superstitio,: Essays in Honor of Graziella Federici Vescovini, ed. Giancarlo Marchetti, Orsola Rignani & Valeria Sorge, Textes et études du Moyen Age, 24 (Louvain-la-Neuve, 2003), 243-262.

Adam Bürvenich

>>>

manuscripts

Provincialium Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Almae Provinciae Coloniae (an. 1659): Köln, Stadtsarchiv G.A. 199

Annales seu Chronicon Almae Prov. Coloniae Fratrum Minorum Strict. Observ. (…) (an. 1666): Düsseldorf, Stadtsarchiv Binterim (2°), 2b, Bd. Ib

Adam de Dompmartin (fl. later 14^th cent.)

Parisian friar and the brother of Guillaume de Prato (who later was appointed archbishop of Cambalic in China on March 11^th, 1370). Adam entered the order in the French province. Reached the magisterium theologiae. Was then interrogated (30 September 1375) by other masters of the university regarding a translation of works by Marsilius of Padua. Between 1375 and 1381, he was provincial minister of the French province. On 20 July 1384, pope Clement VII nominated him for the episcopal see of Gubbio (Italy), yet Adam did not take up this position, as this diocese was also granted to Lorenzo Corvini by pope Urban VI. Nevertheless, Adam kept the title of bishop of Gubbio and received from pope Clement VII several privileges (to make up for this failed assignment?). Hence he received on 31 July 1384 papal permission to choose his own confessor and to hear confession from anybody who came to him for that purpose. He also received the power to bestow the doctorate in theology at the upcoming provincial chapter on any Friar Minor, as long as the candidate in question had spent the required time in a theology faculty, had taught the Sentences and was deemed worthy of the title after an examination by him and other Parisian masters of theology (an indirect way of creating additional magistri bullati). On August 4 of that same year, the pope gave him permission to stay in the private room built with alms money by his brother, the archbishop Guillaume, in the Parisian friary. One manuscript of John of Wales’ Collationes in Evangeliam Johannis now kept in the library of Reims was in Adam’s possession (`Hunc emit frater Adam, episcopus Eugubinus, a magistro Johanne Sicardi, ordinis Minorum Avinionensium’ MS Reims, 168>check!)

literature    

Chronica XXIV Generalium (Quaracchi, 1897), 572; Wadding, Annales Minorum VIII, 328, 573 & IX, 61, 410; Valois, Le grand schisme d’Occident II, 130; Eubel, Hierarchia I, 252; Idem, Die Avignonesische Obedienz (Paderborn, 1900), nos. 364, 366, 369; Bibliothèque publique de Reims, Catalogue géneral des Manuscrits dans les bibliothèques publiques xxxviii, 154 (no. 168); CHUP, ed. Denifle & Châtelain, III, 108, 226, 227; Antoine de Sérent, ‘Adam de Dompmartin’, DHGE I, 474.

Adam de Ely (d. after 1346)

Lector in Norwich. Author of a commentary on the Sentences>>>

manuscripts

In III et IV Sent.: MS Troyes, Mun. 1477 (14th c); Florence Naz. Conv. Soppr. A.3.508 (14th cent.) f. 161r-185; Prague Univ. 2357 f. 177-219 [or National Library XIII F.19 ff. 177-219??>check!]

literature

Stegmüller, Sent., 37, 1291; V. Doucet, `Le studium franciscain de Norwich en 1337 d'après le ms. Chigi B.V.66 de la Bibliothèue vaticane', AFH, 46 (1953), 87-98; Sharpe, Handlist, 14

Adam de Exeter (d. ca. 1233)

>>Friar connected with the teachings of Grosseteste>>

manuscripts and editions

De Fluxu et Refluxu Maris, ed. R.C. Dales, `The Text of Robert Grosseteste's Quaestio de Fluxu et Refluxu Maris, with an English Translation', Isis, 57 (1966), 455-474

Le Exposition sur le pater nostre>>

literature

R.W. Southern, Robert Grosseteste. The Growth of an English Mind in Medieval Europe (Oxford, 1986), 122-123; Sharpe, Handlist, 15

Adam de Fermo (Adam da Fermo, fl. second half 13^th cent.)

Italian friar from the March of Ancona. Famous preacher, renowned for his eloquence and his homiletic miracles in the late 1280s. Mariano da Firenze conflates him with Adam Rufus, yet other sources distinguish between  the two. Author?

literature 

Chronica XXIV Generalium in: AF>> (Quaracchi, 1898) 409; Mariano da Firenze, Compendium>>; Wadding, Annales Minorum II, 370 (ad an. 1234) & III, 42 (ad an. 1240); Lemmens, Dialogus de Vitis Santorum Fratrum Minorum (Rome, 1902), 96; Lemmens, Catalogus Sanctorum Fratrum Minorum (Rome, 1903), 19

Adam de Herfordia (Adam of Hereford, fl. mid 13^th cent.)

English friar and esteemed socius of Adam Marsh, who praises him in a latter of 1248. Author?

literature

Adae de Marisco Epistolae, ed. Brewer, Monumenta Franciscana (London, 1858) I, 314 (epistola clxxiv); A.G. Little, The Grey Friars in Oxford (Oxford, 1892), 162; Hilarin Felder, Geschichte der wissenschaftlichen Studien im Franziskanerorden bis um die Mitte des 13. Jahrhunderts (Freiburg im Breisgau, 1904), 380ff.

Adam de Howden (Hoveden, Houden/ d. after 1306)

Mentioned in 1290 and 1293 as a friar of the Oxford friary. By then, or shortly thereafter, he must already have started with his degree studies, for between 1298 and 1300 he is the regent lector in the Franciscan studium generale at Oxford (no. 28). He is one of the 22 friars presented on 26 July 1300 to the bishop by the provincial minister Hugh of Hertepole as candidates for hearing confessions in and around Oxford (and one of the eight candidates thereafter selected by the bishop). Between 1303 and 1306, he is regent lector at Cambridge (no. 29. Not without problems, however:. ‘repugnabat statutis universitatis Cantabrig.’>> He protested with the Dominican friar Nicholas of Dale against university statutes that were hostile to the mendicants, eventually appealing to the pope for help. Adam was temporarily excluded from the university, to be integrated again after a compromise settlement negociated by Cardinal Jorz). Several of his Sermones de tempore & de sanctis have survived.

manuscripts

Sermones: Oxford, New College, 92 (late 13th cent.) f. 82v; Worcester Cathedral Q. 46 (late 13th cent.) ff. 113v-116r-246r-247v, 359r-261v, 307r-308v.

literature

Analecta Franciscana (Quaracchi, 1885) I, 270, 272; A.G. Little, The Grey Friars in Oxford (Oxford, 1892), 162; A.G. Little, ‘The Franciscan School of Oxford’, AFH 19 (1926), 862; Little & Pelster, Materials, 187, 266-267, 372; F.-M. Henquinet, AFH 24 (1931), 234; P. Glorieux, in: Mélanges Auguste Pelzer (Louvain, 1947), 527; Emden, Oxford, II, 976; J.R.H. Moorman, The Grey Friars in Cambridge (Cambridge, 1952), 33, 144, 184; Schneyer, I, 45-46; DHGE XXIV, 1313; Sharpe, Handlist, 17.

Adam de Lincoln (d. ca. 1344)

Taught at Oxford (24^th regent lector around 1290) and is known to have preached there in 1292 and 1293 before the university. Provincial minister of the English province between 1304 and 1310. In 1311, the provincial Synod of York asks him to examine accusations of heresy brought against the Templars. Adam died at Lincoln. Several of his sermons survive.

manuscripts

Sermones: Oxford, New College, 92 (late 13th cent.) f. 63r; Worcester Cathedral Q. 46 (late 13th cent.) ff. 34v-36v, 85r-86v.

literature

Analecta Franciscana (Quaracchi, 1885) I, 264, 270, 274; A.G. Little, The Grey Friars in Oxford (Oxford, 1892), 160; Little & Pelster, Materials, 92; Schneyer, I, 46; Emden, Oxford II, 1149; Sharpe, Handlist, 17

Adam de Warminster (Adam of Warminster, fl. ca. 1270)

English friar. Guardian of the Friars Minor at Oxford. In this quality, he took part in a 1269 university discussion about the reception of money by intermediaries. The Dominicans had accused the Friars Minor to use this device to overcome the prohibitions of handling money in the Franciscan rule. Author?

literature

A.G. Little, The Grey Friars in Oxford (Oxford, 1892), 129, 333-335.

Adam de York (Adam of York, 13th cent)

English friar. Sent to Lyon (ca. 1226/1230) as a lector of theology by the Franciscan minister general Elias of Cortona.

manuscripts/.editions

Lectiones theologicae>> frequently listed among the works of Adam Marsh. See Sharpe, Handlist, 23

literature

AF I, 238, 269; DThCat I, 387;  Sharpe, Handlist, 23

Adam Goddamus (Adam de Vodronio/Adam Woodham/Godham, ca. 1298-1358, Babwell, England)

English theologian and philosopher, and student of Ockham. Born in the neighbourhood of Southampton. Studied for the lectorate at the London friary between 1320 and 1324, and later, between 1325 and 1329, he taught and studied philosophy and theology at the Franciscan studium in Oxford. Ca. 1330 he reached the title of bacc. theologiae. He subsequently became magister theologiae of the Oxford studium generale around 1340, after reading the Sentences pro gradu at the study houses of London (1328-30), Norwich (1332-34) and Oxford (1330-32). His commentary on the Sentences (three redactions), in which he formulated his own position towards Scotus and Ockham, circulated widely (was abbreviated by Henry Totting of Oyta, in 1375 (in Prague). He also wrote a Prologus to Ockham's Summa Logicae (1324/28), and questions concerning the quantity of the continuum. In his Tractatus de Indivisibilibus he argued against the Atomists. In 1339, just around the time he reached the magisterium theologiae, he seems to have visited Basel to sort out some issues regarding the Franciscan mystic Jacques de la Porte.

manuscripts

In I-IV Sent.: For manuscripts of the several surviving redactions, see esp. Doucet, AFH 47 (1954), 93-4 and Sharpe, Handlist, 22-23.We have the following manuscripts: Lectura II, MS Cambridge, Gonville and Caius college 81/674 (14th cent.), ff. 105r-250v; Lectura III, MSS Brugge, Stadsbibl. 172 ff. 1r-26r [Book IV]; Erfurt, Wissenschaftl. Bibl. der Stadt Amplon. F.133 [15th cent.) ff 1r-133v [BookI]; Florence, Naz. Conv. Soppr. B.VII 1279; Paris, Bibl. Maz. 915 (14th cent.) ff. 1r-230v [I-IV]; Paris, BN, Lat. 15892 (14th cent.); Paris, Bibl. Univ. 193 (15th cent.); Vat.Lat. 955 (14th cent.) ff. 1r-208v; Tarragona, Bibl. de la Catedral 7.

Henricus de Oyta, Adae Wodeham Lecturae Sententiarum Versio Abbreviata:Toulouse, Bibl. Municip. 246; Kraków, Bibl. Jagiellonska 1176 ff. 1r-281v; Paris, BN fonds latin 15892 (? Check!); Paris, Bibl. de l’Arsenal 514 (olim 551); Brugge, Stadsbibl. 162; Rouen, Bibl. Municip. 581. 

Quaestiones Variae Phil. Et Theol.:>>Basel Universitätsbibliothek F III 31 ff. 100-107r; British Library, Harley 3243.

Determinationes XI:>>

Defensorium contra Impugnantes Fratrum Admissorum Confessiones:>>[did not survive?]

Tractatus de Indivisibilibus: Florence, Naz., Conv. Soppr. A.III. 508 (14th cent.) ff. 35r-147r; Florence, Naz., Conv. Soppr. B. VII.1249 (14th cent.) ff. 132r-143v

Comm. in Canticum Canticorum>>?

For more information on his quaestiones and manuscript information, see the work of Courtenay

>>to be continued

editions:

Super IV Libros Sententiarum (Paris, 1510); Super Quattuor Libros Sententiarum (Paris, 1512).

Lectura Secunda in Librum Primum Sententiarum, ed. R. Wood & G. Gál, 3 Vols. (St. Bonaventure, New York, 1990)

Lectura Tertia: O. Grassi, `La conoscenza di Dio nel commento alle Sentenze di Adam Wodeham', Medioevo, 8 (1982), 43-136 (89-136) [=Extracts from the Prologue, qq. 1-2 and I, q. 1]; M. Adams & R. Wood, `Is to wil it as bad as to do it?', Franciscan Studies, 41 (1981), 5-60 (35-60) [=IV, q. 10]

Abbreviatio of Adam Wodeham's Lectura Oxoniensis (by Henry of Oyta), (Paris, 1512, ed. Johannes Major).

Tractatus de Indivisibilibus, ed. R. Wood (Dordrecht, 1988)

De Divisione et Compositione Continui contra Chatton, ed. J.E. Murdoch & E.A. Synan, `Two Questions on the Continuum', Franciscan Studies, 26 (1966), 212-288 (267-288). See for a French translation also: Jean Celeyrette & Edmond Mazet, ‘Adam Wodeham. Notice. Question sur la composition du continu’, in: De la théologie aux mathématiques. L’infini au XIVe siècle. Textes choisis et présentés par J. Biard & J. Celeyrette, Sagesses médiévales (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2005), 57-88.

literature:

Wadding, Annales Minorum VI, 344 & VIII, 139; Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1806), 2-3, 327, 723; A.G. Little, The Grey Friars in Oxford (Oxford, 1892), 77, 170, 172-173, 226; Analecta Franciscana I, 271, II,  177 & III, 623, 624, 630, 631, 637; J.E. Murdoch & E. Synan, ‘Two Questions on the Continuum: Walter Chatton and Adam Wodeham OFM’, Franciscan Studies 26 (1966), 212-288; G. Gál, `Adam of Wodeham's Question on the 'Complexe Significabile...' Franciscan Studies 37 (1977), 66-102; W.J. Courtenay, A. Wodeham. An Introduction to his Life and Writings (Leyden, 1978); F. Bottin, La scienza degli occamisti (Rimini, 1982); O. Grassi, Intuizione e significato. Adam Wodeham e il problema della conoscenza nel XIV secolo (Milan, 1986); Rega Wood, `The Wodeham Edition: Adam Wodeham's Lectura Secunda', Franciscan Studies 51 (1991), 103-115; Jan. P. Beckmann, `Adam Wodeham', LThK, 1 (Freiburg etc., 1993), 141; Seeing the Future Clearly. Questions on Future Contingents by Robert Holcot, ed. K.H. Tachau et.al., PIMS Studies & texts 19 (Toronto, 1995), 19-25; E. Karger, `William of Ockham, Walter Chatton and Adam Wodeham on the Objects of Knowledge and Belief', Vivarium 33 (1995), 171-196; Sharpe, Handlist, 22-23; J. Zupko, `How it Played in the Rue de Fouare: The Reception of Adam Wodeham's Theory of the Complexe Significabile in the Arts Faculty at Paris in the Mid-Fourteenth Century', Franciscan Studies 54 (1994-1997), 211-226; Ruedi Imbach, ‘Adamo di Wodeham’, Diz.Enc.Med. I, 18; F. Franco, ‘Adamo di Woodham’, Lexicon. Dizionario dei Teologi, 28.; Gabriel Nuchelmans, ‘Adam Wodeham and meaning of declarative sentence’, in: Idem, Studies on the History of Logic, >>>>; J.P. Beckmann, ‘Ockham, Ockhamismus, und Nominalismus: Spuren der Wirkungsgeschichte des Venerabilis Inceptors’, in: Essays in Honor of Girard Etzkorn, Franciscan Studies 56 (1998), 77-95; Paul J.J.M. Bakker, La raison et le miracle. Les doctrines eucharistiques (c. 1250-c. 1400). Contributions à l’étude des rapports entre philosophie et théologie, 2 Vols. Diss. (Nijmegen, 1999); Martin Lenz, ‘Adam de Wodeham und die Entdeckung des Sachverhalts’, in: Umbrüche: Historische Wendepunkte der Philosophie von der Antike bis Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Festschrift für Kurt Flasch zu seinem 70. Geburtstag, ed. Klaus Kahnert & Burkhard Mojsisch (Amsterdam, 2001), 99-116; Elizabeth Karger, ‘Adam Wodeham on the intentionality of cognitions’, in: Ancient and Medieval Theories of Intentionality, ed. Dominick Perler, Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters, 76 (Leiden-Boston-Köln: Brill, 2001), 283-300; Chris Schabel, ‘Oxford Franciscans after Ockham: Walter Chatton and Adam Wodeham’, in: Medieval Commentaries on the ‘Sentences’ of Peter Lombard. Current Research, ed. G.R. Evans (Leiden-Boston-Köln: 2002) I, 359-377; Rega Wood, ‘Adam of Wodeham’, in: A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, ed. Jorge J.E. Gracia & Timothy B. Noone, Blackwell Companions to Philosophy, 24 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003), 77-85; Severin Valentinov Kitanov, ‘Displeasure in hevaen, pleasure in hell: four Franciscan masters on the relationship between love and pleasure, and hatred and displeasure’, Traditio 58 (2003), 284-340; Jean-François Genest, ‘Aux origines d’une casuistique. La révélation des futurs contingents d’après la lecture de Richard FitzRalph sur les Sentences (II)’, Archives d’histoire doctrinale et littéraire du moyen âge 70 (2003), 317-346 [influence non Adam Wodeham and Robert Holcot OP]; Rondo Keele, ‘The so-called res theory of Walter Chatton’, Franciscan Studies 61 (2003), 37-53 [influence]; .

Adam Marsh (†1259)

English theologian. Born in the diocese of Bath, before 1200. Cousin of the bishop of Durham, Richard Marsh (d. 1226). Adam studied liberal arts at Oxford and was ordained priest. Subsequently obtained from his uncle a prebend in the parish of Wearmouth (eventually, the bishop also left Adam his library). Around the time of his uncle’s death, Adam decided to become Franciscan friar, partly at the instigation of Adam of Oxford. Took the habit at Worcester. Embarked on a study of theology under the guidance of Robert Grosseteste (ca. 1232/33), the first teacher of the Franciscans in Oxford and later the bishop of Lincoln, Adam Marsh and Grosseteste became good friends (and eventually, Robert Grosseteste also would leave his library to Adam Marsh). In 1239, Adam accompanied his provincial minister Albert of Pisa to the general chapter of Assisi. There, and also at Perugia, Adam and several other friars attacked the politics of Elias of Cortona in the presence of pope Gregory IX. Between 1239 and 1244, Adam was a member of the committee of friars that came up with a commentary on the rule (commentary of the Four Masters). In 1245, Adam accompanied Robert Grosseteste to the council of Lyon. During this sejourn in France, there seems to have been a possibility for Adam to become a regent master at Paris after the death of Alexander of Hales and John of La Rochele. At the instigation of Grosseteste, Adam Marsh did not embark on this path but returned to England.  Between 1247 and 1250 Adam was the first Franciscan regent lector in theology in the Franciscan studium at Oxford. >From 1250 onwards very active in English Church politics and engaged with matters of order administration, many elements of which shine through in his surviving correspondence.

manuscripts

Commentary on Pseudo Dionysius, Hierarchia Caelestis: Besançon, Bibl. Munic. 167 (13th cent.) ff. 52r-61; Dublin, Jesuits' Library MS s.n. (14th/15th cent.); Bayerische Staatsbibl. Clm 7983 (14th cent., Kaisheim) ff. 4r-32 [used to be ascribed to Petrus Hispanus]; Oesterr. Nationalbibl. 574 (ff. 33r-39r) [ascribed to Joh. Scotus]

De Decem Preceptis>> probably work of Grosseteste?

Epistola ad Sewallum: British Library, Cotton Vitellius C.VIII (second half 13th cent.); Oxford, Bodl., Digby 104 ff. 90r-101v [a treatise on pastoral responsibility.]

Lectura super Genesim>> [did not survive>> mentioned by Salimbene]

Pastorale Excerptum: Oesterreich. Nationalbibl. 4923 (15th cent.), ff. 40v-42v [maybe an excerpt of the Epistola ad Sewallum]

Sermo: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 459 (13th cent., Peterborough, MS X.xi) ff. 133r-v

Summa de Poenitentia>> did not survive? Apparently, there existed a copy at Christ Church before 1331.

Tabula Patrum>> together with Robert Grosseteste

editions:

Epistola ad Sewallum (ca. 1256), ed. J.S. Brewer, in: Monumenta Franciscana, Rolls Series, 4 (London, 1858), I, 438-489 (=epist. 247: letter to Sewald of York, amounting to a treatise on the duties of a bishop. In the course of this letter, in which Adam lists the good qualities and obligations of a pastor, Adam also lists the qualities that the bishop should inquire about in his flock. In the course of this, Adam also deals with the importance of prayer, elaborating in six short chapters on efficacious prayer and its effects (cf. Cantini (1948), 467.

Epistolae, ed. J.S. Brewer, in: Monumenta Franciscana, Rolls Series, 4 (London, 1858), I, 77-489. In all 247 letters. Many of these letter have a spiritual import, elaborating spiritualis amicitia, christian perfection, and comparable issues. Some letters address specific issues of spiritual instruction. Hence, letter 8 (p. 89 in the Brewer edition) deals with the pastoral life (much like the famous letter to Sewald of York). Letter 159 to the Countess of Leicester (p. 294ff in the Brewer edition), in turn, is in fact a short and rather stern treatise on the domestic virtues of a wife: ‘Ex illa Dei sententia qua dicitur: Faciamus ei adiutorium simile sibi (Gen. 1, 26) evidenter intruimur, quia uxor viro districtissime tentur, et per vigoris constantiam, et per discretionis prudentiam, et per benignitatis clementiam, iugem iuvaminis impendere sedulitatem ad omnia in quibus, aut Deus colitur aut iuste vivitur, aut recte iudicatur. Propter quod omnis anima coniugalis, quae modis omnibus hoc implere non satagit, individuum vitae consortium, in quod secundum legem matrimonii intemerate servandum coniuravit, damnabiliter violare convincitur…’ (after which follow the sins and virtues of the domestic life). Letter 180 to the Franciscan provincial minister William of Nottingham deals with natural perfection, the perfect life for friars , described as a spiritual itinery, and the means to pursue it, namely the cultivation of charity and the cultivation of virtues. Most famous of all is letter 247 to Sewald of York, mentioned above.

Commentary on Pseudo Dionysius, Hierarchia Caelestis, edited in PL, 122, col. 267-284 [from Oesterr. Nationalbibl. 574]; Pedro Hispano, Exposicião sobre os livros do beato Dionisio areopagita, ed. M. Alonso (Lissabon, 1957)1957 [On the basis of Bayerisch. Staatsbibl. clm 7983 & Besançon, Bibl. Munic. 167. See also the article: F. Ruello, `Un commentaire dionysien (...)', AHDLMA, 19 (1952), 141-181]

literature:

Wadding, Annales Minorum I, 364, II, 48, 240, IV, 42, 64; Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1650), 2; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1806), 2; Pauli, Bischof Grosseteste und Adam von Marsh (Tübingen, 1864); Analecta Franciscana (Quaracchi, 1885-1898) I, 224, 225-238, 244, 250, 256, 268, 269, II, 33, 50-51, III, 130, 220, 230; Salimbene, Chronica, ed. O. Holder-Egger, MGH Scriptores XXXII (Hannover-Leipzig, 1905-1913), passim; Hilarin Felder, Geschichte der wissenschaftlichen Studien im Franziskanerorden bis um die Mitte des 13. Jahrhunderts (Freiburg im Breisgau, 1904), passim; A.G. Little, The Grey Friars in Oxford (Oxford, 1892), 134-139; Eubel, Hierarchia catholica I, 247; A.B. Emden, A Biographical Register of the University of Oxford, Vol. 2, 1225f.; D.L. Douie, `Adam de Marisco, an English Friar', Durham University Journal, 32 (1940), 81-97; G. Cantini, `Adam de Marisco, OFM, auctor spiritualis', Antonianum, 23 (1948), 441-474; Roger Mark Haas, Adam Marsh (De Marisco), a Thirteenth-Century English Friar, Diss. Rutgers State University of New Jersey, UMI Dissertation Services (Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1989); C.H. Lawrence, `The Letters of Adam Marsh and the Franciscan School at Oxford', Journal of Ecclesiastical History 42 (1991), 218-38; Bigalli>>>; Sharpe, Handlist, 17-18; M. Rappenecker, `Adam v. Marsh', LThK, 1 (Freiburg etc., 1993), 140; J. McEvoy, Robert Grosseteste et la théologie à l’université d’Oxford (1190-1250), passim; D. Bigalli, ‘Schwert und Wort. Apokalypse und Kreuzzugskritik bei Robert Grosseteste, Adam von Marsh und Roger Bacon’, in: Roger Bacon in der Diskussion, ed. Florian Ulm et al. (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2001), 181-217; Séamus Mulholland, ‘The Oxford Tradition on the Eve of Duns Scotus (1229-1288)’, in: A Pilgrimage Through the Franciscan Intellectual Tradition, ed. André Cirino & Josef Raischl (Canterbury: Franciscan International Study Centre, 2008), 117-144.

Adam Sasbout (Adam Delfius, 21 December 1516- 21 March 1553)

OFM, Dutch friar. Born in Delft. Studied Latin and the liberal arts in Delft and Utrecht (under Macropedius). Continued his liberal arts studies in Louvain, where he also studied theology (under Ruward Tapper and Joannes van der Eycken). Became both master of arts and master of theology. Was ordained priest in 1542, and entered the Franciscan Louvain convent on 17 April 1544. Taught Holy Scripture as Franciscan master of theology at Louvain university between 1545 and his death in 1553 (one of the successors of Frans Titelmans (d. 1537). Prolific author of biblical commentaries and sermons. And teacher of Nicolaas Pieck and Daniël van Arendonck. Died rather early at the age of 36. A biography was written by his nephew Sasbout Vosmeer

editions/manuscripts

Tractatus de Vitiis et Donis Spiritus Sancti: Den Haag, Rijksarchief>>> See B. de Troeyer

Conciones tres super Scripturam Levitici (Louvain, 1552).

Oratio Demonstrans veram Christi Ecclesiam (Louvain, 1552).

In Isaiam Prophetam  Commentaria (Louvain, 1558). In the introduction to this work, Sasbout fulminates against the allegorical interpretations cherished by late medieval commentators: Ille abusus Scripturae est maximus, tam libere pro cujusque ingenio et phantasia confingere allegorias. Hoc namque modo Scriptura sacra esset quasi lesbia regula, et eam quo quisque vellet, detorqueret. An autem tota Scriptura et singula et ejus verba exponenda sint secundum allegoriam, dubium est, vel potius dubium non est, quia hoc minime solidum est. Praeterea totam Scripturam tractare secundum triplicem aut quadruplicem sensum, nec hoc solidum est, non solum quia difficile est semper coherentia dicere, sed etiam quia necesse est saepe multa confingere; quod utique periculosum est in tanto thesauro, cui illam debemus reverentiam, ne quid facile comminiscamur.’ Taken from Henri de Lubac, Exégèse médiévale. Les quatre sens de l’Écriture, Seconde Partie, II (Paris, 1963), 390.  

Elucidatio in Apostolorum Epistolas>>>

Memento Homo quod Pulvis Es (Louvain, 1553).

Homiliae/Opus Homiliarum, 2 Vols. (Louvain, 1554/Louvain, 1556/Antwerp, 1565/Louvain, 1570/Cologne, 1613). A Dutch translation appeared in Leyden, 1569 and in Louvain, 1614). Various of his Latin sermons received Dutch translations by the Franciscan friar Pieter van Utrecht: Devote ende gheestelyke Sermonen (MS Nijmegen?)

Opera Omnia (Cologne, 1568/Cologne, 1575)

Latin translation of the Ilias>>>This work, which includes a preface by Macropedius, is lost. Other literary works apparently were destroyed by Adam himself.

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vita

Vita, written by his nephew Sasbout Vosmeer, apostolic vicar of the Franciscan mission in The Netherlands, and edited in AFH 24 (1931), 195-206. See also: Nieuw Nederlandsche Biographie III, 1125.

literature

W. Schmitz, Het aandeel der minderbroeders, 101; B. de Troeyer, Bio-Bibliographia Franciscana Neerlandica Saec. XVI (Nieuwkoop, 1969-1970) I, 232-240 & II, 254-264; Dict.Spir. XIV, 355.

Adrianus de Maringues (Adrien de Maringues, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMRec. Spiritual author. Known for his Exercices spirituels très utiles et propres pour conduire les âmes religieuses et séculieres à la perfection des actions des jours, des semaines, et des mois de l’années (Lyon, 1659), written for Poor Clares. Heavy emphasis on devotion for the holy heart.

literature

Antoine de Sérent, ‘Adrien de Maringues’, DHGE I, 633; Henri de Grèzes, ‘Le Sacré-Coeur de Jésus’, Études franciscaines (Paris, 1890), 212ff; J.-V. Bainvel, La Dévotion au Sacré-Coeur de Jésus, 4th edition (Paris, 1917), 348; M. Viller, ‘Adrien de Maringues’, DSpir I, 223-224.

Adrianus de Nancy (d. 1745)

OFMCap. Friar from Lorraine. Born at Nancy. Fulfilled several functions in his order (a.o. lector, guardian, definitor and custos). Important spiritual author>>>

editions

Eloge historique de l’illustre martyr saint Elophe & méthode pratique de piété pour l’instruction et la consolation de pélerins qui visitent le tombeau de saint Elophe et les lieux qu’il a sanctifiés par son martyre (Nancy, 1721).

Liber Argumentationum super Praecipuas Theologiae Difficultates, in Duos Tomos et in Quatuor Partes Distributus (Bamberg, 1729).

Exercices spirituels et pratique continuelle de l’imitation de Jésus-Christ en faveur des personnes dévotes et religieuses, particulièrement des enfants de saint François (Luxembourg, 1733).

Analysis Theologiae in Tres Partes Divisae Juxta Communiorem Doctorum Ordinem Methodo Compendiosa (Nuremberg, 1742).

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), >>; DThCat I, 402; DHGE I, 633; DSpir I, 224.

Adrianus Adriae (Adriano d’Adria/Francesco Vicentini, d. 1781)

OFMRef. Venetian friar. Missionary and lector. After working as a missionary and a lector on Cyprus and Cairo, he continued teaching philosophy and theology in his home province. Due to his sound doctrinal reputation, he was asked to become a consultant for the Vatican and a visitator of the church province of Trent. Eventually he became the ‘house’ theologian for the cardinal-bishop Priuli (1754). He died at Vicenza on 26 March 1781. Most of his works have never been published.

editions

Dissertatio circa Quamdam Quaestionem ad Theologiam Moralem Spectantem>>>

Praelectiones Theologiae Moralis, 3 Vols>>>

Lezioni sopra la regola dei frati minori>>>

Prediche varie e panegyrici>>>

Statuti municipali della provincia di S. Antonio (Venice, 1764).

literature

Francesco-Girolamo Bocchi, Continuazione delle memorie degli uomini illustri della città di Adria, in: Sulla condizione antica e moderna di Adria, ed. Aloysio Grotto (Venice, s.a.) I, 92; Antonio Maria da Vicenza, Scriptores Provinciae S. Antonii Venetiarum (Venice, 1877), 129; Antonio Maria da Vicenza, Commentariolum de Veneta Provincia Reformata S. Antonii, in: Analecta franciscana (Quaracchi, 1885) I, 319, 329, 336, 345; Antoine de Sérent, ‘Adrien d’Adria’, DHGE I, 630-631.

Adrianus de Malines (Adriaan van Mechelen, fl. ca. 1545)

OFMObs. Probably from Mechelen (Malines). Active in Brussels (provincia Germania Inferioris). Known for two vernacular texts, respectively on confession and on communion. Aside, he republished Hendrik Herp’s Spiegel der Volcomenheyt, changing the title and the style of the work.

editions

Een salich ende profitelijck onderwijs vander Biechten, gecolligeert uuter heyliger scriftueren, ende doctoren der heyligher kercken (Louvain: Hugo Cornwels, 1550) [Booklet aparently written because some good people asked him ‘…dat ick soude willen een maniere int corte bescrijven voor simpel lieden, waer door si souden moghen leeren, wat bichte is, ende hoe dat si hem souden moghen tot bichten bereyden.’ Aside from dogmatic issues, and the urge to confess regularly, the booklet contains a lot of practical advice. Most importantly, the author makes clear that a person in doubt about the expertise and the jurisdiction of his ordinary confessor, he can always turn to ‘… religieusen, die door consent ende privilegie des Paus, eenen yeghelicken mogen absolveren int bisdom daer si ghepresenteert zijn den ordinaris. Als die Minderbroeders, Predicaers, Augustijnen, Carmelijten, Johanniten, ende die oordene des heyligen gheets gheprofessijt. Van desen mach hij gerechtighe absolutie ontfanghen, als van sinen gherechten pastoor.’]

Onderwijsinghe ende instructie hoe hem een yeghelijck sal bereyden ter taferelen Gods te gane ende te ontfanghen dat weerde heylighe Sacrament, ghecolligeert uuter heyliger Scriftueren, ende ander gheapprobeerde doctoren (Louvain: Hugo Cornwels, 1550). [After a dogmatic explanation, the work deals with the mental preparation for the communion and the way it should be received. Important, according the author, is to receive the communion ‘in een dancbaerheit der passie ende der doot Christi Jesu. ]

Den Spiegel der Volmaectheyt (Louvain: Jan Waen, c. 1552/Louvain: Reyner van Velpen voor Jan Waen, c. 1552) [the first Dutch edition of Hendrik Herp’s Spiegel der Volcomenheyt since 1512.  One of the motivations was that it was necessary to counter the many vernacular texts by reformatory writers. In this context, a ‘classic’ of Catholic teaching should be made available again in a new spelling.]

literature

B. de Troeyer, ‘Adriaan van Mechelen’, Franciscana 17 (1963), 3-7; B. de Troeyer, Bio-Bibliographia Franciscana Neerlandica Saec. XVI (Nieuwkoop, 1969-1970) I, 188-191.

Aegidius Aurelianus (>>)

Comm. super Librum de Progressu Animalium Aristotelis: Bologna, Coll. Hisp. S. Clem. 159

Aegidius Assisiensis (Egidio di Assisi, ca. 1190-1262)

Farmer, became after Bernard of Quintavalle the third disciple of Francis, on 23 April 1208. Throughout his life, he displayed a special love for manual work and poverty. Before and after Francis's death he lead an itinerary life as preacher and mystic, and travelled through Italy, Northern Africa and the Near East. Eventually, he settled down in the hermitage of Monteripido, near Perugia. Famous for his mystical aphorisms, of which many MSS survive in Latin and the vernacular. He is mentioned by many Franciscan hagiographers and spiritual authors and received several vitae of his own, of which that made by friar Leo, is the best-known. (In the order the feastday for his commemoration is 23 April). As spiritual author, Aegidius is predominantly known for his influential Dicta Aurea/Detti

manuscripts

Dialogus cum fr. Gratiano: Naples Naz. XII.F.32 f. 183r (see Cenci, Napoli,>>)

Dicta Aurea: Brussels, Bibl. Royale, IV 436 ff. 233r-255v; Assisi, Sacro Convento 403 & 676; Florence XIX, 10; Munich Clm 11354

editions

Dicta Beati Aegidii Assisiensis, Bibliotheca franciscana ascetica medii aevi (Quaracchi, 1905/1939). (transl. By Nello Vian in: I Mistici. Scritti dei mistici francescani secolo XIII, ed. L. Iriarte et. al. (Assisi, 1995), I, 65-169). The Dicta have also been edited in: Aegidius von Assisi. Die Weisheit des Einfachen, ed. A. Rotzetter & E. Hug (Zürich, 1980); Egidio di Assisi, I Detti, ed. & trans Taddeo Bargiel & Nello Vian, ‘I MiniGrandi’ (Padua: Ed. Messaggero, 2001). In 33 little ‘chapters’, Egidio deals with 1) grace, virtues and vices, 2) faith, 3) love, 4) humility, 5) fear of God, 6) patience, 7) the ready spirit and the strong heart, 8) negation of the world, 9) chastity, 10) spiritual warfare, 11) penitence, 12) prayer and its effects, 13) contemplation, 14) the active life, 15) spiritual precaution, 16) useful and non useful science, 17) good and bad words, 18) how to persist in the good, 19) security in the religious ‘status’, 20) obedience, 21) the reminder/memory of death, 22) the flight from the world, 23) persistence in prayer, 24) the graces and virtues to be acquired in prayer, 25) prelates involved with canonising friars [ironic?], 26) how to solve some important questions, 27) Beato chi s’ingegna a vincere se stesso, 28) Tutta la gente che non vuole…, 29) Bo, bo, molto dico, poco fo, 30) Chi più ama, più brama, 31) Devi essere uomo di virtù…, 32) Cosa pensava del beato Francesco, 33) Gli ammaestramenti di frate Egidio

vitae

Vita Beati Aegidii (Ad excitandam), ed. L. Lemmens, Documenta Antiqua Franciscana 1: Scripta fratris Leonis (Quaracchi, 1901), 37-63; Blessed Giles of Assisi, ed. W. Seton (Manchester, 1918), 52-88; H. Bulletti, ‘De Vita B. Aegidii Assisiensis, auctore fratre Leone’, AFH 8 (1915), 12-22; Vita beati Aegidii (Quia salutifera), ed. D. Papebrock, AASS, April III (Antwerp, 1675), 220-227 & 243-247; Vita fratris Aegidii, Chronica XXIV Generalium, AF III (1897), 74-115; Vita beati Aegidii (Quia salutifera… ut autem), ed. in De Conformitate, AF IV (1906), 205-213; Vita Beati Aegidii (Currens post odorem), ed. F.-M. d’Araules, AFH 1 (1908), 274-277; Vita Beati Aegidii (Quando iste sanctus), ed. L. Lemmens, Documenta Antiqua Franciscana 1 (Quaracchi, 1901), 66-72; Miracula, ed. D. Papebrock, AASS III (Antwerp, 1675), 243-247 & ed. E. d’Alençon (Rome, 1906); Vida do Bem-aventurado frei Egídio-Vida de frei Egídio, Homen santísimo e contemplativo-Ditos do Bem-aventurado frei  Egídio-Vida de frei Junípero, ed. João Mamede Filho & Dorvalino Fassini, Fontes Franciscanas, 4 (Santo André, SP-Brasil: Editora Mensageiro de Santo Antônio, 2001).

literature:

DSpir VI, 379-382; Paul Sabatier, ‘Simple note à propos de fr. Jean compagnon de fr. Egide’, in: Idem, Opuscules de critique historique II, 415-422; Bartolomeo da Pisa, De Conformitate, AF 4 (1906), 205-213; Ubertino da Casale, Arbor Vitae Crucifixae Iesu (Venice, 1485/Turin, 1961), 4333-434; Giacomo Oddi, Franceschina, ed. N. Cavanna, L. Olshki (Florence, 1931/Santa Maria degli Angeli, 1981)>>>; Salimbene de Adam, Cronica, ed. Scalia (Bari, 1966), 810; Thomas Eccleston, De Adventu Fratrum Minorum in Angliam, ed, A.G. Little (Manchester, 1951),>>>; Actus Beati Francisci et Sociorum Eius, ed. Paul Sabatier (Paris, 1902)>>>; A. Briganti, Il b. Egidio d’Assisi (Naples, 1898); L. Hardick-P.A. Schluter, Leben und ‘goldene Worte’ des bruders Aegidius (Werl, 1953); A. Ghinato, ‘Prega e lavora’, Vita Minorum (1962), 220-249; V. Gamboso, Il beato Egidio compagno di San Francesco (Padua, 1962); J. Cambell, ‘Gilles d’Assise’, DSpir VI, 379-382; R.B. Brooke, Scripta Leonis, Rufini et Angeli sociorum S. Francisci. The writings of Leo, Rufino and Angelo companions of St. Francis (Oxford, 1970), 308-317; E. Mariani, La sapienza di frate Egidio compagno di Francesco con i detti, LIEF (Vicenza, 1982); Maximilian Wagner, ‘Aegidius von Assisi (d. 1262). Die Weisheit des Einfältigen’, in: Franziskanische Stimmen. Zeugnisse aus acht Jahrhunderten, ed. Paul Zahner (St. Anna (Kevelaer): Edition Coelde, Butzon & Bercker, 2002), 30-32; Bernardo Commodi, Vita del Beato Egidio compagno di San Francesco (Perugia: Edizioni Frate Indovino, 2002); Pierre Brunette & Paul Lachance, ‘Giles of Assisi: Mystic and Rebel’, Franciscan Studies 74 (2006), 83-102;

Aegidius de Baisu (late thirteenth century)

>>> Friar and scientist

editions and literature

Improbatio Cuiusdam Causae que Solet Assignari quare Radius Solis Transiens per Foramen Quadrangulare Facit Figuram Rotundam in Pariete: J.L. Mancha, `Egidius of Baisu's Theory of Pinhole Images', AHES, 40 (1989), 1-35 (ed. pp. 3-8).

Aegidius Baerdemakere (Gilles Barbiers, d. 1494)

Was sent to Paris to finish his degree studies for the order. Obtained the theology licence and the magisterium theologiae in 1470. After his return to his home province, he became custus of Flanders and subsequently sufragan bishop of Tournai (assisting bishop Ferry de Clugny). On April 3, 1476, he was selected for the episcopal see of Sarepta, and he was consecrated at Bruges on June 30 of that same year. He died at Lille on March 28, 1491 and was buried at the Franciscan church of Bruges. Author?

literature

U. Berlière, Les évêques suffragants de Tournai (Bruges, 1905), 137-140; H. Dussart, Fragments inédits de Rombaudt de Doppere (Bruges, 1892), 2, 3, 47; A. de Sérent, ‘Les frères mineurs à l’Université de Paris’, La France franciscaine 1 (1912), 110; J. Goyens, ‘Barbiers’, DHGE VI, 657; Glorieux?>>  

Aegidius Bonus Clericus (Bon Clerc, de Bensa, Baysi, 13th century)

Bacc. In Paris, in 1283, probably magister in 1285. Some of his sermons de tempore et de sanctis did survive

manuscripts

(Paris, Nat.Lat., 14947, f. 110va & 15005, f. 1136ra & f. 107ra)

Sermo de S 80 (in commemoratione omnium fidelium defunctorum) (1280) titulus: In die omnium fidelium animarum a quodam fr. Minore dicto Egidio bono clerico. Inc.: Deo dignas oblationes offer (Eccli. 14,11) ...In hiis verbis per Spiritum Sanctum exhortamur ad duo, primo ad offerendum Deo dignas oblationes pro mortuis...: Paris BN lat. 14947 f. 10va & Paris BN lat. 15005 f. 136ra /Doucet, 533/Schneyer, I, 51

Sermo de T 20 (dnca 2 (?). in Quadrages)>! In 3o sabbato in quadrigesima a fr. Egidio fr. Minore. Inc.: Epulari et gaudere oportebat (Luc. 15,32) ...in evangelio hodierno Lucae hoc recitat ecclesia ad instructionem peccatorum in persona eorum...: Paris BN lat. 14947 f. 107ra/ Doucet, 533/Schneyer I, 51

Quaestiones Disputatae: Assisi Bib. Comm(?) 158/Doucet, 533.

Summa Theologica (? or Summa Quaestionum?): Reference in: Firenze Bibl. Laurenziana Conv. Sopp. 123 f. 75d (...in summa sua, questione de subalternatione theologiae)/Doucet, 533

Literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum, I, 4-5 (n. XVIII); Doucet, `Maitres franciscains de Paris. Supplément des maitres en théologie de Paris au XIIIe siècle de M. de Chan. P. Glorieux', AFH, 17 (1934), 533.

Aegidius Guilelmus Missali (fl. c. 1400)

Author of a confessions handbook (De confessione) and of an Abbreviatio Operis Joannis Scoti (not found)

mss

De Confessione: Troyes, 1522, ff. 1ra-rb; Escorial, d. III. 12

De Articulatione Plurium Operum Duns Scoti>>>

literature

Wadding, Script., 8; Sbarala, Suppl., I, 4?; Doucet, AFH, 47 (1954), 124; Schneyer, I, 51

Aegidius de Guimares (Gil de Guimares, fl. ca. 1457)

OFMObs. Provincial vicar of the Portuguese observant province (1456-1459).

manuscripts and editions

Enventayro do oratorio de S. Clemente per frey Gil de Guinaraes Vigajro de Provençia: MS Porto, Arquivo Distrital, Convento da Conceição de Matozinhos Lo 7 ff. 25v-27. Edited in: A. de Magalhães Basto, Memórias solcas e inventários, 60-64.

literature

F.L. Lopes, ‘Franciscanos portugueses predentinos. Escritores, mestres e leitores’, Repertorio de Historia de las Ciencias Eclesiasticas en España 7 (Siglos III-XVI) (Salamanca, 1979), 478-479.

Aegidius de Loigny (d. 1322)

>> Author of a Sentences commentary (not found), Quaestiones, a and a Declaratio Communitatis

manuscripts

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editions

Quaestio utrum sit necessarium ponere habitum caritatis in anima Christi: Iohannis Duns Scoti Opera Omnia, ed. Vivés (Paris, 1891-5), XXIII, 395 [inter Reportata Parisiensa].

Declaratio Communitatis: AFH, 10 (1917), 116-122.

literature

Wadding, Scriptores, 8; Sbar., Suppl., I, 5; Pelster, Franzisk. Stud., (1923), 11-15; Glorieux, Repertoire, II, 342Cl. Schmitt, Dict. De Biographie Française, 16 (1985), 49; F. de Sessavale, Revue d'histoire Franciscaine, 3 (1926), 436.

Aegidius de Mantua

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Aegidius de Marliano

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Aegidius de Pruvinis (De Provins)

Preached ca. 1273. Several sermons have survived.

mss

Paris, Nat. Lat., 16482, f. 30v

literature

Schneyer, I, 57

Aegidius de Tavira (Gil Lobo, d. after 1451)

Portuguese friar. Studied theology at Toulouse. Active in Aragon, Portugal and at the general councils. Author of several works for the Portuguese King. Left the order?

literature

F.L. Lopes, ‘Franciscanos portugueses predentinos. Escritores, mestres e leitores’, Repertorio de Historia de las Ciencias Eclesiasticas en España 7 (Siglos III-XVI) (Salamanca, 1979), 473-474.

Aegidius Gabrielis (Gilles Gabrielis le Comte, 1636-1697)

Franciscan tertiary and member of a Bogard congegration. Born at Haccourt (principality of Liège). After the death of his father, his mother was from 1664 supported by a local Bogard community. In Liège, Aegidius studied the humanities, after which he went to Louvain University for studies in philosophy, Received his magisterial promotion in 1658 as number two of his class. Continued with studies of theology at Standonck college, where he reached the baccalaureate by 1662. Due to material conditions, he was only able to obtain the licence in February 1677 (the official doctorate was refused by the ecclesiastical authorities of Rome in 1679). From 1658 or thereabouts onwards, Aegidius taught as well: in Bogard schools and elswhere. An attempt to obtain a professorship in philosophy at Porc was blocked by Gommarius Huygens. This setback enticed Aegidius to join the Bogards himself. Previously an independent religious group, they had become by 1650 affilated with the regular third order of the Friars Minor. Aegidius fulfilled several offices in the Bogard tertiary network (visitator, general commissionar and provincial (between 1681-1685). He also taught as internal professor of theology in their Antwerp friary, and as professor of philosophy in Brussels. In addition, he developed himself into a well-regarded preacher and confessor among the urban laity (also among the higher middle class), notwithstanding his austere viewpoints on morals and behaviour. Several contemporaries suspected Aegidius of Cartesianist and Jansenist rigorist tendencies, which caused a lot of opposition to his teachings and his published works, even leading to attempts at censorship by his own order superiors. In 1679, Aegidius had to travel to Rome to defend himself. There, between 1679 and and 1681, Aegidius found support with some more rigorist cardinals. Yet when his supporters died in and after 1682, Aegidius’ position became more precarious. Several of his works were condemned, whereas his adversaries (Jesuite authors such as Aegidius Estrix, Gerardus Bolck and Jean-Baptiste Vindevogel) continued their attacks. Although Aegidius found strength in the sympathy towards him by Antoine Arnauld, the ongoing attacks damaged his position. Some time after 1683, he retired to Brussels and then to Louvain, where he died in 1697. Prolific author and correspondent. Many sources still demand editorial attention.

editions

Monita salutaria Beatae mariae Virginis ad cultores suos indiscretos (Ghent, 1673).

Thesis moralis practicae in secundam et tertiam partem Summae theologicae (Brusels, 1673).

Specimina moralis christianae et moralis diabolicae in praxi (Brussels, 1675). This drew heavy attacks from the Jesuite author Aegidius Estrix.

Thesis theologica de sacramento poenitentiae peccatoribus praesertim consuetudinariis et recidivis legitime administrando (Brussels, 1676).

Theses theologicae de principiis theologicis pro tyrone theologo (Brussels, 1676).

Specimina moralis christianae, secunda editio ab auctore correcta et aucta (Rome, 1680).

literature

Biographie Belge VII, 403-406; J. Ceyssens, ‘Gilles Gabrielis à Rome (1679-1783). Episode de la lutte entre rigorisme et laxisme’, Antonianum 34 (1969), 73-110; L. Ceyssens, ‘Gabrielis’, DHGE XIX, 580-582..

Agapitus de Prato Tesido (Agapito da Prato a Tesido, 1653-1687)

OFM. Friar from the Fiemme valley (in present-day Tyrol in Austria). Entered the order on 7 September 1671. First studied at the Trento friary. Yet in November 1678, he departed for Rome, to study oriental languages at the San Pietro in Montorio college. By 1687, he is found as a professor of Arabic at the episcopal seminary of Padua. In that period, he published an Arabic and Persian grammar. He died soon thereafter, in November 1687.

editions

Flores Grammaticales Arabici Idiomatis, Collecti ex Optimis Quibusque Grammaticis, nec non Pluribus Arabum Monumentis ad Quam Maximam Fieri Potuit Brevitatem atque Ordinem Revocati & Rudimenta Grammaticae Persicae (Padua, 1687).

literature

Vigilius Greiderer, Germania Franciscana (Innsbruck, 1781) II, 558ff; Michael Bihl, ‘Agapit de Prato a Tesido’, DHGE I, 901.

Agapitus Palestrinensis (Agapito da Palestrina, d. 1815)

OFMRef. Friar from the Roman province. Theologian and lector at various study houses. General definitor for the Reformati, censor at the Collegio della Sapienza and consultant for the Roman Index Librum Prohibitorum and the Inquisition. Strong opponent of probabilism and comparable philosophical currents, some of which were en vogue among the Jesuits.

editions

Lezioni divote ordinate a conservare il buon costume nei veri fedeli (Rome, 1792).

Notizie storiche ai luoghi di Terra Santa (Rome, 1793).

Esame critico-teologico di quanto ha scritto il chiarissimo abbate D. Gianvincenzo Bolgeni sopra i peccati mortali dubbi e sulle circostanze notabilmente aggravanti della malizia delle mortali colpe (Rome, 1799).

Idea genuina della carità, o amor di Dio, opposta à pensamenti de’Sigg. Abb. Giaonvincenzo Bolgeni e Lorenzo Hervas (Rome, 1800).

Lettere d’avviso ad un confessore novello contro l’opera avente per titolo: Istruzione pratica per I confessori novelli (Rome, 1805) [addressed at Filippo Maria Salvatori).

literature

Sigismondo da Venezia, Biografia serafica degli uomini illustri che fiorono nel francescano istituto (Venice, 1846), 842; Édouard d’Alençon, ‘Agapit de Palestrina’, DHGE I, 900-901.

Agathange de Bourges (fl. 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Spiritual author>>>

literature

DSpir I, 250

Agnellus Pisanus (1194, Pisa-13.2 1232/6, Oxford)

Was sent by Francis to France in 1217, were he was active as custos in Paris. In 1224, he travelled to England to establish a new order province. He was able to enlist Robert Grosseteste as teacher of the Franciscans in Oxford. He was well-regarded by the English royal house. His cult was confirmed in 1892. Apparently no works of him survived

literature:

C. Marietti, A. da Pisa ed i Frati Minori in Inghilterra (Rome, 1895); A.G. Little, The Grey Friars in Oxford (Oxford, 1892), passim; Ecclestion, De Adventu Fratrum Minorum in Angliam, AF I, 217ff; Cenci, Napoli, 634b.>>; J. Harding, Agnellus of Pisa, 1194-1236, first Franciscan Provincial in England (1224-1236) (Canterbury, 1979);

Agnes d’Aguillenqui (1602-1672)

French Capuchin nun & mystic…

literature

DSpir I, 252

Agnes Bocci (1730-1793)

TOR OFMCap. Mystic.

literature

Mario Sensi, ‘Agnese Bocci, mistica del terz’Ordine francescano cappuccino (Spello, 1730-1793)’, in: Negotium Fidei. Miscellanea di studi offerti a Mariano D’Alatri in occasione del duo 80° compleanno, ed. Pietro Maraneso, Bibliotheca seraphico-capuccina, 67 (Rome-Bravetta, 2002), 241-285.

Alanus de Wakerfeld (d. after 1286)

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manuscripts

Quaestiones: Assisi Bib. Comm. 158 (s. xiii ex.) ff. 66v-67v [qq. 77-8]

In I Sent.: Lüneburg, Ratsbücherei, theol. 4°, 29

editions

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literature

Sharpe, Handlist, 34; BRUO, 1956; Russel, 10-11>>

Albertinus Veronensis (Albertino da Verona, fl. 13th century)

Italian friar. Member of the Bolognese province. Solemnis praedicator in the Franciscan order, possibly lector and preacher at the Aracoeli convent in the early 1250s, and possibly lector at the Bologna convent around 1258 [Cf. the conjectures of Cenci (1994), 275, 290 & note 57]. He is mentioned several times by Salimbene: ‘Habui quendam ministrum in ordine fratrum Minorum, qui dictus est frater Aldevrandus [Aldovrando da Fiagnano], et fuit de oppido Flaniani, quod est in episcopatu Imole, de quo frater Albertinus de Verona, cuius est ‘Sermonum memoria’, ludendo dicebat, quod turpem ydeam in Deo habuerat. Habebat enim caput deforme et factum ad modum galee antiquorum et pilos multos in fronte.’ [Cronica, ed. Holder-Egger, MGH Scriptores XXXII (Hannover-Leipzig, 1905-1913), 137]; ‘Cum autem quadam die Custodus eius [namely Enzo of Sicily, son of emperor Frederick II, made prisoner by the Bolognese, who kept him confined for life] nollent ei dare comedere, ivit ad eos frater Albertinus de Verona, qui erat ‘solemnis predicator’ ex ordine fratrum Minorum, et rogavit custodes, quod sibi amore Dei et sui comedere darent. Qui cum deprecanti nullatenus acquiescere vellent, dixit eis: ‘Ludam vobiscum ad taxillos, et si vicero, habebo licentiam dandi sibi comedere.’ Factum fuit. Lusit et vicit deditque comedere regi familiariter stando cum eo. Et omnes qui audiverunt hoc, commendaverunt fratris caritatem, curialitatem et libertatem.’ [Cronica, ed. Holder-Egger, 329f]. Author of several sermon cycles, which seemingly did not survive in full, but have come down to us partially in a considerable number of manuscripts, frequently together by other homiletic and hagiographic texts. Cenci (1994), 289 notes: ‘Fr. Albertino lettore insegna ai predicatori come tonificare e vivificare la condotta morale-ascetica dei cristiani (rarissimi gli spunti teologici) con molti e brevi acceni a svariati argomenti in ogni sermone, concedendo quindi ad ogni predicatore spazio per approfondire ciò che più gli interessava. Forse in questo aspetto sta la fortuna dei sermoni di fr. Albertino, da Montecassino fino a München.’ These texts are reflective of Albertino’s own preaching activities and were meant for study and for consultation by fellow preachers (not surprisingly, Albertino describes the production of his own works with the terms scribere and predicare).

manuscripts

Sermones Dominicales (signalled in other series, not yet found?) Cf. MS Padua, Antonianum 470

Sermones de Festivitatibus Sanctorum (the most popular of Albertino’s sermon cycles): a.o. Assisi, Bibl. del Sacro Convento 432/I ff. 4-81v; Florence, Biblioteca Mediceo-Laurenziana Conv. Soppr. 548 ff. 1-127r; Klosterneuburg, Stiftsbibliothek 417 ff. 169-250; Oxford, Bodleian Cod. Canon. Misc. 518 ff. 1-126; Padova, Biblioteca Antoniana 470 ff. 69-201; Sankt Florian (Linz), Stiftsbibliothek 353 ff. 1-31; Vienna, Österreichische Staatsbibliothek 1315 ff. 1r-94v; Paris, BN Lat. 15958; Munich Staatsbibliothek Clm 12520. For more manuscript ascriptions, see Cenci (1994) and Pamato (1995), 108. [Sermons aimed at an urban public and at ‘urban sins’, such as luxuria, superbia and avaritia. Also interesting sermons regarding individual saints, such as Francis of Assisi

Sermones de Communi Sanctorum: Various sermons of this cycle can be found in mss Rome, Bibl. Angelica 794; Bergamo, Bibl. Civica A. Mai, MA 47 (Delta I.13); Rome Curia Gen. O.P. dis. Sabina XIV.38.a; Perugia, Bibl. Comm. Augusta 1226; Sankt Florian Stiftsbibl. 361; Vat. Lat. 13075; Monte della Verna, Conv. O.F.M. H.5; Vienna, Nationalbibl. 1701

Sermones Quadragesimales: >> for manuscript ascriptions, see Cenci (1994)

Sermones de Mortuis: >> for manuscript ascriptions, see Cenci (1994)

Sermones de Beata Virgine:>> for manuscrip ascriptions, see Cenci (1994)

editions

V. Gamboso, `Il due sermoni in lode di S. Antonio di Albertino da Verona O.Min. (sec. XIII/2)', Il Santo, 27 (1987), 77-120.

literature

Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome,  1906), 8; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 6; M. Bihl, ‘Albertin de Vérone’, DHGE I, 1586-1587; B. Giordani, ‘Acta franciscana e tabulariis bononiensibus deprompta I’, Analecta Franciscana IX (Quaracchi, 1927), 605; C. Cenci, `Sermoni del commune dei Santi, dei morti e della Madonna, composti dal francescano Fr. Albertino da Verona', Antonianum, 69 (1994), 273-314; Schneyer, I, 91.; L. Pamato, La pratica della predicazione nel Duecento. I ‘Sermones festivi’ di lbertino da Verona, Omin, dal codice Laurenziano conv. sopp. 548, tesi di laurea, Università degli studi di Padova (Università degli studi di Padova, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia a.a. 1993-1994). Cf. ‘Preaching in the Thirteenth Century: The Sermons of Albertinus de Berona O.F.M.: Text for Preaching and Text from Preaching’, Medieval Sermon Studies 39 (1997), 45-60; L. Pamato, `Ut digne valeam scribere et aliis predicare'. I sermoni di Albertino da Verona Omin., nel cod. Laurenziano conv. soppr. 548', Il Santo 37 (1997), 105-122. 

Albertus Berdini de Sarteano>>see Albertus Sarteanensis

Albertus Bludo (d. before 15 June, 1362)

Bohemian friar. Studied at several  studia generalia (a.o. Paris; in these various studia, he probably was going through the lectorate program. He also might have been doing some courses pro gradu, probably for his baccalaureate). Lector in various Bohemian friaries. In 1349, he is found as a lector in the Prague friary. In that year, the Emperor Charles IV of Bohemia asked pope Clement VI to bestow on him the magisterium theologiae. On 13 June of that year, the pope wrote to Fortanerius Vassal (former minister general) to examine the case and to bestow the magisterium if he deemed it suitable. Albert apparently received the title for he is called magister theologiae in the list of archbishops of Zarew (Astrakan, Russia), which post he took up on 24 May 1357. Albert died before 15 June 1362. Author?

literature

CHUP, ed. Denifle & Châtelain II, 650; Eubel, Hierarchia I, 457; Bullarium Franciscanum VI, 232, 302; Antoine de Sérent, ‘Albert Bludo’, DHGE I, 1493. 

Albertus Brixianus (d. 1314 or 1334) geen franciscaan

According to Sbaralea the composer of several sermons

mss

>>>>>Liber de Instructione Sacerdotum: Prague, National Museum, XVI F 13 (cat. no. 3727)

literature

Sbar, Suppl., I, 6; Schneyer, I, 91

Albertus Burgh (Franciscus de Hollandia) (1650, Amsterdam-1708, Rome)

OFM, Born in Amsterdam in a rather wealthy Protestant family. Was acquainted with Spinoza (letter 67 and 76) Niels Stensen and Antoine Arnauld. The latter mentions his conversion to Catholicism in 1674 in Italy. He became priest in 1682 and lector in the Franciscan order in 1684. In 1688 he became consultator of the SC. Wrote several (unplublished) pieces on Augustinian theology of grace and about Dutch censorship. An important figure in Jansenist and Spinozist scholarship.

editions

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literature

A. Emmen, `P. Franciscus de Hollandia O.F.M.', AFH, 37 (1944), 202-306 (with an overview of the works); P.A.M Geurts, `Niels Stensen and Albert Burgh', Archief voor de geschiedenis van de Katholieke Kerk in Nederland, 2 (1960), 139-152; H.J. Siebrand, Spinoza and the Netherlands (Assen, 1988); Albert Raffelt, ‘Burgh, Albert (Ordensname: Franciscus de Hollandia), ref.’ [† 1708], in: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon XVII, 208s.

Albertus de Bononia (Alberto da Bologna/Alberto Fantini, fl. late 15^th – early 16^th cent.)

OFMObs. Italian friar. Magister theologiae at the university of Bologna (1502). In 1516, pope Leo X sends him on a mission to Poland. His various works seem to have been lost.

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1650), 6; Giacomo da Cantalupo, Cenni biografici sugli uomini illustri della provincia franc. osserv. (Parma, 1894) I, 9.

Albertus de Falco (Alberto dalle Falci)

OFMObss?>>

literature

Antonella Targher, ‘Il manoscritto 517-519 della Biblioteca Civica di Verona e frate Alberto Dalle Falci. Ricerche su un sermonario quattrocentesco dell’osservanza francescana’, Boll. Bibl. Civ. Verona 4 (1998-1999), 23-49

Albertus Marbachensis (Albert von Marbach, ca. 1316-1372)

German friar. Born in Marbach (Würtemberg). Followed the lectorate program in the studium generale of Strasbourg. Thereafter, he absolved some of his obligations pro gradu at Bologna and Paris (possibly as baccalaureus biblicus). He read the Sentences pro gradu at Strasbourg (becoming baccalaureus sententiarum or formatus), and thereafter taught two years a principal lector at the Strasbourg studium generale. On 23 December 1366, Urban V ordered Martin of St. George, master of the university of Oxford to examine the Albert at the general chapter meeting,of Assisi (1367) and to bestow on him the magisterium theologiae if he was deemed suitable. Albertus indeed received this grade. At the provincial chapter of Strasbourg (29 April, 1359), he became provincial minister of the Strasbourg province, a position that he kept for 13 years. At the chapter of Speyer (1360), he confirmed several new statutes, to enhance the observance of the rule. Albert died at the Speyer friary on 20 September 1372. His successor as provincial minister was Hesso von Lampertheim (1372-1386). Author?

literature

Nicolaus Glassberger, Chronica, AF II, 192ff.; Eubel, Geschichte der oberdeutschen (Strassburger) Minoritenprovinz (Würzburg, 1886), 163ff, 340; Bullarium Franciscanum VI (Rome, 1902), 408.

Albertus Marchesi (Alberto Marchesi, d. 10 June 1531)

OFMObs. Italian friar from Cotignola (Romagna). Studied at Faenza and Bologna.  Renowned for his philosophical, astronomical and theological knowledge. He died at the Cotignola friary.

editions

Caeliloquium Morale (Bologna, 1529). A very curious work that tries to mix theological speculation (on the heavens of the blessed) with astronomy.

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literature

Wadding, Annales Minorum XIV, 356 & XVI, 305; Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1906), 8; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908), 7; Giacintho da Cantalupo, Cenni biografici sugli uomini illustri della francescana osservante provincia di Bologna (Parma, 1894) I, 9-13.

Albertus de Sancta Clara (Alberto Gualtieri, d. 1726)

Alcantarine Observant friar from the Naples province. One year before his death, he was appointed to the episcopal see of Nictotera (21 February 1725). Author of devotional works.

editions

Tractatus brevis originis, progressus et formae recitandi coronam virginis Mariae dominae nostrae (Naples, 1718).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa franciscana (Madrid, 1732) I, 17; Gams, Series Episcoporum, 906; Antoine de Sérent, ‘Albert de Sainte-Claire’, DHGE I (1912), 1552.

Albertus Engelschalk (fl. 15^th cent.)

Friar from Straubing. Preacher

literature

Ludwig Hödl, ‘J.B. Schneyer, Repertorium der lat. Sermones des Spätmitttelalters’, Scriptorium 53,1 (1999), 145-159.

Albertus Fentanes (Alberto Fentanes, fl. later 18^th cent.)

OFM. Missionary from the Santiago province.

literature

AIA 36 (1933), 544-545; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 114 (no. 302).

Albertus Hofeltinger (fl. 15th cent.)

Viceguardianus in Regensburg. Copiist of sermon manuscripts and author of a Quadragsimale on the basis of Christianus von Hiddesdorf’s Matthew commentary.

manuscripts

Quadragesimale: Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 9000 ff. 229r-362v (Inc.: ‘incipit Quadragesimale collectum per Fr. Albertum Hofeltinger Viceguardianus Ratisbonae, A.D. 1433, Sabbato infra Epiphaniam Domini inceptum…’ Expl. : ‘Explicit Quadragesimale per Fr. Albertum Hofeltinger collectum, de Lectura super Matthaeum Venerabilis professoris et Magistri Fratris Christiani de Hyddestorp, Anno 33 in Ratisbona.’ The explicit is followed on ff. 363r-373rv by an alphabetical index. In the same manuscript we find Hofeltinger’s own copy of Thomas Aquinas’ Quadragesimale & Sermones Domenicales (ff. 1r-130r), as well as Hofeltinger’s copy of an anonymous series of Quadragesimale sermons (ff. 133r-228v). Other manuscripts that testify to Hofeltinger’s copy activities are Munich Clm 8998 and Munich Clm, 8991.)

literature

L. Meier, ‘Christianus de Hiddestorf O.F.M. Scholae Erfordiensis Columna’, Antonianum 14 (1939), 177ff.

Albertus Mediolanensi (d. 1308)

Lector in Cologne. Would have composed several sermons

literature

Sbaralea, Suppl., I, 6; Schneyer, I, 123

Albertus Milioli (ca. 1220-1286)

Franciscan tertiary. Born at Reggio Emilia, where he was notarius sacri palatii (1242-). He was ordered by the podestà to organise and document the city statutes (1265-1273), now kept in the state archives. Shortly after 1273, he began to compile chronicles and histories of his region. In this period, he became acquainted with Salimbene da Parma, who lived in the Reggio friary in and after 1281. They became friends and Salimbene functioned as his confessor. Salimbene and Alberto also shared historical information.

editions

Chronica, ed. Oswald Holder-Egger, MGH Scriptores XXXI, 235-668.

literature

A. Dove, Die Doppelchroniken von Reggio und die Quellen Salimbenes (Leipzig, 1878); Golubovich, Bibliotheca bio-bibliografica della Terra Santa (Quaracchi, 1906) I, 313.

Albertus Otero (Alberto Otero, fl. late 17^th cent.)

OFM. Theologian, active in the Santiago province.

literature

AIA 36 (1933), 543-544; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 159 (no. 651).

Albertus Ricco (Alberto Ricco, d. 1275)

Italian friar from Vicenza. Lector of theology and bishop of Treviso (papal appointment on 27 August 1255, after a disputed election process). Remained bishop until his death around 28 April, 1275. Wadding ascribes to him a Summa Pontificia.

literature 

Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1650), 6 (ed. 1906), 8; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1908), 9; Eubel Hierarchia I, 506; Gams, Series Episcoporum, 803; Italia Sacra V, 545; M. Bihl, ‘Albert Ricco’, DHGE I, 1551.

Albertus Parisiensis (fl. later seventeenth cent.)

OFMCap. Important spiritual author…

literature

DSpir I, 286-287.

Albertus de Marchia>>

Vicar of the vicariate of the Orient>>

manuscripts

Errores Diversarum Nationum: Berlin, Hamilton, 630 f. 188r (14th. Cent.)

Albertus de Metz (d. 8 november 1308)

French friar. Baccalaureus at the university of Paris during the academic year of 1302/3. In a letter dated November 1304, the Franciscan minister general Gonsalvo talks about him as a possible candidate for the magisterium theologiae. After receiving the doctorate, he became regent at the Franciscan Studium Generale of Paris. In that period, he supported the thesis that the stigmata of Franci were nothing but the fruit of Francis’ imagination (no doubt causing a stirr). Author of several sermones de tempore and of a Quaestio Disputata de Principio Individuationis. Allegedly also the author of a commentary on the Sentences, additions to the Opus Oxoniense of Duns Scotis, and a commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics.

manuscripts

Sermones: MS Paris BN lat. 14923 f. 25v & MS Paris BN lat. 14961 f. 60r, 68r.

Quaestio Disputata de Principio Individuationis: MS Munich, Clm, 8717, ff. 103v-104.

In I-IV Sent.:>>>>?

literature

Wadding, Annales Minorum VI, 51; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908), 7; Histoire littéraire de la France XXVII, 102 & XXXII/2, 277; Lecoy de la Marche, La chaire française au moyen âge (Paris, 1886), 497; CHUP, ed. Denifle & Châtelain II, 118; Schneyer,  Repertorium I, 124; Glorieux, Maîtres II, 343.

Albertus de Parma

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manuscripts

Sermones de Correctione Fraterna: Naples, Naz., VII. D. 22 ff. 160a-164b (his work or the work of Albertus de Perusio?)

literature

Cenci, Napoli, I, 458.

Albertus de Perusio

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manuscripts

Sermones de Correctione Fraterna: Naples, Naz., VII. D. 22 ff. 160a-164b (his work of the work of Albertus de Parma).

Quaestio utrum videlicet confessor habeat auctoritatem absolvendi...: Naples Naz., I. H. 43 f. 302rv..

literature

Cenci, Napoli, I, 156.

Albertus de Pisa (Alberto da Pisa, d. 1240)

Received into the order by Francis of Assisi in 1212. He was send to France in 1219, together with his brother Agnello, to establish a foothold in Paris. In 1223, at the general chapter of Assisi, he was elected provincial minister of the new Germany province. In this quality, he presided over the provincial chapters of Speyer (8 September 1223), Würzburg (15 August, 1224), and Mainz (2 Februari, 1227). In 1227, he was relieved from his post by Elias of Cortona at the general chapter of Assisi, and became subsequently provincial minister in Hungary, the Italian Bologna province, the March of Ancona, the March of Treviso, and Tuscany. When his brother Agnello died in 1236 as the provincial minister of England, the English friars asked for Alberto as his replacement. Elias of Cortona gave his permission, so that Alberto arrived in England on 13 December 1236.  In England, Alberto stimulated the creation of studia in London and Canterbury. On 15 May, 1239, after the deposition of Elias, Alberto was chosen minister general of the order at the general chapter of Rome. He apparently died on 23 January of the following year at Pisa. Pope Gregory IX,  who admired him, composed after hearing about his death an elegy (Plange Turba Paupercula). Alberto is the author of a Sermo de caritate Salvatoris

manuscripts

Sermo: MS: Arras, 759 (691), f. 254vb

literature

Chronica Fratris Jordani, AF I, 11-12, 14-16; Eccleston, Tractatus de Adventu, AF I, 227, 233, 236, 238, 243-250, 261, 263, 269, 273-274; Salimbene, Chronica, >>>>; AF I, 286-287; Glassberger, Chronica, AF II, 14, 28-29, 31, 40, 42-44, 46, 49-50, 61; Chronica XXIV Generalium, AF III, 24, 217, 230-233, 696; Liber Conformitatum, AF IV, 329, 454, 5011, 517; Wadding, Annales Minorum I, 115, II, 74, 104, 164, III, 22-23; Acta Ordinis Fratrum Minorum (Quaracchi, 1908), 171-174; AFH 1 (1908), 206; AFH 2 (1909), 98, 104; Antoine de Sérent, ‘Albert de Pise’, DHGE I, 1544-1545; Schneyer I, 150; Michael Robson, 'Albert of Pisa, Minister Provincial of England (1236-1239)', in: A Pilgrimage Through the Franciscan Intellectual Tradition, ed. André Cirino & Josef Raischl (Canterbury: Franciscan International Study Centre, 2008), 33-64.

Albertus van ‘s-Hertogenbosch (Johannes van Gent,  1664-1740)

OFMCap from Brabant. Dutch spiritual author. Entered the Capucin order at Louvain. Made his profession on 22 November 1682 (fulfilling his noviciate under the novice master Franciscau van Breda). After two years of religious formation in the solitary monastery of Tervuren, he was entitled to start his studies of philosophy and theology in 1686. Probably was ordained priest in the 1890s. Thereafter, active at Gelder (present-day Germany), where he stimulated the establishment of a community of female tertiaries at Horst (between Venlo and Venraay), for which Albertus wrote a.o. a set of constitutions. In 1711, we find Albertus in Tienen, where he preached at the St. Germanus church. In 1714, he was vicar of the St.-Truiden monastery. In the same year, he was appointed lector in philosophy. Yet he soon retreated from his teaching (1718) and became a simple clerical friar in Ghent, spending his time with writing and with preaching in Ghent and in neighbouring centres (a.o at Westdorpe). After 1728 he apparently lived and worked in Antwerp.

manuscripts/editions

Den Boom des Levens, gheplant in den Lusthof der Seraphiecke Religie van den H. Vader en Patriarch Franciscus der Minderbroeders Capucinen van de Nederlandtsche Provincie, Dragende soete Vruchten voor haer Kinders, besonder voor de Novitien, ende oock voor alle Geestelycke Persoonen (Louvain: By Guiliam Stryckwant in de gulde Lamp achter het Stadt-huys, 1701).

Trouw Vierighe Begeerten, Vierige ende Uyterste Wille Door C.A.B. Priester. Gemaeckt Voor alle Godtminnende zielen, dickwils uyt Gehoorsaemheyt te Oeffenen, om haer selven meer ende meer te ontsteken in de Goddelijcke Liefde. , ed. A.C.V.G.G.D (Antwerp; Weduwe Joan Scheff, 1703).

Constitutiën gemaect naar de Constitutiën der PP. Capucinen, ende Beschreven in alles volgens hun Maniere van Leven, Voor Alle geestelycke Persoonen; Sonderlinge voor Geestelycke Doghters die naer haren Staet ende gelegenheyt willen naervolgen den Regel en De maniere des levens der Minderbroeders genaemt Capucinen ende oock Voor degene die een Strenger maniere des levens wwillen onderhouden, onder den Derden Regel van onsen Seraph. Vader Franciscus: MS ACB III 9019 [manuscript once in the possession of Anna Catarina van Gendt] & MS ACB III 9014.

Maniere des Levens Met de principaelste puncten des Derden Reghels Voor alle Persoonen van wat staet of conditi die sijn, leerende hoe sy den derden Reghel van den Seraphienschen Vader S. Franciscus, Altydt wel en behoorelyck konnen onderhouden, soo wel heymelyck als in’t openbaer; met een kort tractaet van de H. Communie. Beschreven door den E.P.A.V.D.B. Capucien; en uyt ghegheven door G. de Ridder Ouwt Deken (Antwerp: Alexander Everaerts, 1726).

Het Geestelyck Verborgen Manna tot een Spys ghegheven Aen alle Godtvruchtige soo werelijcke als Geestelijcke Persoonen, die geen Religieusen en zijn, haer leerende, in wat staet, oft van wat conditie dat sy zijn, te konnen leven een waerachtigh volmaeckt geestelijck ende Religieus leven. En dat oock in Geloften van Gehoorsaemheyt, Van Armoede des Geest, En van Suyverheyt. Ghemaeckt door den E.P.A.V.D.B.S.T.E. (Antwerpen, 1709?/Antwerpen: Alexander Everaerts, 1726) [in principle for everyone, but more in particular written for the sisters of Horst.]

Het Goddelijck Camerken, met syne Toe-behoorten ende Fundamenten, bereyt voor den Hemelschen Bruydegom komende tot de Ziele door de H. Communie, Waer in dat geleert wort hoe dat-men Godtvruchtelijck ende volmaecktelijck sal leven, hoe geduerich met groote Vruchten Communiceren, Biechten, Mis-hooren, etc. Beschreven door P. Albertus van s’ hertogenbosch, Capucien, Vicarius, en Leesmeester (Hasselt: Petrus van Langenacker, 1713/14/Antwerp, 1727/ Antwerp, 1738/Antwerp, 1779).

Litanie, Gebeden ende Lof-Sanck tot de Alderheyligste Onbevlekte Maeget ende Bedruckte Moeder Godts Maria van Schrey-Boom. Met andere korte Devotie, ende het Sterrekransken van Godts Moeder onbevleckt de Alderheyligste Maeget Maria (Ghent: Petrus de Goesin, 1723). Dit werk verscheen in in 1729 met een  gewijzigde titel: Litanien ende kleyn getyden met devote ghebeden tot Maria in Schrey-Boom op haer droeve ween; met de Beschryvinge der Aflaeten, Reghels van het Broederschap, ende Outheyt van Schrey-Boom, Beschreven door P.A.V. Capucin, en uytgegeven door H.B.P.P.V.D.A.S.P. (Ghent: Petrus de Goesin, 1729/Ghent: Petrus de Goesin, 1754; Ghent: Weduwe M. de Goesin, after 1761/Ghent: Weduwe M. de Goesin, 1787-90; Ghent: J. Poelman, ca. 1830?).

Epitome Rituum Sacrorum, Ac Caeremoniarum, in Missis tam privatis, quam Solemnibus, adhiberi debitis. Juxta Rubricas Missalis Romani et annotationes Gavanti, aliorumque Auctorum probatissimorum, quibus adduntur Praxes Divinum Officium Studiose, ac devote, persolvendi, Missasque celebrandi (Antwerp: Typis Alexandri Everaerts, 1728).

literature

P. Hildebrand van Hooglede, ‘Een vergeten ascetische schrijver’, Ons Geestelijk Erf 2 (1928), 176-188, 245-275; P. Hildebrand, ‘Albert de Bois-le-Duc’, DSpir I, 283-284; Hildebrand van Hooglede, ‘Een vergeten ascetische schrijver en apostel der veelvuldige communie: P. Albertus van Den Bosch († 1740)’, in: Idem, Miscellanea II, 658-701; Hildebrand van Hooglede, ‘Een apostel der H. Communie in de XVIII^e eeuw, P. Albertus van den Bosch, Kapucijn’, in: Idem, Miscellanea II, 632-637; Hildebrand van Hooglede, ‘P. Albertus van ’s-Hertogenbosch te Westdorpe’, in: Idem, Miscellanea II, 639-645; Hildebrand van Hooglede, ‘Een portret van P. Albertus van ’s-Herto­genbosch (1740)’, in: Idem, Miscellanea II, 646-649; Hildebrand van Hooglede, ‘P. Albertus van ’s-Hertogenbosch en de Zusters van Horst (Limburg)’, in: Idem, Miscellanea II, 650-657.

Albertus Sarteanensis (Alberto da Sarziano/Sarteano/Alberto Berdini, 1385 - 15, 08, 1450, Milan)

Italian friar from Sarteano (Sarziano, Tuscany). Entered the Conventual branch of the order in his home town in 1405, where he would have received the first immersion in the Franciscan life by Bartolomeo of Pisa (by then 110 years old>> spurious tradition?). Alberto transferred to the observantist movement in 1415, and received additional training into the Observant way of life by Angelo da Civitella. Sometime after his transfer to the Observance, Alberto went to Verona. There he followed in 1422 a training in Rhetoric under the humanist Guarino (under whom he apparently had already learned Latin and Greek before 1405> check). In that same year, Alberto began his preaching career, guided by Bernardino of Siena, who sent Alberto in November 1422 as a preacher to Modena. Between 1424 and 1430, Alberto preached throughout Tuscany, gaining the nickname ‘rex praedicatorum’. In 1430, Alberto apparently suffered from a bout of the Plague, which necessitated a break from his preaching tours. However, at Pentecost 1431, when Alberto took part in the Observant general chapter of Bologna, he was chosen as one of the six friar who, on request by pope Eugenius IV, were sent to Basel, to preach the crusade against the Turcs. In 1433, he preached a Lenten cycle at Naples. Between 1435-1437, Alberto worked and travelled in the Byzantine Empire and in Palestine. He also had a role as organiser and interpreter at the council of Ferrara in 1438, where papal and byzantine delegations negociated about the union between the Greek and the Latin churches. The intial successes of this council stimulated pope Eugenius IV to use Alberto as an embassador to obtain a union with the Coptic and Ethiopian churches. Armed with papal letters, Alberto once again travelled to Palestine (Jerusalem), Egypt and Sudan (1439-1441). Although a union with the mythical Ethiopean church was out of the question – Albert got into serious trouble during preaching sessions in the Sudan and also was troubled by illnesses that forced him to break off his planned visit of Ethiopea - Alberto was able to persuade the Coptic patriarch John of Alexandria to assent to union with the Catholic church. Back in Italy, Alberto was chosen as the provincial vicar of the St. Anthony province (June 1442). Soon thereafter, on 18 July 1442, he was appointed general vicar of the Observants, in which capacity Alberto sent Giovanni da Capistrano to France, to stimulate the Observant reforms there. The pope saw Alberto as a good candidate for thje position of general minister, in order to unify the order. Yet, at the general chapter of May 1443, he was deemed unacceptable by the Conventuals (who apparently had had him removed with force from the premisses). Antonio da Rusconi was elected instead. Pope Eugenius IV then asked Alberto to preach the crusade against the Turcs in Aquilea. By the end of that year, Alberto is found again in Constantinople, helping his friend Jacopo da Primadizzi in reforming the Franciscan friaries there. In 1445, we find Alberto preaching during Lent in Milan. In 1446, he pacified the town of Brescia, helping to end its civil strife and establishing two Observant houses of Poor Clares (1445-1446). On 18 may 1449, he once more took part in the general chapter of the Observants (Mugello, near Florence). He died the next year, on 15 August 1450. He is considered as one of the ‘four pillars’ of the Observance (next to Bernardino da Siena, Giovanni da Capistrano and Giacomo della Marca) and is venerated by his order. A large number of his letters (more than 125), as well as sermons and orations have survived.

manuscripts

Sermo: Naples Naz. V.F.18 f. 130v-136r. (see Cenci, Napoli, >>)

Orationes et Epistolae: Killiney, `Bibl. Franc.' B 56 [see AFH 57 (1964), 165-190]

Oratio de Corpore Christi: Naples Naz. V.F. 18 f. 263r-269r (see Cenci, Napoli>>)

De Conditione Amicitiae et de Malitiae Invidentia >>? (see: Wadding, and Mariano da Firenze, AFH, 3 (1910), 707)

De Insolentibus Corrigendis >>? (see: Wadding, and Mariano da Firenze, AFH 3 (1910), 707)

Tractatus de Eucharistiae Sacramentio >>? (see: Wadding)

Tractatus de Poenitentia >>? (see: Wadding, and Mariano da Firenze, AFH 3 (1910), 707)

editions

Orationes (a.o. the Oratio de Corpore Chr; Contra Martyrum Vituperatores): Studi Francescani 36 (1939), 298-304. (edition De C. Chr.).

Epistolae & Orations (a.o. the Apologia contra Poggium Florentinum; Contra Hermaphroditum Obscaenissimum Antonii Panormitani; Quod Nihil Nocet ad Virtutem Humili Loco Nasci): Beati Alberti a Sarthiano, Ordinis Minorum Regularis Observantiae, Vita et Opera Omnia in Ordinem Redacta, ed. Francisco Haroldo Hiberno(Rome, 1688, reprint G.B. Bussoto (ed.), Opera Omnia, (Rome, 1698); Seraphinus Gaddoni, ‘Epistola B. Alberti Sarthianensis frustra S. Joanni a Capistrano attributa’, AFH 9 (1916), 448; F.Biccellari, ‘L’Opera del Beato Alberto da Sarteano per la pace e per la regola disciplina’, StF 11 (1939), 213-29 & StF 11 (1939), 288-310; H. Lippens, ‘S. Jean de Capistran en Mission aux Etats Bourguignons, 1442-1443’, AFH 35 (1942), 254-95 (one letter, pp. 284-6); Bulletti, ‘Frate Bernardino da Siena e frate alberto da Sarteano con gli ambasciatori senesi alla corte di Eugenio IV’, Bulletino di studi Bernardiani 4 (1938), 64-75 (one letter, pp. 72-4)

literature

Glassberger, Chronica, in: AF II, 307-308; Bernardino da Fossa, Chronica Fratrum Minorum Observantiae, ed. Lemmens (Rome, 1902), 19, 30-31; Wadding, Annales VIII, 380, X, 169-171, 180, 212, 226-228, 274, XI, 59, 71-77, 119-136, 156-160, 175-176, 238-239, 263, 266, 322, XII, 29, 63-64; Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1906), 8; Arthurus a Monasterio, Martyrologium Franciscanum (Paris, 1653), 369-370); D. de Gubernatis, Orbis Seraphicus (Rome, 1682) I, 184, II, 68, III, 91; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908), 8; Juan de San Antonio, BUF I, 19; B. Neri, La vita e i tempi del beato Alberto da Sarteano (Quaracchi, 1902); Antoine de Sérent, ‘Albert de Sarziano’, DHGE I, 1554-6; Zawart, 317; Dict. de Spir. V, 1345; F. Biccellari, ‘Un franciscano umanisto. Il B. alberto da Sarteano’, Studi Francescani 35 (1938), 2-48 & 36 (1939), 265-87; Idem, ‘Il beato Alberto da Sarteano, apostolo e apologista’, Studi Francescani 3rd. Ser., 10 (1938), 97-127; Idem, ‘Missioni del Beato Alberto in Oriente per l’Unione della Chiesa Greca e il ristabilimento dell’Osservanza nell’Ordine Francescano’, Studi Francescani 11 (1939), 159-73, 213-229, 265-316; E. Bulletti, ‘Sospensione del beato Alberto da Sarteano dalla predicazione’, Studi Francescani 25 (1953), 95-6; R. Pratesi, ‘Nuovi documenti sul Beato alberto da Sarteano (d. 1345)’, AFH 53 (1960), 78-110; P. Santoni, ‘Albert de Sarteano, observant et humaniste, envoyé pontifical à Jérusalem et au Caïre’, MEFRM 86 (1974), 165-211; Spicioni, ‘Alberto Berdini da Sarteano’, Studi Francescani 82 (1985), 359-365; R.L. Guidi, ‘Sottintesi e allusioni tra Poggio e Sarteano a proposito di una polemica mancata’, AFH 83 (1990), 118-61; Roberto Zavalloni, ‘Alberto da Sarteano (1385-1450)’, in: Mistici Francescani. Secolo XV, 747-761.

Check!>> Studi Francescani 35 (1938), 97-117; 36 (1939), 159-173, 213-229, 265-310.

Albertus Stadensis (Albert von Stade] (before 1200- † after 1264)

Probably of ministerial descent. He received his education in Bremen. He became prior and later abbot (1232) of the Benedictine monastery St. Mary near Stade. He left this position when he was unable to reform his cloister into a Cistercian one, thanks to the oppositiion of the Archbishop of Bremen, Gerard II. He then entered the Franciscan convent in Stade. As friar minor, Albert was able to pursue his literary interests. Already before his entrance in the Franciscan order he wrote a versified version of the Summa de casibus poenitentiae of Raymundus de Penyaforte (the so-called Raimundus, full title: Summa de Poenitentia et Matrimonia), the Auriga (a Gospel harmonization in proze for preaching purposes) and the Quadriga (a poetical adaptation of the Gospels). Not all of these works did survive. As Franciscan he wrote a Troilus (1249), a poem of 5320 verses after the Troy-story of Dares Phrygius. Aside from that he elaborated the Apocalypse commentary of Alexander Minorita, and he continued writing his Chronica, or Annales Stadenses (written between 1240-1256), a universal history with much information on the German and Northern regions. In it also is found his Itinerario, a pilgrimsguide to Rome and Jerusalem, written as a dialogue between two pilgrims. In his chronicle the history from creation to Christ is presented in a synoptical manner, with computations of the five aetates. The sixth aetas, the period after Christ, is presented in the form of annals. There exists a continuation of his chronicle, known as the Annales Lubicenses, running from 1294 to 1324. About the author of this continuation almost nothing is known.

manuscripts

Troilus: a.o. Wolfenbüttel, Herzog-August Bibliothek Cod. Guelf 278 Gud. Lat. 8°

editions

R. Reineccius (ed.) Chronica Alberti Stadensis. Helmstedt, 1587; J.M. Lappenberg (ed.) Annales Stadenses. in: MGH SS XVI 271-379. (Deeleditie. Er is een nieuwe editie met vertaling in voorbereiding door Dieter Berg.); Continuatio>>>> Annales Lubicenses. in: MGH SS XVI, 411-429; Itinerarium Terrae Sanctae, BBb, I, 181-185; IHC, IV, 1-10; Troilus Alberti Stadensis, ed. Th. Merzdorf, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Medii Aevi Teubneriana (Leipzig, 1875); Quadriga, in: Monumenta inedita rerum germanicarum, praecipue Bremensium, I/2, 136-7.

vitae
T. Eckhard, Vita Alberti Stadensis Abbatis Chronici Auctoris (Goslar, 1726).

literature

Wadding, Scriptores. 8; Lappenberg, ‘Ueber die bevorstehende Ausgabe der Chronik des Albert von Stade’, Archiv für altere deutsche Geschichte 6 (>>>>), 326-363; Lappenberg, ‘Ueber den Continuator  Alberti Stadensis’, Archiv für altere deutsche Geschichte 6 (>>>>), 547-553; Lappenberg, ‘Ueber den Catalogus Pontificum in Alberti von Stade Chronik’, Archiv für altere deutsche Geschichte 6 (>>>>), 741-750; L. Weiland, ‘Ueber das Verhältniss der Annales Stadenses zu den Annales Hamburgenses und Annales Bremenses’, Forschungen zur deutschen Geschichte 13 (>>>>), 157-198; Wattenbach-Schmale, Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen, 6^th ed. II, 439-441; K. Fiehn, `Albertus Stadensis', Historische Vierteljahrschrift, 26 (1931), 536-572; Idem, `Zum Troilus A. v S.', in: Studien sur lateinischen Dichtung des Mittelalters. Ehrengabe für Karl Strecker zum 4. September 1931, ed. W. Stach & H. Walter (Dresden, 1931), 45-59; Jürgen Stohlmann, 'Albert von Stade.' Die Deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon. 1 Berlijn-New York, 1978. 141-151; M. Wesche, Studien zur Albert von Stade (Freiburg, 1988); Thomas Gärtner, Klassische Vorbilder mittelalterlicher Trojaepen (Stuttgart-Leipzig, 1999), ; M. Zips, ‘Franziskanische Didaxe und Geschichtsschreibung im späteren Mittelalter (…)’, in: Ihr sult sprechen willekomen. Festschrift H. Birkan, 839-857; Gerda Maeck, ‘Vom Benediktinerabt zum Minderbruder. Studien zur Geschichtsschreibung Alberts von Stade’, Wissenschaft & Weisheit 63 (2000), 86-135.

Aldobrandus de Ammonatis (Aldovrando, d. 1284)

Italian friar from Florence. His name pops up in 1277, when he signed a deposition in favor of the Portiuncola indulgence. He departed for Armenia after 1279 and was killed at Salmasa in 1284. Author?

literature

Bartolomeo da Pisa, Liber Conformitatum, AF (Quaracchi, 1906), 332; Wadding, Annales Minorum V, 128; Paul Sabatier, Fr. Francisci Bartholi de Assisio Tractatus de Indulgentia S. Mariae de Portiuncula (Paris, 1900), xlv; Golubovich, Bibliotheca bio-bibliografica della Terra Santa (Quaracchi, 1906) I, 429; Études franciscaines 20 (1908), 344; Antoine de Sérent, ‘Aldobrando de Ammonatis’, DHGE II, 54.

Aldobrandus de Lugo (Aldovrando da Lugo, fl. later 14^th cent.)

Italian friar. Master of theology. Taught as regent of the Franciscan studium at Bologna in 1371. In 1385, he was enlisted into the Bologna collegium of university professors. Author?

literature

Repertorio dei professori della celebra università di Bologna (Bologna, 1847), 19 (no. 81); Piana>>>>>check!

Aldobrandus de Tuscanello (Aldobrando da Toscanella, d. 1314)

Italian friar. Preacher.

editions

Anna Pecorini Cignoni, ‘Un sermone latino ‘Francisci confessoris’ di Aldobrando da Toscanella’, Studi Francescani 98 (2001), 285-299.

Alexander Barcleius (d. 1552)

English or Scottisch friar. Was at first a secular priest at Otery. Thereafter he joined the Benedictines, and from there entered the Franciscans. He was an acknowledged poet, preacher, theological writer and translator. He translated for instance Sebastian Brant’s Narrenschiff into English and published a number of Saints Lives. Chaplain of Bishop Thomas Cornitz (to whom he dedicated his translation of the Narrenschiff) and later auxiliary bishop of Bath. He died at Croydon (near London, in June 1552.>> What happened to him after the dissolution?

literature

Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1906), 9; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca franciscana (Madrid, 1732) I, 19; Angelus a S. Francisco, Certamen seraphicum provinciae Angliae (Quaracchi, 1885), 294. Sbaralea, Supplementum ad scriptores (ed. Rome, 1908), 14; Antoine de Sérent, ‘Alexandre Barcleius’, DHGE II (1914), 252.

Alexander Borviza (fl. 1505)

Preached against the Orthodox Christians in Poland. >>see Sbaralea>

Alexander de Ariostis de Bononia (Alessandro de Ferrara/Alessandro Ariosto, d. ca. 1484)

OMObs. Probably born in Ferrara, in a family of lawyers. (also related to the famous Lodovico Ariosto, author of Orlando Furioso) Probably studied law before his entrance in the Observant branch of the order. In 1460 or 1463 (?), he is found in Palestine, where he wrote his Topografia Terrae Promissionis. Not known whether, after his return to Italy in the later 1460s, he took up a teaching position within the order. In 1475, he was asked to travel to Libanon, to help with the pastoral care among the Maronite Christians.  >From there, Alexander travelled to various other places in the Middle East (Cyprus, Syria, the Holy Land, Egypt, details of which can be found in his Itinerarium. Also active as crusade preacher  in and after 1480 (after the Turcs invaded Italy). Friar of the convent S. Paolo in Monte (Bologna) . He probably died after the fifth of June, 1485 (date of the latest dated letter written by Alexander from Bologna). He was a rather prolific author with humanist inclinations, as can be seen in his Latin style. In one of his letters (to Simon of Reggio, edited by Fussenegger, see below), Alexander wrote at length about his travels and about his literary production, information that indicates that, aside from his letters, Alexander wrote at least eight other works (see below).

manuscripts

Tractatus in Regulam Fratrum Minorum seu Serena Conscientia/Tractatus de Vero et Perfecto Statu Minorum (ca. 1456-1458): MS Assisi, Bib. Comun. 589 ff. 218r-234r.

Florilegium Textuum seu Dictorum e Sacra Scriptura, sanctis Patribus, Coprore Iuris canonici et operibus rhetorum antiquitatis. [opus deperditum?, see Fussenegger, 150. Would have amounted to an preacher’s manual with praedicabilia, examples, and handy canonist information].

De Usuris: Pavia, Bibl. Universitaria Aldini 65 ff. 42-91; Parma, Biblioteca Palatina Parm. 85.

Abbreviatio Tractatus Restitutionum S. Bernardini: Oxford Bodl. Canonic.-Miscell. 267 ff. 199v-245r. [This work, which can be interpreted as a practical hand guide for restitution issues for preachers and confessors, is heavily dependent on the sermons on usury and restition in his De Christiana Religione (Cf. Bernardinus Senensis, Opera Omnia I (Quaracchi, 1950), 400-532.]

Enchiridion sive Interrogatorium (1475): Washington D.C. Holy Name College, 28; Bologna, Bibl. Universitaria 172 (provenance: the Observant St. Paul convent in Bologna); >>>>

Topografia Terrae Promissionis: a.o. Bologna, Convent of St. Anthony 14 ff. 264v-309r; Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria 2539 (with dedicatory letter to the Duke of Este) & 2926 (with dedicatory letter to Marco of Bologna); Paris, BN Nouv. Acquis. Lat. 758 ff. 208r-262v.

Itinerarium: Piacenza Bib. Com. Passerini-Landi 154 ff. 1r-191r; Ferrara, Bib. Com. Ariostea 4 (not complete)

Vita Beati Marci Fantuzzi Bononiensis [Opus deperditum? See the remarks in Wadding, Annales Minorum, an. 1274, no. 20 & Fusenegger (1956), 155]

Vita Sancti Bonaventurae [Opus deperditum? See Fusenegger (1956), 155]

Epistolae: Piacenza, Bib. Comm. Passerini-Landi 154 ff. 44r-50r, 192-199v, 202rr-215v; Bologna, Univ. 2539 ff. 29rv.

See for more manuscript information especially Piana, Il beato Marco, 95-105.

editions

Serena Conscientia (Brixiae, 1502); Tractatus in Regulam Fratrum Minorum sive Serena Conscientia, in: Monumenta Ordinis Minorum (Salamanca, 1506) Tractatus III ff. 115v-145r; Tractatus in Regulam Fratrum Minorum sive Serena Conscientia, in: Speculum Minorum (Venice, 1509-1512) Tractatus III, ff. 101v-125r/134-151?; Tractatus in Regulam Fratrum Minorum sive Serena Conscientia, in: Monumenta Ordinis Minorum (Salamanca, 1511) Tractatus II, ff. 116r-147v; Tractatus in Regulam Fratrum Minorum sive Serena Conscientia, in: Firmamenta Trium Ordinum (Venice, 1513) III, ff. 133v-151; Tractatus in Regulam Fratrum Minorum sive Serena Conscientia, in: Girolamo Menghi da Viadana, Giardino delitioso de i Frati Minori (Bologna, 1592), 121-275 (interpolated Italian version.). [Alexander’s commentary (which dates from ca. 1456-1458), consists of 107 questions which, following the chapter order of the Regula Bullata, provide elucidations, with reference to most older rule commentaries (including the rule commentary of Olivi), papal decrees, bulls, and order constitutions (including the Farinarian constitutions of 1359 and the Martinian constitutions of 1430, but apparently not using the constitutions issued by John Capistran in 1443.)]

De Usuris (Bologna: Balthasar de Hyrberia, 1486) [Alexander wrote this work on request of the preacher Marco of Rimini. In the prologue to the work, Alexander  teaches us that ‘Libellum sex dumtaxat capitulis distinximus, que pluribus sunt referta paragraphis. Agitur in primo de usurae definitione, eius denominatione et merita reprobatione, de creditorum licita usurarum exactione ob proprium interesse. In secundo et tertio capitulo de usura quae per aequipollentiam in contractibus soccidae emptionis venditionisque et negotiantium societatibus potest incidere. In quarto, qui manifeste censeantur ururarii et quibus poenis ab Ecclesia puniantur. In quinto participes usurarum foeneraticorumque contractuum quo pacto ex his ad restitutionem teneantur. In sexto, quando, quibus de rebus, quibus in locis quibusve personis usurarii vel eorum heredes satisfacere teneantur atque ad id quibus poenis per iudices valeant compelli. Demum cuiusmodi debeat esse ista satisfactio, ut ex ea salutem miseri consequantur.’]

Enchiridion sive Interrogatorium pro Animabus Regendis sive Interrogatorium Confessorum pro Animorum Curanda Salute (Venice: Philippus Pincius Mantuanus, 1513/Venice: georgius de Rusconibus, 1516/Paris: jehan Petit, 1514/Paris: Jehan Petit, 1520/ Paris: Regnault Claudière, 1522/Pavia, 1516/etc. ) [For more edition information, see Fussenegger (1956), 153. Fussenegger makes clear that this work, finished in 1475 and dedicated to Marco of Bologna, ex vicar general of the Observants, was well-received, witness its re-issues in the early sixteenth century: ‘Est enim manuale casuisticum de administratione sacramenti poenitentiae, in tres partes divisum. In quarum prima auctor  de septem virtutibus pertractat quibus oportet sacerdotem insignitum esse ut suae aliorumque hominum bene consulat saluti; debet enim esse bonitate conspicuus, scientia idoneus, potestate praeditus, in interrogando cautus, in absolvendo providus, in poenitentiis dandis circumspectus, rerum auditarum secretus. Quae omnia ex iure canonico et auctorum sententiis copiose explicantur. In parte secunda de interrogationibus faciendis circa decem decalogi praecepta septemque peccata capitalia agit. In tertia vero de interrogationibus ad condicionem cuiuslibet confitentis pertinentibus disserit. Permultae sunt personae, quarum statum Fr. Alexander in hac parte respicit, v.g. Summus pontifex, cardinales, episcopi, sacerdotes beneficiati, praelati religiosorum, religiosi professi, doctores et magistri, iudices, advocati, medici, rectores hospitalium, caupones, macellarii, sutores, cerdones, pictores, nauclerii etc.’ Ibidem, 152-153.]

Topografia Terrae Promissionis, edited in: Marcellino da Civezza, Storia universale delle Missioni francescane (Rome, 1861) V, 637-682. Also edited as: Fratri Alexandri Ariosti de Bononia Topografia Terrae Promissionis, ed. Marcellino da Civezza (Rome, 1863) and in Ch. Kohler (ed.), `Description de la Terre Sainte par un franciscain anonyme', Revue de l'Orient Latin, 11 (1909-12), 1-67, 484ff. [it amounts to a typical description of the holy places, following the Franciscan tradition in these matters as developed since the later thirteenth century.]

Itinerarium sive de Sacra Peregrinatione.Edited as: Viaggio nella Siria, nella Palestina, nell'Egitto fatto dal 1475 al 1478 da frate Alessandro Ariosto, missionario apostolico, ed. G. Ferraro (Ferrara, 1878) [incomplete edition on the basis of the Ferrara ms only. This is a far more geographically and ethnographically oriented work, based on Alexander’s travels during his three years trip through the Middle East. At the same time, it deals with relics recovered and brought back to Italy.]

Epistolae:

- Epistola Petri Patriarchae Antiocheni ad Sixtum IV (translatio ex Arabico in Latinum),  edited in: Ferdinando da Bologna, Memorie istoriche della provincia dei Minori-Osservanti detta di Bologna (Bologna, 1717), 155-6.

- Epistola ad Sixtum IV (23 August 1476). Edited in: Ferdinando da Bologna, Memorie istoriche della provincia dei Minori-Osservanti detta di Bologna (Bologna, 1717), 152-4 (letter to Sixtus IV de statu Eccl. Antiochenae).

- Epistola ad Georginus Contarino (1 October 1477, from Jerusalem)

- Epistola ad Dominicum Mauriceno nautam (8 December 1478)

- Epistola ad Angelum Lupum de Cavis, episcopum Tiburtinum et gubernatorem Caesenae (June 1484)

- Epistola ad Baptistam Ariostum nepotem (5 June 1485)

- Epistola ad Fr. Simonem de Rhegio OFM (undated)

- Epistola ad Fr. Simonem de Rhegio OFM, edited in: Fussenegger (1956), 158-165. [This letter not only gives an insight in Alexander’s literary production and travels, but also presents the writing of praedicabilia dn hagiographical works as a suitable form of religious labour. For editions and references to the other letters (most of which can be found in the Piacenza manuscript mentioned above), see also: M. da Civezza - Th. Domenichelli, Orbis Seraficus de Missionibus, II (Ad Claras Aquas, 1886), II/I, 792; Picconi de Cantalupo, Cenni biografi sugli uomini illustri della francescana osservante provincia di Bologna (Parma, 1894), 16-9; G. Ferraro, Viaggio nella Siria, nella Palestina, nell'Egitto fatto dal 1475 al 1478 da frate Alessandro Ariosto, missionario apostolico (Ferrara, 1878), 38-43.]

Spurious?>> Minorica Elucidativa Rationabilis Separationis Fratrum Minorum de Observantia ad aliis Fratribus eiusdem Ordinis (Paris, 1497).

literature

Wadding, Script., 9; Sbar., Suppl. I, 3-4; Wadding, Annales, XIV, 149, 281; L. Oliger, ‘Alessandre d’Ariosti’, DHGE, IV, 174-7; G.Fussenegger, `De vita et scriptis Fratri Alexandri Ariosti (d. 1486)', AFH, 49 (1956), 143-165; C. Piana, Il beato Marco da Bologna e il suo convento di S. Paolo in Monte nel Quattrocento (Bologna, 1973), 95-105; C. Piana, `L'evoluzione degli studi nell'Osservanza francescana nella prima metà del '400 e la polemica tra Guarino da Verona e fra Giovanni da Prato a Ferrara (1450)', Analecta Pomposiana, 7 (1982), 268-269.

Alexander de Arles (Alexandre d’Arles, fl. ca. 1700)

OFMCap. French friar from the St. Louis province in the Provence. Preacher and historian. He is mentioned in the annals of the Provençal Capuchins now kept in the Franciscan Provincial Library at Couvin (MS 94 & 95).

editions 

Histoire de la fondation du monastère de la Miséricorde de la ville d’Arles (Aix, 1704 &1705). The work was dedicated to François de Maillé, archbishop of Arles.

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 3; H. Brémond, La Provence mystique au XVIIe siècle (Paris, 1908); Ubald d’Alençon, ‘Alexandre d’Arles’, DHGE II (1914), 252. 

Alexander de Caen (Alexandre de Caen, fl. 17^th cent.)

OFMCap. French friar, preacher and anti-protestant polemical writer.

editions

La ruine des presches et de la religion réformée (Le Havre, 1675 & 1685).

Le triomphe de Louis le Grand sur tous les hérétiques de France (Le Havre, 1685).

Le triomphe du saint Sacrament de l’autel sur l’hérésie (Le Havre, 1685).

All these various works also appeared in one volume, as: La ruine totale du calvinisme ou le triomphe de Louis le Grand sur l’hérésie calviniste, dédiée à sa Majesté (Rouen, 1687).

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca scriptorum ordinis minorum S. Francisci capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 3; N.N. Oursel, Nouvelle biographie normande (Paris, 1886) I, 6; Fr. Martin, Athenae Normannorum, ed. J. Bourrrienne (Caen, 1901), 39-40; Ubald d’Alençon, ‘Alexandre de Caen’, DHGE II (1914), 255; LexCap>>>

Alexander Bonini of Alexandria (Piemont) (ca. 1270 - 5, 10, 1314, Rome)

Italian friar. Theologian and philosopher outside Scotist lines of thought. Born in Alessandria della Paglia (Piemont). Took the habit in the Genoa province. After initial studies in his home province, he was sent to Paris to read the Sentences, ca. 1301-1303 (`published' second version ca. 1309). Returned to Italy as Sententiarius or Formatus, and was given the doctorate by papal bull on 29 November 1303. Lector at Bologna and Lector Sacri Palatii. Between 1307-1308, he is Magister Regens at Paris, as Scotus’ successor (his name appears on the list of doctors who lent their support to King Philip Le Bel of France in his persecution of the Templars (25 March, 1308)). In 1309 he became provincial minister in the Naples/provincia Ianuae/Terra Laboris. In that quality, he represented the community at the papal court in Avignon in 1310 against the Spirituals (represented by Ubertino da Casale). In 1312, he defended the community at the council of Vienne. At the general chapter of Barcelona, he was elected minister general (2 June 1313), a position he kept until his death until his death. As minister general, he took action against the spirituals (see also on this David Burr, The Spiritual Franciscans).  He died at Rome, on 5 October 1314. His Sentences commentary has not yet been edited. He also wrote commentaries on the Metaphysics of Aristotle and De Anima, Quaestiones Quodlibeta, a Tractatus de Usuris, as well as commentaries on several Biblical books.

manuscripts

Quaestiones Disputatae, MS Rome, Vat.Lat., 932, ff. 27v-32, 80-86; Padua Anton. 282 Scaff. XIII (sec. xiv); Naples Naz. VII. C. 47 f. 69d-73b; Bologna, Municip. A.886 ff. 1r-46ra (also 46ra-70rb?)

De Anima: Venice, Bibl. Marc. Z. Lat. 260 (14th cent.); Assisi, Bibl. Conv. di S. Francesco 326 (14th cent.); Escorial Real d.III.19 (14th cent.) ff. 1-125; London, Lambeth Palace 100 (15th cent.) ff. 1-99; Oxford, Magdalen College 80 (14th cent.) ff. 68-161; Oxford, Oriel College 58 (15th cent.); Cambridge, Peterhouse 239 pt. 2 (15th cent.) ff. 1r-40v; [attributed to Alex of hales] [See Lohr, 353-4]

Comm. de Libro V. Meteorum: Florence Laurenz. Plut. LXXXIV, 15 [Inc. In hoc quinto libro philosophus intendit distinguere nomino…] [See Thorndike, `Further Incipits of Mediaeval Scientific Writings in Latin', Speculum, 26 (1951), 673-695]

In I-IV Sent. Red. Prior, ante annum 1303 [Is this the work of William of Falgar?]: Assisi Conv. 124; Naples Naz., VII. C. 40; BAV Ross. 252 (14th cent., books I, II, III); Florence, Naz. D.4.26 (Santa Croce, books II, II, IV)

In I-IV Sent. Red. Posterior: Padua Anton. 200 Scaff. X (Book IV); Florence, Laurenz. Plut. 24 Dext. 7 (books II, III, IV (?, check!)); Florence, Naz. D.4.27 ff. 1r-48r (book III); Florence, Naz. E.4.24; BAV Borghes. 311; Sarnano, Bibl. Comun. E. 56 (14th cent.) (books II and III); Venice, Marc. Z.l.105 (book 1); Turin, Naz. K.III.6 ff. 65v-99r (book I); London, British Museum Add. 22011 ff. 55r-99v (book IV); London, British Museum Add. 14077 ff. 3r-145v (book I + Prologue and preface) (see Doucet)

Abbreviatio In I & III Sent Fr. Bonaventurae: Naples Naz., VII. C. 40; VII. F. 23; VII. F. 21.; Milan, Ambros. B. 5 sup. [Libri I, II, III & IV]; Assisi, Bibl. Conv. S. Francesco B.IX.1 [Quaestiones Abbreviatae ex I, II, et III Sententiarum]

Tractatus de Usuris: Naples Naz., VI. D. 7 f. 116a-133b (Cenci, Napoli, I, 322)

Commentarium in Metaphysicam: Padua Anton. Scaff. XVIII 386 (14th cent.); Naples Naz., VIII. E. 2; VIII. E. 37 (Cenci, Napoli, II, 819, 845); München, Staatsbibl. Clm 11591 ff. 9-13 (fragments); Córdoba, Bibl. del Cabildo 57; Córdoba, Bibl. del Cabildo 129 Est. 3 ff. 1-229v; Erfurt SB Ampl. F 325 (14th cent.) ff. 1r-214r, 232r; Kraków, Bibl. Jag. 650 (14th cent.); Florence Laurenz. Plut. 84 Cod. 15 (14th cent.) ff. 1-48.

Liber de Demonstratione>> Glorieux, Rép. II, 340.

Liber de Intellectu (?): Erlangen, Univ. Bibl. - Nürnberg, 210 ff. 6v-12

In Job. (?): Assisi, Comun. 47 ff. 158-244; Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibl. 4587 (the work of Alexander of Hales?)

In Eccles. (?): Assisi, Comun. 47 & 75 (the work of William of Meliton?)

In Iesaiam: Assisi, Comun. 76; Leipzig, Univers.bibl. 448 ff. 1-193; Paris, BN Lat. 15580 ff. 1-67 & 14432 ff. 152-222 [Cf: G. Dahan, `Réflexions sur l'exégèse des livres prophétiques à la fin du Moyen Age', in: Pensée, image et communication en Europe médiévale. À propos des stalles de Saint Claude, ed. P. Lacroix & A. Renon (Besançon, 1993), 195]>> In all probability the work of Alexander of Hales. See Horowski (2007).

In Joh. IV: Naples Naz. VIII. AA. 31 f. 427r-434r (extracts, see Cenci, II, 794); Padua Anton. 359 (309) Scaff. XVI; Kraków, Jagell. 1185 (an. 1428) ff. 1-229v & Jagell. 1186 (late 14th cent.) ff. 1-224v & Jagell. 1187 (an. 1450) ff. 1-210

In Ep. Ad Romanos: Padua Anton. 345 Scaff XVI; Vat. Lat. 931.

In Apoc.:>>

Quodlibet: Naples Naz. VIII. E. 16 f. 67a-76b; Bologna, Bibl. Com. A.886 (excerpts); BAV Lat. 932 ff. 1r-27v & 72v-80r; London, British Museum Add. 14077 ff. 148r-182v

Quaestio Quid Sit Medium in Demonstratione (?): Palermo, Comun. 2 Qq.D.142 ff. 82v-83v [See: Studi in ricordo di Eugenio Randi, ed. L. Bianchi (Louvain-la-Neuve, 1994), 342, 347.]

Sermones de T: Kraków, Jagell. 1190 (an. 1425) ff. 1r-13v, 74r-95v, 96v, 97r-105r, 107v-197r, 303v-329v, 337r-357r

editions:

Commentarium in Metaphysicam (Venice,1572) (commentaries on several fysical and metaphysical works of Aristotle, published under the name of Alexander of Hales)

Commentarium de Anima (Oxford, 1481/Venice, 1502)

Tractatus de Usuris, ed. A.-M. Hamelin, Culture, 16 (1955), 129-161, 265-287/ Le `Tractatus de Usuris' de maître Alexandre d'Alexandrie, Analecta Mediaevalia Namurcensia, 14 (Louvain, 1962).

Quodlibet, ed. B. Jansen, in Idem, `Beiträge zur geschichtliche Entwicklung der Distinctio formalis', ZKTh, 53 (1929), 538-543 (only one question: Utrum in Una et Eadem Re simplici Possint Includi Diverse Formalitates sive Diversa Esse Quidditativa)

Tractatus de Usu paupere (Declaratio Communitatis et Responsio `Religiosi Viri' [with Aegidius de legnaco, Gundisalvi de balboa, Martinus de Anglia, Vitalis de Furno]) ed. A. Heysse, `Ubertini de Casali Opusculum `Super tribus Sceleribus'', AFH, 10 (1917), 103-174 (116-22); A. chiappini, `Communitatis Responsio `Religiosi Viri' ad Rotulum fr. Ubertini de Casali', AFH, 7 (1914), 654-675 & AFH, 8 (1915), 56-80; F. Delorme, `Notice et extraits d'un manuscrit franciscain', Coll. Franc., 15 (1945), 5-9 (67-91)

Tractatus de usuris et de Restitutionibus, edited as Un traité de morale économique au XIVe siècle. Le Tractatus de usuris de maître Alexandre d'Alexandrie, ed. A.M. Hamelin (Louvain-Montréal-Lille, 1962). Cf. also F. Veraja, Le origini della controversia teologica sul contratto di censo nel XIII secolo (Rome, 1960). [Cf.: A.M. Hamelin, `Le tractatus de usuris de maître Alexandre d'Alexandriee', Culture, 16 (1955), 129-161, 265-287.]

Several questions of his Sentences commentary: A. Emmen, `Wilhelm von Ware, Duns Scotus' Vorlaufer in der Immakulatalehre', Antonianum, 40 (1965), 363-94 [Quaeritur utrum Caro Virginis Fuerit Sanctificata Antequam Animata, pp. 392-4]; O. Lottin, `La connexion des vertues morales acquisés au début du XIVe siècle', RThAM, 22 (1955), 288-293 [Utrum Virtutes Morales Sunt Connexae, pp. 289-91]

Epistolae: Estudios franciscanos (1917), 134-6 & 364-5 (two letters to James II of castille); AFH, 14 (1921), 419-20 (partial edition of a letter to friar Aycard, minister of Milan)

Postilla in Apocalypsim, edited under the name of Alexander of Hales (Paris, 1647).

literature

Weijers, Travail I.53-5; Glorieux, Faculté 19; Glorieux, Répertoire II.200-202, 340; Glorieux, Litt. Quod. 55-6; Lohr XXIII.353-4; Lohr, Bibl. p. 20; Catholicisme I.307-8; DBI XII, 226-9; DHGE II, 254-5; DTC Tables I, 77; ECatt II, 1882; LMA I, 376-7; LThK I, 306; LThK ³I, 361; LNH 121; Sarton III/1.517; Stegmüller, Sent. I.29-30; Doucet, Suppl. 10-14; Sbaraglia, Supplementum I,11-3; Wadding, Scriptores, 9; BAMAT IV, 198, VI, 151; L. Veuthey, Alexandre d'Alexandrie, maître de Paris et ministre général des frères mineurs. Pour l'histoire de la philosophie scholastique. Extrait des Études franciscaines 1931-1932 (Parigio 1932); D. Camagna, ‘Un filosofo alessandrino del secolo xiii: Alessandro d'Alexandrie maiître de l'Université de Paris et ministre général des frères mineurs [rec.]’, Riv.Stor. Arte. Archeol. 46 (1937) 450-476; F. Pelster, ‘Franziskanerlehrer um die Wende des 13. Und zu Anfang des 14. Jahrhunderts in zwei ehemaligen Turiner Hss.’, Gregorianum 18 (1937) 291-317; F. Krause, ‘Abriss der Erkenntnistheorie bei Alexander von Alessandria’, SMedW 20 (1980) 91-125; Idem, ‘Filozoficzne poglady Aleksandra z Aleksandrii i ich wplywna universytet Krakówski’, SMedW 23 (1985) 1-15; Idem, ‘Die Charakteristik des Begriffs Substanz bei Alexander Bonini aus Alexandria’, MPhPol 28 (1986) 33-9; A. Tabarroni, ‘Gentile da Cingoli e Angelo d'Arezzo sul Peryermenias e i mestri di logica a Bologna all'inizio del XIV secolo’, in: L'insegnamento della logica a Bologna (Bologna, 1993), 422-3; C. Rigo, ‘Yehudah ben Mosheh Romano traduttore degli scolastici latini’, Henoch 17 (1995) 161-3; M. Rossini, ‘Quod coextit exsistit: Alessandro di Alessandria e i futuri contingenti’, in: Sileo Via Scoti (Roma, 1995), 1049-1063; Fabio Troncarelli, ‘Pietro Trencavelli, visconte di Carcassonne’, Quaderni Medievali 47 (1999), 14-40 [with information on Alexander de Alessandria]; Feliks Krause, ‘L’attitude d’Alexandre Bonini d’Alessandria à l’égard du principe d’individuation’, Studia mediewistyczne 34-35 (2000), 147-155; David Burr, The Spiritual Franciscans>>; Leone Veuthey, Alessandro d’Alessandria, maestro dell’università di Parigi e ministro generale dei Frati Minori, trans. Gian Carlo Corrà, Opera Omnia, 8 (Rome: Editrice Miscellanea Francescana, 2005) [cf. review in CF 76,1-2 (2006), 367, explaining that this book is a translation of Veuthey’s doctoral thesis, originally presented in 1930 at the University of Fribourg, and first published in Paris in 1932 (see above). This Italian translation also contains a long introductory essay by Orlando Todisco, ‘Introduzione. Alessandro Bonini d’Alessandria interprete della filosofia francescana’, on pp. V-LII]; M.  Rossini & C. Schabel, ‘Time and Eternity among the Early Scotists. Texts on future contingents by Alexander of Alexandria, Radulphus Brito and Hugh of Novocastro’, Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 16 (2005), 237-338; Fabrizio Amerini, ‘Alessandro di Alessandria sulla natura degli accidenti’,  Aleksander Horowski, “Postillae Magistri Alexandri super Isaiam’: Alla ricerca del loro autore’, Collectanea Franciscana 77 (2007), 519-540.

Alexander Bremensis [Alexander Minorita] (gest. ca. 1271)

Lekenminderbroeder uit de omgeving van Bremen, auteur van een apocalypscommentaar. Van het werk bestaan verschillende redacties (geschreven tussen 1235 en 1249). Alexander's commentaar op de apocalyps is de eerste die de openbaring van Johannes opvat als een consistente geschiedprofetie voor de Kerk vanaf de geboorte van Christus tot aan zijn eigen tijd. De visioenen tonen een continu en teleologisch geschiedproces. Middels een verbinding tussen spirituele en historische exegese slaagt Alexander er in dit proces te presenteren als de geschiedenis in zes tijdvakken van de strijd tussen de Antichrist en de vredesvorst. Het laatste tijdvak zal spoedig afbreken met de heerschappij van de Antichrist en het afsluitende laatste oordeel. Met een beroep op pseudo-joachimistische geschriften benadrukt Alexander het belang van de bedelorden in deze laatste periode. Het apocalypscommentaar kent in sommige handschriften een bijzondere beeldencyclus. Het commentaar oefende invloed uit op de apocalypscommentaren van Petrus Aureoli en Nicolaus de Lyra.

edities:

Commentarium in Apocalypsim, ed. A. Wachtel, MGH Quellen zur Geistesgeschichte, 1 (Weimar, 1955).

literature

M. Huggler, 'Die Bilderkreis in der Hss. der Alexander-Apokalypse.' Antonianum 9 (1934) 85-150, 269-308; A. Wachtel, 'Die weltgeschichtliche Apocalypse-Auslegung des Minoriten Alexander von Bremen.' Franziskanische Studien. 24 (1937) 201-259, 305-363; B. Hirsch-Reich, 'Der Apokalypsenkommentar des norddeutschen Minoriten Alexander.' Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale 24 (1957) 361-364; Stegmüller, RB. VIII. no. 1115; Dieter Berg, 'Alexander Minorita.' Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon. 1. Berlin-New York, 1978. 220-22; S. Schmolinsky, Der Apokalypsenkommentar des Alexander Minorita. Zur frühen rezeption Joachims von Fiore in Deutschland (Hannover, 1991); S. Schmolinsky, ``Multifariis vaticiniis iam usque ad fastidium repleti sumus'? Deutsche Franziskaner des 13. Jahrhunderts im Umgang mit joachitischen Ideen', W&W, 50 (1987); J.M. Phelps, A Study of Renewal Ideas in the Writings of Early Franciscans: 1210-1256, U. of California PhD., 1972 (Ann Arbor, 1974), 18-198; David Burrr, Olivi's Peaceable Kingdom. A Reading of the Apocalypse Commentary (Philadelphia, 1993)>>; G.L. Podestà, `I frati minori e lo studio della Bibbia', in: La Bibbia nel Medioevo, ed. G. Cremascoli & C. leonardi (Bologna, 1996), 269-90; S. Schmolinsky,`Merkmale der Exegese bei Alexander Minorita', in: Neue Richtungen in der hoch-und spätmittelalterlichen Bibelexegese, ed. R.E. Lerner & E. Müller-Luckner (Munich, 1996), 139-148; Sabine Schmolinsky, ‘Prophezeite Geschichte und früher Joachitismus in Deutschland. Zur Apokalypsendeutung des Alexander Minorita’, in: Ende und Vollendung. Eschatologische Perspektiven im Mittelalter, ed. Jan A. Aertsen & Martin Pickavé, Miscellanea Medievalia 29 (Berlin-New York, 2002), 525-544; Sabine Schmolinsky, ‘Ordensprophetie nach Joachim von Fiore? Franziskaner und Dominikaner im Apokalypsenkommentar des Alexander Minorita’, in: Geistesleben im 13. Jahrhundert, ed. Jan A. Aertsen & Andreas Speer, Miscellanea Mediaevalia, 27 (Berlin, 2000), 321-332; Sabine Schmolinsky, ‘Prophezeite Geschichte und früher Joachitismus in Deutschland. Zur Apokalypsendeutung des Alexander Minorita (d. 1271)’, in: Ende und Vollendung. Eschatologische Perspaktiven im Mittelalter, ed. Jan A. Aertsen & Martin Pickavé, Miscellanea Mediaevalia, 29 (Berlin-New York: De Gruyter, 2002), 525-544.

Alexander Burgos (1666-1726)

Preacher.

editions

De usu et necessitate eloquentiae in rebus sacris tractandis (Rome, 1710).

literature

Harry Caplan & Henry H. King, ‘Latin Tractates on Preaching: A Book-List’, The Harvard Theological Review 42:3 (Jul., 1949), 201.

Alexander Halensis [Doctor Irrefragabilis] (ca. 1185 - 21, 08, 1245, Paris)

English theologian and friar. Born in Hales (Gloucester). Studied first in England and then at Paris. In 1210 magister regens at the arts faculty of the University of Paris. Opted for the priesthood and obtained a benefice as Archdeacon, which enabled him to continue his studies of theology at Paris. Around 1225, he became magister regens in theology at the same university, a position he kept until his death. In or after 1231, he entered the Franciscan order,  thus becoming the first Franciscan regent master at Paris (among his pupils were, among others, Jean de La Rochelle (whom Alexander chose as his co-regent in 1235) and Bonaventura). Alexander wrote an important commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard and was a seminal force behind the introduction of Lombard’s Sentences as the standard textbook at the theology faculty. Together with several of his Franciscan pupils, Alexander embarked on a large Summa Theologiae. This was completed after his death, and became an important handbook within the Franciscan schools. Alexander also wrote sermons and several biblical commentaries, yet the Apocalypse commentary found under his name probably is from the hand of an other Franciscan (Vital du Four?, not according to David Burr (1990/1993)). Alexander subscribed to the 1241/1244 condemnations of paris and took part in the first council of Lyons (1245). He also fulfilled several diplomatic missions for King Henry III of England at the french Royal Court.

manuscripts

Sermones de sanctis et de tempore, Paris, Nat. Lat., 16502, f. 116ra; Paris, Nouv. Acquis., 1740 ff. 144rb, 154ra [The sermons in Pavia, UB, Aldini 479, ff. 128ra-180vb, described by Schneyer in AFH 58 (1965), 537-551, should be ascribed to Petrus Remensus]

Sermo de Sancta Maria Magdalena: Kraków, Bibl. Jagiell. 1190 ff. 23r-30v

Expositio Pater noster [inc.: ‘Dicite ‘Pater’ in principio invocate, dicite, inquam, non voce tantum, sed et corde’]: Reims 1960 [s. xiv], ff. 93d-94v.

>>De Articulis Fidei

Expositio decem praeceptorum [inc.: ‘Primum praeceptum appropriate respicit’]: Oxford, Magdalen College 68 [Glorieux, Répertoire 301 (x), 345 (am) mentions it under the name of Nicholas of Lyra.]

>> Exoticon

>> Rule Commentary>>

De concordia iuris divini et humani seu Concordia utriusque Testamenti:>>?? See: Stegmüller no. 1148 and F. Pelster ‘Exegetische Schriften des Alexander von Hales’, Biblica 2 (1921) 453-7 [453].

?Summa de Virtutibus (See Bloomfield, no. 2273 & Doucet, Summa, IV, cccxxxviii [compilation from the writings of Alex of Hales, Odo Rigaldus, William Milton etc.]

?Summa de Vitiis: Salins, Bibl. Munic. 10 (an. 1468) ff. 1r-144 [Bloomfield no. 1254; Stegmüller, Sent., 63]

?Post. in Job [the work of Alexander Bonini? ]: Bologna, Coll. di Spagna 32 (13th/14th cent.) ff. 1r-67r; Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Pl. IV sin. 9, ff. 46-106; Assisi, Biblioteca Comunale 47, ff. 158-244.

Glossae in Psalmos [lost work? Maybe the same work as Glosae fratris Alexandri found in Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek 163, s. xiii]

? Postillae in Isaiam: Assisi, Comun. 76; Leipzig, Univers. bibl. 448 ff. 1-193; Paris, BN Lat. 15580 ff. 1-67 & 14432 ff. 152-222 [Like the Commentary on Job, this work too is sometimes ascribed to Alexander of Alexandria/Bonini. Dr. Aleksander Horowski OFMCap (who very kindly also gave us several other references to other works of Alexander), informed us that, according to him, only MS Assisi Communale 76 ascribes the work to Alexander of Alexandria. He also informed us that Stegmüller ascribed MS Leipzig 448 explicitly to Alexander of Hales (something we missed ourselves), whereas MSS Paris Bn Lat. 15580 and 14432 are anonymous, and that the studies by I. Brady and B. Guyot mention that an anonimous Introitus in Isaiam in MS Praha Univ. IV.D.13 (dated. 1245-1250) testifies to the existence of Alexander of Hales Postillae in Isaiam. (B. Guyot cites this particular passage in the Prague MS: apud iudeos amos pater ysaie scribitur per aleph et sadhe, ille uero per ayn et sameth. alie d^r in postillis alex. (p. 29).]. See on all this the study of Horowski (2007) mentioned below.

Post. in Lucam: Durham Cathedral A.II.22 (13th. Durham) ff. 109r-155; Assisi, Biblioteca Comunale 355, ff. 110-153; Reims, BM 162 (B. 90) [s. xiii], ff. 134-204; Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 17047 ff. 19r-26v (fragment)

Post. in Marcum: Assisi, Biblioteca Comunale 355, ff. 66-109 [anon.]; Reims, BM 162 (B. 90) [s. xiii], ff. 87-133; Durham, Cathedral Library A.II.22 [s. xiii], ff. 74r-109r.

Post. in Johannem: Dresden, Landesbibl. P.36 ff. 102-103 (fragment); Durham Cathedral A.II.22 (13th. Durham) ff. 155v-238v; Bayerische Staatsbibl. clm 17047 (13th cent.) ff. 111r-114v [fragment]; Prague, Metropol. Chapter Library A. 108 vol. 3 (15th cent.) ff. 1r-198v; Paris, BN Lat., 14438 pt. 1 (13th cent.); Reims,Bibl. Munic. 162 (13th cent.) ff. 205r-306v; Seville, Bib. Capitular y Colombina 7-2-26 (13th cent.) ff. 156r-175v [fragment] See also: A.A. Young, `Accessus ad Alexandrum (...)', Mediaeval Studies, 52 (1990), 1-23 (text 17-23).

Post. in Matthaeum: Assisi, Biblioteca Comunale 355, ff. 1-65 [anon.]; Reims, BM 162 [s. xiii], ff. 1-86; Durham, Cathedral Library A.II.22 [s. xiii], ff. 5r-72r.

? Mariale Majus [inc.: ‘Mariae praecellentissimae matris Dei caeli imperatricis’]: Lambeth Palace, 52 pt. 2 (second half 14th cent.) ff. 67r-201r; Reading [attested copy in the sixteenth century, Friars 233] [Doucet, Maitres, 536-537, thinks that the work probably should be ascribed to Thomas Halensis]

Quaestiones Disputatae Postquam Fuit Frater>>see for the MSS the edition of the Summa, IV, clxxii-cxcvii; B.-G. Guyot, Quaestiones Guerrici, Alexandri et aliorum magistrorum parisiensium (Praha, Univ. IV. D. 13), in Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum 23 (1962) 5-125.

Quaestiones Theologicae: Oxford, Bodl. Bodley 292

Quodlibeta: Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria 2554 [s. xiii], ff. 76r-v [quodlibet II]; Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodl. 292 [s. xiv²], ff. 321r-323v [quodlibet I]; Paris, BNF, lat. 15272 [s. xiii], ff. 169r-170r [quodlibet I]; Paris, BNF, lat. 16406 [s. xiii], ff. 40v-43r [quodlibet I], 70r-72v [quodlibet II]; Vat lat. 782, f. 26v-28v [quodlibet III]; Vat lat. 782, f. 79r-81v = Assisi, Bibl. Comunale 138, f. 16r-17r [quodlibet IV]; Praha, Univ. IV. D. 13, f. 241r [quodlibet V (fragment)]

Sententiae magistri Alexandri: Siena G.VIII.27 [anon.]; Basel, Universitätsbibliothek [Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität] AN.VI.13 [s. xiii]

Summa Theologiae: many mss, a.o. Oxford, Bodl. Canon Pat. Lat. 154 (ca. 1470-80); Siena, Bibl. degli Intronati F.IX.13 ff. 355r-357v [excerptum]; Bologna, Coll. Hisp. 33.

Glossa in IV Sent.: >>> a.o. Arras 855 (526);

Liber I Sententiarum [inc.: ‘Altissimus creavit de terra medicinam. Eccli. 38. In hiis verbis singulariter expositis’]: Amiens, BM 234 [s. xiii; anon.]; Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket (Carolina) C.167 [s. xiii]. The Liber I Sententiarum with the inc.: ‘Vidi in dextera sedentis super tronum … Apoc. 5. Liber vite dicitur S. Scriptura’, which can be found in Padova, Biblioteca Antoniana 183 [s. xiii] and in Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale «Vittorio Emanuele III», VII.C.3 [s. xiii], is also ascribed to Peter Aureol.

Tractatus magistri Alexandri de significationibus et expositione S. Scripturarum [inc.: ‘Cum secundum apostolicam sententiam invisibilia Dei’]: Sevilla, Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina 7-2-26 [s. xiii; anon.], ff. 102r-103v; Mayence (Mainz), Bibliothèque de la Ville (Stadt…) 553, ff. 25r-32v [s. xv] [Cf. Stegmüller no. 1157 and Doucet, Maîtres, 538.]

editions

R.P. Alexandri de Hales, Commentarii in Apocalypsim sancti Ioannis. in: Opera Omnia. ed. Joannis de la Haye, Antwerpen, sumptibus Antonii Bertier, 1647 & paris, 1647.[Work of Alexander of Alexandria?]

Exoticon, ed. Hunt, in: Teaching and Learning Latin in Thirteenth-Century England, Three Vols. (Cambridge, 1991), I, 298-322 (304-319).

Summa Halensis, ed. V. Doucet et.al. (Quaracchi, 1924-1948) & Index (Grottaferrata, 1979); Summa Fratris Alexandri. Tomus II - Liber Secundus - I, studio et cura PP. Collegii S. Bonaventurae ad fidem codicum edita (Quaracchi, 1928: Editio anastatica, Grottaferrata, 1997). [The critical edition by Doucet et al. is not complete. It contains only Books I-III [lib. I = t. 1; lib. II = t. 2-3; lib. III = t. 4]. For book IV the old printed editions should be consultated. There are, in fact many of these older editions, reaching back to the fifteenth century (a.o. Nuremberg, 1481-1482 in 4 Vols.; Pavia, 1489 in 4 Vols.; Venice, 1496 in 4 Vols.; Lyon, 1515-1516 in 4 Vols; Venice, 1575-1576 in 4 Vols.; Cologne, 1622 in 4 Vols.). This Summa as such is not written by Alexander himself, but is a collaborative effort of various of Alexander’s Franciscan pupils, notably Jean de La Rochelle and William of Meliton, partly based on Alexander’s own writings, partly on the basis of works initiated by these pupils themselves.]

Glossa in IV Libris Sententiarum Petri Lombardi, Bibliotheca Franciscana Scholastica Medii Aevi, 12-15 (Quaracchi, 1951-57; Editio anastatica, Grottaferrata, 1997)

Expositio Quattuor Magistrorum Super Regulam Minorum (1241-1242). Accedit eiusdem Regulae textus cum fontibus et locis parallelibus, ed. L. Oliger (Rome, 1950). Cf. A. Tabarroni, in: Dalla `Sequela Christi' di Francesco d'Assisi all' Apologia della povertà. Atti del XVIII Convegno internazionale, Assisi, 18-20 ottobre 1990 praef. R. Rusconi, (Spoleto, 1992), 79-122.

?Summa de Virtutibus (Paris, 1509 etc.)

Quaestiones Disputatae Antequam Esset Frater, ed. V. Doucet, Bibliotheca Franciscana Scholastica Medii Aevi, 19-21, 3 Vols. (Quaracchi, 1960); F. Lynch ‘The Theory of Alexander of Hales on the Efficacy of the Sacrament of Matrimony’ Franciscan Studies 11 (1951), 69-139 [131-9: Quaestiones antequam esset frater: de matrimonio, de repudio et divortio]

Quaestio Postquam fuit Frater de Iudicio, ed. J.G. Bougerol , in: ‘Autour de ‘La Naissance du Purgatoire’’, AHDL, 58 (1983), 32-48 [In reality this is the Quaestio de Igne Purgatorio (q. 218 in Doucet’s Prolegomena). The title De Iudicio refers to the first three questions of the series containes in MSS Troyes 1245 e Todi 71] What is the relationship between this text and the questions edited in Aleksander Horowski, ‘Le questioni disputate sul giudizio finale di Alessandro di Hales. Introduzione ed edizione’, Collectanea Franciscana 75 (2005), 27-101?

Quaestiones Postquam Fuit Frater: Quaestio de eo quod Angelus dicitur assummere Corpus, in: S. Bonaventura e la scala di Giacobbe. Letture di angelologia (Napoli, 1995).

Quaestiones de fato, ed. J. Görgen, in: ‘Untersuchungen und Erläuterungen zu den Quaestiones de fato, de divinatione, de sortibus des Magister Alexander’, Franziskanische Studien 19 (1932) 13-39.

Quaestiones de Aeternitate, Aevo et Tempore, ed. D.M. Nathanson, in Idem, Alexandri de Hales Quaestiones ‘de aeternitate, aevo et tempore» et ‘de duratione mundi’ in: Dissertation Abstracts 47 (1987), 1449A.

Quodlibet de Pertinentia [Quodlibet II], ed. O. Lottin L’identité de l’âme et ses facultés pendant la première motié du XIIIe siècle RNSF 36 (1934) 198-9 [Cf. Glorieux, Litt. quod. II.57-9, 319]

Quaestio de doctrina theologiae del ms. Vat. Lat. 782, ed. F. Chavero Blanco, in: Carthag. 15 (1999) 49-72 [ascription uncertain]

Quaestio de Beatitudine, ed. Francisco de Asís Chavero Blanco & Francisco Martínez Fresneda, Carthaginensia 17 (2002), 115-166.

Quaestiones Disputatae de Dotibus Animae, edited in: Aleksander Horowski, ‘Questione disputata ‘De dotibus animae’ di Alessandro di Hales – Introduzione ed edizione’, in: Verum, pulchrum et bonum. Miscellanea di studi offerti a Servus Gieben in occasione del suo 80^o compleanno, ed. Yoannes Teklemariam (Rome: Ed. Collegio San Lorenzo da Brindisi, Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, 2006), 337-395.

Comm. in Johannem, partial edition in: A.A. Young, ‘Accessus ad Alexandrum: the ‘‘Praefatio’’ to the ‘‘Postilla in Johannis Evangelium’’ of Alexander of Hales (1186?-1245)’, Mediaeval Studies 52 (1990) 1-23 [17-23]

The prologues to his Postills on the synoptic Gospels have been edited by Aleksander Horowski, in Collectanea Franciscana 77:1-22 (2007), 27-62.

Alexandre de Halès, La science divine, ed. & trans. Marc Ozilou, in: Sur la science divine. Textes présentés et traduits sous la direction de Jean-Christophe Bardout & Olivier Boulnois, Épiméthée: essais philosophiques (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2002), 152-176.

[Quaestio de adventu Christi ad iudicium; De ipso iudicio; De froma iudicii]: Le questioni sul giudizio finale di Alessandro di Hales. Introduzione ed edizione, ed. A. Horowski, in Collectanea Franciscana 75 (2005) 27-101.

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With thanks to dr. Aleksander Horowski OFMCap for his corrections and additions.

Alexander Hurtado (Alejo Hurtado, fl. c. 1550)

OFM from Salamanca. Member of the Santiago province

literature

AIA 28 (1968), 435-442; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 129 (no. 423).

Alexander Langley (14th cent.)

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manuscripts

In I-IV Sent. [16 reported questions]: Vat. Lat. 13002 (s. xiv) ff. 175r-218v (15 qq of Libri I-III); Vat. Lat. 986 f. 18r

editions

In I-IV Sent.: In preparation by R.D. Edwards

literature

Sharpe, Handlist, 217; BRUO, 1094; Doucet, Comm., 100-101; W.J. Courtenay, `Alexander Langley OFM', Manuscripta, 18 (1974), 96-104; F. Genest, Prédétermination et liberté crée à Oxford au XIVe siècle. Buckingham contra Bradwardine (Paris, 1992), 88-9; Raymond Edwards, ‘Themes and personalities in ‘Sentence’ commentaries at oxford in the 1330’s’, in: Mediaeval Commentaries on the ‘Sentences’ of Peter Lombard. Current Research, ed. G.R. Evans (Leiden-Boston-Köln: Brill, 2002), 379-393 (esp. 385-389).

Alexandre de Lyon (fl. 17th cent.)

OFMRec. Hagiographical author…

literature

DSpir I, 300.

Alexander de Montepulciano (Alessandro de Montepulciano, d. 1631)

OFM. Italian friar and spiritual author.

literature

DSpir VI, 365-366.

Alexander de Riciis de Aquila (1434-1497)

Entered the order when he was 12, after hearing a sermon by Paulus de Senis, near Aquila. Fulfilled several functions in the order in various Italian convents and provinces. Also active as historian.

manuscripts

Sermo de Iudicio Universali (Domenica Prima de Adventu): Naples Naz., V.H. 67 f. 38r-39r (also other sermons?)

Quodlibetum>>?

Mariale & Officium B. Mariae Virginis et Passionis Christi: Naples Naz., V. H. 145; Aquila Bib. Prov. S 74.

Repertorium Juris: Naples Naz., I.H.43 ff. 3r-193v

Corellarium Marialis: Naples Naz., V.H. 145.

Sermones Quadragesimales>>?

Regula Fratrum Minorum>>>?

Sacrarium>>?

Quadragesimales de credibilibus Fidei: Aquila Bib. Prov. S 71.

editions

Chronica Civitatis Aquilae: ed. L. Cassese, Archivio storico per le Provincie Napoletane, 66 (1941), 151-216; 68 (1943), 185-268.

Chronica Ordinis Minorum: partial ed. Chiappini (see literature)

literature

A. Chiappini, ‘De vita et scriptis fr. Alexandri de Riciis’, AFH 20 (1927), 314-35, 563-74; 21 (1928), 86-103, 285-303, 553-79; Cenci, Napoli>>

Alexander de Sancta Familia (1736-1818)

OFM. Portuguese friar. Preacher and poet. Almost against his will, he was appointed bishop of Malacca in 1763. He was transferred to the Angola diocese in 1785 and to the Angra diocese in 1815. Several of his poetic works and biblical translations have survived, among which a Portuguese translation of the Canticum Moyse.

literature

Gams, Series episcoporum, 117, 473, 474; Études franciscaines 5 (1901), 420; Antoine de Sérent, ‘Alexandre de la Sainte-Famille’, DHGE II (1914), 270.

Alexander de Verona (Alessandro da Verona/Francesco Maioli, d. 1775)

OFMRef. Italian friar from the Venetian province. Teacher of theology in several friaries and studia. At the general chapter of Mantua (1762), he presented a famous defense in 51 theses of Catholic dogma (against other forms of Christianity). In 1768, he fulfilled a canonical visit of the Brescia province. He died at Verona on 27 March 1775. Some of his philosophical-theological works have survived. These show his adherence to dominant Scotist tendencies within the Franciscan order of his day.

editions

Theses Theologico-Scholasticae ad Mentem Doctoris Subtilis Joannis Duns Scoti (Padua, 1762).

literature

Antonio Maria da Vicenza, ‘Commentariolum de Veneta provincia reformata’, in: Analecta Franciscana (Quaracchi, 1885) I, 319, 335; Scriptores Provinciae S. Antonii Venetiarum (Venice, 1877), 115; Antoine de Sérent, ‘Alexandre de Vérona’, DHGE II (1914), 278.

Alexander de Villa Dei (Villedieu, Dolensis, 1170-1250)

>> Author of several mathematical treatises, as well as of other - religious - works.

manuscripts and editions

.Admirantes Quondam Philosophi (no edition off manuscript known?); Algorismus seu Carmen de Algorismo, seu De Arte Numerandi, ed. J.O.Halliwell, Rara Mathematica (London, 1839 & 1841), pp. 73-833, ed. R. Steele, The Earliest Arithmatics in English (Oxford, 1922), 722-80; Alphabetum Minus, ed. A. Mai (Rome, 1836; Carmen de Musica cum Glossis (?), ed. A. Saey (Colorado Springs, 1977); Alphabetum Majus (lost); De Sphaera (ms?); Doctrinale, ed. D. Reichling, Das Doctrinale des Alexander de Villa Dei (Berlin, 1893), 7-178 (reprint, New York, 1974) Domine Labi Mea aperies (no mss?); Ecclesiale seu Clericale, ed. Lind, Ecclesiale by Alexander of Villa Dei (Lawrence, 1958); Glossae in Doctrinale (mss?); In Principio Cujuslibet Scientiae, MS Paris, Nat. Lat. 15170, f. 41; Margarita Philosophiarum, MS Boulogne-s. Mer, 184; Massa Compoti, ed. R. Steele, in: Opera Hactenus Inedita Rogeri Baconi (Oxford, 1926), VI, 268-289 & ed. W.E. van Wijk, Le nombre d'or. Etude de chronologie technique suivie du texte de la `Massa Compoti', d'Alexandre de Villedieu, avec traduction et commentaire (La Haye, 1936), 52-84. Praesens Opus in Prima Sui Divisione Potest Dividi MS Paris, Nat. Lat., 8513, ff. 3-48v; Quoniam Humana natura Tribus Modis MolestaturMS Paris, Nat. Lat. 8427, ff. 104-127v; Secundum Sententiam Platonis in Thimeo, MS Paris, Nat. Lat., 14747, ff. 1-212v; Sermones (no mss?); Summarium Biblicum sive Compendium Scripturae (Venice, 1498).

literature

Wadding, Script., 10; Sbaralea, Suppl., I, 22; Stegmüller, Rep. Bib., 1175-82 & Suppl. 1182, 4 - 1182, 14; B. Hughes, `Franciscans and Mathematics, II', AFH, 77 (1984), 8-11; F. Stella, `La trasmissione nella letterature: la posia', in: La Bibbia nel Medioevo, ed. G. Cremascoli & C. Leonardi (Bologna, 1996), 47-64 (info on the Summarium Biblicum); W. Maaz, `Zur Rezeption des Alexander von Villa Dei im 15. Jahrhundert', MLJ, 16 (1981), 276-281.

Alexander Presburgensis (Alexander von Presburg, d. 1496)

OFMObs. Hungarian friar, active in the Austrian and Bohemian provinces. Entered the order after studies in the liberal arts. Became a well-known anti-Hussite preacher. In 1468 he travelled with the apostolic nuntius Lorenzo Rovella (bishop of Ferrara) through the dioceses of Salzburg, Styria and Carinthia, preaching the crusade against George Podiebrad (the Bohemian protector of the Hussites). In 1471, Alexander became the first guardian of the the St. Leonhard friary outside Graz (Styria). In 1484, he was provincial vicar. In 1491, he took over for the Observants the former Conventual friary of Laibach. He died there in 1496. Author?

literature

V. Greiderer, Germania franciscana (Insbruck, 1777) I, 85, 308, 322, 436, 509; Herzog, ‘Cosmographia Franciscano-Austriacae Provinciae’, Analecta Franciscana (Quaracchi, 1885) I, 94, 102, 127; Guido Raut, Die Franziskaner der österreichischen Provinz, ihr Wirken in Nieder-Oesterreich (Stein in Krain, 1908), 64, 99; Antoine de Sérent, ‘Alexander de Presbourg’, DHGE II, 269-270.

Alexandrin de la Ciotat (Saint Jean de la Croix, d. 1706)

OFMCap, guardian in several provinces; spiritual author…

editions

Parfait dévoument de l’ame contemplative (Paris, 1680/Marseille, 1681)

literature

DSpir I, 302-303.

Alexius de Sancto-Lo (Alexis de Saint-Ló, d. 1659)

OFMCap. French friar. Born a Protestant, he converted at the age of 21 to Catholicism and joined the Capuchins. Preacher and anti-Protestant controversialist. Departed from Dieppe to Senegal on 11 October 1635, to arrive at Cape Verde with Bernardin de Renouard. From there he would have travelled to America. However, he returned to France, to die in the Capuchin friary of Sotteville-lès-Rouen, on 17 July 1659 at the age of 70. Sometimes, he is confused with the Italian friar Alexis de Salò.

editions

Relation du voyage du cap Vert (Paris, 1637/Rouen, 1639).

literature 

Wadding, Scriptores (ed. 1650), 10; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 4; François Martin, Athenae Normannorum, ed. Bourrienne (Caen, 1901), 49; N.-N. Oursel, Nouvelle biographie normande (Paris, 1886) I, 7; Ubald d’Alençon, ‘Alexis de Saint-Ló’, DHGE II (1914), 396.

Alexius de Serenio Mediolanensis (Alessio da Seregno, d. 1448)

Italian friar. Theologian and preacher. Lector of theology at the Milan studium. Expounded the Sentences there. Pope Boniface IX allowed him to become magister theologiae via a papal bull (dated 18 march, 1401). On 26 September 1405, Innocent VII made him bishop of Bobbio. The Franciscan pope Alexander V transferred him to the see of Gap. By 1409, Alessio left this post to become camerarius and confessor of the pope. At the instigation of the pope, the Franciscan minister general Antonio da Pereto (chosen at the general chapter of Munich in 1405) authorised Alessio on 31 August 1409 to chose four friars for his personal service. Pope Alexander confirmed this privilege by papal bull (17 September 1409). A letter from the Franciscan minister general,  dated 7 September 1409, gave Alessio permission to visit each and every Franciscan friary or nunnery of Poor Clares. On 27 August 1411, pope John XXIII transferred Alessio to the episcopal see of Piacenza. Popr Martin V confirmed the privileges that Alessio had received from his predecessors. In 1422, Alessio met Bernardino da Siena at Crema. Alessio (apparently acting within the bounds of the privileges bestowed on him) gave Bernardino permission to establish an Observant friary. In the course of his life, Alessio took part in zseveral church councils (Pisa, Basel and Konstanz). He died at Cremona on the first of January 11448. His body was enterred in the cathedral of Piacenza.  Author of a Quadragesimale and of Sermones de Diversis.

manuscripts

>>see Motta

editions

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literature

Wadding, Scriptores (ed. 1906), 11; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908), I, 24; Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica I, 143, 422, 545; Bullarium Franciscanum, ed. Eubel (Rome, 1904) VII, nos. 357, 501, 1184, 1236, 1425; M. Bihl, ‘Alexis de Seregno’, DHGE II, 397; Italia Sacra, II, 232 & IV, 942; G. Motta, `I codici di Alessio da Seregno', in: G. Picasso & M. Tagliabue (ed.), Seregno. Una communità di Brianza nella storia (secoli XI-XX) (Seregno, 1994), 437-88.

Alexius Segala de Salò (Alexis de Salò, 1558-1628)

OFMCap. Italian friar (a member of the noble Segala family). Entered the Capuchins at the age of 22 and received his formation under Mathias Bellintani de Salò. He died at Brescia on 7 January 1628. Productive spiritual author.

editions

Le chemin assuré du Paradis >>

Arte mirabile per amare, servire ed onorare la gloriosa vergine Maria avvocata (Brescia, s.a/Rouen, 1654/Paris, 1657/Dijon, 1666/Arras, 1872 & 1879).

Practica singolare per quelli che desiderano spiantar dall’anima gli abiti viziosi e piantarvi quelle delle sante virtu (Brescia, 1611/Rouen, 1617).

Corona celeste delle meditazioni (Brescia, 1611/Venice, 1622).

Considerazioni ovvero meditazioni sulla vita ed eroiche virtù della B. Maria Virgine (Brescia, 1612/Brescia, 1622/Venice, 1653).

Methodus serviendi Deo per R.P. Alphonsum Madrilensem Ordinis FF. Minorum (Louvain, 1652).

literature

Wadding, Scriptores (ed. 1650) 10; Sbaralea, Supplementum I, 24; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 4-5; Marcellino da Pisa, Annales Capuccinorum III (ad an. 1628); Vladimir de Brescia, Cappuccini bresciani, 132-136; Ubald d’Alençon, ‘Alexis de Salo’, DHGE II (1914), 396-397; DSpir I, 306-307.

Alexius Wierzbinski (Aleksy Wierbinski, fl. ca. 1800)

OFMRif. Polish friar in Poznan (Great Polish Saint Anthony province. Chronicler.

editions

Kronika Reformatów poznanskich, ed. Jacek Wiesiolowski & Salezy Bogumil (Poznan: Wydawnictwo Miejskie, 2006).>> Edition of the convent chronicle of the OFMRif of Poznan in Poland, written in 1786 by friar Aleksy Wierzbinski. See review in AFH 100 (2007), 602-603.

Alfonso Borox (c. 1390-1467)

Spanish friar from Borox, near Toledo. Entered the Franciscan order in his home town. Studied at Paris, where he reached the magisterium theologiae. After his return to Spain, he joined the Observants, which had been making headway in Toledo from c. 1420 onwards. In 1444, pope Eugenius IV appointed him general crusade preacher in Castille to call for a crusade against the Turcs. In 1443, Alfonso became the first provincial vicar of the Castilian Observants (elected at the San Antonio de Cabra chapter, Toledo). As the provincial vicar, and as the general commissioner for the order in Spain (elected in that position at the general chapter of Barcelona, 1451), Alfonso was involved with the reform and establishment of several Observant houses (a.o. Nuestra-Señora de Gracia, transferred from Nuestra Señore de Alcor, cf. Wadding, Annales, ad an. 1447, n. xvii), and new foundations such as Alcalá de Henares 1456). Alfonso died at the Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza convent (Ocaña) on 24 April 1467. Author?

literature

Wadding, Annales, ad an. 1447, n. xix; H. Diez, ‘Borox’, DHGE IX, 1271-1272; Nimmo, Reform and Division, >>;

Alfonso Briceño (d. 1668)

OFM. Scotist theologian from the Doce Apóstoles province (Peru). Bishop of Nicaragua and Caracas.

literature

AIA 5 (1945), 89-90; AIA 15 (1955), 242; José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica, 11 Vols. (Madrid, 1960-1976) VI, nos. 5452-5454; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 96 (no. 182).

Alfonso da Ilha (fl. 1493)

OMObs. See: J. de Freitas Paiva, in: Via Spiritus, 1 (1994), 209-212

Alfonso de Alpram (Dalpram/Alprãho, fl. c. 1422)

Spanish friar from the province of St. Jacob>>

manuscripts
Ars Praedicandi: Oxford Hamilton, 44 ff. 187v-199; Kraków, Jagiell. 471 ff. 427-443v [See also Caplan, Artes Praedicandi, no. 72, 133, 161]

editions

Ars Preadicandi, AFH 72 (1979), 263-329; AIA 45 (1985), 441-442.

literature

DHGE, III, 698; Albert G. Hauf, ‘El ‘Ars praedicandi’ de Fr. Alfonso d’Alprãho, O.F.M. Aportación al estudio de la teoria de la predicación en la Península Ibérica’, AFH 72 (1979), >>

Alfonso de Casarrubias (fl. ca. 1528)

OFM. Spanish friar from the Santiago province. Canonist. Involved with the preparation of the papal bull Ite Vos of 11517, which officially divided the order, and author of the Compendium Privilegiorum Ordinis Fratrum Minorum.

editions

Thesoro del Anima (Valladolid: Nicolas Tyerri, 1528).

Compilatio Nova Multorum Privilegiorum Fratribus et Aliis Mendicantibus Concessorum (Barcelona, 1523). Cf. Castro (1996), 61.

Compendium Privilegiorum Fratrum Minorum, necnon aliorum fratrum mendicantium ordine alphabetico congestum (Valladolid: 1525). For later editions, see Castro (1996), 61ff. A detailed description of the work, see AIA 37 (1934), 569-573 & 42 (1982), 61-65.

Regule Fratrum Minorum. Collectorium Regularum Fratrum et Monialum sub Regimine Prelatorum Ordinis Minorum Degentium (Salamanca: Ildephonsus Porras, 1532). Cf. Castro (1996), 65.

literature

AIA 29 (1928), 128; AIA 34 (1931), 291-292; AIA 37 (1934), 569-583; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 99 (no. 208); Manuel de Castro y Castro, Escritores de la Provincia Franciscana de Santiago. Siglos XIII-XIX, Liceo Franciscano. Revista de Estudio e Investigacion XLVIII (2a Epoca): 145-147 (Santiago de Compostella, 1996), 60-66. 

Alfonso de Castro (ca. 1495, Zamora - 1558?, Brussels)

OFM. Castilian friar from the neighbourhood of Zamora. Joined the order (Santiago province) around 1510. Fulfilled his noviciate in the S. Francisco friary (Salamanca). Studied at the university of Alcalá. After his return to the Salamanca friary, he became there the regent lector of theology at the Franciscan studium. Accompanied Charles V to his crowning in Bologna in 1530. Active as a preacher in The Netherlands, Germany and France (1532-1535). Present at the Council of Trente as a theologian in the service of cardinal Pacheco (1545-1547) and the Spanish king (1551-1552). Court preacher of prince Philip II since 1553, who he accompanied to England in 1554. Thereafter he went back to Flanders, where he died at Brussels (11 February 1558), shortly after his appointment to the episcopal see of Santiago de Compostella.

editions

Adversus Omnes Haereses (Paris, 1534 & 1540/Cologne, ca. 1540/Paris, 1545/Paris, 1556/Paris, 1565/Antwerp, 1568/Paris, 1571/Paris, 1578/Madrid, 1773 etc.). Alfonso came out with revised editions in 1545 and 1556. Frequently reprinted, it was one of the classic handbooks of anti-heretical surveys within the Catholic church between the 16^th and the 18^th century. Cf. Castro (1996), 66-74 for more information on early modern editions of this work.

De iusta Haereticorum Punitione (Salamanca, 1547 & 1557/Lyons, 1556/Paris, 1565, 1571 & 1578/Madrid, 1773). A work that combined theological and canonist perspectives in dealing with the punishment of heretics. Cf. Casstro (1996), 76-78 for more information on these and other editions.

De Potestatis Legis Poenalis, 2 Vols. (Salamanca, 1550/Lyon, 1556/Paris, 1565, 1571 & 1578/Madrid, 1773. This wwork was translated into Catelan as: La fuerzade de la rey, trans. L. Sanchéz Gallego, 3 vols (Murcia, 1931-33). Cf. Castro (1996), 78-80.

Homiliae Viginti Quinque super Psalmum Miserere (Salamanca, 1537, 1547 & 1568/Paris, 1565 & 1578/Madrid, 1773). A collection of 25 homelies on the Miserere psalm. The work was dedicated to King Juan III of Portugal. Cf. Castro (1996), 74-76 for more information on these and other ditions.

Homiliae Viginti Quatuor super Psalmum Beati Quorum Remissae Sunt Iniquitates (Salamanca, 1540 & 1568/Paris, 1565 & 1578/Madrid, 1773). 24 homelies. The work was dedicated to the infante Henri of Portugal.

Copia Lecturae in Essaiam (MS BAV Vat.Lat. 12807>> is the work of Alonso de Castro

Commentarium in XII Prophetas Minores>> is the work of Cristóbal de Castro SJ.

For a number of Opera Omnia editions containing several or all of his works, see Castro (1996), 80-83. On pp. 83 ff. Castro also lists some smaller edited and unedited works.

literature

Juan a S. Antonio, BUF I>>; Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1650), >>; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), >>>; Hurter, Nomenclator IV, 1184; DThC II (1905), 1835-1836; Dominique de Caylus, ‘Alphonse de Castro’, DHGE II, 707-708; Hipólito Sancho, ‘Domingo Soto y Alfonso de Castro’, Ciencia tomista 22 (1920), 142-160; D. Beaufort, ‘Alfonsus a Castro als bron voor Hugo de Groot’s ‘Mare Liberum’’, Coll. Franc. Neerlandica1 (1927), 205-218; Domingo Savall, ‘Fr. Alfonso de Castro (1495-1558). La orientación voluntarista de su derecho penal’, AIA 38 (1935), 240-255; Ramón Lourido, ‘El derecho de la guerra en Fr. Alfonso de Castro’, Liceo Franciscano 4 (1951), 149-166; Johannes Beumer, ‘Häresie und kirchliche Gliedschaft nach Alfonso de Castro, OFM’, Franz. Stud. 45 (1953), 243-256; Manuel de Castro, ‘Fr, Alfonso de Castro, OFM (1495-11558), consejero de Carlos V y de Felipe II’, Salmanticensis 6 (1958), 281-322; Manuel de Castro, ‘Fr. Alfonso de Castro, OFM (1495-1558). Notas bibliográficas’, Collectanea Franciscana 28 (1958), 59-88; Amado González, ‘Vida y bibliografía de Fr. Alfonso de Castro’, Liceo Franciscano 12 (1958), 9-106; Saturnino Arias, ‘Herejía y hereje en Fr. Alfonso de Castro’, Liceo Franciscano 12 (19958), 109-130; Luis García García, ‘El primado pontificio y la infalibilidad de la iglesia en Fr. Alfonso dde Castro’, Liceo Franciscano 12 (1958), 131-165; Felipe García García, ‘Alfonso de Castro frente a los errores protestantes’, Liceo Franciscano 12 (1958), 168-219; Raúl Benedeti Teja, ‘Alfonso de Castro y la predicación’, Liceo Franciscano 12 (1958), 221-247; Caros Amigo Vallejo, ‘Erasmo en las obras de Fr. Alfonso de Castro’, Liceo Franciscano 12 (1958), 249-278; Eladio Seara González, ‘El castigo de los herejes según Fr. Alfonso de Castro’, Liceo Franciscano 12 (1958), 281-306; José Aníbal Arias Barredo, ‘Las doctrinas democráticas en Fr. Alfonso de Castro’, Liceo Franciscano 12 (1958), 307-350; Claudio Gancho, ‘La biblia en Alfonso de Castro’, Salmanticensis 5 (11958), 323-349; Marcelino Rodríguez Molinero, ‘Teoría de Alfonso de Castro en torno a la ley penal’, Liceo Franciscano 12 (1958), 351-376; Lisardo López Canedo, ‘El derecho internacional en las obras de Fr. Alfonso de Castro’, Liceo Franciscano 12 (1958), 377-506; Isaac Vázquez, ‘Fr. Alfonso de Castro frente a las desviaciones protestantes sobre la misa’, Verdad y Vida 16 (1958), 5-55; Alejandro Recio, ‘El franciscano Alfonso de Castro, predicador y maestro de predicadores’, Verdad y Vida 16 (1958), 385-424; Feliciano de Ventosa, ‘Alfonso de Castro y las problemas de la ‘nueva cristianidad’, Estudios Franciscanos 60 (1959), 203-246; Isaac Vázquez, ‘Alfonso de Castro, cuatro siglos después’, Verdad y Vida 17 (1959), 359-363; Marcelino Rodríguez Molinero, ‘El concepto de ley en Fr, Alfonso de Castro’, Verdad y Vida 17 (1959), 31-74; Marcelino Rodríguez Molinero, Origen español de la ciencia del derecho penal. Alfonso de Castro y su sistema penal (Madrid, 1959); Johannes Beumer, ‘Der Traditionsbegriff des Trienter Konzilstheologen Alfonso de Casro OFM’, Franz. Stud. 43 (1961), 297-308; G. Rambaldi, ‘Il testo tridentino sulla traditione nella interpretazione del teologo A. de Castro, OFM, e del vescovo C. Musso, OFMConv’, Antonianum 37 (1962), 279-292; Francisco Amigo, ‘Unidad e insilubilidad del matrimonio según Alfonso de Castro’, Verdad y Vida 20 (1962), 5-55; Francisco Amigo, ‘Algunas herejías matrimoniales, según Alfonso de Castro’, Verdad y Vida 21 (1963), 185-206; Enrique García Centeno, ‘Alfonso de Casttro y la lectura de la biblia en lengua vulgar’, Studium legionense 5 (1964), 161-195; Isaías Rodríguez, ‘Autores espirituales españoles (1500-1700)’, Repertorio de Historia de las Ciencias eclesiasticas en España 3 (siglos xiii-xvi) (Salamanca, 1971), 460-461; M. de Castro, ‘Castro, Alfonso’, Diccionario de historia de la iglesia de España, 1 (Madrid, 1971), 381-2; Diaz>> vol. 2, 255-261; LthK, 2 (1994), 974; Manuel de Castro y Castro, Escritores de la Provincia Franciscana de Santiago. Siglos XIII-XIX, Liceo Franciscano. Revista de Estudio e Investigacion XLVIII (2a Epoca): 145-147 (Santiago de Compostella, 1996), 66-85.

Alfonso de Espina (Alonso de Spina, † after 1495)

Spanish theologian of Jewish descent. He was a preacher and Magister Regens of theology at the Franciscan convent of Salamanca. In 1491 he became auxiliary bishop at Oviedo (1495), and titular archbishop of Thermopolis (2 December 1491). Also active as confessor of Juan II of Castilia. He wrote the Fortalitium Fidei Contra Judaeos, Sarracenos et Alios Christianae Fidei Inimicos (1459-62, written in Valladolid), which has survived in some mss and in many editions (First printed in 1471). This apologetic exposition of the Christian faith makes a plea for chasing away the Jews from Spain, much along the lines of the expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290. It also propagates a harsh policy against converts in general. The Fortalitium Fidei can be seen as a methodological and ideological program for the emerging Spanish inquisition. [The book is divided in five parts: 1. De armatura omnium fidelium; 2. De bello hereticorum; 3. De bello judeorum; 4. De bello saracenorum; 5. De bello dominorum]. Aside from the Fortalitium Fidei, Alfonso wrote sermons, and pobably a Tractatus de Fortuna Dicatus Ioanni Castellae Regi (dedicated to Don Juan Rey de Castilla).

manuscripts

Sermones: MS Burgo de Osma, BC 26 (Sermones plures de excellentia nostrae fidei, Sermones 22 de nomine Iesu))

Fortalitium Fidei: Murgo de Osma, Catedral BC 154>> For a complete listing of his mss works, see Archivio Ibero-Americano, 25 (1926), 360-381.

De Eccellentia Fidei>>>

Tractatus de Fortuna>>>?

editions

Was jesus of Nazareth the Messiah? Alphonso de Espinar's Argument Against the Jews based on his Commentary on the Book of Isdaiah in the `Fortalium fidei (c. 1464). An edition, Translation and Commentary, ed. S.J.Mc. Michael, Diss. (Rome, 1992; reimpr. Atlanta, 1994). This is not a complete edition. There are several incunables and sixteenth century printings [o.a.: Strasbourg: Johannes Mentelin, 1464; Strassbourg, Johannes Mentelin, ca. 1471; Basel, Bernhardus Richel, ca. 1475; Neurenberg, Antonius Koberger, 10 oct., 1485; Neurenberg, 1494; Antonius Koberger, 25 febr., 1494 (and 1498?); Lyon, Etienne Guenard, 1511-1525. See: Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, II (Stuttgart-New York, 1968²), 110-114.]

literature

Wadding, Scriptores (ed. 1650), 14 [edition 1906, p. 14]; Wadding, Annales Minorum XII (Rome, 1735), 144 & XIV, 523; Sbaralea, Supplementum I (ed. Rome, 1908), 29f; Zawart, 299; AIA 5 (1916), 278; AIA 11 (1919), 75, 328; AIA 25 (1926), 335-337, 347-380; A. López, ‘Descripción de los manoscritos franciscanos existentes en la Biblioteca de Toledo’, Archivo Ibero-Americano, 25 (1926), 360-381; AIA 31 (1929), 68-75; M. Espito,‘Une secte d’hérétiques à Medina del Campo en 1459, d’après le ‘Fortalitium fidei’ d’Alphonse de Spina’, Chtonia 32 (1936), 350-360 (see also Revue d’Histoire Ecclesiastique 32 (1936), 350-360); Idem, ‘Notes sur le ‘Fortalitium fidei’ d’Alphonse de Spina’, Chtonia 43 (1948), 514-536; A.A. Sicroff, Les controverses des statuts de pureté de sang en Espagne du XVe au XVIIe (Paris, 1960), 74-75; I. Rodríguez, ‘Autores espirituales españoles en la edad media’, Repertorio de historia de las ciencias eclesiasticas en españa 1 (siglos iii-xvi) (Salamanca, 1967), 319; AIA 29 (1969), 158; B. Netanyahu, ‘Alonso de Espina. Was he a New Christian?’, Proceedings of the American Academy of Jewish Research 43 (1976), 107-165; A. Meyuhas Ginio, ‘The Conversos and the Magic Arts in Alonso de Espina's ‘Fortalitium Fidei’’, Mediterranean Historical Review 5 (1990), 169-182; Idem, ‘The Fortress of Faith at the End of the West. Alfonso de Espina and his ‘Fortalitium Fidei’, in: Contra Judaeos. Ancient and Medieval Polemics between Christians and Jews, ed. O. Limor & G.G. Stroumsma (1995), pp?; Idem, ‘El concepto de ‘perfidia judaica (...)’, Helmantica 46 (1995), 229-311; Steven J. Mc Michael, ‘The Sources for Alfonso de Espina’s Messianic Argument against the Jews in the ‘Fortalium Fidei’’, in: Iberia and the mediterranean World of the Middle Ages, Studies in Honor of Robert I. Burns, ed. J. Simon (Leyden-New York-Cologne, 1994), I, 72-95; Enciclopedia Universal I Ilustrada, XXII (Barcelona, 1924), 214; Encyclopaedia Judaica, II, 605f; Biblioteca Bíblica Ibérica Medieval, ed. K. Reinhardt-H. Santiago-Otero (Madrid, 1986), I, 63f; Fernando Domíngue, ‘Alfonso de Espina’, LthK, 1 (1993), 384; Alisa Meyuhas Ginio, ‘Rêves contre les sarrasins dans la Castille du XVe siècle. Alonso de Espina ‘Fortalitum fidei’’, Revue de l’Histoire des religions 212 (1995), 145-174; A. Meyúhas Ginio, ‘De bello Iudaeorum.’ Fray Alonso de Espina y su ‘Fortalicium fidei’, Fontes Iudaeorum Regni Castellae VIII (Salamanca, 1998); Alisa Meyúhas Ginio, La forteresse de la foi. La vision du monde d’Alonso de Espina, moine espagnol, trans. Zvi Rabi (Paris: Cerf, 1998); Alisa Meyúhas Ginio, ‘The Fortress of Faith. At the End of the West. Alonso de Espina and His ‘Fortalitium Fidei’’, in: Contra Iudaeos. Ancient and medieval polemics between Christians and Jews, ed. O. Limor & G.G. Stroumsa, Texts and Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Judaism 10 (Tübingen, 1996), 215-237; M. Monsalvo Antón, ‘Algunas consideraciones sobre el ideario antijudío contenido en el ‘Liber III’ del ‘Fortalitium Fidei’ de Alonso de Espina’, in: Aragón en la Edad Media II, 1061-1088; Ana Echevaria, The Fortress of Faith. The Attitude Towards Muslims in Fifteenth Century Spain (Leiden-Boston-Köln, 1999); Ana Echevarria, The Fortress of Faith. The Attitude towards Muslims in Fifteenth -Century Spain, PhD. Thesis (Leiden, 1999); Steven J. McMichael, ‘Alfonso de Espina on the Mosaic Law’, in: Friars and Jews in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, ed. Steven J. McMichael & Susan E. Myers, The Medieval Franciscans, 2 (Leiden-Boston, 2004), 199-224.

Alfonso de Santa Anna (d. 1630)

OFMDisc. Born at Ponferrada (Astorga diocese, Spain). Became a secular priest before he entered the order in the Saint Joseph province. Departed for the Philippines in 1594. Learned Tagalog from the natives and became a missionary. For a while the guardian of the Puebla de Sampalos friary. Died at Manilla in 1630. Wrote catechistic works.

editions

Esplicacion de la doctrina christiana en tagalog (Manilla, 1628 & 1637).

Version de la doctrina de cardenal Belarmino al idioma tagalog (Manilla, 1637)

>>treatise on the Divine Office?

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Franciscana (Madrid, 1732) I, 39; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 24; Marcellino da Civezza, Saggio di bibliografia sanfrancescana (Prato, 1879), 550; DHGE II (1914), 752-753.

Alfonso de Sanzoles (fl. later 16^th cent.)

OFM. Preacher from the Santiago province.

literature

AIA 22 (1924), 272-276; AIA 38 (1935), 367-369; AIA 15 (1955), 443-444; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 178 (no. 783).

Alfonso de Torres (fl. 17^th cent.)

OFM. Friar from the Granada province. Known for a public homily held at the general chapter of Toledo in 1682. After he retired from his teaching assignments, he produced a history of the Observant province of Granada.

editions

Sermo de Sancto Joanne >> printed [extended version of the lecture given at Toledo in 1682]

Chronica de la santa Provincia de Granada de la regular observancia de N. S.P. San Francisco (Madrid, 1683).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Franciscana (Madrid, 1732) I, 52; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 30; Marcellino da Civezza, Saggio di bibliografia sanfrancescana (Prato, 1879), 596; Antoine de Sérent, ‘Alphonse de Torrès’, DHGE II, 757.

Alfonso de Vascones (fl. seventeenth cent.)

Spanish friar. Born in Aguilar de Campos. Entered the Franciscan province of Granada. Known for his ascetical works.

editions

Estimulo del alma dormida (Sevilla, 1619)

Antidoto del alma (Madrid, 1624)

Para ayudar a bien morir (Sevilla, 1620).

Obres completas (Madrid, 1667)

literature

Wadding, Scriptores, 127; Sbaralea, Supplementum II (Rome, 1921), 4; N. Antonio, Bibliotheca Hispana Nova (Madrid, 1783) I, 51.

Alfonso de Villasancta (fl. late 15^th – early 16^th cent.)

OFMObs & OFMConv. Spanish friar. Joined the Observants, yet transferred to the conventuals in 1509, received into their fold at Vallemoti by the master general Raynaldo Graziani. Studied at Paris. Stayed at Paris until 1518, when he addressed a letter from there to Charles V [when the Grand Couvent was already Observant!]. In 1526, he became titular bishop of Gabala and adjutor of his Franciscan colleague Henry Standish, bishop of Saint Asaph in England.

manuscripts/editions

Guglielmi Rubionis Commentaria in IV Libros Sententiarum (Paris, 1518)

De Libero Arbitrio contra Melanchtonem (1524)>> edited?

literature 

Wadding, Annales Minorum XVI, 236; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 30; Antoine de Sérent, ‘Alphonse de Villasancta’, DHGE II, 763. 

Aloisius Baldi (16th cent.)

OFMCap. Sicilian friar from Palermo. Important theologian and biblical exegete, who commented on most books of the Bible. Probably died around 1576.

manuscripts/editions

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literature

Martino de Torrecilla, Apologema, espeio y eccelencias de la serafica religion de meñores capuccinos (Turin, 1673), 177; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca scriptorum ordinis minorum capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 172-173; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1921) II, 183; A. Teetaert, ‘Baldi’, DHGE VI, 334-335.

Alonso Briceño (Brozeño, 1587-1669)

OFM. Born in Chili (Santiago de Chile). Travelled to Lima, where he entered the order at the San Francisco de Gesú convent and where, for 15 years, he regularly taught at the provincial level (province of Lima or Peru). The fruit of his teachings was a two-volume study of contemporary Scotist controversies (Celebriorum controversiarum in Primum Sententiarum Ioannis Duns Scoti ). He was sent to Madrid by the Count of Chinchón, and in 1636 was asked by the same count to travel to Rome, in order to lobby for the canonisation off Francisco Solano.  During his sejourn at Rome, he took part in the general chapter of 1639. On 14 November 1642, he was appointed to the post of bishop of Nicaragua. In 1649/50, he was transferred to the episcopal see of Caracas. During his episcopal charges, he promoted the cult of saints and took action to convert the Venezuelan Guanares tribes. Alonso died at Santiago de Léon in 1667.

editions

Celebriorum controversiarum in Primum Sententiarum Ioannis Duns Scoti, 2 vols. (Madrid, 1638).

Disputationes Metaphysicae>> (see García Bacca)

literature

D. de Córdoba, Vida, virtudes y milagros del nuevo apóstol del Péru, el Ven. P. fray Francisco Solano (Lima, 1630)/1646/1676); Gams, Series Episcoporum, 166-167; S. Ruiz, ‘Briceno’, DHGE VIII, 671-672; Juan David García Bacca, Alfonso Briceño: Disputaciones metafísicas (Caracas: Faculdad de Humanidades de la Universidad Central de Venezuela, 1955); Walter Hannisch Espindola, En torno a la Filosofía en Chile 1594-1810 (Santiago, 1963), 24-30; Mirko Skarica, ‘The Problem of God’s Foreknowledge and Human Freedom in Spanish Philosophy’, in Hispanic Philosophy in the Age of Discovery, ed. K. White (Washington, D.C., The Catholic University of America Press, 1997), 194-198; Jorge J.E. Gracia, Filosofía hispanica (Pamplona, Cuadernos de Anuario Filosófico, 1998), 71, 79-81.

Alonso de Aguilera (fl. c. 1734)

Spanish friar, member of the Andalusia province.

editions/literature

AIA 21 (1924), 341-342.

Alonso de Aranda (Ildefonso (?) de Aranda, fl. late 17^th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar. Member of the la Concepción province. Aranda would have traveled to Guatemala in 1683. Was guardian of the Santiago Momostenango friary and custos in 1691.

editions

Las Musas de la gracia en el sagrado Parnaso de España; o historia de las nueve hermanas, Santa Librada y sys compañeras (Mexico>>>). Would have been sent to a Mexican printer according to Beristain.

literature

AIA 28 (1927), 366-367; J.M. Beristain y Souza, Biblioteca Hispano Americano Septentrional, 3^rd ed., 5 Vols. (Mexico, 1947), >>; José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica, 11 Vols. (Madrid, 1960-1976) V, nos. 3517-3518; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 87 (no. 114); Eleanor B. Adams, A Bio-Bibliography of Franciscan Authors in Colonial Central America (Washington D.C.: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1953), 14.

Alonso de Benavides (fl. first half 17th cent. d. 1636?)

OFM Spanish friar. After his entrance into the order he travelled to Mexico. There, after his ordination, he became a novice master at Puebla. In 1622, a new custody was created in the Holy Gospel province (the New Mexico custody). Alonso was its first custodian, and became the leader of a band of missionaries (at first, the provincial chapter assigned to him 26 missionaries. 30 additional missionaries followed) Together with this band of missionaries, Alonso began a systhematic missionary campaign among the indigenous peoples (such as the Moqui, the Toas, the Pecos, the Apaches, the Humani, the Tampiras, the Zuni, the Queres, the Picuries, and the Piros), converting them to christianity and building a network of catechistic instruction. Eventually, the Vice Roy of New Spain sent Alonso to the Spanish homeland to fill in King Philip IV on these developments. The king was given a Memorial, containing an outline of Alonso’s missionary campaign. The King remunerated Alonso by proposing him as a suitable candidate for the Archepiscopal see of Goa. After papal confirmation, Alonso departed towards his see. After that, his whereabouts are unknown.

editions

Memorial que fray Juan de Santaner de la orden de S. Francisco presenta a la Magestad Catolica del Rey don Felipe Quarto (…) hecho por el P. fr. Alonso de Benavides (Madrid, 1630). This work received various translations into French, Dutch, german, Latin and English: The Memorial of Fray Alonso de Benavides, 1630, ed. & trans. E. E. Ayer, F.W. Hodge & C.F. Lummis (Chicago, 1916); The Memorial of Fray Alonso de Benavides, trans. Cyprian J. Lynch (Washington, 1954).

literature 

M. da Civezza, Storia universale delle missioni francescane (Prato, 1891) VII, 2nd. part, 456ff.; J.M. de Elizonde, ‘Dos cartas inédits de la madre Luisa de la Ascensión, la monja de Carrion (1565-1636), y otros documentos referentes a ella’, Estudius Franciscanos 12-18 (Sarría, 1914-1917); J. Schmidlin, Katholische Missionsgeschichte (Steyl, 1925), 347-348; J. Pou y Marti, ‘Estado de la orden franciscana y de sus missiones en America’, AIA 27 (1927), 229-240; L. Lemmens, Geschichte der Franziskanermissionen (Münster, 1929), 233-235; A. Van den Wyngaert, ‘Benavides’, DHGE VII, 1035-1036; Livarius Oliger, ‘De Fr. Alphonso de Benavides Novi Mexici missionario (d. 1636). Notae criticae’, Antonianum 21 (1946), 105-126; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 93 (no. 159).

Alonso de Escobedo (16th century)

OFM, Spanish friar, active in Spanish America>>

manuscripts

La Florida: Madrid, Nac., 187 (16th cent.) [Castro, Madrid, n. 24]

literature

Paz y Espeso, Manoscritos de América, 147, no. 256; AIA, 29 (1927), 48-60; AIA, 37 (1934), 176; AIA n.s. 19 (1959), 290-291; BHL IX nos. 5179-5182; Maynard Geiger, Biographical Dictionary of the Franciscans in Spanish Florida and Cuba (1528-1841) (Paterson, 1948), 48

Alonso de Fuentidueña (fl. 15^th cent.)

OFMObs. Spanish friar and theologian.

editions

Titulo virginal de nuestra Señora (Pamplona: Arnaldo Guillén de Morant, 1499).

literature

AIA 15 (1955), 290-291; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 118 (no. 332).

Alonso de Herrera y Molina Salcedo (d. 1644?)

OFM. Spanish friar. Member of the Doce Apóstoles province (Peru).

literature

AIA 15 (1955), 315; AIA 28 (1968), 170-177; DSpir VII, 370; José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica, 11 Vols. (Madrid, 1960-1976) XI, nos. 4159-4163, 4621-4625; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 128 (no. 415).

Alonso de Madrid (d. c. 1535)

OFMObs. Spanish friar from Castilia or Carthagena. Probably born shortly before 1485. Might have studied the arts and philosophy in Salamanca before he entered the Observant branch of the order ca. 1505 in the Saint Jacques province (Santiago province, maybe in Salamanca). Ordained priest ca. 1510. Probably active in Salamanca between ca. 1526 and 1533, apparently as confessor and teacher at the Franciscan conventNot much else is known about his life and career. Yet, he is renowned for his works of religious instruction. Most famous is his Arte para servir a Dios (first edition dating from 1521). Besides, he also wrote the Espejo de illustres personas. To Alonso are also attributed a Memorial de la Vida de Nuestro Redemptor/Memorial de la Vida de Jesucristo/Siete meditaciones de la semana santa. This work is sometimes found in old editions and translations of the the Arte. It is the work of an unknown Franciscan friar.

manuscripts and editions

Arte para servir a Dios: MS Oxford, Bodl. Lyell. Empt. 14 (an. 1588); MS Madrid, Nac., 472 [Castro, Madrid, n. 39]. For old editions, see Antoine de Sérent, ‘Alphonse de Madrid’, DHGE II, 736 & A. López (Barcelona, 1926), who describe for instance editions from Sevilla, 1521/Alcalá, 1526/Sevilla, 1534/Alcalá, 1555. For modern editions, see: Arte para servir a Dios, ed. M. Mir, in: Nueva Biblioteca de autores espanoles. Escritos misticos Espanoles (Madrid, 1911) I, 588-649; Juan Bta Gomis, Místicos franciscanos Españoles Tomo I, Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos (Madrid, 1948) (=BAC), pp. 85-182. This edition was partly re-issued in 1960. Quite early, the Arte received a Latin translation: Methodus apte Inserviendi Deo, sive Ars Inserviendi Deo (Louvain, 1560/1576/Ingolstadt, 1578/ Paris, 1584/Lyon, 1598/Venice, 1603/Cologne, 1606/Cologne, 1608/Cologne, 1625/Louvain, 1652/La Rochelle, 1687/Ingolstadt, 1717). For early French translations of Alonso’s works, see for instance: La méthode de servir Dieu; le miroir des persones illustres, le mémorial de la vie de nosre sauveur, trans. G. Chappuys (Paris, 1587/Lyon, 1593/Douai, 1600/Rouen, 1610). [The first edition of the Arte appeared in 1521. No exemplar of this edition has survived. The work was subsequently reworked by the author, to receive its definitive (third) edition in 1526 (Alcalá): Arte para servir a Dios. Compuesta por fray Alonso de Madrid, dela orden de san Francisco. This edition, like many thereafter, also contains the Espejo de illustres personas. >From 1526 onwards, the Arte went through more than twenty Spanish editions before the end of the sixteenth century. Several of these editions contain additional devotional pieces (texts by Bernard of Clairvaux, Anselm de Turmeda, Savonarola, Theresa of Avila etc.) The Arte received seven additional editions in the reworking of the Alcalà theologian Ambrosio de Moralés (1513-1591), the chronicler of King Philip II and a former penitent of Alonso. A first edition of this modified text, which presents a streamlined text in a more modern Spanish vernacular (and also contains some doctrinal reorientations, in that Ambrosio, contrary to Alonso, explicitly sustains the importance of secundary motives (like the hope for divine reward) for leading a spiritual life, and put much more emphasis on man’s inability to achieve things independent of Divine aid), appeared around 1585. For more information on subsequent editions of this revised version (which only contains the text of the Arte and leaves out the Espejo), see F. De Ros (1958), 328ff.. A Latin translation of the Arte, by Juan Heuten (Johannis Heutenius), received seven editions of its own (from 1650 onwards). Translations in several vernaculars followed suit. From the 1526 edition onwards, the Arte opens with a prologue, emphasising the need of proper training to properly learn an art. Thereafter, the Arte consists of three parts of approximatingly equal length, each of which is divided in Notables or chapters. The first part provides seven general principles according to which each Christian should direct his actions.. The second part explains in nine chapters how these general principles should be put into practice, so that the soul finds relief from the weaknesses or flaws obtained through sin, and can make a start cultivating the virtues. The third part subsequently teaches in three chapters about the love that man is due to God, his neighbour and himself. The Arte is an ascetical/spiritual work for all Christians. It offers a simple and structured art to learn to serve God by pure love, through a thorough training of the will. It maintains that, after a long training and exercises,  the soul will learn, with the ongoing help of the Holy Spirit, to do everything out of love for God, our final cause. This love is totally desinterested ( a point modified in the reworking of Ambrosio de Morales). The soul will forget the glories of eternal life or the eternal punishments as motivation for action. It is pure love alone that will inform its actions: a ‘pratique habituelle du pur amour.’ Central in this process is the human will, which should entice the humn soul to subsume itself to the will of God, which is a will of infinite excellence. Also made clear: the quality of our love for God is determined by and shown in the actions that we do, both towards God himself, and towards our neighbours. All our actions and the cultivation of our virtues should become an expression of love. Throughout the sixteenth century and thereafter, the Arte functioned as novice training manual in Franciscan and non-Franciscan houses (also read by St. Theresa of Avila and her circle, as well as by Francis of Sales, Benedict of Canfield, and Ignace of Loyola). Some Spanish sources suggest that Alonso also produced a Tratado de la Doctrina Christiana (Alcalá de Henares: Miguel de Eguía, 1526). This would have been a simple catechistic work. Cf. J.-R. Guerrero, ‘Catecismos de Autores Españoles de la primera mitad del siglo XVI (1500-1559)’, Repertorio de Historia de las Ciencias Eclesiasticas en España 2 (Siglos IV-XVI) (Salamanca, 1971), 225-260 (231) ]

Espejo de illustres personas, ed. M. Mir, Nueva Biblioteca de Autores Españoles (Madrid, 1911), 636-649; Espejo de ilustres personas, ed. Juan Bta Gomis, Místicos franciscanos Españoles Tomo I, Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos (Madrid, 1948), pp. 183-215. Both of these editions are rather sloppy. [First printed in Burgos, 1522 and 1524, Thereafter frequently printed together with the Arte, such as in Alcalá, 1525-1526, and in 1567 (also published in the Latin Arte edition of Heutenius). The Espejo is a manual for spiritual perfection for noble people, written on the request of Maria Pimentel Osorio, Marquise of Villafranca del Bierzo (It is quite possible that Alonso was her confessor). After a short prologue, the author provides in sixteen chapters how the great can serve God and devote themselves to the spiritual life. With many examples of great people who lived vituously in the past, the work provides a series of general guidelines, exercises for every day, and special considerations for sun- and feastdays. A special chapter is devoted to the ‘study of the book of life’, that is Christ.]

Attributed (but probably spurious): Memorial de la Vida de Nuestro Redemptor/Memorial de la Vida de Jesucristo/Siete meditaciones de la semana santa. This work can be found in several old editions and translations of the Arte (a.o. Antwerp, 1551).  [The Memorial amounts to a passion devotion treatise. For each day of the week it presents materials for contemplation and spiritual action. These materials are drawn from the Gospels and related stories (such as the many existing late medieval Christ biographies and Passion treatises), which are presented in chronological order. A special place is given to the mysteries of the Virgin. The work was written on request of an unknown woman of noble descent.  In the prologue, the author states: ‘Y de esta causa, muy noble Señora, por despertar almas, encender en vuestra ánima la devoción por ella misma deseada, determiné de recoger brevemente, como en un memorial, la santísima vida de nuestro muy dulce Redemptor (…) En siete meditaciones o contemplaciones repartidas por siete días de la semana. Por que así como el gusto del cuerpo se deleita y es recreado con diversidad de manjares y aún es evitado el hastio, así vuestra devota ánima reciba recreación y deleite en tener cada día algun misterio singular en que pensar.’ [Cited from Jean Christiaens, Les Lettres Romanes 9 (1955), 441-442.]

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908), 27; S. Dirks, Histoire littéraire et bibliographique des Frères-Mineurs aux Pays-Bas (Antwerp, 1885), 151, 174; P. Guillaume, L’Arte para servir a Dios et son influence sur Sainte Térèse, 2 Vols., Diss (Louvain, 1924); Antoine de Sérent, ‘Alphonse de Madrid’, DHGE II, 736; Collectanea Franciscana Neerlandica (1927), 228-231; Archivo-Ibero-Americano 29 (1928), 128-1132; J. Goyens, ‘Alphonse de Madrid’, DSpir I, 389-391; P. Guillaume, ‘Un précurseur de la Réforme, Alonso de Madrid’, Revue d’Histoire ecclésiastique 25 (1929), 260-274; P. Meseguer, ‘Fr. Alonso de Madrid y San Ignacio’, Manresa 25 (1953), 159-183; Fidel de Ros, ‘Alonso de Madrid y Melquíades’, Revue d’ascétique et mystique 30 (1954), 29-37; Fidèle de Ros, ‘Aux sources du Combat spirituel’, Revue de l’Histoire Ancienne et Médiévale 30 (1954), 117-139; J. Christiaans, ‘Alonso de Madrid. Contribution `a sa biographie et à l’histoire de ses écrits’, Lettres Romanes 9 (1955), 251-268, 439-462; F. de Ros, ‘Alonso de Madrid, théoricien du pur amour’, Archivum Historicum Societatis Jesu 25 (1956), 351-379; F. de Ros, `Bibliographie d'Alonso de Madrid', Coll. Franc., 28 (1958), 306-331; Donato de Monleras, Dios, el hombre y el mundo en Alonso de Madrid y Diego de Estella, Diss. (Rome, 1958), 9-18 (Donato de Monleras published a lengthy article with the same title in Collectanea Franciscana 27 (1957), 233-281, 345-384 & 28 (1958), 155-210); D. Savall, ‘Fr. Alonso de Madrid. La pedagogia de su ‘Arte para servir a Dios’’, Revista Catalancia 6 (1960), 187-199; F. de Ros, `Les editions d'Alonso de Madrid hors d’Espagna’, Coll. Franc., 31 (1961), 218-229; 645-656; Idem, Bulletin Hispanique, 63 (1961), 46-47; Idem, ‘En torno a la biografía de Fr. Alonso de Madrid’, Estudios Franciscanos 63 (1962), 335-351 [on Alonso’s spiritual method]; F. de Ros, ‘Alonso de Madrid, educator de la voluntad y doctor del puro amor’, in: Corrientes espirituales en la España del siglo XVI (Barcelona, 1963), 283-296; Manuel de Castro, ‘Fr. Alonso de Madrid, OFM, era de Madrid?’, Rivista de Literatura 33 (1968), 111-117; Isaías Rodríguez, ‘Autores espirituales españoles (1500-1700)’, Repertorio de Historia de las Ciencias eclesiasticas en España 3 (siglos xiii-xvi) (Salamanca, 1971), 517-519 (with additional bibliographical information); Esther Fernández, Vocabulario en lengue castellana y americana de Fray Alonso de Molina. Estudio de los indigenismos léxicos y registros de las voces españolas internas, Biblioteca de Filología Hispánica, 15 (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientíticas, 1996) [cf. reviews Ann. Theol. 13 (1999), 651-653; Revue d’Histoire Ecclésiastique 95 (2000), 283]; N. Gori, Il metodo del cammino di Dio e l’antropologia francescana intorno al Prologo dell’arte para servir a Dios di fray Alonso de Madrid’, Frate Francesco n.s.70/2 (2004), 411-434.

Alonso de Mendieta (fl. c. 1640)

OFM. Spanish friar from the Doce Apóstoles province in Peru.

literature

AIA 30 (1923), 35-36; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 147 (no. 567).

Alonso de Molina (ca. 1510/14-1579, Mexico)

OFMObs. Spanish friar, born in the Extremadura (Spain). Together with his family, he travelled to New Spain (Mexico) around the age of nine (1523). There he learned the Aztek Náthuatl language and received an education by local Franciscan friars. From 1524 he accompagnied Franciscan missionaries and teachers as translator and language teacher. Ca. 1528 he joined the Franciscan order himself. In 155, he was the guardian of the San Antonio friary at Tezcuco. He died at the Mexico friary. Me Author of a range of catechetic and linguistic works in Náthuatl that are used untill today.

editions

Doctrina cristiana breve traducida en lengua mexicana (…) por mandado del Rmo. S.D. Fr. Juan de Zumárraga, obispo de la dicha ciudad, el cual la hizo imprimir en el año de 1546, a 20 de junio (Méjico, 1546/Méjico: Vidua de Bernardo Caldéron, 1675/Méjico: Francisco de Rivera, 1718/Méjico: Vidua de Francisco de Rivera Caldéron, 1732/ Méjico: Vidua de Francisco de Rivera Caldéron, 1735/ Méjico: Vidua de Francisco de Rivera Caldéron, 1744/Méjico, 1889). The work has also received a modern edition: Doctrina cristiana breve traducida en lengua mexicana, ed. J. García Icazbalceta, in: Códice franciscano (Méjico, 1941), 30-53, 275-282.

Aquí comienza un vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana (Méjico: Juan Pablos, 1555/Méjjico: Antonio de Espinosa, 1571/Leipzig: Julio Platzmann, 1880/Monteho: Rufino Gonzáles, 1910). In the twentieth century, two further editions appeared: Aquí comienza un vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, facsimile edition of the 1571 edition (Madrid: Cultura Hispánica, 1944); Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, ed. M. León-Portilla (Mexico, 1970); Aquí comiença un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, ed. Manuel Galeote López, Analecta Maalcitana, annejo 37 (Málaga: Universidad de Málaga, 2001) [cf. Revista de Indias 64:230 (2004), 258-261.

Confesionario breve, en la lengua mejicana y castellana (Méjico: Antonio de Espinosa, 1565/Méjico: Antonio de Espinosa, 1569/Méjico: Pedro Balli, 1577).

Sumario de las indulgencias concedidas a los cofrades del Stmo. Sacramento traducido en langua mejicana (…) por mandado del M. Illmo. Y Rmo. S.D. Fr. Alsonso de Montúfar (Méjico, 1568).

Confesionario mayor en la lengua mejicana y castellana (Méjico: Antonio de Espinosa, 1569/Méjico: Antonio de Espinosa, 1609/Méjico: Pedro Balli, 1578). In the twentieth century, the work was edited again: Confesionario mayor en la lengua mexicana y castellana, ed. R. Moreno (Mexico, 1984).

Arte de la lengua mexicana y castellana (Méjico: Pedro de Ocharte, 1571/Méjico: Pedro Balli, 1576/Méjico: Pedro Balli, 1578/Méjico: Escalante, 1886).

Doctrina cristiana en lengua mejicana muy necesaria en la cual se contienen todos los principales misterios de nuestra santa fe católica (Méjico: Pedro Ocharte, 1578/Sevilla: Francisco Pérez, 1584/Méjico, 1606). Modern edition, ed. J.G. Durán, Monumenta catechetica hispanoamericana, siglos XVI-XVIII Vol. 1 (Buenos Aires, 1984), 387-427.

Rosario o psalterio de nuestra Señora Teocuitlaxochi cozcatlinic tlapalolo in cemihcac tlahtoca ichpuchtli santa María to cihuapillatocatzin (Méjico, c. 1580/Méjico: Diego López Dávalos, 1605/Méjico: Vidua de Francisco Rodríguez Lupercio, 1699).

Vida de san Francisco de Asís, en lengua mejicana (?)

Aparejo para recibir la sagrada comunión y oraciones y devociones varias para instrucción de los indios en idioma mejicano (?)

Oficio parvo de la Virgen María, en mejicano (?)

De contemptu mundi, en lengua mejicana (?)

Epístolas y evangelios de todo el año, en mejicano (?)

Attributed: Ordenanzas para aprovechar los cofrades a los que han de servir en hospitales (1552). See: Barry D. Sell et al., Nahua confraternities in Early Colonial Mexico: The 1552 Nahuatl ordinances of fray Alonso de Molina, OFM, Franciscan Publications in Nahuatl (Berkeley CA: Academy of American Franciscan History, 2002).; [cf. Collectanea Franciscana 74 (2004), 259-261; Americas 60 (2004), 659-661]

literature

Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1906), 13; Wadding-Melchiorri, Annales Minorum XXI, 273; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908), 27; J. de Torquemada, Monarchia indiana (Madrid, 1723) III, 33, 154, 387, 520; Marcellino da Civezza, Saggio di bibliografia sanfrancescana (Prato, 1879), 405-407; Mendieta II, 119, 199; Manuel Castro y Castro, ‘Lengueas Indigenas Americanas transmitidas por los Franciscanos del siglo XVI’, Actas del II Congresso Internacional sobre los Franciscanos en el Nuevo Mundo (siglo XVI) (Madrid, 1988), 498-501; LThK, VII³, 379; Manuel Galeote López, ‘Para la bio-bibliografía de fray Alonso de Molinaa: su obra gramatical y lexicográfica’, in: El Franciscanismo en Andalucia. Conferencias del V Curo de Verano (…) Conferencias del VI Curso de Verano, ed. Manuel Peláez del Rosal (Córdoba: Caja Sur, 2001), 589-600; Barry D. Sell et al., Nahua confraternities in Early Colonial Mexico: The 1552 Nahuatl ordinances of fray Alonso de Molina, OFM, Franciscan Publications in Nahuatl (Berkeley CA: Academy of American Franciscan History, 2002).; [cf. Collectanea Franciscana 74 (2004), 259-261];

Alonso de Pozo (Alonso del Pozo, d. 1735)

OFM. Member of the Cartagena province.

literature

AIA 36 (1933), 110-111; AIA 15 (1955), 403-404; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 166 (no. 693).

Alonso de Puertollano (fl. later 17^th cent.)

OFMDisc. Member of the San José province.

literature

José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica, 11 Vols. (Madrid, 1960-1976) V, no. 597; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 166 (no. 697).

Alonso de San Bernardo (fl. early 18^th cent.)

OFMDisc. Spanish friar. Active in the San Pedro de Alcántara province.

literature

AIA 22 (1962), 355-356; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografia de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 82

Alonso de San Francisco (fl. mid 17^th cent.)

OFMDisc. Friar from the San Pablo province. Missionary in the Philippines.

literature

AIA 33 (1932), 57; , Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica, 11 Vols. (Madrid, 1960-1976) V, nos. 653, 660, 662-666, 949; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografia de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 83.

Alonso de Torres (fl. later 17^th cent.)

OFM. Friar from the Granada province. Chronicler.

literature

AIA 16 (1921), 395; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 185 (no. 833).

Alonso de Vascones (fl. early 17^th cent.)

OFMDisc. Friar from the Granada province.

literature

AIA 20 (1923), 137; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 188 (no. 856).

Alonso Espinar († 1513)

OFMObs.Travelled with 17 friars to Haiti and established the convent in San Domingo. Promoted the Franciscan mission to Jamaica. Puerto Rico and Cuba. Took part in the codification of the laws of Burgos in 1512. Works?

editions:

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literature:

L. Gómez Canedo, Evangelización y Conquista. Experiencia franciscana en Hispanoamérica (Mexico, 1977), 6-17; L. Arranz Márquez, `Alonso de Espinar OFM y las leyes de 1512/13', Actas del I. congreso internacional sobre los franciscanos en el Nuevo Mundo (Madrid, 1987), 631-651; Ana Echevarria, The Fortress of Faith. The Attitude towards Muslims in Fifteenth -Century Spain, PhD. Thesis (Leiden, 1999); Steven J. McMichael, ‘Alfonso de Espina on the Mosaic Law’, in: Friars and Jews in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, ed. Steven J. McMichael & Susan E. Myers, The Medieval Franciscans, 2 (Leiden-Boston, 2004), 199-224.

Alonso Fernández (fl. early 17^th cent.)

OFM. Author>>

literature

AIA 22 (1962), 277; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 114 (no. 304).

Alonso Gomez Berdugo (Alonso Gómez Dueñas Berdugo, fl. c. 1580)

OFM. Member of the Castilia province.

literature

AIA 27 (1927), 331; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 122 (no. 366).

Alonso Hita (fl.  second half 17^th cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar from Guadalajara. Was already ordained secular priest when he departed for Mexico in 1657, to work in the service of the new bishop of Guatemala. Alonso followed his patron when the latter was transferred first to Michoacán and thereafter to Mexico. In 1679, Alonso joined the Observant Franciscans in the Santa Evangelio province. In the course of his career in the order, he fulfilled the function of definitor and of custodian. He is last mentioned in a document dating from 6 November 1696. Author of a series of works praising the Franciscan order, the immaculate conception and defending the jurisdiction of the archbishop of Mexico.

editions

Defensa jurídica por la jurisdicción de los señores arzobispos de México en el santuario de Guadalupe (Mexico, 1681).

Geroglifico sagrado de la amistad más verdadera y vivo traslado de la divina y celestial en los gloriosos patriarchas Sancto Domingo y San Francisco (Mexico, 1692).

Universidad florida de horladas celebran devotas la Concepción Purísima de Maria (Mexico, 1692).

El Régulo seráphico de San Pedro Regalado (Mexico, 1696).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Franciscana (Madrid, 1732) I, 45-46 & II 393 (additional info under the name Francisco); Juan C. Garcia Lopéz, Biblioteca de escritores de la Provincia de Guadalajara (Madrid, 1899), 217-218; AIA 15 (1955), 315-316; AIA 17 (1957), 568; AIA 27 (28?) (1968), 445-447; J. Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica (Madrid, 1960-1976) XI, nos. 4976-4982; AIA 39 (1979), 229; Collectanea Franciscana Bibliografia XIII, 827 (nos. 4976-4982); AIA 41 (1981), 128; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 128 (no. 419).

Alonso La Rea (fl. c. 1640)

OFM. Spanish friar. Chronicler of the San Pedro y San pablo province (Michoacán, Mexico).

literature

AIA 27 (1927), 209-216; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 137 (no. 484).

Alonso López Magdaleno (fl. c. 1670)

OFM. Preacher in the Castilia province.

literature

AIA 8 (1917), 110; AIA 16 (1921), 398; AIA 35 (1932), 527-529; AIA 15 (1955), 328-329; AIA 24 (1964), 287-288; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 140 (no. 505).

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manuscripts

Poesía: Madrid, Nac., 1739 ff. 17-119

editions

ed. José Pio Tejera & R. de Moncada, Biblioteca del Murciano, I (Madrid, 1922), 568-569

Alfonso Guerrero (fl. later 17^th cent.)

OFM. Member of the San Miguel province.

literature

AIA 35 (1932), 526; AIA 15 (1955), 310; José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica, 11 Vols. (Madrid, 1960-1976) XI, nos. 2815-2820; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 124 (no. 388).

Alfonso Herrera y Molina Salcedo (1572-1644)

OFMDisc. Spanish friar. Born in Granada. Entered the order at a very early age in the San Josefo province and from there moved to the San Antonio de la Charcas province in 1595. Preached in Argentina. Due to some questions concerning the orthodoxy of several remarks in sermons held at la Plata, Alfonso was ordered to keep silent for two years and sent away. He became custodian in the Charcas province. Later, in 1612, he became commisioner for the reorganisation of missionary activities in the Twelve Apostles province in Peru. He also was guardian in the San Francisco de Trujillo friary (Peru)and of the San Francisco de La Paz friary (Bolivia). During his later years, he was frequently preaching again . The last fifteen years of his life, he spent in the San Francisco friary of Lima. Most of his published works reflect his homiletic activities.

editions

Consideraciones cristianas (Seville, 1617/1618/1619). Parts of this work were also published separately with different titles, such as: Ira y furor de Dios contra los juramentos blasfemos (Seville, 1619); Amenazas del juiciofinal y penas del infierno en el Salmo 48 (Seville, 1617/1618/1619).

Discursos predicables de las exelencias del nombre de Jesús y de los nombres y atributos de Cristo (Seville, 1619). Heavily modelled on Luis de León.

Espejo de la perfecta casada (Lima, 1627/Granada, 1631/1636/1638). In fact a commentary on Paralipomenon XXXI, heavily modelled on Luis de León.

Questiones evangélicas para el Adviento y Santos que ocurren en ese tiempo, 2 Vols. (Lima, 1641/1642/1649’Saragossa, 1644).

Sermones de Cuaresma (Lima, 1644).

Parábolas de Salomón (?)

Epistola dedicatoria a la Virgen María (Granada, 1651).

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum I (ed. Rome, 1908), 26; AIA 28 (1968), 170-177; DSpir VII, 370; DHGE XXIV, 182 (with additional bibliographical references).

Alfonso Lobo (fl. first half 16^th cent.)

OFMCap. Exegete.

editions

In Isaiam (Antwerp, 1538)

Alonso Pastor (fl. mid 17^th cent.)

OFM. Member of the Valencia province.

literature

AIA 21 (1924), 392-394; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 161 (no. 666).

Alfredus Gontier (Anfredus/Gaufridus Gontier/Gonteri, late 13th and early 14th cent.) doctor providus

According to his Sent. commentary, he was a Bacc. Theologiae at Paris (ca. 1303-4). Pupil of Scotus. Also influenced by Henry of Harclay. Read the Sentences in Barcelona as lector in 1322 (books I, II, III survived). We also know his Quaestiones Quodlibetae and his Quaestiones Ordinariae. Like Scotus, he defended the immaculate conception. He apparently took part in the secular-mendicant controversy and decades later also in the debate on the poverty of Christ under the pontificate of pope John XXII. For his views on poverty, see a.o. MS Madrid, Nac., 4165 ff. 47-66 [Castro, Madrid, no. 237]

manuscripts

Compilatio Lecture Primi et Secunde Sententiarum Ordinata per Fratrum Anfredum Gonteri, Britonis: >>

Quaestio Compilata per Fratrem Angredum Gonteri, Lectorem Barchinone ad Informationem Minorum Contra Secuaces Magistri Guillelmi de Sancto Amore: Madrid, Nac. 4165 ff. 47-66; Vat. Lat. 3740; Venice, Marc>>

Quaestio de Paupertate Christi: Vat. Lat. 3740 ff. 55va-78rb

In I Sent.: Vat.Lat., 1113

In I & II Sent: Wroclaw, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka A 211 (formerly I.F. 184) [= books I and II.

Quaestiones Quodlibetales: Vat.Lat. 869

editions

Q. de Paupertate: F. Delorme (ed.), Studi Francescani, ser. 3, 8 (1936), 240-291.

In I-IV Sent. See: V. Doucet, `Der unbekannte Skotist des Vat.Lat. 1113: fr. Anfredus Gonteri', Franzisk. Stud., 25 (1938), 201-240 [Quaestio 3 in I Sent., dist. 34: 'Utrum ex natura deitatis sint tria esse distincta in divinis']; J. Alfaro, `La immaculada Concepción en los escritos de un discípulo de Duns Escoto, Aufredo Gontier', Gregorianum, 36 (1955), 590-617 [In III Sent. dist. 3]; Chris Schabel, `Aufredo (sic) Gonteri Brito secundum Henry of Harclay on Divine Foreknowledge and Future Contingents,' Disputatio 2: Constructions of Time in the Late Middle Ages (1997), pp. 159-195. [In I Sent., dd. 38-39, replete with modifications from Harlcay's commentary].

literature

Stegmüller, RS, I, no. 42; V. Doucet, in: Franciscan Studies, 24 (1938), 201-240; Martin Bauer, `Aufredus', LThK, 1 (1993), 1221; M. Schmaus, `Uno sconosciuto discepolo di Scoto intorno alla prescienza di Dio', RFNS, 24 (1932), 327-355; Viktorin Doucet, `Der unbekannte Skotist des Vat.Lat. 1113: fr. Anfredus Gonteri O.F.M.[1325]', Franzisk. Stud 25 (1938), 201-240; J. Alfaro, `La immaculada Concepción en los escritos de un discípulo de Duns Escoto, Aufredo Gontier', Gregorianum, 36 (1955), 590-617; L. Amorós, `Anfredo Gontero, O.F.M. Discípulo de Escoto y Lector en el estudio general de Barcelona. Su comentario al lib. II y III de las Sententias', RET, 1 (1940/41), 545-572; J. Carreras y Artau, `Nota sobre el scotismo medieval en la província franciscana de Aragón', Antonianum, 40 (1965), 467-79; A. Maier, Scienza e filosofia nel medioevo. Saggi sui secoli XIII e XIV (Milan, 1984), 370-371; S.D. Dumont, `The Scotist of Vat.Lat. 869' AFH, 81 (1988), 254-283; S.F. Brown & S.D. Dumont, `Univocity of the Concept of Being in the Fourteenth Century III. An Early Scotist', MS, 51 (1989), 1-129; A. Tabarroni, Paupertas Christi et Apostolorum, L'ideale francescano in discussione (1322-1324) (Rome, 1990), 35-6.

With thanks to Prof.dr. Chris Schabel

Alonso Reinoso de Almazan (fl. second half 17^th cent.)

OFM. Franciscan friar from the Cartagena province. Preacher.

literature

AIA 15 (1955), 412-413; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 168 (no. 711).

Alonso Rosa (fl. early 1712)

OFM. Member of the Cartagena province.

literature

AIA 36 (1933), 121-122; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 172 (no. 745).

Alphonse de Chartres (1597-1687)

OFMCap. Spiritual author. Was already a doctor in law before he joined the Capuchins on 18 April 1631 at the Saint-Jacques friary (Paris). Embarked on a career as preacher, order theologian and guardian (Saint-Honoré friary). Died in the Marais friary (Paris) on 27 October 1687. Author, translator and editor.

editions

Demonstrationes Evangelicae (Paris, 1663 & 1666).

>> editions of the works of Yves de Paris.

>> a French translation of Luigi Manzoni’s La Fenice cioe Esercizi dell’anima crocefissa (translation appeared inParis, 1659).

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literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 6; Emmanuel de Lanmodez, Les pères gardiens des capucins du couvent de la rue Saint-Honoré à Paris (Paris, 1893), 22-23; Ubald d’Alençon, ‘Alphonse de Chartres’, DHGE II, 708-709; DSpir I, 355-356; LexCap>>>

Alphonsus de Cruce (Alfonso de la Cruz, d. 1631)

OFMDisc. Spanish friar of noble descent. Born in Valdemoro. Entered the order in the St. Paul province. Became a guardian in the friaries of Medina, Avila (1599) and Salamanca. Five times definitor for his province and two times visitator of the John the Baptist province. Was activa as a preacher and produced a series of vernacular sermons, a Camino de la Salvacion, the Manual de Prelados, a Compendio de la Vida espiritual and comparable spiritual works. Alfonso died at Medina, on 24 January 1631.

editions

Primera parte de discursos evangelicos y espirituales en las fiestas principales de todo el año (Madrid, 1599/Barcelona, 1600). Sermons.

Varios discursos, o anotaciones para las festividades principales de los Santos (Madrid, 1599/Barcelona, 1600). Sermons.

Sermones de quaresma>> unedited?

De la pureza del apostol san Pablo (Madrid, 1599).

Camino de la Salvacion (Salamanca: Ramirez, 1625)

Manual de Prelados (Lisbon, 1622)

Compendio de la Vida espiritual (Salamanca, 1625)

literature

Wadding,-Melchiorri, Annales Minorum XXIII, 336, 388; Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1906), 12; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 26; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Franciscana (Madrid, 1732) I, 43; N. Antonio, Bibliotheca Hispana Nova (Madrid, 1783) I, 20; Antoine de Sérent, ‘Alphonse de la Croix’, DHGE II, 709-710; DSpir I, 356; AIA 25 (1926), 403; AIA 15 (1955), 262; José Simon Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica, 11 Vols. (Madrid, 1960-1976) V, nos. 1298-1302; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografia de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982),  82

Alphonsus de Escalona (Alfonso d’Escalona, 1496-1584)

OFM. Spanish friar from the neighbourhood of Toledo. Joined the order in the Carthagena province in 1514, after the death of his father. Guardian of the San Miguel del Monte friary. In 1531, he travelled to New Spain. First worked at Tlaxcalla, in the Holy Gospel province. Very soon proficient in the indigenous language of the region, he started to write his sermons in it. Taught grammar and catechesis to many children at Tlaxcalla. Thereafter charges as novice master in Mexico, as well as guardian and definitor for his province. In 1554, he was one of the first missionaries to go to Guatemala, heading a missionary group of nine. This adventure did not last long: he was called back to Mexico to help with the negociations to establish a separate Guatemala province. In 1562, he departed again to Guatemala, together with two other friars. Studied the Guatemalan languages. After six years (during which he would not only engage in apostolic, apostolic and confessional work but also would have resurrected a dead child), he returned to the Holy Gospel province, as the bishop Bernardino de Villalpando found fault with the work of the regular clergy. Back in Mexico, in 1568, Alfonso became provincial, visiting the friaries and missionary stations of his province (allegedly going barefoot). He died at the Mexico province on 10 March 1584, at the age of 88 years.

manuscripts/editions

Sermones en lengua Megicana que tradujo despues a la Achi Guatemalteca el Padre Fr. Alonso>>

Commentario sobre los diez preceptos del Decalogo en lengua Megicana>>>>

literature

Wadding-Melchiorri, Annales Minorum XXI, 447; Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1906), 13; Juan de Torquemada, Monarchia Indiana (Madrid, 1723) III, 490-499; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Franciscana (Madrid, 1732) I, 43; M. Ortega, Chronica de la santa provincia de Cartagena (Murcia, 1740) I, 356-368; Marcellino da Civezza, Saggio di bibliografia sanfrancescana (Prato, 1879), 164; Antoine de Sérent, ‘Alphonse d’Escalona’, DHGE II, 711-712.

Alphonsus de Melinda (Alfonso de Melinda, fl. later 14^th cent.)

Secular tertiary. Socius of Alfonse, former bishop of Jaen and confessor of Brigit of Sweden after 1361. In 1378, Alfonso was in Rome, after the election of Urban VI. In 1380, he took part in a meeting on the papal schism at Medina del Campo. Alfonso would have composed a treatise on the schism (De Schismate).

literature

Raynaldi, Annales Eclesiasticae, no. xvi (ad ann. 1379); Baluze, Vitae Paparum Avenionensium (Paris, 1693) I, 1281; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 27. 

Alphonsus de Salamina (fl. late 15^th cent.)

Almost nothing is known about this friar, except for the fact that he wrote the Laudes Beatissimi Patris Nostri Francisci. Regula et Vita Fratrum Minorum una cum Laudibus Eiusdem regulae a Beatissimo Patre Nostro Francisco Prolatae (Paris: Denis Rose, 1500).

literature

Copinger, Supplement to Hain’s Repertorium Bibliographicum (London, 1898) II, ii, 46 (n. 403); M. Bihl, ‘Alphonse de Salamina’, DHGE II, 754.

Alphonsus Monfordensis (d. 1636)

OFMCap. Joined the Capuchins in Meudon, on 22 June 1603. Died at Boulogne-sur-Mer, on 7 May 1636. Cf. MS Paris, BN français 25046 p. 218.

editions

Histoire de l’ancienne image de Notre-Dame de Boulogne (Paris, 1634). Dedicated to the King of France.

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 7.

Alphonse de Isla (fl. 16th cent.)

Portuguese friar, known for his Tesoro de Virtudes.

editions

Libro llamado Tesoro de Virtudes (Medina del Campo: Pedro de Castro, 1543)

literature

N. Antonio, Bibliotheca Hispana Nova I, 31; Sbararalea, Supplementum I, >>; DSpir I, 356; M. Viller, ‘Alphonse de Isla’, DSpir I, 356; Isaías Rodríguez, ‘Autores espirituales españoles (1500-1700)’, Repertorio de Historia de las Ciencias eclesiasticas en España 3 (siglos xiii-xvi) (Salamanca, 1971), 503.

Alphonsus Campensis (fl. ca. 1500)

OFM. Not much is known about this friar who, according to Sbaralea and other early bibliographers, wrote a De Rebus Franciscanis.

literature

Johannis Matere, Dialogus Chronologicus de Ordine S. Francisci, iii (no. 20); Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 24.

Alvarus de Roja (Alvaro de Rojas/Alvaro de Sata María y San Pablo, fl. early 18^th cent.)

OFMDisc. Member of the San Gabriel province.

literature

AIA 30 (1928), 342-343; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 172 (no. 739).

Alvarus de Sevilla (fl. early 15th cent.)

Castilian friar. Active as master of theology at the Sevilla convent. Known for his Castilian translation of Nicholas of Lyra’s Postil on Isaiah, finished at Sevilla, 1421.

manuscripts  

Translation of Nicholas of Lyra’s Comm. in Isaiam: MS Salamanca, Bibl. Universitaria 2253 ff. 1-285v.

Alvarus Pelagius (Alvaro Pelayo/Alvaro Peláez Gómez Charino, c. 1275, Salnés - 25, 01, 1349, Sevilla)

Spanish friar (Galicia). Illegitimate son of the Admiral of Castilia (Payo Gómez Charino, d. 1295). Received his education at the court of Sanchez IV of Castilia. Became a priest in the Compostella diocese, and departed for Italy in 1299. Studied Canon Law and Roman Law at Bologna, and became doctor utriusque iuris. Taught for some time at the Bologna law faculties. In the mean time, he probably also studied theology in the Franciscum studium generale of Bologna. On the general chapter of Assisi (1304), he was admitted into the Franciscan order by minister general Gonzalo de Balboa. Apparently spent several years in the Umbrian province, where he developed spiritual leanings, yet without ever questioning the authority structure of order and the church at large. He travelled through the Italian peninsula between 1309 and 1317. In 1321, he took part in the general chapter of Perugia, which discussed the poverty issue. Notwithstanding his spiritual leanings, he took a stance against the theoretical usus pauper views of Olivi, and tried to heal the rift between the papacy and the Franciscan order. After travels to Assisi (1326), Rome (1327-1329, Aracoeli convent), and Anagni (1328, where minister general Michael of Cesena was condemned for his insubordination against the pope), he became secretary for pope John XXII and apostolic penitentiary at Avignon. In 1332, pope John XXII appointed him to the episcopal see of Koron (Greece; Pelayo probably never went there), and in 1333, he was transferred to the see of Silvez (Faro), in Portugal. In Faro, where Alvaro Pelayo became very active as reformer and fighter of heresies, he quickly antagonised his clergy and the kings of Portugal (Alfonso IV and Pedro I). This eventually lead to Alvaro Pelayo’s dismissal. From then onwards, Alvaro Pelayo resided in Sevilla, where he died in the San Francisco convent on 25 January 1349 [Cf Martirologio Francescano (Venice, 1939), 249]. Alvaro Pelayo was a prolific writer and controversialist. He defended his positions concerning Franciscan poverty and papal sovereignty in the Summa de statu et planctu ecclesiae (three versions: 1330-1332, revisions in 1335 en 1340), which amounts to a plea for papal plenitudo potestatis (against Marsilius of Padua and William of Ockham. For Alfonso XI of Castilia, he wrote a Speculum regum (1341-1344). Among his other works, we can mention a Collyrium Fidei Adversus Haereses, a Tractatus de Sacrilegio, Comentarios al Evangelio de San Marco (false attribution?), a Commentarium in Matthaeum (spurious), a text on the immaculate conception, a sermon on the visio beatifica (did not survive?) as well as other sermons (MS Oxford, Bodl., Misc. Can. 529), a Tractatus de Fide (MS Guadalajara, BP 7), a Sentences commentary (ascription uncertain), Quaestiones Quodlibetales (MS Padua, BU, 295), letters (a.o. the Ritratto dell’‘uomo interiore’, which goes back to a non-surviving Latin original), and spiritual and penitentiary writings (ed. Meneghin), such as De Gradibus Humilitatis.

manuscripts

>>? Comentarios al Evangelio de San Marco

>>?Commentarium in Matthaeum: Paris, BN Lat. 12024; Orléans, Bibl. Municipale Lat. 69 [spurious?]

>>?Commentarium in 4 Libros Sententiarum [mentioned by Wadding. Lost?>]

Quaestiones Quodlibetales: Padua, Bib. Univ. 295.

Gradus Humilitatis/Littera de Humilitate. Cf. V. Meneghin, Scritti Inediti.

Quinquagesilogium/Sermones: Oxford, Bodleian Misc. Can. 529 [sermons on Scripture and on the Franciscan rule and its observance]

Tractatus de Sacrilegio: Escorial OSA Lat. e.I.5; Orléans, Bibl. Municipale 69; Paris, BN Lat. 12024

Errores Begardorum: Escorial OSA Lat. e.I.S

Sermo de Visione Beatifica: Toledo, San Juan de los Reyes Y. 66 [Lost? It amounts to a long sermon held before John XXII during the Passion period of 1333.

Tractatus de Fide: Guadalajara, Bib. Prov. 7

Collyrium Fidei adversus Haereses: a.o. BAV Lat. 2324; Madrid, Nac., 4201; BAV Lat., 1129; Venice, San Marco G. 210; Paris, BN, Lat., 3372 (14th cent.); Paris, BN, Lat. 17522; Guadalajara BP 8.

De Planctu Ecclesiae: a.o. Salamanca BU 2390 ff. 3-147v (14th cent.) & 2391 ff. 3-214v (14th cent.); Valencia, Cathedral 234; Karlsruhe, St. Peter im Schwarzwald 42 ff. 17ra-518rb (15th cent.); Nürnberg Stadtbibl. Theol. Cent. I, 86 (books I and II, an. 1463) & Cent. I, 87 (an. 1449); Paris BN Lat. 3197; Madrid, Bib. Nac. R/19612; BAV Urbin. Lat. 4280 [several extracts can be found in other manuscripts under a variety of titles, such as De Potestate Ecclesiae/Tractatus de Ecclesia/Potestas Papae/Apologia pro Ioanne XXII etc.]

Speculum Regum: Saint-Omer, Bibl. Municipale Lat. 123; Munich, Bayerisch. Staatsbibl. Clm 3568; brussels, Bibl. Royale 9596; Vienna, BP Lat. 1632; Troyes Lat. 91; BAV Barberini Lat. 1447

Epistolae ad Alphonsum IV (1335): Brussels Bibl. Royale 9596/7 ff. 116-117 [letters on warfare]

Epistolae Variae: Padua Bib. Univ. 596 ff. 84-372 (15th cent.) [Cf. also Cenci, Manoscritti francescani della Bibl. Naz. de Napoli I, 50 & II, 574.

There have survived in this collection 13 letters to Franciscan friars, a letter to the bishop of Viterbo Angelo Tignosi, a letter to cardinal Gómez Barroso on the moral state of the Church, a letter to an unknown woman and a letter to another unknown recipient, as well as nine letters to the flagellants of Perugia (of whom Pelayo was spiritual director), focussing on orthodox religious praxis, the right forms of prayer and christocentric devotions, corporal penitence and the spiritual worth of honest work Edited in V. Meneghin, Scritti inediti di fra Alvaro Pais (Lisbon, 1969) 130ff. [check!]. On the letters to Franciscan friars, some of which deal with Franciscan spirituals and others with penitential exercises, see also AFH 39 (1946), 63-200 (a reaction of Angelo Clareno to a letter of Pelayo addressed to the spiritual friar Odo) and AFH 10 (1917), 575-582 (an edition of Pelayo’s letter to friar Juvenalis on interior man, recommending 300 genuflections and other excercises for every day.)]

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editions

De Statu et Planctu Ecclesiae (Ulm, 1474/Lyon, 1517/Venice, 1560). For a modern edition, see Vittorino Meneghin (ed.), De planctu et statu ecclesiae, edited in: Scritti inediti di fra Alvaro Pais. Lissabon, 1969; Álvaro Pais, Estado e Pranto da Igreja (Status et planctus Ecclesiae) VI-VIII, ed. & trans. Miguel Pinto de Meneses (Lissabon, 1996-1998). [The work, composed between 1330 and 6 August 1332 in at least three different versions, should be seen in the context of the conflict between Louis of Bavaria and pope John XXII. Alvaro made several corrections to the work in 1335 (at Ranna, Portugal, and in 1340, at Santiago de Compostella. Most editions base themselves on Alvaro’s final redaction. It resembles to some extent the structure of Bonegratia of Bergamo’s Tractatus de Paupertate Christi et Apostolorum Eius. De planctu et statu amounts to an ecclesiological work, with many ideas for ecclesiological reform. The first part (De Statu, 70 chapters), deals with the constitutions and privileges of the church, pope John XXII’s legitimacy and the current controversies concerning the position of the pope in the church at large. Alvaro argues against Marsilius of Padua, William of Ockham, and John of Jandun, and supports the primacy and supremacy of the spirtual over the temporal. The second part (De Planctu, 93 chapters) depicts the major abuses in church (also attacks against heretical groups, including beguins), society, and the Franciscan order,and suggests remedies, and also includes ascetical and meditative guidelines. Interestingly enough, he does not accept Mary’s immaculate conception]

The Latin version of the Speculum Regum was edited as Speculum Regum, ed. M. Pinto Meneses, 3 Vols. (Lisbon, 1955-1963). There also are several early modern editions [the work was written between 1341 and 1344 in Tavira. The work was dedicated to Alfonso XI of Castilia and cardinal Gil de Albornoz. It is a typical princes mirror, with a strict behavioral program. Strong emphasis on the virtues of the prince. The work closes with a discussion of just war, the dependence of temporal power on the spiritual power of the pope, anda defense of monarchy against more democratic forms of government]

Collyrium Fidei adversus Haereses, ed. in in: M. Pinto de Meneses (ed.), Frei lvaro Pais, bispo de Silves - Colírio da Fé contre as Heresias, 2 Vols (Lissabon, 1954-6), I, 4-388, II, 10-344. See also the edition of Döllinger, Sektengeschichte, II, 615-617. [The work, written c. 1348, provides an overview of old and new heresies in and outside the Iberian peninsula, notably Averroïsm, Spiritualism, Islam, and Judaism, and groups of Beguins and Begards. Alvaro Pelayo includes philosophical, theological, canonist, and exegetical refutations of the heresies identified by him. It was written for clerics and inquisitors. The work clearly is informed by Alvaro Pelayo’s own inquisitorial cations against alleged Portuguese heretics (such as Tomas Escoto, Alfonso Geraldes de Montemor, Geraldo Portugalense etc.)]

Cartas, ed. A.D. de Sousa, in: Estudos sobre Alvaro Pais (Lissabon, 1966), 146-152.

Littera ad Fratrem Juvenalem. See: Z. Lazzeri, ‘Una lettera spirituale di fra Alvaro Pelagio’, AFH 10 (1917), 575-582.> See in particular also the work of Meneghin.

Gradus Humilitatis/Littera de Humilitate. Edited in V. Meneghin, Scritti Inediti? Italian translation to be found in Mistici francescani. Secolo XIV, 973-992

Littera/Ritratto dell’‘uomo interiore’, edited by Zeffirino Lazzeri in AFH 10 (1917), 575-582. It received a modern Italian translation by Lázaro Iriarte, in: Mistici Francescani. Secolo XIV, II (Assisi-Bologna, 1997), 981-992 [Following Lazzeri’s translation, we can signal that the work, addressed at a friar ‘M.’, contains twelve sections: Accendi in te la lucerna dell’amore di Dio; Prendi l’esempio dalle api; Esercizi di penitenza e di devozione; Vita raccolta e fedeltà alla regola; Come passero solitario; Stai in silenzio salmeggiando; Il sacramento della penitenza; Poni freno al tuo riso; Ogni estremismo viene dal diavolo; La guida e il consiglio dei frati esperti; Aspetta la grazia della contemplazione; La communione eucaristica. Amounts to an encompassing life guide for the serious but non-extremist friar, and provides insight in the penitential activities of friars. Hence, the section Esercizi di penitenza e di devozione states (trans. Lazzeri, 985-986): ‘Se, per amore ed ispirazione del Signore, ti vuoi correggere ed emendare, prendi la pratica di fare, oltre l’usanza dell’Ordine, una disciplina temperata, una o due volte la settimana, secondo la quantità e gravità dei difetti che avrai fatti. Per la prima volta la durata sia per lo spazio dei tre primi salmi penitenziali, la seconda per altri quattro, senza le litanie, e non più. Farai dra il dì e la notte trecento genuflessioni, e non più. La domenica, il martedì e il giovedì cena; gli altri giorni, a meno che non vi sia una ragione importante, non cenare, ma mantieni la vita comunitaria. Ingegnati normalmente di mangiare poca carne, specialmente di sera, e non bere molto vino, nel quale sta la lussuria (Ef. 5, 18). Per tutta la tua vita, qualunque cibo ti disponi a mangiare, arma il tuo cuore, prima di andare a tavola, perché nessuna cosa ti sazi, per quanto sia di piccola stima o sapore; ma sforzati quanto puoi di vincere te stesso con la virtù della temperanza, la quale è nutrimento di tutte le virtù e sopratutto della castità (…) etc.; The section Il sacramento della penitenza (trans. Lazzeri, 988-989) states: ‘Quando ti confessi, non ti confessare con parole generali, ma ricordati quanto puoi dei tuoi difetti e peccati, che hai commesso dall’ultima confessione fino a questa che ora fai, e dilli particolarmente con vergogna al tuo confessore, senza mescolare altro ragionamento non necessario a questa confessione, puramente e umilmente, con dolore e preposito di emendarti, sia che si tratti di peccato mortale, il che piaccia a Dio che non sia mai, ovvero veniale. Fatti mostrare da qualcuno quali sono i peccati mortali che si possono commettere contro la nostra Regola e, quando in essi vi fose offesa di Dio, confessatene, e guardati di ricadere nel futuro. Mai confessarti prima di pentirti di quello che hai da confessare.(…)]

literature

Wadding, Scriptores (ed. 1906) 14; Wadding, Annales Minorum V, 255, 359, 400, VI, 44, 319-324, VII, 55, 101, 116, 157, 276, 525; Marcus de Lisbon, Chroniche (Naples, 1680) II, 480-488; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana (Madrid, 1732), I, 53-54; Sbaralea, Supplementum I, 31-32; Bullarium Franciscanum, ed. C. Eubel V, nos. 778, 779, 962, 985, 1023;  Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica I, 2202, 476; Analecta Franciscana II (1887), 149, 153, 189, 353; Gams, Series Episcoporum, 106, 431; H. Bayländer, Alvaro Pelayo, Studien zu seinem Leben und seinen Schriften (Aschaffenburg, 1910); R. Scholz, Unbekannte kirchenpolitische Streitschriften (Rome, 1911-1914) I, 197-207, II, 491-529; A. Amaro, Fr. Alvaro Pelayo (Madrid, 1916); Alejandro Amaro, ‘Fr. Alvaro Pelagio: su vida, sus obras y su posición respecto de la cuestión de la pobreza teórica en la orden franciscana, bajo Juan XXII (1316-1334)’, AIA 3 (1916), 5-32, 192-213, AIA 6 (1916), 5-28; J.M. Pou y Martí, Visionarios, beguinos y fraticelos catalanes (Vich, 1930), 17, 56, 452; N. Jung, Un franciscain, théologien du pouvoir pontifical, Alvaro Pelayo (Paris, 1931); F.G. Ogando Vázquez, ‘Fr. Alvaro Pelayo franciscano, jurista gallego (…)’, Boletín de la Comisión provincial de (…) Orense 12 (1940), 327-344; AFH 39 (1946), 72-200; G. Rubio, La Custodia franciscana de Sevilla (Sevilla, 1953), 185-196; G. Schrick, Der Königsspiegel des Alvarez Pelayo (Bonn, 1953); Wilhelm Kölmel, ‘Paupertas und Potestas. Kirche und Welt in der Sicht des Alvarus Pelagius', Franz. Stud., 46 (1964), 57-101;V. Meneghin, Scritti inediti di Fr. Alvaro Pais (Lissabon, 1969); A. Domingues de Sousa Costa, Estudios sobre Alvaro Pais (Lissabon, 1966); Analecta Franciscana XI (1970), 75*; Crónica de la provincia de Santiago, 1214-1614 (Madrid, 1971), 52; A. Domingues de Sousa Costa, Theologia et Jus Canonicum Juxta Canonistam Alvarum Pelagium (Vatican City, 1970); J. Morais Barbosa, La teoria política de Alvaro Pais no ‘Speculum Regum’ (Lissabon, 1972); Antonianum 47 (1972), 656-681; M. de Castro, Manuscritos franciscanos de la Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid (Valencia, 1973), 284-286; Mariano Acebal Lujan, ‘Pelayo (Alvaro),’ Dictionnaire de spiritualité, XII (Paris, 1984), 875-881 (with esp. additional bibliographical information); M. Damiata, Alvaro Pelayo teocratico scontento (Florence, 1984); Odilo Engels, `Alvaro Pelayo', LThK, 1 (1993), 477-478; J. Chorão Lavajo, Mediaevalia, 5-6 (1994), 309-340; A. Ghisalberti, G. Federici Vescovini, `Aristotelismo e averroisimo: dalle arti alla teologia', in: Storia della teologia nel Medioevo, III: La teologia delle scuole, ed. G. d'Onofrio (Casale Monferrato, 1996), 569-573, 602; M.A. Santiago de Carvalho, `Da abominação do monstro. Igreja e poder em Alvaro Pais', Revista de Facultade de Ciências sociais e humanas-UNL, 7 (1994), 255-284; Idem, `Conspecto do desenvolvimento da filosofia em Portugal (sécolos XIII-XV)','Rivista española de filosofia medieval, 4 (1997), 131-155; Mário A. Santiago de Carvalho, Estudios sobre Álvaro Pais e outros Franciscanos (séculos XIII-XV), Estudos Gerais, Série Universitária. Clássicos de filosofia (Lisboa, Imprensa Nacional - Casa da Moeda, (2000) [cf. Collectanea Franciscana 73 (2003), 396-400]; Pedro Calafate, ‘Frei Álvaro Pais’, in: História do pensamento filosófico português, 221-251; José Antônio de Camargo Rodriguez de Souza, ‘Álvaro Pais O.Min (1270-1349), Marsilio de Pádua (1280-1342) e o ‘Colírio de fé contra as heresias’’, in: Idade Média e modernidade, ed. Luis Alberto De Boni & Roberto Hoffmeister Pich (Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, 2002), 407-424 [=Veritas 47 (2002), 261-424].

Amadeus Bajocensis (d. 1676)

OFMCap. Preacher.

editions

Paulus ecclesiastes, seu eloquentia christiana, qua orator evangelicus ad ideam et doctrinam divi Pauli formatur (Paris, 1662/Venice, 1720/Augsburg, 1745).

literature

Harry Caplan & Henry H. King, ‘Latin Tractates on Preaching: A Book-List’, The Harvard Theological Review 42:3 (Jul., 1949), 196.

Amadeus de Bouvier (fl. 15th cent.)

OMObs.>>

literature

Philippe Barbat, `Le `Libellus peregrinationis tocius Terre sancte' d'Amédée de Bouvier o.f.m.', École nationale des chartes. Positions des thèses (1996), 7-21 [Cf. Rev. Hist. Egl. France 83 (1997), 301]

Amadeus (Menez) de Silva (1430-1482)

Born in Ceuta? Son of Rodrigo Gomez de Silva & Isabella Menez. Brother of Beatrix de Silva, the foundress of the order of the Concepcion in Castilia. Active as a soldier in his youth. Entered the monastery of the Hieronymites of Guadelupe in Castilia around 1442. Shortly thereafter, aiming to become a martyr for the faith, he travalled towards Granada. Was arrested and sent away. Then he took a ship at Sevilla, with the aim to go to Africa. Yet the weather intervened. He returned to his monastery, falling ill, and apparently experiencing a miraculous cure. Decided to joined the Franciscans at Assisi. He obtained permission to leave his cloister and received letters of introduction by the Franciscan friars of Ubeda. First approached at Perugia the Franciscan minister general Angelo da Perugia, who refused him. A second refusal took place at Assisi. It was in 1453 that the new minister general Giacomo da Mozanica allowed him to join the order as a converso. His highly ascetical lifestyle, and his criticism of the lax lifestyle of his fellow friars in Assisi had as a result that he was more or less kicked out. He went first to Perugia and then to Brescia, where, at that moment the provincial chapter was gathered in the presence of the minister general, who sent Amadeus to the Milan friary. There he became a sacristian and subsequently was given permission to embark on long sessions of hermitic lifestyle with one other companion in a local abandoned hospital. Later, when his reputation grew, and he became harrassed by too much attention by lay and religious admirers, he retreated first to Marliano (in Lombardy), and thereafter to Oreno. In 1459, he gave in to the pressure of his superiors and was ordained priest. Thereafter he embarked on a career as an itinerant preacher in the Milan region, under the protection of the Duchess of Milan (Bianca), who also used him as a legate to pope Pius II and for other missions. In August 1460, with the support of Duchess Bianca and the people of Castiglione Cremonese, he established himself with permission of his order in the Santa Maria da Bersanora community. This was the beginning of a new congregation of Franciscan monasteries that grew due to his inspiration in the Milan and Lombardy region, a development that caused some problems with local friaries. Amadeo was successful not in the least thanks to the support of the Duke and Duchess of Milan, the pope and the Franciscan minister general (and later pope) Francesco della Rovere. After Francesco’s election to the papal throne (Sixtus IV), Amadeo more or less established himself in Rome, where he became a personal counsellor of the pope and was able to acquire various communities for his congregation. Amadeo returned to Milan shortly before his death. He died there on 10 August 1482. His grave became a cult site. Alleged author of the famous Apocalipsis Nova, a religious/apocalyptic-political prophecy based on exchanges with the archangel Gabriel, which Amadeo would have written in the Janicula cavern.

manuscripts

Apocalipsis Nova, sensum habens apertum, et ea quae in antiqua Apocalypsis erant intus, hic ponuntur foris, hoc est, quae erant abscondita, sunt hic aperta et interpretata: a.o. Barcelona, Univ. 1818 (XVIII), ff. 1-289; Madrid Bib. Nac., 6540 ff. 193-228; Madrid Bib. Nac., 11248 (XVII, ff. 1-325v; Messina, Univ. 459 (XVII); Milan Bib. Trivulz. 402; Perugia Bib. Comunale 434; Perugia Bib. Comunale 1047; Palermo. Bib. Comunale, 3 Qq B 24; B. 25; B 26); Naples Naz. VII. D. 44 (Amadei Revelationes et Raptus); Bologna Bibl. Comunale Serie A 115; Bologna Biblioteca Comunale Serie A 180; Paris, BN, Lat. 3326 (16th cent.); Paris BN Lat. 684; Florence Naz. Conv. Soppr.A.6.1275 [Raptus in Apocalypsim]; Toledo Bib.. Capitular cód. 13-21; Rome BAV Vat. Lat. 9329; Rome BAV Barberiana Lat. 476; Rome BAV Barberiana Lat. 660; Rome BAV Barberiana Lat. 667; Rome BAV Barberiana Lat. 675;

editions

Apocalypsis Nova, ed. P. de Alva y Astorga, Bibliotheca Virginalis (Madrid, 1648), 673, 681-727 [partial edition]; see also big fragments in the work of Anna Morisi

Cartas/litterae, ed. E. Motta, Miscellanea Francescana 2 (….), 60-62.

?> Sonetos Sagrados, ed. Teófilo Braga, in: Literatura Portuguesa (Lisbon, 1909) I, 508.

vitae

AASS Augustus II (ed. Paris, 1867), 572-606. Cf. BHL I, 53.

literature:

Wadding, Annales Minorum XIII (ed. Rome, 1735), 138, 197, 356-362, 375, 387-388, 393, 408, 410, 427-428, 441-442, 560, 563, 564 & XIV, 20, 313-325, 542, 568, 573; Wadding, Scriptores (ed. 1906), 15; Jeronymo Mascarenhas, Amadeo de Portugal (…) fundador de la ilustrissima congregacion de los Amadeos en Italia (Madrid, 1663); Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1908) I, 32-3; DHGE, II, 1152-6; Stegmuller, RB, I, 1276; B. Galli, Il beato Amadeo Menez de Sylva, frate minore del sec. XV. Biografia popolare (Quaracchi, 1923); P.M. Sevesi, `Il beato Amedeo Menezes de Sylva’', Miscellanea Francescana 32 (1932), 227-232; Idem, AFH, 37 (1944), 104-164; P.M. Sevesi, ‘Il B. Amadeo Menez de Sylva Vita inedita di Fra Mariano da Firenze e documenti inediti’, AFH 32 (1932), 227-232 [?check!]; M. Martins, O ciclo franciscano na nossa espiritualidade medieval (Coimbra, 1952), 97-104; Anna Morisi, Apocalypsis nova. Ricerche sull origine e la formazione del testo dello pseudo-Amadeo (Roma, 1970); F.L. Lopes, ‘Franciscanos portugueses predentinos. Escritores, mestres e leitores’, Repertorio de Historia de las Ciencias Eclesiasticas en España 7 (Siglos III-XVI) (Salamanca, 1979), 486-487; C. Vasoli, `L'influenza di Giacchino da Fiore sul profetismo italiano alla fine del Quattrocento e Cinquecento', in: G.L. Potestà (ed.), Il profetismo gioachimita tra Quattrocento e Cinquecento, Atti del III congresso Internazionale di Studi Giochimiti, 17-21 settembre 1989 (Gênes, 1991), 61-85

Amandus Gandensis (Amandus van Gent, d. 1638)

OFMConv>>>>

literature 

Hildebrand van Hooglede, ‘P. Amandus van Gent, O.M.C. en zijn Nederlandsche vertaling van Antonio Guevara, O.F.M.,’ in: Idem, Miscellanea II, 703-708.

Amandus Hermannus (Amand Hermann, d. 1700)

OFM. Bohemian/Silesian friar. Tried to present a theological synthesis of Augustinian, Cistercian and Franciscan thought.

editions

Sol triplex in eodem universo i.e. universae philosophiae cursus integer trium solemnissimorum Doctorum, nempe magni Aurelii Augustini, lactei et melliflui Bernardi et subtilissimi Joannis Duns Scoti menti conformatus (Sulzbach 1676).

literature

DThC VI, 2262; DHGE XXIV, 82.

Amandus van Zierikzee (d. c. 1534)

OMConv & OMObs. Dutch friar. Linguist, historian, and biblical scholar. Born in Zierikzee, on the Island of Schouwen in Zeeland (The Netherlands). Joined the Conventuals and became provincial minister of the Cologne province (1503-1506). In 1506, tired by the machinations of Wessel Gasbrink and other Conventuals, he first retreated into the Colatan friary of Louvain, to change there towards the Observants in the same years. Spent the rest of his life in Louvain, acting both as guardian and as lecturer in the theology faculty. Well-versed in Hebrew, Syriac and Greek. Active historian. His chronicle of world history was posthumously published with additions by Frans Titelmans. Most manuscripts with his biblical commentaries and related theological works supposedly lost after the French Revolution (such as his Commentarius in Genesim, Commentarium in Job, Commentarium in Ecclesiasten, Commentarium in Psalmum CXVIII, een Historia de Dominicae Passionis, De S. Annae Coniugo, De XV Mansionibus, De Resurrectione et Ascencione, Conciones Variae, and a Libellus de 12 horis spiritualis militiae, in quo psalmum 118 pulchra divisione distinguens iuxta 12 ad varios status spiritualis militiae initium, progressum et consummationem accommodat). Apparently (cf. Allen Ep. 1044) a great admirer of Erasmus (unlike Titelmans).

manuscripts

Comm. in Genesim/Comm. in Job/ Comm. in Ecclesiastem>> lost?

Libellus de 12 horis spiritualis militiae>> lost?

De XV Stationibus [modelled on the ‘stations’ of the Israelites in the desert]>>>>

editions

Chronica Compendiosissima (…) Mundi per F. Amandum Zierixeensem, ed. Frans Titelmans (Antwerp: S. Cocus, 1534/Antwerp, 1537). In a preface, Titelmans provides a biography of Amandus. In appendices, Titelman’s edition also contains Amandus’ two treatises Quaedam Notatu Digna de Sophi, Rege Persarum, and De Septuaginta Hendomadibus Danielis Scrutinium (an explanation of the prophetical yearweeks that had to be passed through before the coming of Christ).

literature

Dirks, Histoire littéraire et bibliographique des Frères Mineur (Antwerp, 1885), 37-39; P. Schlager, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Kölnischen Franziskanerprovinz im Mittelalter (Cologne, 1904), 153ff; W. Schmitz, Het aandeel der minderbroeders, 91-92; DHGE II, 946-947; DSpir I, 421; B. de Troeyer, in: Nieuw Biografisch Woordenboek I, 982-984; B. de Troeyer, Bio-Bibliographia Franciscana Neerlandica Saeculi XVI,I: Pars Biographica (Nieuwkoop, 1969), 65-68.

Ambrosius de Lisieux (d. 1630)

OFMTor. Regular tertiary from the French congregation. Procurator for his order and guardian of the Nostra Donna dei Miracoli friary at Rome between 1625 and 1627. In 1629, he published in Rome a poem on the conquest of Protestant La Rochelle by King Louis XIII of France. He died at Rome in 1630. Several of his exegetical works have survived.

manuscripts 

Comm. in Evangelios/in Epistolas S. Pauli, etc: MS Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine 244 & 245.

literature

Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1806), 11; Bordonus, Cronologium Tertii Ordinis S. Francisci (Parma, 1658), 547; Joh. Maria, Annales Tertii Ordinis S. Francisci (Paris, 1686), 621; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1806), 31; Antoine de Sérent, ‘Ambroise de Lisieux’, DHGE II, 1120.

Ambrosius de Lombez (Ambrosio de Lombez, 1708-1778)

OFMCap>>>>prolific spiritual author

editions

Tratado sobre la paz interior. A work inspired by the thirteenth-century works of David of Augsburg (David ab Augusta). Ambrosio’s work received a modern translation as: A Treatise on Interior Peace, trans. Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, ed. Marie Celeste (Staten Island, NY: Alba House, 1996) 

>>>>to be continued

literature

DSpir I, 430-431.

Ambrosius Milanensis (Ambrosio da Milano/‘Gobbino’,1535-1615)

OFMCap. Educated by the Augustinians of San Marco at Milan, he entered the Capuchins at the age of fifteen. Impressed by his religious ardour and his intelligence, he was allowed to continue his education. Embarked on a career as lector in the provinces of Bologna, de March of Ancona and Tuscany. Back in the Milan province in the 1570s, he fulfilled several charges as novice master, guardian, definitor and provincial minister (1587 & 1590).  Due to his good reputation,  cardinal Federico Borromeo asked him to guide reforms in various monasteries. Moreover, the Count of Fuentes, the governor of the Duchy of Milan for the Spanish King appointed him as court theologian and personnal confessor. Ambrosio died on 14 My 1615. The local population was so convinced of his holyness, that they tried to obtain parts of the habit in which he died.. Wrote sermons, commentaries on important prayers and spiritual works.

manuscripts/editions

Commentarius super Ecce Homo>>

Commentarius super Pater Noster>>>

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Sermones Quadragesimales>>

literature 

Silvestro da Milano, Appendice al tomo III degli Annali dei minori cappuccini, trans. Giuseppe Olgiati da Como (Milan, 1744); Argelati, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Mediolanensium (Milan, 1745) I, 11; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Bologna, 1747)); Vladimir da Bergamo, I capuccini della provincia Milanese (Crema, 1898) I, >>; Édouard d’Alençon, ‘Ambroise de Milan’, DHGE II, 1121-1122; LexCap>>>>>

Ambrosius de Montesino (Ambrosio de Montesinos, d. 1513)

OFM. Spanish friar. Born at Cuenca around 1450. Lived for some time at the court of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castilia, before he became a member of the Franciscan convent Juan de los Reyes in Toledo. Certainly present there in 1492. Continued to be in Royal service as well. In 1501, he is found at the Royal Court in Granada. In 1504, he took part in the foundation of the female Conceptionista convent in Cuenca. Thereafter, he went back to Toledo, where he probably stayed between 1508 and 1512. On 30 August 1512, he is appointed bishop of Sarda (Albania). It probably was a honorific title, when he was assisting cardinal Cisneros. The same probably holds for the title of bishop of Malaga, mentioned in an inscription on his tombstone. Ambrosius de Montesino seems to have died on 29 January 1514. He was buried in the family tomb at the Franciscan church of S. Francisco de Hueta. Ambrosius de Montesino was a prolific author, translator and compilor. In 1499, he finished in Cifuentes his Castilian translation of the first part of Ludolph of Saxony’s Vita Christi (translated at the request of Queen Isabella) In 1508, he finished in Toledo his Cancionero (which he dedicated to king Ferdinand), as well as his Breviarium. In 1512, he edited the Epístolas y Evangelios. In between, he translated into Castilian Augustine’s Meditationes and Soliloquia, and wrote a range of other poems and Coplas: religious poems made on popular tunes. Apparently, he was queen Elisabella of Castilia’s favorite poet (his most famous poems are the Tratado del Santissimo Sacramento, the Al destierro de nuestro Señor para Egipto, and the Coplas al arbol de la Cruz). Possibly also the author of biblical commentaries (Postillae).

editions

Postillae (Toledo, 1512; Antwerp, 1544; Barcelona, R. Vallezilla, 1502/1608; Madrid, 1608/1614 etc.)

Epistolas y Evangelios por todo el año con sus doctrinas y sermones (Toledo, 1512/Toledo, 1532/Toledo: Juan de Villaquirán y Juan de Ayala, 1535/Toledo, 1549/Sevilla: Juan Varela, 1526/Sevilla: Juan Cromberger, 1536/Sevilla, 1543/Antwerp, 1538/Antwerp, 1542/Antwerp, 1544/Antwerp, 1550/Antwerp, 1558/Saragossa, 1550/Saragossa, 1555 etc. etc.) For more information on editions, see Isaías Rodríguez, ‘Autores espirituales españoles (1500-1700)’, Repertorio de Historia de las Ciencias eclesiasticas en España 3 (siglos xiii-xvi) (Salamanca, 1971), 531-532 [This Castilian translation and reworking of an old Homeliary provides the gospel and epistle texts for each Sunday of the year, replete with succinct doctrinal commentaries]

Breviario de la Immaculada Concepción de la Virgen nuestra Señora (Toledo, 1508/Alcala, 1551) [Heavily dependent on a comparable work by Bernardino de Bustis. This Breviary, which repeatedly received papal approbation (by Sixtus V, Innocent VIII, Alexander VI, and Julius II), and provided hymns and lectures for all seven days of the week, was dedicated to the female religious of the Conceptionista ]

Prose translation of Ludolf of Saxony’s Vita Christi: Vita Christi cartuxano romanzado, 4 Vols (Alcala de Henares, 1502-1503/Sevilla, 1530-1531/Sevilla, 1537-1543/Sevilla, 1543-1555) [Made in close cooperation with cardinal Cisneros and with sponsorship of queen Isabella of Castilia. On this translation, which had a profound impact on Spanish spiritual life in the sixteenth century, see AIA 31 (1971), 552-553]

Coplas sobre diversos devociones y misterios de nuestra santa fe católica (Toledo, 1485/London, facsimile edition by H. Thomas, 1936)

Cancionero de diversas obras de nuevo trovadas (Toledo, 1508/Toledo, 1520/Toledo, 1527/Toledo, 1537/Sevilla, 1537/Cieza, facsimile of the 1508 edition by A. Pèrez Gomez, 1950). [like the Coplas, these poems relate spiritual and theological issues, using contemporary popular poetic forms. The nativity, the life and sorrows of Mary, as well as Christ are central topics. Other poems deal with Francis and poverty, and with the lawlessness of women]

Meditaciones y soliloquios (Madrid, 1958) [translation of Augustine’s works]

literature

Wadding, Scriptores (ed. 1806), 12; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 32; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Franciscana (Madrid, 1732) I, 58; Pablo Manuel de Lortega, Chronica de la santa provincia de Cartagena de la regular observancia de S. Francisco (Murcia, 1740) I, 128, 168-171; Eubel Hierarchia Catholica III, 310; Antoine de Sérent, ‘Ambroise de Montesinos’, DHGE II, 1122; Zawart, 365>; DSpir X, 1682-1684; M. Bataillon, ‘Chanson pieuse et poésie de dévotion. Fr. Ambrose de Montesino’, Bulletin hispanique 27 (1925), 228-238; Revista de Archivos, Bibliotecas y Museos 47 (1926), 305-320, 409-424; E. Buceta, ‘Fr. Ambrosio de Montesino fue obispo de Sarda en Albania’, Revista de filología española 16 (1926), 267-271; E. Buceta, ‘Fr. Ambrosio Montesino fue obispo de Sarda en Albania’, Revista de filologia española 16 (1929), 267-271; José Maria de Cossio, ‘Fr. Ambrosio Montesino’, Revista de filologia española 18 (1931), 38-39; J. Simon Diaz, ‘Una obra de Fr. Ambrosio de Montesino vista por la Inquisición’, Aportación documental para la historia española 8th series (Madrid, 1951), 12-17 [on his Epistolas y Evangelios]; J. Ruiz y Calonja, ‘Fr. Ambrosio de Montesino, Ferrando de Vedoya y Gracia dei a la cort de Ferran el Catolic’, Estudis romanics 4 (1953-1954), 241-250; E.R. Berndt, ‘Algunos aspectos de la obra poética de Fr.Ambrosio de Montesino’, Archivum 9 (Oviedo, 1959), 56-71; Isaías Rodríguez, ‘Autores espirituales españoles (1500-1700)’, Repertorio de Historia de las Ciencias eclesiasticas en España 3 (siglos xiii-xvi) (Salamanca, 1971), 531-532 (with additional bibliographical information); Ana M.^a Alvarez Pellitero, La obra lingüística y literaria de Fr. Ambrosio de Montesino (Valladolid, 1976); Gaspar Calvo Moralejo, ‘Fray Ambrosio Montesino, OFM (d. 1514) y el culto a la ‘gloriosa virgen María’’, Estudios marianos 45 (1980), 251-277 & Humanismo, reforma y teología 10 (1980), 251-277; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 150-151 (no. 588).

Alphonsus de Palenzuela (fl. 1485)

Spanish friar from the Santiago province. Bishop and confessor of Queen Isabel of Portugal

manuscripts/editions

Omeliaro del santo Padre nuestro Crisostomo sobre sant Matheo en vulgar castelano a mandamiento de su alteza, por frey Alfonso de Palençuela de la orden de los menores con xxviii exortaciones morales: MS Madrid, Fundación Lázaro Galdiano 770. This translation was made at the request of King Juan II of Castilia . Cf. AIA 34 (1974), 62-70; 24 (1925), 119; 31 (1929), 64.

Unedited Biblical commentaries. See: Juan Antonio Domínguez, Árbol chronológico de la provincia de Santiago (Santiago, 1750) I, 115; Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana I, 49; Manuel de Castro y Castro, Bibliografía hispano franciscana (Santiago, 1994), n. 5111.

literature

Manuel de Castro y Castro, Escritores de la Provincia Franciscana de Santiago. Siglos XIII-XIX, Liceo Franciscano. Revista de Estudio e Investigacion XLVIII (2a Epoca): 145-147 (Santiago de Compostella, 1996), 20. 

Ambrosius Assettati (Ambrogio Assettati d’Amelia, d. 1666)

Emilio Lucci, 'Padre Ambrogio (Assettati) d’Amelia, cap. Predicatore cappuccino del Seicento’, in: I cappuccini nell’Umbria tra Sei e Settecento, 249-258.

Ambrosius Pantoliano (Ambrogio Pantoliano da Polla, 1585-1651)

Born in Polla (c. 1585). Active as commisioner of the Holy Land and later as Custos of the same province. Died in Siracuse (1651).

literature

Domenico Langone, Padre Ambrogio Pantoliano da Polla (Polla 1585 c.-Siracusa, 1651) (Castellamare di Stabia (NA), 1998).

Ambrosius de Vigliano>>

Active in Padua, compiler of medical lore>>

manuscripts

Ricettario (medical prescriptions): London, Wellcome Library 44 (mid. 15th cent.) [manuscript probably written in a convent in or near Padua]

Ananias de Clott (fl. 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Joined the order in the Rhine province. Fulfilled several functions: novice master, guardian, definitor and provincial custodian. He dies in Trier in 1699. Spiritual author>>>

editions

Thymiama Devotionis (Cologne, 1691). A book of prayers and spiritual exercises.

literature

Hierotheus Confluentinus, Provincia Rhenana Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum (Heidelberg, 1750), 61, 117; DSpir I, 545.

Anacletus Reiffenstuel (= Johannes Georg, 1642-1703)

Canonist and moralist.

manuscripts

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editions

Ius Canonicum Universum, 6 vols (Freising, 1700; München, 1702-4; Venice, 1704, 1730, 1735, 778; Ingolstadt, 1740, 1798; Ambenes, 1755)

Editio Compendiaria ad Usum Seminariorum 3 vols (Paris, 1853)

Theologia Moralis (a.o. Venice 1736; Modena, 1740; Trente, 1765)

Tractatus de Regulis Iuris (a.o. München-Ingolstadt, 1756)

literature

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Andalo de Imola (late 14th century, fl. ca. 1380)

1379 presented by master John of Cremona and Matthew of Quartirolo (guardian) to read the Sentences in Bologna. On 23 september of the same year he swore with others `non recipere doctoratum alibiquam in Bononia nec impetrare a sede apostolica litteras... [Chart. Bon. IV, n. 1165, 1175]. In 1380 he received the magisterium.

manuscripts

Verba Salvatoris Nostri Domini Iesu Christi in Missali Posita quae per Anni Circulum in Ecclesia Leguntur: Milan Bibl. Trivulziana 542 (sec. XIV fin.; work is dedicated to Astorre I Manfredi, signore di Faenza (1377-1404) Inc: Yesus discipulus sic premonebat... Expl: Et ponitur in missis mortuorum.

literature

B. Pergamo, `I francescani alla facultà teologica di Bologna (1364-1500)', AFH, 27 (1934), 23; I codici medioevali della Biblioteca Trivulziana, cur. Caterina Santoro (Milan 1965), no. 198, p. 121.

Andeolus Lictaviensis (Andéol de Lodève, d. 1653)

OFMCap. Friar in the Lyon province. Religious controversialist and productive spiritual author. He died at Lyon in 1653.

editions

Exercices spirituels pour les nouveaux convertis (Lyon, 1638).

Perfection chrestienne à laquelle doivent tendre les fidèles qui désirent entrer en Paradys et iouyr de la Gloire éternelle (Lyon, 1642).

Exercices spirituels pour ceux qui désirent servir Dieu et l’aimer de tout leur coeur (Lyon, 1643).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, BUF I, 60; DThCat>>>; DSpir I, 549.

Andreas (André, fl. late fifteenth century)

OFMObs. Portuguese friar about whom almost nothing is known. Revised a Portuguese translation of Ludolph of Saxony’s Liber de Vita Christi

editions

Livro de Vita Christi, 4 Vols.  (Lisbon, 1495)

literature

M. Martins, ‘A versão portuguesa da Vita Christi e os seus problemas’, Estudos de Literatura medieval (Braga, 1956), 105-110; F.L. Lopes, ‘Franciscanos portugueses predentinos. Escritores, mestres e leitores’, Repertorio de Historia de las Ciencias Eclesiasticas en España 7 (Siglos III-XVI) (Salamanca, 1979), 491-492.

Andreas Álvares (André da Ínsua, ca. 1502-1571)

Portuguese friar from Lisbon. Entered the order in the Ínsua hermitage. Studied in Observant convents and ent to university. Provincial and general comissioner for the Ultramontan Observants.

editions

Autobiografía, ed. Pedro de Jesus Maria José, Chronica da Provincia da Immacolada Conceição de Portugal 1 (Lisbon, 1754), 434-437.

Epistolario, ed. F. Félix Lopes, Fr. André da Ínsua Geral dos Obsercantes Franciscanos (Madrid, 1952), 39-40, 45-46, 55-59, 60-61, 61-62, 63, 66-67, 68-69, 74-75, 76-78, 79-80. For editions of other letters, see this and other articles of Fernando Félix Lopes mentioned below.

literature

L. de Matos, Les Portugais à l’Université de Paris entre 1500 et 1550 (Coimbra, 1950), 64, 72, 74, 132, 165, 174-175; F. Félix Lopes, Fr. André da Ínsua Geral dos Obsercantes Franciscanos (Madrid, 1952); F.L. Lopes, ‘Franciscanos portugueses predentinos. Escritores, mestres e leitores’, Repertorio de Historia de las Ciencias Eclesiasticas en España 7 (Siglos III-XVI) (Salamanca, 1979), 502-503.

Andreas Bernardinus Kaliski (fl. seventeenth cent.)

Polish friar, order historian and spiritual author.

manuscripts & editions

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literature

DSpir VIII, 1653.

Andreas Bovi (Andrea Bovi, 1704-1783)

OFMCap. Italian friar from Faenza. Entered the Capuchins at Imola in 1723. After his studies, he was appointed lector of theology at Bologna. Later in life, he became guardian, provincial definitor and provincial minister for his Bologna province. He also was a counsellor of Antonio Cantoni, Archbishop of Ravenna. Andrea followed the Archbishop to the see of his archdiocese. Andrea died at Ravenna on 10 November 1783.

editions

Lettera didascalia ad un predicatore novello sopra la maniera di ben comporre e condurre in tutte le sue parti a buon esito e perfezione la predica (Rome, 1763/Milan, 1898). There are many more 18th and 19th-century editions of this popular work, composed during Andrea’s lectorship at Bologna.

Vita della serva di Dio suor Maria Veridiana Carobbi Bolognese, badessa nel monastero di San Paolo del sacro ordine di S. Francesco in Faenza (Faenza, 1770).

Massime e riflessioni ascetico-morali proposte per una breve instruzione ad un novello maestro de’ novizzi cappuccini (Cesena, 1775).

Prattica d’un triduo di spirituali esercizi ordinati a prepararsi per tempo al gran viaggio da questo all’altro mondo (Cesena, 1783/Faenza, 1783).

Prediche quaresimali per le monache (Faenza, 1788).

literature

Elogio dell’eruditissimo autore della Lettera didascalia, in: Lettera didascalia (Faenza, 1791), vii-xxii; Johann-Maria von Regensburg, Appendix ad Bibliothecam Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Rome, 1852), 12; H. Hurter, Nomenclator Literarius, 3rd ed. (Innsbruck, 1911) V, 569; Pelegrino da Forli, Leggenda dei capitoli provinciali e di altre memorie intorno alla provincia de’cappuccini di Bologna (Imola, 1857), 51-52; G. Melzi, Dizionario di opere anonime e pseudonime di scrittori italiani (Milan, 1859) III, 239; A. Teetaert, ‘Bovi’, DHGE X, 295-296.

Andreas Caccioli [de Lacchis] (1194 - 3, 06, 1254, Spello in Umbria)

Was present at the deathbed of Francis, and preached in the Lombard region. After persecutions under Elias, because of his defense of a strict life, he became a spiritual guidesman of the Clares in Valle Gloria. He was a close friend of Clare of Assisi. Because of his rainmiracle, he was nicknamed `de Lacchis' (dell'acque). He was beatified in 1738. No works extant?

literature:

Wadding, Annales, 3rd. edition Vol. 4, 262f. Analecta Franciscana, 3, 210f; 4, 243, 503; AASS, Jun. 1, 356-362.

Andreas de Abreu (fl. late 17^th cent.)

OFM. Lector of theology at the San Miguele de la Victorias friary (Laguna, Canary Islands).

editions

Vida del Seraphin en carne y vera effigies de Christo san Francisco d’Assis, 2^nd ed. (Toleda, 1644).

literature 

Marcellino da Civezza,  Saggio di bibliografia sanfrancescana (Prato, 1879), 1; DHGE I (1912), 193; José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica, 11 Vols. (Madrid, 1960-1976) IV, nos. 1250-1259.

Andreas de Arco (Andreas Zanoni, d. 1674)

OFMRif. Entered the Franciscan order in the Venetian province. Departed as a missionary to Egypt. Was prefect of the Capuchin mission and thereafter Custodian of the Holy Land for a period of six years, between 1636 and 1642. Spend a lot of his time at the Ottoman court in Constantinople. After his custodianship, he was asked to accept a position at the Roman curia. In 1643, Andreas became involved with the organisation of the new Trentino province. Also active as a visitator of the Austrian province. He died on 13 January 1674in Burg. Wrote a number of works.

editions

>>>>>

Compendio degli Exercizii spirituali del P. Ciriaco, Eremita in S. Dima nel Monte Serrato, tradotti dallo Spagnolo in lingua italiana l’anno 1638 in Betlemme>>

Exercizii spirituali per la mattina e la sera ed altri tempi>>>

Avertimenti per un Maestro di Novizii, specialmente Francescani>>>>

Modo di communicarsi spiritualmente, e di ascoltare con divotione la S. Messa>>>

Selva di S.S. Padri, divisa in mille concetti (1658).

Trattato dell’oratione mentale>>>

Sei discorsi sulla mortificatione, tribolationi, tentationi, consolationi, contemplatione e presenza di Dio>>>>

literature

Antonius M. de Vicetia, Scriptores Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Provinciae S. Antonii Venetiarum (Venice, 1877).

Andreas de Avendaño y Loyola (Andrés de Avendaño y Loyola fl. late 17^th cent.)

Castilian friar who entered the order in Burgos. Active in Yucatán.

manuscripts/editions

Relación de las dos entradas que hize a la conversión de los gentiles Ytzaex y Cehaches (1696): MS British Library, >>. Partly edited in P.A. Means, History of the Spanish Conquest of Yucatan and of the Itzas, Papers peabody Museum-Harvard University, 7 (Cambridge, 1917).

Diccionario de la lengua de Yucatán>>

Diccionario abreviado de los adverbios de tiempo y lugar de la lengua de Yucatán>>

Diccionario de nombres de personas, ídolas, danzas y otras antigüedades de los indios de Yucatán>>

Arte para aprender la lengua de Yucatán>>

Diccionario botánico y médico de Yucatán>>

Explicación de varios vaticinios de los antiguos Indios de Yucatán>>

literature

A Bio-Bibliography of Franciscan Authors in Colonial Central America, ed. Eleanor B. Adams (Washington D.C.: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1953), 15.

Andreas de Avila (Andrés de Ávila, fl. c. 1600)

Spanish friar from the Santiago province. Provincial before 1599. Author of 89 Quaestiones Canonicae Regulares ac Morales.

manuscripts

Quaestiones Canonicae Regulares ac Morales: MS Archivo del Convento de San Francisco de Salamanca AM XXIII, 375 n. 83.

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum I, 34; AIA 27 (1927), 43 & 30 (1928), 358; Manuel de Castro y Castro, Escritores de la Provincia Franciscana de Santiago. Siglos XIII-XIX, Liceo Franciscano. Revista de Estudio e Investigacion XLVIII (2a Epoca): 145-147 (Santiago de Compostella, 1996), 56.

Andreas de Castro (d. 1577)

Missionary. Wrote a grammar and a dictionary of the Matlaltzingue language in New Spain.

>>DHGE, II, 1650

Andreas de Comitibus (Andrea dei Conti di Segni/di Anagni, 1240, Anagni - 1, 02, 1302, Piglio) beatus

As a member of the Italian aristocracy with close links with the papacy - Alexander IV was his nephew, Boniface VIII his uncle - he was asked (by the latter) to become a cardinal. But Andreas didn't accept the offer and became a friar minor in the Anagni region. He apparently wrote a treatise De Partu Beatae Mariae Virginis. He received a cult after his death, which was officially confirmed in 1724 (beatus).

editions:

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literature:

Wadding, Annales>>; Bibliotheca Sanctorum, I, 1156; S. Pellegrini, Il beato Andreas Conti (Piglio, 1959); Wilhelm Forster, `Andreas de Comitibus', LThK, 1 (1993), 629; Joseph Wood, ‘A Franciscan inspires the Jubilee’, The Cord 56 (2000), 30-34.

Andreas de Guadelupe (d. 1668)

OFM. Chronicle of the los Angeles province.

literature

Isidoro Acemel, ‘Partida de bautismo del P. Andrés de Guadelupe’, AIA 5 (1916), 297-299; AIA 26 (1966), 51-57; DSpir VI, 1090-1092; José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica, 11 Vols. (Madrid, 1960-1976) V, nos. 2569-2571; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 123 (no. 380).

Andreas de Macon (d. 1700)

OFMCap. Spiritual author. Died on 8 February 1700…..

literature

Andreas de Mozzis (Andrea de’Mozzi, fl. early fourteenth cent.)

Youngest son of rich florentine banker (Tomasso de’Mozzi) and nephew of florentine bishop (Andrea de’Mozzi, who appears among the Sodomites in Dante, Inferno XV, 111-114). Our Andrea probably joined the friars minor at the Santa Croce convent. Probably received part his theological education under Peter de Trabibus. Custos of the Santa Croce convent in 1300-1301. In 1302 and 1303, he is regent lector of the Sante Croce studium, where he gave courses on the Sentences of Lombard to lectorate students. Inquisitor for the Tuscan province between 1306 and 1311. During his years as regent lector, Andrea composed/compiled a book of teaching materials (now MS Florence Naz. Conv.Soppr. D.6.359) for his own use. The book contains a copy of the lectura version of Peter de Trabibus’ Super Secundum et tertium Sententiarum, twelve Quaestiones Disputatae and two Quodlibeta by the same friar, a series of quodlibeta and other questions by Giles of Rome, Henry of Ghent and by an as yet not identified Franciscan friar.

manuscripts

MS Florence Naz. Conv.Soppr. D.6.359. See also the lemma of Petrus de Trabibus

literature

E. Chiarini, ‘Mozzi (Andrea de’)’, Enciclopedia Dantesca III, 1051-1052; M. d’Alatri, Collectanea Franciscana 40 (1970), 173, 180; C. Cenci, Studi Francescani 79 (1982), 398, n. 80; D.R. Lesnick, Dominican and Franciscan Preaching in Medieval Florence. The Social World of Mendicant Spirituality (Athens, Georgia, 1989), 187 (calling him Andreas de Burgo Sancte Crucis [!]); Sylvain Piron, Picenum Seraphicum n.s. 19 (2000), 89ff.

Andreas de Novo Castro (d. ca. 1400)

>>>Franciscan from Lorraine. Prolific author. Among his known works can be counted a commentary on the sentences, a question on the immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary...

manuscripts

De Conceptione B. Mariae: MS Vat. Lat. 4272 ff. 1-18v & 4847 ff. 17r-27; Florence, Bib. Naz. 4272 (4282?), ff. 1-18 & Florence Bib Naz. B 8 11817.

In I Sent.: Colmar 232 (15th cent.)

editions

In I. Sent.: R.L. Friedman (ed. & comm.), `Andreas de Novocastro (fl. 1358) on Divine Omnipotence and the Nature of the Past. I Sentences, Distinction Forty Five, Question Six', Cahiers de l'Institut dcu moyen-age grec et latin [CIMA], 64 (1994), 101-150 (edition on pp. 129-150)

Tractatus quatuor de Immaculata Conceptione B. M. Virginis, nempe Thomae de Rossy, Andreae de Novo Castro, Petri de Candia, Francisci de Arimino, ed. C. Piana, T. Szabò, A. Emmen, Bibliotheca Franciscana Scholastica Medii Aevi, 16 (Quaracchi, 1954).

Questions on an Ethics of Divine Commands. Andrew of Neufchateau OFM, ed. & trans. Janine Marie Idziak, Notre Dame Texts in Medieval Culture 3 (Notre Dame Ind., 1997).

literature

Wadding, Script., 16; Sbaralea, I, 37-8; R. Coulon, ‘André de Neufchateau’, DHGE II, 1685; Doucet, AFH, 47 (1954), 101; K.H. Tachau, `The `Questiones in Primum Librum Sententiarum' of Andreas de Novocastro', AHDL, 69 (1992), 289-318.

Andreas de Ocaña (Andrés de Ocaña, d. 1619)

OFMDisc. Member of the San José province.

literature

AIA 21 (1924), 192-193; José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica, 11 Vols. (Madrid, 1960-1976) V, nos. 2572; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 156 (no. 629).

Andreas de Oettingen (Andreas von Oettingen, fl. c. 1400)

Friar from the Upper German province. Received his priest ordination in Mainz, 1383 (during the provincial chapter). Was several times custos in the Bavarian region and participated in the general chapter of Munich (1405). In 1409, he became lector in Strasbourg. Active as preacher in Regensburg, where he probably died in 1420 [though Glassberger still mentions him as custos in Bavaria in 1423].

manuscripts

Chronica: MS Würzburg>>> [chronicle continuated until 1523]

Sermones de Adventu Domini : Munich, Staatsbibliothek Clm 8970 ff. 250-292 [written ca. 1422-1424, and kept for a long time in the Franciscn convent of Munich. Title: Andreae de Oetting, lectoris Argentinensis et custodis multos annos in Babaria sermones de adventu domini.]

literature

Eubel, Geschichte der Oberdeutschen Minoriten-Provinz, v; S.C. Primbs, ‘Das Jahr- und Totenbuch des Minoritenklosters Regensburg’. Verhandlungen des historischen Vereins von Oberpfalz und Regensburg 25 (1868), 292.

Andreas de Olmos (Andrés de Olmos, 1491-1568 (1571?))

Observant friar from Spain. Missionary. Born in or in the neighbourhood of Ona (Burgos diocese). After the death of his parents, he lived in the household of his older married sister in Olmos. Studied civil and canon law before entereing the order at the age of 20 in the Valladolid friary (Concepción provincce). Further studies in philosophy and theology followed, as well as homiletic training. He became the socius of Juan de Zumarragá, then inquisitor in Cantabria, and followed the latter when Juan became Archbishop of Mexico (1528). In Mexico, Andreas became active as a missionary, and experienced a in the process a number of adventures. In the course of his missionary career, he taught Latin to native religious at the Tlaltelolco college and he became well-acquainted with several indiginous languages (Mexican, Huaxtec, Nahualt (Aztec) and Totonac). He wrote a set of grammars and dictionaries and made several translations of homiletic and theological works. Some of these texts still survive. He also is known to have organised at least one performance of a mystery play on the last judgment in the presence of Archbishop Juan de Zumarragá and the Vice-Roy Antonio de Mendoza. Andreas retired to the Mexico friary and died in the Tampico friary on August 8, 1571 (some say 1568).

editions

Arte de la lengua mexicana (1547), ed. R. Siméon (1875)>>Nahualt grammar.

Carta (…) al emperador D. Carlos, comunicandole las disposiciones que creia convenientes para la conversion de los Indos de Nuva Espana. Mexico 25 de noviembre de 1556, edited in: Cartas de Indias (Madrid, 1877),>>>.

literature

F. de Gonzaga, De origine seraphicae religionis (Venice, 1603), 1493; Juan de Torquemada, Monarchia indiana (Madrid, 1723) I, 31, 642, II, 76, 115, 474, 490, III, 637;Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca franciscana (Madrid, 1732) I, 67; Geronimo de Mendieta, Historia ecclesiastica indiana (Mexico, 1870), 783; Marcellino da Civezza, Saggio di bibliografia sanfrancescana (Prato, 1879), 435; Wadding-Cajetano Michelesio, Annales minorum XX (Quaracchi, 1899), 140, 374; Antoine de Sérent, ‘André de Olmos’, DHGE II (1914), 1685-1686; Mariano Delgado, ‘Olmos, Andrés de’, Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche, 3^rd ed. VII, 1047f.

Andreas de Ortega (Andrés de Ortega, fl. mid 16th cent.)

Libro del Via Spiritus abreviado de nuevo (Toledo: Ferrer, 1550).

literature

Isaías Rodríguez, ‘Autores espirituales españoles (1500-1700)’, Repertorio de Historia de las Ciencias eclesiasticas en España 3 (siglos xiii-xvi) (Salamanca, 1971), 547.

Andreas de Pace (Andrea de Pace da Sciacca, fl. late 14^th cent)

>>>Friar from Sciaccia. Provincial minister of Sicily. Bishop during the papal schism

manuscripts

Introductiones Dominicales (sermons): MS Viterbo, Biblioteca Capitolare 22

editions

Viridarium Principum [Il Giardino dei Principi], ed. Diego Ciccarelli (Palermo: Officina di Studi Medievali-Biblioteca Francescana di Palermo, 2003). [signalled in AFH 98 (2005), 845 & Il Santo 45 (2005), 667-668.] This work was written between 1391 and 1397.

literature

Diego Ciccarelli, ‘Le “Introductiones dominicales” di Andrea de Pace’, Schede Medievale 38 (2000), 121-147; João Dionísio, ‘Literatura franciscana no Leal Conselheiro, de D. Duarte’, Lusitania Sacra ser. 2, 13-14 (2001-2002), 491-515.

Andreas de Pavia (16th/17th cent.>check)

OFMCap>>

manuscripts

Viaggio apostolico alle missioni dell'Africa del P. Andrea de Pavía: Madrid, Nac., 3165 ff. 68-132v (17th cent.) [Castro, Madrid, no. 186]

literature

Carlo Toso, “Viaggio apostolico” in Africa di Andrea da Pavia  (inedito del sec. XVII) (Roma. Italia Francescana - Edizioni pro Sanctitate, 2000). [Cf. review in Collectanea Franciscana 71 (2001), 360-362] 

Andreas de Perugia I (Perusinus, ca. 1260-1345)

Should maybe be identified with the Andreas who studied at Paris (as Sententiarius) and was made master of theology on request of pope John XXII by the archbishop of Naples (15 September 1332) and who later, by pope Clemens VI was made bishop of Gravina (Apulia, 3 September 1342). Foremost known for his treatise Contra Edictum Bavari, a vehement polemical attack on Louis of Bavaria, along the lines of the polemic works of Alvarus Pelagius. He shows himself a true hierocrat. His testament, drawn up on 23 July 1342 also mentions a number of additional exegetical and theological works (see below).

manuscripts

Contra Edictum Bavari: Vat. Ottob. Lat. 2795 [A795?] ff. 134-59 (together with other polemical treatises); Paris, BN, Lat. 17522; Venice, Marc. Class. VIII, 129. This work was written as an answer to the decree with which Louis of Bavaria had declared that John had overstepped his legitimacy was no longer pope. Andrea wrote his rebuttal in 1328 at the request of cardinal Giovanni Gaetani, the papal legate of Tuscany.

Postilla super Genesim>>? [Stegmüller, 1330]

Postilla super novem Psalmos>>?[Stegmüller, 1331]

Quadragessimale super Expositionem Missae>>?

Principia in Theologia>>?

Quaestiones Plurimae Determinandae>>?

editions

Contra Edictum Bavari, ed. R. Scholz, Unbekannte Kirchenpolitische Streitschriften aus der Zeit Ludwigs des Bayern (Rome, 1911-1914) I, 28-32, II, 64-75 (partial edition)

literature

M. Bihl, 'André de Perouse', DHGE II (1914), 1690; Sbar. Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 38; Bullarium Franciscanum, ed. Eubel (ed. Rome, 1898) V, no. 993 & VI, no. 222; Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica I, 268; CHUP I, no. 401; Potthast, I, 43; R. de Martis, Due trattati perugini `contra bavarum' dei francescani Andrea di Perugia e Francesco Toti (Diss. Perugia, 1969); Darleen N. Pryds, ‘Court as “Studium”: Royal Venues for Academic preaching’, in: Medieval sermons and society, 343-356 [also on Andrea da Perugia]

Angelicus Benincasa (Bartolomeo Benincasa, 1728-1815)

OFMCap from Saxolo. Entered the Franciscan order in 1743 in the Lombardy province, taking the name Angelico. Active as a lector, preacher, definitor, and provincial minister. In 1782, he was elector general definitor, and in 1789 minister general. In 1796, when Angelico’s successor (Niccola de Bustillo) took over, Angelo was appointed Archbishop of Camerino.

manuscripts/editions

Dispute e sermoni :>>>

Ordini e lettere circolari:>>>

studies

Bullarium Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum (Innsbruck, 1884) IV, 204-205; Giuseppe da Fermo, Gli scrittori cappuccini delle Marche (Jesi, 1928), 101-102; A. Teetaert, ‘Benincasa’, DHGE VII, 1332.

Andreas de Perugia II (ca. 1260-1330?)

Italian friar. On 23 July 1309, pope Clement V appointed Giovanni da Montecorvino (then working in China) to the archepiscopal see of Khanbalicq (Bejing). The same day, the pope gave six Franciscan friars the position of missionary bishop, with the task to help Giovanni. One of these six was Andrea da Perugia (the others were Niccolò da Bantia, Gerardo Albuini, Ulrich von Seyfriedsdorf, Peregrino da Castello, and Guglielmo da Villanova). All but Guglielmo actually departed. Niccolò and Ulrich died on the way, as did another traveling friar, namely Andreuccio d’Assisi. Andrea da Perugia, Gerardo and Peregrino arrived at Khanbalicq, where they consecrated Giovanni da Montecorvino as archbishop. Giovanni  thereafter appointed Gerardo to the position of bishop of Zaitum. As Gerardo died quickly, as well as his successor Peregrino, it was Andrea who in 1323 became the bishop of Zaitum. In this new position, Andrea was able to construct a large church and a substantial friary.  Andrea is the author of an Epistola (1326), addressed to the guardian of his home friary (S. Francesco al Prato in Perugia), dealing with his journeys and missionary work.

editions

Epistola: Wadding, Annales Minorum³, VII, 61-63; Golubovich, Biblioteca Bio-bibliografica,II, 137 [corrections on Wadding]; A. van den Wyngaert, Sinica Franciscana, 372-377.

literature

Marcellino da Civezza, Storia delle missioni francescane (Rome, 1859) III, 169ff; Bullarium Franciscanum, ed. Eubel (Rome, 1898) X, nos. 86, 112, 176; Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi (1913) I, 159; H. Golubovich, Biblioteca Bio-bibliografica della Terra Santa e dell'Oriente Francescano, 1215-1400) (Quaracchi, 1906), II. 115, 137, 141, 573; M. Bihl, ‘André de Pérouse’, DHGE II, 1689-1690; A. van den Wyngaert, Sinica Franciscana (Quaracchi, 1929) I. 371-377; J. Foster,`Crosses from the Walls of Zaitum', Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1954) 17-20; A.-D. von den Brincken, Die `Nationes Christianorum Orientalium' im Verständnis der lateinischen Historiographie (Köln-Wien 1973) p. 449; Andrea da Perugia. Atti del Convegno (Perugia, 19 settembre 1992), cur. Carlo Santini, Eurasia, 1 (Roma 1994).

Andreas de Prato (André de Prado, ca. 1380 - after 1450)

OMObs. Portuguese friar from Évora. Studied at Paris and Bologna, where he entered the Collegio S. Clemente as Sententiarius (1414-1416). Received the theology licence in or before 1422. Received papal permission to retreat into a hermitage (together with the Franciscan bachelors Pedro Alvares and Rodrigo Viçoso). Known for several theological and categistic works.

manuscripts

Spiraculum Francisci Mayronis seu Liber Distinctionum: Assisi, Bib. Comunale 45; Oxford, Bodleian Canon. Script.Eccl. 389;>>>> [A theological compendium base on the works of Francis of Meyronnes, Duns Scotus, Bonetus and other scotists. Andreas composed the work in the Collegio S. Clemente]

Horologium Fidei: a.o. Rome, BAV Vat.Lat. 1068 [see also: A.A. Nascimento, Euphrosyne, 22 (Lissabon, 1994), 347-354]

editions

Horologium Fidei. Diálogo con o Infante D. Henrique. Ediçâo do ms. Vat.lat. 1068, ed. A. Augusto Nascimento (Lisboa, 1994) [Systhematic exposition of the truths of faith, in the form of a dialogue between a master and Don Henrique (the crown prince of Portugal and promotor of Portuguese sea exploration)]

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum I (Rome, 1908), 55; A. Lopez, ‘Los estudios en España desde el desurgimiento de la Observancia hata la Bula de Union de Leon X’, El Eco Franciscano 39 (1922), 110; F. Félix Lopes, ‘A volta de Fr. André de Prado (século XV)’, Colectânea de Estudios, 2a ser. 2 (1951), 121-132; C. Piana, ‘Silloge di documenti dall’archivio di S. Francesco di Bologna’, AFH 50 (1957), 35-36; C. Piana, Silloge di documenti delle nuove ricerche su le Universitá di Bologna e di Parma (Quaracchi, 1966), 353; A.D. de Sousa Costa, ‘Mestre Fr. André do Prado desconhecido escotista português do século XV professor nas Universidades de Bolonha e da Cúria Romana’, Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 23 (1967), 293-337; Mário Martins, ‘O diálogo do infante D. Henrique com Fr. André do Prado’, Estudos de Cultura Medieval (Braga, 1969), 135ff; F.L. Lopes, ‘Franciscanos portugueses predentinos. Escritores, mestres e leitores’, Repertorio de Historia de las Ciencias Eclesiasticas en España 7 (Siglos III-XVI) (Salamanca, 1979), 475-476; Mare Liberum. Rev. de história dos mares, 7 (Lisboa, 1994), 85-104; Mário Santiago de Carvalho, ‘André do Prado’, in: idem, Estudios sobre Álvaro Pais e outros Franciscanos (séculos XIII-XV) (Lisbon, 2001), final chapter.

Andreas de Sancto Francisco (d. 1600)

Spanish friar (from Jarn), author of the El Baxo, a treatise of prayer and contemplation, written while he was guardian of the Our Lady of Algaydas convent. Other works? See Sbaralea

literature

Wadding, Annales ad an. 1600, n. 137; Sbaralea, Supplementum I, 5; DSpir I, 557

Andreas de Sancto Francisco Membrio (fl. ca. 1750)

OFMDisc. Chronicle of the San Gabriel province.

literature

AIA 22 (1962), 360-361; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 147 (no. 566).

Andreas de Soto (1553-1625)

OFM. Born in 1553 in Sahagun (Spain). Came to Brussels in 1599, to become the official confessor of Archduke Isabella. Subsequently commisionar general of the Natio Germanica of the Franciscan order. Active to implement the Recollect reform in the Netherlands. Before his arrival in The Netherlands he already published his Libro de Sant Joseph (1593). His other works are from later date.

editions

Libro de Sant Soseph (Valladolid: Los herederos de Bernardino de Santodo, 1593/ Valladolid: Los herederos de Bernardino de Santodo, 1593 [with corrected title page]/Brussels: Jean Mommaert, 1600).

Translations: L'image de la chasteté, sur la vie et actions de S. Joseph, epoux de la Vierge Marie, transl. A. de Soti (Paris: N. Fosse, 1604); Het leven vanden heyligen Ioseph bruydegom onser liever vrouwen, transl. Franciscus vanden Broecke (Brussel: Jan Mommaert, 1614 & 1615 & 1628)

Contemplacion del Crucifixio, y Consideraciones de Cristo Crucificado (Antwerp: Plantijn for Jan Moretus, 1601/ Spanish edition: Anterp: Bellerus, 1604/Brussel: Jan Pepermans, 1623)

Translation: >>Italin translation by Raphael Fabrica (Venice: Baretius Beroti, 1605); Contemplations tres-pieuses sur le Crucifix, et les pleurs de la vierge Mere au pied da la Croix, transl. M. de la Bruiere (Aat: Jean Maes, 1601); Beschouwinge op het kruycifix, ende op de smerten welcke de heylichste Maghet Maria lede aen den voedt des Kruys, transl. Ian van Blittersuuyck (Brussel: Jan Pepermans, 1625)

Libro de la conversion del buen ladron, y declaracion de las palabras que dixo à Iesu Christo en la Cruz (Antwerp: Wed. en Erfgenamen van Petrus Bellerus, 1606)

Translation: >>Italian translation (Milan: Girolamo Bordoni, 1611)

Redempcion del tiempo cautivo (Atwerp: Wed. en Erfgenamen van Petrus Bellerus, 1606)

Translations: La Rescousse du temps prisonnier, transl. Gilles de Germes (Mons: Lucas Rivius, 1610); Redemptio Temporis Captivitatis (Cologne, 1611); >>English translation (Douai: Ger, Pinsone, 1638)

>>>to be continued

literature

B. de Troeyer, `Andreas de Soto', Franciscana, 37,3 (1982), 69-96; B. de Troeyer, `Andreas de Soto en zijn Vida de Sant Joseph', Franciscana, 42,3 (1987), 134-152; B. de Troeyer, `De publicaties van Andreas de Soto ofm, 1553-1625, I' Franciscana, 48 (1993), 29-40; B. de Troeyer, `De publicaties van Andreas de Soto ofm, 1553-1625, II' Franciscana, 49 (1994), 29-40.

Andreas de Turro (Andrés de la Torre, fl. later 18^th cent.)

OFM. Preacher from the Andalusia province.

literature

AIA 6 (1916), 53-54; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 184 (no. 827).

Andreas de Vega (Andrés de Vega1498-1549)

OFM. Born in Segovia, Castilia in a noble family. Studied arts, languages (including Greek and Hebrew) theology at the U. of Salamanca (until 1535). Disciple of Alfonso de Castro and Francisco de Vitoria. Succeeded the latter at the chair of theology in Salamanca (?)>>> Had a substantial role in several sessions of the council of Trente, especially those concerning the relationship between Scripture and tradition, and concerning questions on justification and the administration of the sacraments. His works give a good insight in the doctrinal conclusions reached during the tridentine discussions. Friend of Peter Canisius.

manuscripts

Expositio in Regulam Fratrum Minorum (partial): Valladolid 143

Several smaller works>>

Celebris lectura in Sessiones Sancti Concilii/Noticias Copiosas sobre las Secciones del Concilio de Trento: Madrid Nac. MS 9295

editions

Opusculum Quindecim Quaestionum de Iustificatione, de Gratia, de Fide, Operibus et Meritis, autore F. Andrea Vega ordinis minorum regularis observantiae, ex alma provincia sancti Iacobi, Sacrae theologiae magistro Salmaticensi (Venice, 1546/1547). [published before the issues on justification were dealt with at the council, so that his presentation could function as platform of discussion]. Was reprinted repeatedly, sometimes together with his later :

Tridentini Decreti de Iustificatione Expositio et Defensio Libris XV distincta, totam Doctrinam Iustificationibus Complectentibus/De iustificatione doctrina universa, Libris XV, absolute tradita et contra omnes omnium errores iuxta germanam sententiam Orthodoxae veritatis et sacri concilii Tridentini praeclare defensa (Venice, 1548/Coïmbra, 1564/Cologne, 1572 etc.) The 14th and 15th book are a response to Calvin.

Concio Habita ad PP. Concilii Tridentini die Cinerum>>>>

Commentaria aliquot Concilii (Alcalà de Henares, 1564)

Quod Evangelium de Adultera sit Canonicum>>>>

Commentarium in Summa Theologiae>>>>

Comm. in Sententiarum

De Commendatione et Descriptione Civitatis Tridentinae (Brussels, 1563/Alcalà, 1564)

Comm. in Psalmos (Alcalà, 1599).

literature

B. Oromí, Los franciscanos españoles en el concilio de Trento (Madrid, 1927), 87-121; AIA 34 (1931), 97-98; Valens Heynck,  ‘Die Stellung des Konzilstheologen Andreas de Vega O.F.M. zur Furchtreue’, Franz. Stud., 25 (1938), 301-330; Valens Heynck, ‘Die Stellung des Konzilstheologen Andreas de Vega O.F.M. zu Duns Skotus’, Franziskanische Studien 27 (1940), 88-103, 129-148;; M. Oltra Fernández, Die Gewissheit des Gnadenstandes bei Andreas de Vega (Düsseldorf, 1941); Valens Heynck, ‘Der Konzilstheologe Andreas de Vega O.F.M. über das Motiv der vollkommenen Reue’, Franziskanische Studien 29 (1942), 25-44; G. Rossi, L'Opinione di Andréa de Vega sulla necessità della fede per la giustificazione (Rome, 1942); B. Oromi, ‘Fr. Andreas de Vega OFM, theologus Concilii Tridentini’, AFH 36 (1943), 3-31; AIA 5 (1945), 75-81; Alejandro de Villamonte, ‘Andrés de Vega y el proceso de la justificación’, Revista española de teología 5 (1945), 311-374; José Sagüés, ‘Un libro pretridentino de Andrés de Vega sobre la justificación’, Estudios eclesiásticos 20 (1946), 175-209; Buenaventura Oromí, ‘Fr. Andreas de Vega, OFM, theologus conciliii tridentini’, AFH 36 (1946), 3-31; I. Vázquez, ‘Ensayo bibliográfico sobre Fr. Andrés de Vega’, Liceo franciscano 2 (1949), 161-168; Manuel Vázquez Costa, ‘En qué año murió Fr. Andrés de Vega?’, Verdad y Vida 7 (1949), 361-369; Fr. Andrés de Vega en el IV Centenario de su muerte (1549-1949)’, Liceo franciscano 2 (1949), 73-168; I. Vázquez Janeiro, ``Cuarenta errores' de Fr. A. de Vega sobre la obligatoriedad de la regla franciscana', Coll. Franc., 20 (1950), 189-208; Corrado de Arienzo, ‘La dottrina sul merito e sulla grazia in Andrea de Vega (…)’, Collectanea Franciscana 20 (1950)>>;  Valens Heynck, ‘Der Anteil des Konzilstheologen Andreas de Vega O.F.M. an dem ersten amtlichen Entwurf des Trienter Rechtfertigungsdekretes’,  Franziskanische Studien 33 (1951), 49-81; Angelicum, 28 (1951), 97-138; Isaac Vázquez, ‘Fr. Andrés de Vega y la teología positiva’, Liceo franciscano 4 (1951), 131-148; Valens Heynck, ‘Zur vega-Forschung. Neuere Literatur über den Konzilstheologen Andreas de Vega O.F.M.’, Franziskanische Studien 34 (1952), 293-313; Juan Bautista Olaechea Labayen, ‘Oposición de los teólogos españoles sobre dar estudios mayores a los indios’, Anuario de estudios americanos 15 (1958), 113-200; José Rambaldi, ‘Un texto del franciscano Andrés de Vega sobre la tradición’, Estudios eclesiásticos 33 (1959), 429-432; H. Recla, Andreae Vega doctrina de justificatione et concilium Tridentium (Madrid, 1966 &1968); Darío Molina, ‘Los mandamientos y la justificación en Andrés de Vega, OFM (1498-1549)’, Verdad y Vida 25 (1967), 467-533; Valens Heynck, ‘Die Bedeutung von ‘mereri’ und ‘promeri’ bei dem Konzilstheologen Andreas de Vega’ OFM’, Franziskanische Studien 50 (1968), 224-238; St. Horn, Glaube und Rechtfertigung nach dem Konzilstheologen Andreas de Vega (Paderborn, 1972); >>>; Isaac Vázquez, ‘Andrés de Vega, OFM’, Diccionario de historia eclesiástica de España (Madrid, 1972-1975) IV, 145-147, 2720; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 189 (no. 859); Heiko Oberman, ‘Duns Scotus, Nominalism, and the Council of Trent’, in: Idem, The Dawn of the Reformation. Essays in Late Medieval and Early Reformation Thought (Edinburgh, 1986), 204-233; Mariano Acebal Luján, `Vega', Dict de Spir, 16 (1994), 339-34; Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon XII, 1181-1184; Manuel Augusto Rodrígues, ‘Vega Andreas (Andrés) de’, Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 4^th ed. VIII, 923.

Andreas Fuenmayor (Andrés Fuenmayor, ca. 1610-1689)

OFM. Spanish friar from Viana (Navarra). Entered the Observant branch of the order in Santa Cruz (Burgos province), where he received a theological education. He soon was called upon by King Philip IV of Spain to give his verdict on the Mistica Ciudad de Dios, written by Maria d’Agreda. This proved to be the beginning of a long interaction with Maria, for after the death of ther Franciscan Andreas de la Torre (d. 1647), former provincial and general definitor of the Burgos province and confessor of Maria d’Agreda for more than 20 years, Andreas Fuenmayor himself became the confessor and one of the spiritual directors of Maria (19 August 1650), a position  he held until her death in 1665 (sharing the spiritual guidance of the mystic with several other Franciscan friars, such as Miguel Gutiérrrez, Juan de Palma, José Ximénez de Samaniego, Juan Bautista del Campo and the Jesuite Manuel Ortigas). Following earlier suggestions by King Philip IV and Andreas de la Torre, Fuenmayor likewise urged Maria d’Agreda to revise her Mistica Ciudad de Dios, which had drawn inquisitorial attention. Once a revised version became available, the extant copies of the earlier version were burned. Andrés also was guardian of the San Julián friary (1660), and was made general visitator of the Observant Castilian province in August 1661. In 1668, he became provincial definitor. That same year, the Franciscan minister general asked him to revise once more the Mistica Ciudad de Dios, due to renewed questions concerning the work’s orthodoxy. On seven May 1672, he was made general visitator in order to help with the organisation of the Observant provincial chapter of  Cartagena. Finally, in 1680, he was chosen to become the confessor of the ‘Descalze’, or Observant Poor Clares of the Royal monastery in Madrid, as well as general commissioner for the Holy Land. Andrés Feuenmayor died in 1689 in the San Juan Bautista del Ramo friary in Viana. Some manuscript dossiers of his hand, concerning the revision of the Mistica Ciudad and concerning the beatification procedure of Maria Agreda still survive (MS Madrid, Bibl. Nacional 9414-9418, 10173 & 10251).

literature

AIA 3 (1915), 439-456; Hispania 71 (1958), 1-29; Bibliotheca Sanctorum VIII, 995-1002; Manuel de Castro, Manoscritos franciscanos de la Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid (Madrid, 1973), 410, 440-441; Mariano Acebal Luján, ‘Fuenmayor’, DHGE XIX, 275-276 (with additional bibliographical references).

Andreas Gutierrez (Andrés Gutiérrez,  fl. c. 1738)

OFM. Preacher of the Cartagena province.

literature

AIA 36 (1933), 127-129; AIA 15 (1955), 311-314; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 126 (no. 393).

Andreas Hibernon (1534, near Murcia - 18,04, 1602, Gandiá)

He joined the reformers Peter of Alcántara and Paschalis Bayon. He lead a life of prayer and manual labor. Venerated as a saint during his life, he received a cult after his death, which was officially confirmed in 1791 (beatus). No works known to have survived?

literature:

Wadding, Annales, 3rd ed., 21, 49f; 23, 316f; 24, 27 and 47-56.

Johannes Schlageter, Andreas Hibernon', LTHK, 1 (1993), 630; Pedro Riquelme Oliva, ‘Beato Andrés Hibernón, Religioso franciscano (1534-1602)’, in: Nuevo Año cristiano (Madrid: EDIBESA, 2001-2002), IV (Abril), 209-213; Josep Felis, El Ciego de Gandía. El Sant del Sacrament, ed. Gabriel Garcia Frasquet (Gandia: CEIC Alfons el Vell, 2002).

Andreas Jacobus de Fabriano>>

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editions:

Vita S. Silvestri, ed. C.S. Franceschini (Iesi, 1772).

Andreas Martinus (Andrés Martín, fl. second half 17^th cent.)

OFM. Member of the Castilia province.

literature

AIA 8 (1917), 106, 107-108, 110; AIA 25 (1926), 226; AIA 32 (1929), 350; AIA 35 (1932), 529-530; AIA 29 (1969), 142; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 144-145 (no. 545).

Andreas Placus (Andreas Plach/Plac, d. 1548)

German friar from Mainz. After studies at Mainz university, he joined the Observants in the Cologne province. By 1527, he can be found in the Limburg am Lahn friary. On 13 December, he wrote the first of several letters to Frederick Nausea, a rather famous cathedral preacher at Mainz cathedral. Some time thereafter, Andreas transferred to Koblenz, where he prepared his Lexicon Biblicum for the printing press (preface dated on 8 September 1536), at the instigation of his Franciscan colleague Nicolaus Ferber von Herborn. Andreas was for a while the guardian of the Koblenz friar. He died at the friary of Brauweiler, near Cologne, where he was gathering information for another work. Plach's works should be placed in the context of Humanist and Counter-Humanist discussions on the biblical text after the publication and reception of Erasmus' Novum Instrumentum and the biblical translations of Luther and the early Calvinists. It is a pity that Plach's works do not really receive serious scholarly attention.

editions

Epistolarum ad Fredericum Nauseaum Libri X (Basel, 1550), esp. pp. 48ff.

Lexicon Biblicum Sacrae Philosophiae Candidatis Elaboratum cum Opportuna Obscuriorum Interim Locorum Explicatione (Cologne, 1536/Cologne 1543). This work amounts to a concise biblical commentary with a lengthy Elenchus Omnium Vocabulorum Hoc in Dictionario Contentorum, and a Tractatus de Accentibus Hebraicis.  The work was even appreciated in Calvinist camps, leading to a Calvinist reprinting in Basel around 1559 (as a result of which some later bibliographers erroneously thought that Andreas must have been a Calvinist himself).

Jonas Latine, ex Versione Andreae Placi (Vienna, ca. 1550), containing several Institutiones Grammaticales Hebriacae.

Difficilorum et Graecarum et Hebriacarum Omniumque Peregrinarum Dictionum in Geneseos Libro Interpretatio (Basel, ca. 1559), containing: Brevis Institutio de Accentibus Hebraicis (pp. 1-7, comes close to the work included in the Lexicon); In Epistola Divi Hieronymi ad Paulinum Explicatio (pp. 7-32); Genuina Praefationis Divi Hieronymi in Pentateuchum Expositio (pp. 33-41); Expositio Vocabulorum Quorumdam Super Genesim (pp. 42-157).

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 39; Fr. Falk, ‘Das Bibellexikon des Andreas Placus’, Pastor Bonus (Trier, 1898-1899), 126-130, reprinted in Fr. Falk, Bibelstudien, Bibelhandschriften und Bibeldrucke in Mainz (Mainz, 1901), 175-181; Patricius Schlager, Geschichte der Kölnischen Franziskaner-Ordensprovinz während des Reformationszeitalters (Regensburg, 1909), 224-326; M. Bihl, 'André Placus', DHGE II (1914), 1693-1694.

Andreas Richi (Andrea Richi, d. after 1381)

Florentine friar. After spending his initial years in the order in Florence or its surroundings, he was sent to Montpellier by 1333, maybe as part of a lectorate training course. He probably followed this up with degree studies, as later sources suggest that he was a master of theology. Sometime after completing his education, he returned to Florence. He is mentioned in a document from August 1353 as a member of the Santa Croce friary. Nearly twenty years later, in 1370, he was active as an inquisitor in Tuscany. He kept this position until March 1373. He is first and foremost known for his treatise against the Fraticelli, which for a long time was attributed to a ‘frate Bonaventura’.

editions

Tractatus contra Fraticellos, edited in: Archivum franciscanum historicum 3 (1910), 267-279, 505-529, 680-699, and separately in Documenta inedita ad historiam fraticellorum spectantia (Quaracchi, 1913), 15-72. This work was later used by Giacomo della Marca (Jacobus de Marchia) for his Dialogus contra fraticellos. Yet Giacomo refered to it as a work written 'Bonaventura'.

literature

Papini, L’Etruria francescana (Siena, 1797), 58; L. Oliger, ‘Andreas Richi’, DHGE II (1912), 1700.

Andriolus (mid fourteenth century)

Lector in Bologna

literature:

C. Piana, Chartularium, AF, 11 (1970), 16, n. 21.

Angelica (Angelique: Paula Antoinette de Nigris, fl. 16th cent.)

Poor Clare from Milan. Wrote a series of spiritual recommentations, which have been published, together with her biography, as the Epistolae spirituales.

editions

Epistolae spirituales, ed. Jean-Baptiste Fontana de Comitibus (Rome, in aedibus populi Romani, 1576)

literature

DSpir I, 578.

Angelicus d’Allègre (Angélique d’Allègre, fl. 17th cent.)

OFMCap from the Lyon province. Spiritual author….

editions

Le Chrétien parfait ou le Portrait des Perfections divines tiré en l’homme sur son original, (>>>>). Dedicated to the Duchess of Randan, Marie-Catherine de la Rochefoucault. It teaches that, in order to become perfect, one should imitate the perfections of God the Father in the Heavens (!: thus not an imitatio Christi)

literature

DSpir I, 578-579.

Angelic de Porte di Fermo (1774-1816)

OFMCap. Born at Porto S. Giorgo in 1774. Entered the Capuchin order at the age of nineteen.  Order adnministrator and celebrated piritual author. He died at Porto S. Giorgo on 29 October 1816.

editions

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Gesú Cristo modello di una religiosa in ogni sua situazione (Fermo, 1793). A guide to become so spiritual through the imitation of Christ that daily inconveniences do no longer matter and the person can completely aim to safeguard the destiny of the soul.

literature

DSpir I, 572

Anfredus (Gaufridus) Gontier (fl. ca. 1324)

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manuscripts

Quaestio de Paupertate Christi: Vat. Lat. 3740 ff. 55va-78rb

In I-IV Sent.: Vat.Lat., 1113

Quaestiones Quodlibetales: Vat.Lat. 869

editions

Q. de Paupertate: F. Delorme (ed.), Studi Francescani, ser. 3, 8 (1936), 240-291.

In I-IV Sent. See: V. Doucet, `Der unbekannte Skotist des Vat.Lat. 1113: fr. Anfredus Gonteri', Franzisk. Stud., 25 (1938), 201-240 [Quaestio 3 in I Sent., dist. 34: 'Utrum ex natura deitatis sint tria esse distincta in divinis']; J. Alfaro, `La immaculaada Concepción en los escritos de un discípulo de Duns Escoto, Aufredo Gontier', Gregorianum, 36 (1955), 590-617 [In III Sent. dist. 3]

literature

M. Schmaus, `Uno sconosciuto discepolo di Scoto intorno alla prescienza di Dio', RFNS, 24 (1932), 327-355; V. Doucet, `Der unbekannte Skotist des Vat.Lat. 1113: fr. Anfredus Gonteri', Franzisk. Stud., 25 (1938), 201-240; J. Alfaro, `La immaculada Concepción en los escritos de un discípulo de Duns Escoto, Aufredo Gontier', Gregorianum, 36 (1955), 590-617; L. Amorós, `Anfredo Gontero, O.F.M. Discípulo de Escoto y Lector en el estudio general de Barcelona. Su comentario al lib. II y III de las Sententias', RET, 1 (1940/41), 545-572; J. Carreras y Artau, `Nota sobre el scotismo medieval en la província franciscana de Aragón', Antonianum, 40 (1965), 467-79; A. Maier, Scienza e filosofia nel medioevo. Saggi sui secoli XIII e XIV (Milan, 1984), 370-371; S.D. Dumont, `The Scotist of Vat.Lat. 869' AFH, 81 (1988), 254-283; S.F. Brown & S.D. Dumont, `Univocity of the Concept of Being in the Fourteenth Century III. An Early Scotist', MS, 51 (1989), 1-129; A. Tabarroni, Paupertas Christi et Apostolorum, L'ideale francescano in discussione (1322-1324) (Rome, 1990), 35-6.

Angelinus Brinkmann (18th cent.)

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literature

DHGE, III, 55-56>

Angelinus de Oppenheim (d. 1729)

OFMCap. Joined the Capuchin order in the Rhine province. He was guardian of the Mannheim monastery when he died on 21 or 25 January 1729. Controversialist and spiritual author.

editions

Exercices de 10 jours (Frankfurt, 1726).

Erklärung der Minderbrüderregel (Worms, 1722).

Préparation à la mort (Mainz, 1727).

literature

DSpir I, 572-573.

Angelicus Viglini (>>>>)

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literature

Achile Mauro, Fra Angelico Viglini, Cappuccino e vescovo (Naples, 2003).

Angelicus de Vicenza (Angelico da Vicenza/Bartolomeo Preati, d. 1760)

OFMRif. Entered the order as an adult in the Venetian province. Provincial historian and lector of theology. Died at the Vicenza monastery on 10 August 1760. According to Antonio Maria da Vicenza, he would be the author of 14 printed works and three unedited texts.

editions

Vita di S. Pasquale Baylon (Vicenza, 1721/Vicenza, 1862).

Vita del B. Giovanni da Prado (Venice, 1721).

Novena di S. Pietro d’Alcantarà (Venice, 1723).

Di santo Agostino vescovo e dottore (Bassano, 1728).

Del serafico Patriarcha S. Francesco d’Assisi (Venice, 1736).

Di Santa Maria da Cortona (Venice, 1739).

La maniera di vivere santamente nel seculo, proposta ad ogni qualita di persone del serafico San Francesco nel Terz’Ordine, intitolato della Penitenza, da lui fondato, e dilucidato dal P. Angelico da Vicenza, del ordine dei Minori Riformati, colla vita della gran’Penitente, s. Margherita da Cortona del prefato Terzo Istituto, e con uno Trattaco storico et morale tanto delle Indulgence generalmente considerate, quanto di quelle che spezialmente da Professori del Terz’Ordine predetto acquistar si possono (Verona: Dionigi Ramanzini, Librajo d S. Tomio, 1739).

Del terziariato di S. Ivone (Verona, 1739).

Sulle indulgenze (Verona, 1739).

L’uomo addottrinato nei sacramenti, 5 Vols. (Verona, 1746-1748).

Di S. Antonio da Padova (Venice, 1748).

L’arte magica dimostrata (Venice, 1751). A polemical work directed against Scipione Maffei.

Storia cronologica dei tre ordini istituti dal patriarca S. Francesco, 3 Vols. (Venice, 1761).

Memorie degli ordini regolari, 3 Vols. (Venice, 1773).

literature

Antonio Maria da Vicenza, Scriptores Ordinis Minorum Prov. S. Antonii Venetiarum (Venice, 1877), 103-104; M. Bihl, ‘Angélique de Vicence’, DHGE, III, 57>>; DSpir I, 579

Angelicus de Winseler (Angelicus von Winseler, d. 1730)

OFMCap. Provincial of the Rhine province.  He died at Bernkassel on 24 February 1730. Spiritual author>>>

editions

Renovatio Animae (Cologne, 1724). This work also was published in German.

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literature

Hierotheus Confluentinus, Provincia Rhenana Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum, 117-118; DSpir I, 579

Angelus (fl. 18^th cent.)

Franciscan missionary and author, compilor of Cakchiquel grammars and wordlists.

manuscripts

Arte de lengua Cakchiquel, compuesto por el Padre fray Angel: MS Paris, BN>>

Vocabulario de la lengua Cakchiquel, compuesto por el Padre fray Angel: MS Paris, BN>>

literature

C. Muñoz y Manzano Conde de la Viñaza, Bibliografía española de lenguas indígenas de América (Madrid, 1892), 281-282; Eleanor B. Adams, A Bio-bibliography of Franciscan Authors in Colonial Central America (Washingthon D.C.: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1953),

Angelus Assisiensis (d. 1362)

Italian friar, and allegedly master of theology. Franciscan inquisitor, active against fraticelli. author of the Summula Inquisitionis

editions

Summula Inquisitionis, ed. L. Oliger, Antonianum, 5 (1930), 473-486 [containing the acts of three processes against fraticelli, and an alphabetically organised repertory for the use of inquisitors, giving pontifical decretals, imperial laws against heresy etc.

literature

L. Oliger, ‘Acta inquisitionis Umbriae Fr. Angeli de Assisio contra stigmata S. Francisci negantem, contra Fraticellos aliosque, a. 1361’, AFH 24 (1931), 63-90; R. Pratesi, ‘Angelo Assisiensis’, DBI, III, 221; Nicolangelo D’Acunto, I pentimenti di frate Angelo da Assisi’, in: Chiesa, vita religiosa, società nel medioevo italiano. Studi offerti a Giuseppina De Sandre Gasparini, ed. Mariaclara Rossi & Gian Maria Varanini, Italia Sacra, 80 (Rome: Herder, 2005), 271-277 Is this on the same Angelo?

With thanks to dr. Stefania>>>>

Angelus Clarenus (Pietro de Fossombrone, ca. 1255 - 15, 06, 1337, S. Maria d'Aspro)

Italiaanse minderbroeder en een van de leidende figuren onder de spirituele franciskanen uit de omgeving van Ancona. Geboren in Fossombrone (March of Ancona) in een boerenmilieu. Trad in de orde rond 1270. Raakte al snel inconflict met superieuren over de regelobservantie (in ordegevangenschap tussen 1274 en 1289?). Minister generaal Raymond Gaufredi zond hem en een groep andere spirituelen naar Armenië (naar het hof van koning Héthoum II). Na terugkeer in Italië handhaafden zich de conflicten tusen Pietro de Fossombrone en zijn medestanders (zoals Pietro de Macerata). Daarop verzamelde Pietro zijn volgelingen in 1294 in de congregarie van de Pauperes Heremitae Domini Coelestini (op dat tijdstip nam hij de naam Angelo Clareno aan). Deze congregatie verwierf de steun van paus Celestinus V. Maar kort daarna werd deze congregatie op instigatie van de Franciscaanse orde door paus Bonifatius VIII ontbonden. Angelo vluchtte daarop naar Griekenland, waar hij tot 1305 bleef. Daarna keerde hij terug om zich te verdedigen, o.a. op het concilie van Wenen (1311). Hij raakte beïnvloed door het gedachtengoed van Petrus Johannes Olivi en Ubertino van Casale. Zijn ideeën over de franciskaanse armoede leidden uiteindelijk ook tot een groot conflict met de paus (Bonifatius VIII en vooral Johannes XXII). Aanvankelijk vond hij steun bij cardinaal Colona en cardinal Orsini. Angelo Clareno kon zich met hun steun schuilhouden in Avignon, Valencia en Carpentras. Na de veroordeling van de spiritualen door paus Johannes XXII weigerde Angelo zich te onderwerpen. Hij vertrok naar Subiaco, waar hij zestien jaar verbleef. Toen paus Johannes XXII de gardiaan van de Aracoeli en de inquisitie beval om Angelo Clareno te arresteren, vertrok Angelo naar Zuid-Italië (Koninkrijk Napels), waar hij stierf op 15 juni 1337 in Santa Maria de Aspro. Dankzij zijn studies en zijn reizen in Armenië en Griekenland was Angelo een groot kenner van de Griekse patristiek, waarvan hij ook een aantal werken in het Latijn vertaalde, o.a. de Scala Paradisi van Johannes Climacus (a.o. Naples Naz. XII. F. 32; XII. F. 47; XIII. G. 35) en de regel van Basilius. Daarnaast was hij de auteur van de beroemde Historia septem tribulationum, een eschatologisch getinte geschiedenis van de vervolgingen van de 'echte' franciskanen door vijanden binnen en buiten de orde. Er zijn ook een regelcommentaar en veel van zijn brieven bewaard gebleven, die een schat aan informatie bieden over zijn opvattingen over de usus pauper en over zijn (eigenlijk heel genuanceerde) ecclesiologische, moraaltheologische en eschatologische ideeën.

manuscripts

Litterae: Biblioteca Oliveriana di Pesaro, 1942; >>>

Transl>> Joh. de Raithu, Elogium Joh. Climacis (transl from Greek to Latin): Vat. Urb. Lat., 521

Transl>>Joh. Chrysostomi, Epistula 125 ad Cyricaum (transl from Greek to Latin): Vat. Urb. Lat., 521

Transl>>Atanasii Epistula ad Marcellinum seu Prologus super Librum Salmorum (transl from Greek to Latin): Vat. Urb. Lat., 521

Transl>>Ps. Macarii, Epistula Magna (transl from Greek to Latin): Vat.Urb. Lat., 521

Transl.>>Ps. Macarii Opuscula Ascetica (transl from Greek to Latin):>>?

Transl.>>Joh. Chrysostomi, Opuscula (transl from Greek to Latin)>>?

Transl>>Regula S. Basilii (transl from Greek to Latin)>>? [see: K.S. Frank, `Basilius von Caesarea und Angelus Clarenus: Leben nach dem Evangelium', WW, 44 (1981), 168-183

Transl>>Scholia de Joh. Climaci Scala Paradisi (transl from Greek to Latin): Vat. Urb. Lat., 521

Transl>>Scala Paradisi

Transl>>Joh. de Raithu, Sermo ad Pastorem (transl from Greek to Latin): Vat. Urb. Lat., 521

Transl>>Ps. Anfilochii, Vita S. Basilii: Compendium (transl from Greek to Latin): Vat. Urb. Lat., 521

See for manuscripts also O.P.J. Fedwick, Bibliotheca Basiliana Universalis III: Ascetica (Turnhout, 1997).

edities:

Historia Septem Tribulationum: Alberto Ghinato (ed.), Angelus a Clarino, Chronicon seu historia septem tribulationum ordinis minorum. (Sussidi e testi per la gioventù francescana, 10) Rome, 1959 [voor een andere versie, zie:Beiträge zur Sektengeschichte des Mittelalters, II: Dokumente vornehmlich zur Geschichte der Valdesier und Katharer, ed. Ign. von Döllinger (Munich, 1890), 417-526]; Liber Chronicarum sive tribulationum Ordinis minorum di Frate Angelo Clareno, ed. Giovanni Boccali & trans. Marino Bigaroni, Pubblicazioni della Biblioteca Francescana, Chiesa Nuova - Assisi, 8 (Assisi, 1998); Angelo Clareni, Opera II. Historia Septem Tribulationum Ordinis Minorum, ed. O. Rossini, comm. & intr. H. Helbling, Fonti per l storia dell’Italia Medievale, Rerum Italicarum Scriptores, 2 (Rome, 1999). See a.o. the review on the most recent editions in Wissenschaft und Weisheit 63 (2000), 141-145. Some parts have been translated into Italian by Ottaviano Maurizi & Feliciano Olgiatti in Mistici Francescani Secolo XIV, II (Assisi-Bologna, 1997), 713ff. A new English edition of the work appeared as: Angelo Clareno, A Chronicle or History of the Seven Tribulations of the Order of Brothers Minor, trans. David Burr & E. Randolph Daniel (St. Bonaventure NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2005) [cf. review in CF 76,1-2 (2006), 318-319], whereas a partial English translation (prologue and the first tribulation) can be found in Francis of Assisi. Early Documents, Vol. III: The Prophet, ed. Regis J. Armstrong, J.A. Wayne Hellmann & William J. Short (Hyde Park NY-London-Manila: New City Press, 1999), 373-426.

Epistolae [at least 84 Latin letters, some of which are veritable treatises, such as letter nine (the treatise Praeparantia Christi Iesu Habitationem et Mansionem Ineffabilem et Divinam in Nobis Secundum Exterioris et Interioris Hominis Mores), letter thirteen (Nemo potest Duobus Dominis Servire), letter 26 (De Verbis et Consiliis Fratris Angeli), letter 33 (on the necessity to follow Christ and to die to sin by living in Him), letter 41 (Principalem Dei Intentionem est Impossibile a Contradictione Impedire), and letter 63 (presenting Francesco as a person through which has spoken to men and as an exceptional example, a ‘new man’]: Lydia von Auw (ed.) Angeli Clareni Opera I, Epistole. (Fonti per la storia d'Italia, 103) Rome, 1980; The Letters of Angelo Clareno (c. 1250-1337), ed. R.G. Musto, U. of Columbia Phd. (Ann Arbor, 1977) [in fact a better edition, yet unpublished]; H. Mottu, `Les lettres du franciscain Angelo Clareno', RThPh, 116 (1984), 247-251; Angelo Clareno. Seguire Cristo povero e crossifisso. Con ampia scelta di testi tradotti da O. Manzio (Padua, 1994), 67-72, 97-100, 139-142, 147-148 (several Italian letters). For the complete edition of all the Italian letters, see: Lettere di Clareno in volgare,  ed. C. Accrocca  (Padova, 1994); Idem, `L'Epistolario di Angelo Clareno nel Ms. 1942 della Biblioteca Oliveriana di Pesaro', in: Temi e immagini del Medio Evo. Alla memoria di Raoul Manselli da un gruppo di allievi, ed. E. Pásztor (Rome, 1996), 115-136); Michele Curto, L’epistolario di Angelo Clareno  nel ms. 1942 della Biblioteca Oliveriana di Pesaro. Studio ed edizione del testo, Diss. (Roma, Università Gregoriana,  2000). That last work also appeared as: L’epistolario di Angelo Clareno nel ms 1942 della Biblioteca Oliveriana di Pesaro, in: Studia Oliveriana, 3^rd ser., 1-2 (2001-2002), 9-306 [cf remarks in AFH 98 (2005), 846-847 and in Collectanea 76,3-4 (2006), 581-590, which would indicate that the work of Curto on the Oliveriana manuscript, which contains Italian versions of Latin letters allows for a rereading and better understanding of several of the Latin letters as edited in the editions of Auw and Musto].

Breviloquium super Doctrinam Salutis ad Parvulos Christi: Il beato Simone Fidati da Cascia e i suoi scritti editi ed inediti, ed. N. Mattioli (Rome, 1898), 471-478; Il Clareno (studio polemico), ed. C. da Pesaro (Macerata, 1921), 403-42.

Praeparantia Christi Iesu habitationem et Mansionem Ineffabilem et Divinam a Nobis Secundum Exterioris Hominis Mores: Il beato Simone Fidati da Cascia e i suoi scritti editi ed inediti, ed. N. Mattioli (Rome, 1898), 467-471; R.G. Musto, Angelo Clareno's `Preparantia Christi Iesu Habitationem', AFH, 73 (1980), 69-89 & 82 (1989). A modern Italian translation by Ottaviano Maurizi & Feliciano Olgiati can be found by Mistici Francescani Secolo XIV, II (Assisi-Bologna, 1997), 697ff. Angelo Clareno makes clear which external and internal actions and kinds of behaviour favour the presence of Christ in our soul (which comprise all possible elements found in other Franciscan works dealing with evangelical perfection)

Apologia pro Vita Sua/Epistola Responsiva contra fr. Alvarum Pelagium de Regula Fratrum Minorum Observanda: V. Doucet (ed.) 'Angelus Clarenus ad Alvarum Pelagium, apologia pro vita sua.' Archivum Franciscanum Historicum. 39 (1946) 63-200;

Expositio Regulae Fratrum Minorum: L. Oliger (ed.), Expositio regulae fratrum minorum (Quaracchi, 1912); Expositio super Regulam Fratrum Minorum di Frate Angelo Clareno, ed. G. Boccali, Pubblicazioni della Biblioteca Francescana Chiesa Nuova-Assisi, 7 (Assisi, 1995);

Epistola Excusatoria ad Papam de Falso Impositis et Fratrum Calumniis: F. Ehrle (ed.), 'Epistola excusatoria', Archiv für Litteratur- und Kirchengeschichte des Mittelalters, 1 (1885) 521-533.

Gratia, Baptismus, Fides, Obedientia & Unitas>> deperditum??

Transl>>Johannis Climaci, Scala Paradisi (transl from Greek to Latin): Denys le Chartreux, Opera (Tournai, 1905), XXVIII, 13-497

In preparation: Defensorium contra Errores Iohnnis Papae, ed. C. Accrocca (=Epistola Veritatem Sapientis)

literature

J. Gribomont, `La `Scala Paradisi', Jean de Raythou et Ange Clareno', SMon, 2 (1960), 345-358; L. von Auw, Angelo Clareno et les spirituels Italiens, Ed. Storia e Letteratura-Uomini e dottrine, 25 (Rome, 1979); R. Manselli, `Spirituali missionari: l'azione in Armenia e in Grecia. Angelo Clareno', in: Espansione del francescanesimo tra Occidente e Oriente nel secolo XIII, Atti del VI convegno internazionale, Assisi, 12-4 ottobre 1978 (Assisi, 1979), 27-291; O. Zorzi Pugliese, `Il `Chronicon' di Angelo Clareno nel Rinascimento: volgarizzamento postillato da Girolamo Benivieni', AFH, 73 (1980), 514-526; Ronald G. Musto, ‘Angelo Clareno, O.F.M.: Fourteenth Century Translator of the Greek Fathers. An Introduction and a Checklist of Manuscripts and Printings of his ‘Scala Paradisi’’, AFH 76 (1983), 589-645; G. Marcil, `The Enemies in Angelo Clareno's History of the Franciscan Order', in: The Use and Abuse of Eschatology in the Middle Ages, ed. W. Verbeke, D. Verhelst, A. Welkenhuysen (leuven, 1988), 385-392; F. Accrocca, Angelo Clareno, testimone di S. Francesco. Testi sulla vita del santo e dei primi fonti contenuti nell'Expositio regulae Fratrum Minorum e sconosciuti alle primitive fonti francescane', AFH, 81 (1988), 225-253; idem, `Angelo Clareno e la Regula non bollata', AFH, 82 (1989), 21-41; Idem, `Angelo Clareno gioachimita? (...)', AnTOF, 21 (1989), 43-67; Idem, `Angelo Clareno e la Regola francescana: Analisi del Proemio e del primo capitolo dell' Expositio Regulae Fratrum Minorum', Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Rrligioni, 55/13 (1989), 55-97; G.L. Potestà, Angelo Clareno dai Poveri Eremiti ai Fraticelli, Nuovi Studi Storici, 8 (Rome, 1990); Idem, `I `Pauperes eremite Domini Celestini'', in: Celestino V papa angelico, ed. W. Capezzali (L'Aquila, 1988), 95-120; Idem, `Ancora sui `Pauperes eremite Domini Celestini'', AFH, 84 (1991), 273-281; G.-L. Potesta, `Gli studi su Angelo Clareno. Dal ritrovamento della raccolta epistolare alle recenti edizioni' RSLR, 25 (1989), 111-143; Idem, Angelo Clareno dai poveri eremiti ai fraticelli (Rome, 1990); F. Accrocca, Angelo Clareno. Seguire Cristo povero e crocifisso (Padua, 1994); Karl Suso Frank, `Angelus Clarenus, LThK, I<sup>3</sup>, 655; Orietta Rossini, `I codici del `Chronicon' di Angelo Clareno', AFH, 87 (1994), 349-415; R.G. Musto, `Angelo Clareno O.F.M.: Fourteenth-Century Translator of the Greek Fathers. An Introduction and a Check-List of manuscripts and Printings of his `Scala Paradisi'', AFH, 76 (1983), 215-238, 589-645; C. Riggi [?Vincenzo Messana?], `Il Climaco latino nel medioevo e la tradizione manoscritta della versione e degli scolii di Angelo Clareno (...)', in: L'edizione di testi mediolatini: problemi metodi prospettive. Testi della VIII settimana Residenziale di studi medievali, Carini, 24-28 ottobre 1988 (Palermo, 1991) [=Schede Medioevali, 20-21 (1991), 21-44; Felice Accrocca, `Angelo Clareno: Riflessioni e nuove ricerche', Collectanea Franciscana, 62 (1992), 311-336; C. Cargnoni, `La `passione dell' imitazione di Cristo' nell epistolario di Angelo Clareno', Anal. Tertii Ordinis Regularis S. Franc. [AnTOF] 26/156 (1995), 253-259; A. Ripa, `Celestino V e Angelo Clareno: un rischio ed un sfida giocati in due', in: Temi e immagini del Medio Evo. Alla memoria di Raoul Manselli da un gruppo di allievi, ed. E. Pásztor (Rome, 1996), 93-113; A. Ripa, `Celestino V e Angelo Clareno: un rischio ed una sfida giocati in due', in: Temi e imagini del Medio Evo. Studi in onore: Raoul Manselli, 93-113; Felice Accrocca, `L'epistolario di Angelo Clareno nel Ms. 1942 della Biblioteca Oliveriana di Pesaro', in: Temi e immagini del Medio Evo, 115-136; F. Accrocca, `I `miracula beati Angeli' (ms Magliabecchi XXXIX 75) e gli ultimi anni del Clareno in Basilicata' AFH 89 (1996), 615-627 [with edition]; Judith Ann Ford, ‘The Structure of Reform: Angelo Clareno’s ‘Sixth Tribulation’’, Medieval Perspectives 12 (1997), 64-78; Carlo Cadderi, ‘Angelo Clareno e gli Spirituali del Lazio’, Studi Francescani 95 (1998), 343-362; Maurice Causse, ‘Sources primitives de la légende des trois compagnons’, Collectanea Franciscana 68 (1998), 470-491; F. Accrocca, ‘L’‘Epistolario’ di Angelo Clareno nel Ms. 1942 della Biblioteca Oliveriana di Pesaro e la ‘Lettera enciclica’ di Frate Elia sul transito di S. Francisco’, in: Editori di Quaracchi, 247-249; I Mistici Francescani. Secolo XIV, 675-725 [includes an Italian translation of the Preparantia Christi Iesu Habitationem and of several letters]; Guido Baldassarri, `Letterature devota, edificante e morale', in: Storia della lettteratura italiana, 211-326; Felice Accrocca, Francesco e le sue immagini,  passim; S. da Campagnola, ‘Influsso del gioachimismo nella letteratura umbro-francescana del due-trecento’, in: Idem, Francesco e francescanesimo nella società dei secoli XIII-XIV, 225-256 [originally published in Analecta Tertii Ordinis Regularis S. Francisci de Paenitentia 131 (1979), 443-475]; Gian Luca Potestà, ‘Clareno, Angelo’, Diz. Enc. Med. I, 411-412; Giulia Barone, ‘Angelo Clareno’, Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart I, 481; C. Cadderi, `Angelo Clareno e gli spirituali del Lazio', Studi francescani, 95 (1998), 343-362; Benoît Gain, ‘L’influenza di Basilio su Angelo Clareno (d. 1337)’, in: Basilio tra Oriente e Occidente (Bose: Edizioni Qigajon, 2001), 235-251; Roberto Paciocco, ‘Le Tribulazione di Angelo Clareno (in margine alle recenti edizione)’, Collectanea Franciscana 71:3-4 (2001), 493-519; Felice Accrocca, ‘Angelo Clareno, witness to Saint Francis’, Greyfriars Review 16 (2002), 179-202; Gian Luca Potestà, ‘La duplice redazione della ‘Historia septem tribulationum’ di Angelo Clareno’, Rivista di Storia e Letteratura Religiosa 38 (2002), 1-38; Paolo Varalda, ‘Prime indagini sulla tradizione manoscrittta della versione climachea di Ambrogio Traversari’, Rivista di Storia e Letteratura Religiosa 38 (2002), 107-174; David Burr, ‘John XXII and the Spirituals: is Angelo Clareno telling the truth?’, Franciscan Studies 63 (2005), 271-287; Marinko Pejic, Risonanze di teologia e spiritualità orientale negli scritti di Angelo Clareno, Diss. (Rome: Antonianum, 2005); Angelo Clareno Francescano. Atti del XXXIV Convegno internazionale. Assisi, 5-7 ottobre 2006, Atti dei Convegni della SISF e del Centro Interuniversitario di Studi Francescani XXIII, n.s. 16 (Spoleto: CISAM, 2007); Felice Accrocca, Un ribelle tranquillo - Angelo Clareno e gli Spirituali francescani tra Due e Trecento, Studi Francescani (Santa Maria degli Angeli: Edizioni Porziuncola, 2009).

Angelus de Badajoz (16th cent.)

OFM.>>

manuscripts

Crónica de la provincia de S. José: Madrid, Nac., 1173 [Castro, Madrid, no. 66]

Angelus de Bolsena (Angelo da Bolsena, fl. ca. 1460)

OFMObs. Crusade preacher (against the Turcs) under Nicholas V and Calixt III, and again under Pius II; and general procurator for the Observant branch of the order. Also active as a papal legate at Milan. Author?

literature

Alva & Astorga, Indiculus Bullarii Seraphici (Rome, 1655), 2^nd part, 26-30; Wadding, Annales Minorum (Rome, 1735) XII, 290 & XIII, 14, 19-22, 46, 63, 65, 82, 122, 187, 269, 346; Bernardinus Aquilanus, Chronica Fratrum Minorum Observantiae, ed. Lemmens (Rome, 1902), 111; Eubel, Hierarchia II, 234; M. Thorel, ‘Ange de Bolsena’, DHGE III, 16,

Angelus de Carpenedolo (fl. early seventeenth cent.)

OFMCap. Friar from Lombardy, known for his piety and erudition. Wrote a Gemma preziosa.

editions

Gemma preziosa adorna di meditazioni ricavate dall’officina della Santa Croce, secondo la mistica teologia per introdurre le anime all’esercizio dell’orazione mentale (Brescia: Bartolommeo Fontana, 1617).

literature

Wadding, Scriptores, 21; Bernardus a Bononia, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Cappuccinorum, 13; DSpir I, 566

Angelus de Acri (19, 10, 1669, Acri (Calabria) - 30, 10, 1739, Acri) beatus

Popular preacher and healer. Wrote many religious sermons, prayers and songs, concentrating on the suffering Christ. His most well-known work is the Gesù Piisimo (Naples, 1745, 1853²). Beatus.

editions

Versi, edited in: La via delle formiche. Versi per il Beato Angelo d’Acri, ed. Giuseppe Fiamma, Linea Francescana (Acri, 1997).

Lettere, edited by Giuseppe Fiamma in Confronto 22 (Acri, 1996), n. 10, 3; n. 11, 3; Confronto 23 (Acri, 1997), n. 1, 3; n. 2, 3.

Gesù Piisimo (Naples, 1745, 1853²).

Gli scritti del beato Angelo d’Acri. Le lettere, due prediche, un corso di missioni e l’Orologio della Passione (‘Gesu pissimo’). Con un’appendice di studi e documenti inediti, ed. Vincenzo Criscuolo, Bibliotheca seraphico-capuccina, 71 (Rome: Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, 2004).

literature:

M. Dionisalvi, La `Ecclesia Crucis' e la `Ecclesia Lucis' nel beato Angelo da Acri (Acri, 1975); F. da Riese, Santi e Santità nell'Ordine Cappucino (Rome, 1981), Vol. 2, 9-28; Leonhard Lehmann, `Angelos v. Acri', LThK, 1 (1993), 654; Fernando da Riese Pio, ‘Bienheureux Ange d’Acri. Missio­n­naire capucin aux débuts difficiles’, in: Visages de saints et bienheureux capucins, 241-257; Vincenzo Criscuolo, ‘‘Eadem scripta ac si umquam exarata fuissent’: il processo di beatificazione di Angelo d’Acri e il problema dell’esame dei suoi scritti’, Collectanea Franciscana 71, 2-1 (2001), 87-138; Giuseppe Fiamma, Il beato Angelo d’Acri nell’attualità del suo messaggio (Acri (CO): Linea francescana, 2002). [cf. review in Collectanea Franciscana 72 (2002), 791]; Pasquale Lopetrone & Giocondo Leone, Beato Angelo d’Acri. Estratto da Religiosi del Cosentino. Luoghi, predicazioni, itinerari spirituali (San Giovanni in Fiore (Cosenza): Pubblisfera, 2002); Marco Maggi, ‘Orologi ascetici. Meditazione e ‘ordine del giorno’ in alcuni ‘orologi spirituali’ del Seicento italiano’, Rivista della Storia e Letteratura Religiosa 41 (2005), 573-597. See also the work of Vincenzo Criscuolo mentioned under the editions.

Angelus de Clavasio (Antonio Carletti/Angelo Carleti de Chivasso, OFMObs, 1411-1495), beatus.

OMObs. Born in Chivasso (Piedmont). Obtained a doctorate in civil and canon law at Bologna. Entered the Observant branch of the Franciscan order at the age of 30, taking the name of Angelo. Active in the order studia as canonist and moral theologian. Served several times as vicar-general. On request of Sixtus IV (1480) he preached the crusade against the Turcs, who had taken Otranto. In 1491, Innocent VIII commissioned him to stop the progress of Waldensianism in Savoy. He died in Cuneo (Piedmont). Author of the famous Summa Angelica (Summa Casuum Conscientiae, finished ca. 1486, or 1470 according to Gillmann) which in itself is heavily dependent upon the Summa Pisana. Angelo’s Summa was published 20 times between 1486 and 1500, and frequently thereafter. . It amounts to a detailed repertory for the right theological and penitential answer on every penitential problem. When, in 1520, Luther burnt the papal bull of excommunication, Thomas’ Summa Theologica, and the Decretals, he also burnd a copy of Carletti’s work (Luther regarded it a Summa diabolica). Less fierce, but as derigatory was Erasmus’ verdict in the Antibarbari. For him the Summa Angelica and comparable compendia were the work of congestores.

manuscripts

Summa Angelica: Frankfurt a.M. Dominikanerkloster 171 (excerpts); >>

editions

Summa Angelica de Casibus Conscientiae: Chivasso, Jacobinus Suigus, 1486; Venice, Georgius Arivabene, 1487; Venice, Nikolaus de Frankfurt, 1487; Spier, Peter Drach, 1488; Neurenberg, Anton Koberger, 1488; Venice, Georgius Arrivabene, 1489; Strasbourg, Martinus Flach, 1489; Lyon, Jean du Pré, 1490 etc. [until 1520 31 editions, with additions and corrections. Final edition: Rome 1771. The work was alphabetically organised and also contained a range of handy indices. The work widely popular among confessors and among those engaged in training for pastoral tasks.].

Tractatio de Restitutionibus: Rome 1771-1772, 2 Vols., ed. Honorius Marentinus de Summaripa,

Declaratio seu Interpretatio Bullarum Indulgentiarum Sixti IV: Florence, Nicolaus Laurentii, 1481.

Officium et Missam de Quinque Martyribus Ordinis Minorum>>>>

Anecdotum (…)in quo agit de contractibus (Milan, 1768). [on contracts and usury]

Manuscriptum (…) in quo agit de decem praeceptis Decalogi et de septem vitiis capitalibus (Milan, 1767) [a more concise confessor manual, beginning with considerations for choosing the right confessor. Then, it includes a detailed exposition of the ten commandments in relation to sin. This is followed by a treatment of the mortal sins. Superbia is seen as the most important sin, standing at the basis of all sinfulness

literature

Wadding, Script., 19; Sbaralea, Suppl., I, 43-44; DHGE, III, 19-20; Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, I, 174; LThK, I (1993), 654-655; DBI XX, 136-138; Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, II (Stuttgart-New York, 1968²), 275-297; F. Gillmann,`Clave non errante', Archiv für katholisches Kirchenrecht, 110 (1930) 464; J. Dieterle, `Die Summae Confessionum (...)', Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte, 27 (1906), 296-310; Ernesto Bellone, ‘Una Giuntina poco nota, nella biblioteca civica di Torino: La ‘Summa Angelica’ di Angelo da Chivasso, Lione s.d.’, Studi Francescani 77 (1980); A. van Hove, Prolegomena ad Codicem iuris Canonici, 2nd. Ed. (Mechelen, 1945), 516-517; Angelo Carletti da Chivasso, 1411-1495, Quaderni dell'Unitrè, 1 (Chivasso, 1995); T.B. Zdeutscher, ‘Angelo Carletti’, in: Contemporaries of Erasmus, A Biographical Register I, 268; G.R. Dolezalek, `Lexiques de droit et autres outils pour le `ius commune'', in: Les manuscrits des lexiques et glossaires de l'Antiquité à la fin du Moyen Age, ed. J. Hamesse, Textes et études du Moyen Age, 4 (Turnhout-Louvain-la-Neuve, 1996), 373; D. Tuniz, ‘Angelo Carletti da Chivasso’, in: Il grande libro dei santi I, 148-149; Frate Angelo Carletti osservante nel V centenario della morte (1495-1995). Atti del convegno, Cuneo 7 dicembre 1996-Chivasso, 9 dicembre 1996, ed. O. Capitani, R. Combra, M.C. de Matteis, G.G. Merlo, Società per gli studi storici, archeologici ed artistici della provincia di Cuneo, 118 (Cuneo, 1998); G. Todeschini, ‘Credito ed economia della civitas. Angelo da Chivasso e la dottrina della pubblica utilità fra Quattro e Cinquecento’, in: Ideologia del credito fra Tre e Quattrocento: dall’Astesano ad Angelo da Chivasso. Atti del Convegno internazionale, Asti, 9-10 giugno 2000, ed. B. Molina & G. Scarcia, Collana del Centro Studi sui Lombardi e sul Credito nel Medioevo, 3 (Asti, 2001), 59-83.

Angelus de Joyoso (Ange de Joyeuse/Henri, comte de Boussage, 1563-1608)

OFMCap. Henry de Joyeuse, count of Boussage/Bouchage. Born at Paris as the third son of Marie de Batarnay, countess of Bouchage and Guillaume de Joyeuse, luitenant general for the French king in Languedoc. Studied at Navarra college (Paris), and married in 1582 with Catherine de Nogaret de La Valette (sister of the Duke of Épernon). They obtained a daughter Ihenriette-Catherine, later the wife of the Duke of Montpensier). After the death of his wife on 8 August 1587, Henry entered the Capuchin order on September 4 of that same year (in the rue Saint-Honoré convent), taking the name Ange and writing a testament. Later, due to the death of his brother, Ange had to leave the cloister (October 1592) to take charge of the family estates in Languedoc and take on the political functions involved with it. As a royal maréchal and governor, Henry played a major role in the troubles with the Catholic League and the eventual acceptance of King Henry IV. With the agreement of the latter, Henry eventually is able to return to the cloistered life on 8 march 1599. Aside from preaching asignments, he fulfills several administrative charges in the order (guardian of the Saint-Honoré convent, provincial of the Parisian province (1601-1603, 1607), general definitor of his order (1608-). He is active in the reform of the Benedictine Montmartre monastery, and in close contacts with religious women, such as marie de Beauvilliers (abbess of the Benedictine Montmartre monastery) and Marie d’Hannivel (Marie de la Trinité, at the Carmel monastery of Dijon). Although Ange preached frequently, he apprently did not produce a significant oeuvre. It was Benedict of Canfeld, his close friend, who incorpoated some of Ange’s insights in his own writings.

manuscripts/editions

Le testament du P. Ange de Joyeuse, ed. P. Ubald d’Alençon, Études franciscaines 6 (1901), 630-638.

Lettres and spiritual texts: MSS Paris BN fonds français 3276, 3316, 3404, 3794, 25044, 25046, 25048’ Paris BN coll. Languedoc 100; Rome, Bibliotheca Angelica 1103; Paris, Bibl. Mazarine 2879. See a.o. Edouard d’Alençon, ‘Une lettre inédité du P. A. de Joyeuse’, Annales Franciscaines 37 (1916), 247-250.

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci Capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 14-15; Ubald d’Alençon, Études franciscaines 6 (1901), 630ff; Apollinaire de Valence, Intervention du P. Ange de Joyeuse dans les affaires de Languedoc (1591-1592) (Nîmes, 1892); Apollinaire de Valence, ‘Ange de Joyeuse, Capucin et gouverneur de Languedoc’, Revue du Midi (1895); Edouard d’Alençon, Pages inédites de la vie du P. Ange de Joyeuse (Paris, 1913); J.B. Kaiser, ‘Ein unedierter Brief über P. Angelus von Joyeuse’, Franziskanische Studien 5 (1918), 302-307; Ubald d’Alençon, ‘Ange de Joyeuse’, DHGE III, 22-25 (detailed on biography, and with additional bibliographical information); P. de Vaissière, Messieurs de Joyeuse (Paris, 1926); J. Cruppi, Le P. Ange duc de Joyeuse, maréchal de France et capucin (Paris, 1928); Agathange de Paris, ‘Deux compétiteurs du P. Ange de Joyeuse’, Études Franciscaines 45 (1933), 358-364; Louis de Gonzague, Le P. Ange de Joyeuse, Frère mineur capucin et maréchal de France (1563-1608) (Paris, 1928); Brémond, L’invasion mystique II, 143-151, 451-452; Agathange de Paris, Un cas de jurisprudence pontificale, le P. Ange de Paris, capucin et maréchal de France (Assisi, 1936); Godefroy de Paris, Les Frères Mineurs capucins en France. Histoire de la Province de Paris (Paris, 1937) I, passim; LexCap 73-74; Catholicisme VI, 1108-1110; Dict. Biog. Franc. XVIII, 938-939; DSpir I, 566-567; DHGE XXVIII, 392-393.

Angelus-Eugenius de Perugia (17th cent.)

OFMConv. Guardian of Perugia in 1616, of Pavia in 1621 and of Genoa in 1623.Temporary provincial of the Genoa province, a charge for which he was remunerade with the position of provincial definitor for the rest of his life. Also visitator of other provinces and guardian of the Santa Maria ‘a Parete’ convent in Naples.

editions

Ragionamenti famigliari sopra li sette sacramenti, 2 Vols. (Naples, 1645)

literature

DHGE, III, 41; Wadding, Script., 61; Sbaralea, Suppl., I, 41; Franchini, Bibliosofia di scritti conventuali (Modena, 1693), 42..

Angelus Galioto (Angelo Galioto/Angelo da Sciacca, d. 1624)

Observant friar>>

literature

DBI 51, 498-499.

Angelus de Lantosque (d. 1670)

OFM. French friar from the French alpine region. Entered the order in the Piemonte province and later transferred to Rome. Acknowledged as an effective and learned theologian, he was sent by the Congregatio de Propaganda Fidei as a missionary to the Valais region. Later, he is found as a lector and preacher of the Roman province, spending a lot of time on the compilation of encyclopaedical works on canon law, such as the Directorium Iuris Canonici, which apparently was never printed. On 2 March 1664, the minister general gave him permission to print the Theatrum Regularium. He also wrote a work of spiritual exercises for novices and prepared for the press the fifth volume of Cherubini’s Bullarium Romanum. This latter work was eventually was published after Angelo’s death by his fellow friar Giovanni Paolo.

editions

Directorium Iuris Canonici>>?

Theatrum Regularium (Rome, 1664/1666/1679/1700/Venice, 1678).

Bullarium Romanorum, Vol. 5 (Rome, 1667) (published posthumously).

literature

Orbis Seraphcus (Quaracchi, 1886) II (de missionibus), 99, 172; Antoine de Sérent, ‘Ange de Lantosque’, DHGE III, 25.

Angelus de Lemposa (Angelo da Lemposa, first half 14th century)

Theologian. Author of the famous, joachimist-inspired Opus de Concordantia Veteris et Novi Testamenti Editum cum Scala Generationum ab Adam usque ad Christum (ca. 1330), in which the end of the world is expected to occur in 1335.

manuscripts

Opus de Concordantia Veteris et Novi Testamenti Editum cum Scala Generationum ab Adam usque ad Christum (ca. 1330): MS Florence, Bibl. Med. Laurenziana Plut. XX. 44 (14th cent.)

literature

Bandini, Catalogus Codicum Latinorum Bibliothecae Laurentianae-Mediceae (Florence, 1774) I, 653-654; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 45; L. Oliger, ‘Ange de Lemposa’, DHGE, III, 25;

Angelus de Pace (Ange del Paz/Ange Pincard, 1540-1596)

OFM. Born at Perpignan. Joined the order at an early age and studied at Alcalà university. Very much a Thomist in his way of thinking . He obtained a commission to comment on the Bible, a task which according to his own saying was done with the personal help of the Virgin, who would have appeared to him in person at the Santa Maria Maggiore church in Rome, explaining to him the deep secrets of the Scriptures.

editions

Tractatus de Restituenda Disciplina Vetusta Religionis S. Francisci (Genoa, 1583).

De Amore et Cognitione Dei. This work was published in an Italian translation as: Breve trattato del cognoscere ed amare Iddio, composto del R.P. Fr. Angelo del Paz (…) ad instanza dell’illustri signora Claudia Rangona (Rome, 1596).

Commentarius in Mathaeum>>>>>

Commentarius in Lucam>>>>>

Commentarius super Magnificat>>>>

Comm. in Symbolon Apost.>>>>

Discursus Spirituales super Regulam S.P. Francisci>>>>

literature

Juan de S.Antonio, Bibliotheca Franciscana I, 82; J. Goyens, ‘Ange del Paz’, Dspir I, 568.

Angelus de Perpignan (Angelus del Mas, d. 1599)

OFMCap. Catalonian friar. Lector at Genoa. Helped establish the Capuchin convents at Barcelona (1578) and Perpignan (1580). Died at the Monte Calvario convent. Known for editing a Abecedario espiritual.

editions

Abecedario espiritual>>>

literature

DSpir I, 569.

Angelus de Perpignan (Juan-Carlos del Pas/Angelo del Pas, 1540-1596)

OFM en OFMRec. Born at Perpignan as son of Juan del Pas and Anna Pincarda (nobles at St. Martin). Was admitted into the local Franciscan convent at the age of fifteen, receiving the name of Angelo. After his noviciate, he was sent for three years to Alcalà, where he became acquainted with Francisco Gonzaga (the future minister general), who did his noviciate at Alcalà. After his training, Angelo became a lector and preacher in the Catalonian Barcelona province, taking up several administrative charges in the process. He became involved with the erection of Recollect houses in the Barcelona province, which were gathered into one custody, with Angelo as its custos (appointed at the Barcelona provincial chapter of February1579). Soon (the same year), Angelo and his Recollect friars, with recourse to the constitution of Gregory XIII (June 3^rd, 1579), claimed independence for their custody, turning it into a separate province. This lead to a conflict with the Observant provincial, and the matter was relegated to the papacy. The pope eventually supported Angelo, so that, by March 19, 1580, the Recollect custody became a province. Nevertheless, the papal nuntius, backed up by the Spanish king, used some formal pretext to suppress the province and the custody altogether. This lead to another round of litigation, but Angelo was unable to vindicate his case. He transferred to Genoa, and from there went to Palermo, where he preached during Lent 1584.  Thereafter, he retired to an eremitical life at Messina, until Pope Sixtus V, with whom Angelo was on friendly footing, called him to Rome (1585). There, on request of the pope, Angelo finalised a number of gospel commentaries. He died at Rome on 23 August, 1596 and was buried to the right of the main altar of the church of San Pietro in Montorio. Yet at the request of Pope Gregory XIV, his heart was given to the reformed Franciscan convent of San Francesco on the other side of the Tiber. Angelo left a large number of writings, yet several never found their way to the printing press and are kept in various libraries and archives at Rome and in Spain. Among these can be found commentaries on Matthew and on the first three chapters of John. His printed works are listed below.

editions

Discorso spirituale de la regla de San Francisco (Barcelona, 1579).

Enchiridion Divinae Scholasticaeque Theologiae (Genoa, 1582).

Tractatus de Restituenda Disciplina Vestusta Religionis Sancti Francisci (Genoa, 1583).

Breve trattato del conoscere e amare Iddio composto l’anno 1586 (Rome, 1596).

De la cena eucaristica (>>>>)

Commentarium in Symbolum Apostolorum, 14 Books in 2 Vols. (Rome, 1596-1649).

Dell’oracion jaculatoria (Rome, 1599).

Commentaria in Marcum (Rome, 1623).

Commentaria in Lucam (Rome, 1625).

Commentarium super Missus Est et super Magnificat (Madrid, 1648). 

literature

Francisco Castanner, Vita de Angelo del Pas (Madrid, 1623); Chronicon Ordinis Minorum (Venice, 1606) Book X, chapt. xvi-liv (a vita written by Angelo’s friend Bonifacio Bonebello); Francisco Marca, Chronica Seraphica de la santa provincia de Cataluña [Barcelona, 1764: MS Narbonne, Bibl. Publ. 176]; Arthurus a Monasterio, Martyrologium Franciscanum (Paris, 1653), 387; Wadding, Annales Minorum (Rome, 1731) I, 214, VI, 288, XIV, 50, XX, 67, 520, XXI, 187-190, 299, 519, 525, XXIII, 236-242; Wadding, Scriptores Ordinis Minorum (ed. 1806), 17, 163; Bibliotheca Hispana Nova I, 91-93; Juan a San Antonio, BUF I, 81; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1806), 43, 249; J. Capeille, Dictionnaire de biographies rousillonnaises (Perpignan, 1910) I, 155-159; M. Thorel, ‘Ange del pas’, DHGE III, 28-29.

Angelus de Perugia (Angelo Serpettri/Angelo Christophori, fl. 15th cent.)

OMConv. Perugian friar. Entered the order at an early age in his home town. Went through the provincial study programme and in 1429 was a lector of philosophy at the university of Perugia (1429-32).  Probably obtained his doctorate in theology in the years thereafter. In the degree programme leading to that degree he commented on the Sentences. Appointed inquisitor in Umbria and the Spoleto valley (before 1437),  and almost immediately called away from that task to take seaty in the committee that was to discusss propositions of union with thee Byzantine church at the Council of Florence and Ferrara. Provincial minister of the province of St. Francis in 1438. Procurator general of the order in 1445 (appointed at Rome).  As pope Eugenius IV had given the Aracoeli at Rome to the Observants, Angelo had to reside at the parish church San Salvatore in unda. After the death of minister general Antonio Rusconi, pope Nicholas V appointed Angelo to the position of general vicar (26 August, 1449).  At the general chapter at the Acacoeli convent, held with papal presence on 24 may 1450, Angelo was elected minister general of the order. Opposed to the Observant branch of the order (as can be seen in his  attempts at revocating Observant autonomy at the general chapter of Perugia, May 1453), he nevertheless was interested in order reform. Angelo died shortly after the Perugia chapter in his home town and died on August 20 of that same year.

manuscripts/editions

In I-IV Sent.??>>

literature

Wadding, Annales Minorum (ed. Rome, 1733) VII, 22; XI, 2, 29, 48, 244; XII, 11, 34, 63, 115, 144, 172; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. 1806), 44, 723; Benoffi, Dei procuratrori generali dei minori nella curia romana (Pesaro, 1830), 19; Antonius Fantozzi, ‘De fr. Angelo Christophori Perusino Ministro Generali Ordinis Documenta (1413-1453)’, AFH 11 (1918), 132-205; Albanus Heysse, ‘Ordinationes pro reformatione conventualium provinciae Franciae a Fr. Angelo Perusino ministro gen. publicatae Brugis, 25 Aprilis 1452’, AFH 27 (1934), 76-96; Antoine de Sérent, ‘Ange de Pérouse’, DHGE III, 30; H. Lippens, ‘Litterae Ministri generalis Angeli Perusini, S. Ioanni Capistranensi pro Observantibus datae 7 ian. 1451 et ab hoc vidimatae’, AFH 36 (1943), 128-131.

Angelus de Petrafitta (Angelo da Pietrafitta, d. c. 1699)

OFMRef. Sculptor

literature

Pamela Tartarelli, ‘L’attività artistica dello scultore riformato Fr. Angelo da Pietrafitta’, Miscellanea Francescana Salentina 16-17 (2000-2001), 125-153. 

Angelus de Piticone (16th cent.)

OFMConv. Italian friar, musician and musical theorist. Born in thee valley of Pizzighitone, near Cremona. Entered the order at the early age. In 1541, he became general procurator for his order. Wrote a treatise to prove that music is a scientifc discipline.

editions

Fior angelico di Musica nel quale si contengono alcune bellissime dispute contro quelli che dicono la musica non esser scienza, nuovamente dal R.P. Angelo da Piccitone conventuale dell’ordine minore, organista preclarissimo (Venice, 1547).

literature

Ossinger, Bibliotheca Augustiniana (Ingolstadt, 1768), 694; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1806), 44 & (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 470; F.-J. Fétis, Biographie universelle des musiciens (Paris, 1883) I, 107; Michael Bihl, ‘Ange de Picitone’, DHGE III, 32.

Angelus de Raconis (d. 1630)

OFMCap. French friar and former hugenot polemicist.  Escaped the murders of the Bartholomew night. Eventually converted to Catholicism and wrote in defense of the Catholic faith. Embassador of the French in London.

editions

Méthode pour convertir tous les hérétiques (1640).

Examen et jugement des hérétiques (Paris, 1644).

Angelus de Rieti (Angelo da Rieti, fl. early 13^th cent.)

Companion of Francis of Assisi

literature

Attilio Cadderi, Fra Angelo da Rieti Compagno di San Francesco (Roma (Frascati), 1996).

Angelus de Rieti (fl. later 13^th cent.)

Franciscan inquisitor in the Roman province and crusade preacher in many Italian regions. Died in July 1302. Author?

literature

Ughelli-Coleti, Italia Sacra (Venice, 1717) I, 1029, 1207; Bullarium Franciscanum, ed. H. Sbaralea (Rome, 1765) III, 516, 542, 544, IV, 15, 244, 341, 459, 475, 558; Eubel, Hierarchia I, 363, 416; Antoine de Sérent, ‘Ange de Rieti’, DHGE III, 32.

Angelus de Senis (Salvetti, d. 1423)

Lector of theology in Ferrara in 1396. Lector at the U. of Bologna before 1405. Vic. General of the order in 1408 (?). Guardian in Venice (1417), and provincial of Toscane (1419) (?). Minister general from 1421 till his death.

manuscripts

Sermonum duo Volumina>>

Quadragesimale de Legibus>>

Adnotationes in D. Bonaventurae Opera>>

Super Praedicamenta Aristotelis>>

Tractatus de Iudicio et Antichristo >> (inc: Tribus modis homines docuntur, exemplo, magisterio, flagello)

literature

Wadding, Annales Minorum (Rome, 1734) X, 52, 69, 122, 342; Wadding, Scriptores (ed. 1908), 21f; Sbaralea, Supplementum, I, 47; Glassberger, Chronica (ed. Quaracchi, 1887), 274; Bullarium Franciscanum, ed. Eubel (Rome, 1904) VIII, 559, 561, 599, 604, 618; Antoine de Sérent, ‘Ange de Sienne’, DHGE III, 36; B. Pergamo, AFH, 27 (1934), 29-30 (no. 112).

Angelus de Spoleto (fl. early fourteenth cent.)

Theologian

literature

Antoine de Sérent, ‘Ange de Spolète’, DHGE III, 37

Angelus de Spoleto (d. 1391)

Umbrian friar. Theologian and minister general (1379)

literature
Antoine de Sérent, ‘Ange de Spolète’, DHGE III, 37-38.

Angelus de Stargard>>?

Protocollum: Hamburg, Univ. Bibl. Cod. Hist. 89 (16th cent.) ff. 104r-122v

Angelus de St. Franciscus (Richard Mason, 1599-30 December 1678)

English friar from Wiltshire. Might have been from a Protestant background. In any case, he joined the Franciscan order in the Douai St. Bonaventure convent. There he made his profession in 1629. Became a well-regarded member of his community and took up several charges at the provincial level: visitator of franciscan houses in Brabant and provincial between 1659 and 1662. Subsequently, he became the chaplain of Lord Arundel at Wardour Castle, and became engaged in apostolic works. In 1675, he retired to the Douai convent, where he died three years later. Rather productive author.

editions

Certamen Seraphicum Provinciae Angliae pro Sancta Dei Ecclesia, in quo Breviter Declaratur Quomodo Fratres Minores Angli Calamo et Sanguine pro Fide Christi Sanctaque Eius Ecclesia Certarunt (Douai, 1649/Quaracchi, 1855).

Apologia pro Scoto Anglo, in qua Defenditur D.J. Pitseus in Sua Relatione de Loco Nativitatis P.J. Scoti (Douai, 1656).

Liturgical Discourse of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, 2 Vols. (Douai, 1669-1671). A shortened version of this work appeared in 1675.

>> additional works on the Rule of Franciscan Tertiaries.

literature

Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1806), 16; Marcellino da Civezza, Saggio di bibliografia sanfrancescana (Prato, 1879), 665-666; Thaddeus, The Franciscans in England, 1600-1850 (London, 1898), 108-109, 114, 182, 329 & passim; Gillow, Bibliographical Dictionary of the English Catholics IV, 518-522; L. Oliger, ‘Ange de Saint-Francois’, DHGE III, 35;...

Angelus Justinianus (Angelo Justiniani, 1520-1596)

OFM. Italian friar from Genoa. Bishop of Geneva.

literature

Fr. Perron, ‘Les évêques de Genève-Annecy de la Réforme à la fin du xixe siècle, 1536-1901’, Annesci 7 (1959), 35-37; DHGE XXI, 74-75; Helvetia Sacra (Basel, 1980) I-3, 247-248; Fr. Mugnier, Notes et documents inédits sur les évêques de Genève-Annecy (1535-1879) (Paris, 1988), 28-34

Angelus Lamberti (Angelo Lamberti/Angelo di Savona, d. 1675)

OFMCap. Historian.

literature

Gian Luigi Bruzzone, ‘Angelo Lamberti, cappuccino storiografo’, Padre Santo 87,4 (1998),  27-30.

Angelus Pauwens (fl. 17^th cent.)

OFMCap

literature

Hildebrand van Hooglede, ‘Polen en een paar Amsterdamsche Kapucijnen uit de XVII^e eeuw: P. Ludovicus en P. Angelus Pauwens’, in: Idem, Miscellanea II, 545-560.

Angelus Petriccia da Sonnino (17th cent.)

OFMConv. Friar from Sonnino (Campania). After his entrance in the Conventual branch, he was sent to the St. Bonaventure college at Rome (1628). His graduation as doctor of philosophy was speeded up, so thaat he could depart on behalf of the papacy a diplomatic mission on the Papal court of the Persian Shah. To this purpose, Angelo travelled to Constantinople, to wait there for the opportunity to continue his journey. Yet There he received orders from the Congregatio de Propaganda Fidei to travel to the prefecture of the Catholic missions for Moldavia, Walachia and Transsylvania. He worked there until 1633. Thereafter, he became provincial minister of Hungary, presiding in 1636 over the chapter of Pettau (Styria). Returning to Italy, he receives at Venice his appointment to the position of patriarchal vicar of Constantinople. At Constantinople, Angelo soon has conflicts with the Greek Patriaerch Cyrille Lucari, who, in turn, is supported by Calvinist spokesmen in the area. Angelo succeeds in overcoming the opposition of Lucari (who ends up being drowned in the Black Sea?), and has some influence in the election of the new Greek Patriarch, Cyrillus de Veria, who is hostile to the Calvinist legates. Angelo and Cyrillus de Veria negotiate a union betweeen the Greek and the Roman church, which is realised in 1638 (with the support of pope Urban VIII). During his charge at Constantinople, Angelo also holds discussions with Lutheran merchants, one fruit of which is his work Turris David. Returned to Rome after the election of pope Innocent X, Angelo teaches moral theology at the Santi Apostoli convent. He also maintains an advisory postion at the Congregatio de propaganda Fidei, involved with liturgical and ritual matters for the Greek church. On 29 September 1661, he is elected provincial for the Roman province at the chapter of Cività Castellana. Thereafter general procurator for the order (appointed at the general chapter of Rome, 1665. In this position, Angelo becomes involved with a process between the conventual friars of Naples and the town concerning a statue of St. Anthony, and has a stake in the beatification proces of the Poor Clare Salome of Poland (d. 1268). Angelo dies on 10 December 1673. 

manuscripts

Relatio Status Christianitatis Persae et Constantinopolis, Quae Obedit Summo Pontifici: MS Toledo>>>

Tractatus de Modo Expugnandi, Expellendique Turcas a Multis Regnis Quae in  Europa Detinent: MS Toledo>>>

editions

Disputationes in Logicam, Physicam et Metaphysicam Aristotelis (>>>>).

Turris David. De Ecclesia Militante, et Triumphante Adversus Haereses Nostri Temporis (Rome, 1647).

De Appellationibus Omnium Ecclesiarum ad Romanum Pontificem (Rome, 1649).

De Potestate Apostolorum Adversus Gabrielem Metropolitam Philadelphium. De Jure Potestatis. De Auctoritate Plebis in Ecclesiam Contra Blondellum (Rome, 1656).

De Nobilitate, Ejusque Origine et de Recta Forma Regnandi (Rome, 1658).

Pseudodogmatum Libra (Rome, 1661).

De Regno Christi contra Graecos, et Quosdam Haereticos, 2 Vols. (Rome, 1671).

literature

Waddding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1806), 18; Franchini, Bibliosofia di scrittori francescani conventuali (Modena, 1693), 43; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed, Rome, 1806), 43, 723; Benoffi, Dei procuratori generali dei minori (Pesaro, 1830), 39; M. Thorel, ‘Ange Petricca da Sonnino’, DHGE,III, 30-31

Angelus Tancredi (Angelo Tancredi, d. ca. 1258)

One of Francis’ first companions, close friend of francis and Clare. Involved with the Legenda Trium Sociorum.

literature

Analecta Franciscana (Quaracchi, 1906) IV, 193; Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1906), 22; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1908) I, 48; L. Oliger, ‘Ange Tancrède’, DHGE III, 38-39. 

Angelus Volpi de Montepeloso (17th cent.)

OFMConv. Studied at the St. Bonaventure college at Rome, where he obtained the doctorate. Taught theology at Assisi and therafter he became for 25 years the regent professor of the theology college in Naples. Two times visitator of education in the Kingdom of Naples. Also titular provincial of the Ireland province. He died on 19 march 1647 in Montepeloso. Scotist theologian. Published a theological summa along Scotist lines in 12 volumes between 1622 and 1646 (was not fully completed and several volumes eventually were placed on the Index)

editions

Sacrae Theologiae Summa Joannis Duns Scoti Doctoris Subtilissimi et Commentaria, 12 Vols. (Naples, 1622-1646).