Maffeus Vegio

>>De Vita et Obitu atque Officio B. Bernardini: Paris, BN, Lat. 3341 ff. 235-293v (an. 1506); Vita Sancti Bernardini Senensis, AASS Maii V.

Mahusius (Mahusius van Oudenaerde, fl. mid 16^th cent.)

Took part in the Council of Trent. Was appointed bishop of Deventer by Pius IV, at the recommendation of Philips II. Yet he was refused by the clergy of the diocese and by the urban authorities. Active editor of works by John Chrysostom, Bonaventure and Erasmus.

literature

Archief van het Aartsbisdom Utrecht 9 (1881), 123-132; Dirks, 68; W. Schmitz, Het aandeel der minderbroeders, 105-106.

Malachias Hibernicus (Malachy of Limerick, ca. 1300)

Irish friar, moral theologian and preacher. Produced a treatise De Veneno Septem Peccatorum Mortalium Eorumque Remedia, which has survived in at least 36 manuscripts (frequently together with Grosseteste’s De Oculo Morali). The work, meant ‘ad informare populum’ about the poision of sins, contains sixteen chapters [i.) Quod triplici ratione omne peccatum veneno comparatur; ii.) Triplex remedium contra peccatum in generali; iii.) De primordiali veneno peccati et principali, scilicet superbia; iv.) Triplex superbie remedium; v.) De veneno invidie; vi.) De triplici remedio invidiae et quibus invidia comparetur et quanta mala ex ea sunt orta; vii.) De veneno irae; viii.) Remedium contra iram; ix.) De veneno acidie; x.) De remedio acidie; xi.) De avaritie veneno; xii.) De remedio avaritie; xiii.) De veneno gule; xiv.) De remedio gule; xv.) De veneno luxurie; xvi.) De remedio luxuriae]. Aside from a systhematic treatment of the vices, the work also harbours a range of interesting (albeit merely fantastical and mytholigical) statements about Ireland and the moral inclinations of its people. According to the 1518 edition of the work, as well as according to Wadding and John Bale’s Index (Basel, 1559), 242-3, Malachy would have been master of theology at Oxford. There is no further evidence to support this. Malachy’s work shows a wide reading and a firm grounding in theology, yet refers almost exclusively to authors from before 1200 (Aside from the Bible and Augustine, Malachy cites for instance Pliny’s Historia Naturalis, Aristotle’s De Animalibus and Ethics, Avicenna, Isidore, Boetius, Papias’ Commentator super Boetium de Disciplina Scholarium. Seneca’s Epistulae, the Moralia and the Pastorale of Gregory the Great, works by Jerome, Ambrose, and Orosius, the Apologi of Aesop, Cicero’s De Officiis and De Tusculanis Quaestionibus, Martianus Capella, the Historia Alexandri Magni de Proeliis, works by Fulgentius, Beda, Dioscorides, Galen, Chrysostom, Valerius Maximus, the Physiologus, Bernard of Clairvaux’s Epistolae, Constantonus Africanus, and Alexander Nequam). This does not indicate a degree course in scholastic theology. Maybe, Malachy had followed a lectorate course or an equivalent form of theological education at one of the studia generalia (in Oxford or Cambridge) or at one of the more important custodial schools in the English province. Our friar probably should be identified with the franciscan friar Malachias of Limerick who in 1286 was in the picture for the position of Archbishop of Tuam [cf. Sbaralea Supplementum, I, 507 & Bullarium Franciscanum III (Rome, 1763), 573; Sweetman, Calendar of Documents relating to Ireland II (1877), 311-312, 340; Esposito, The English Historical Review 33 (1918), 362-3].

manuscripts

De Veneno (…): Augsburg, UB, Cod. II.1.2° 68 ff. 146ra-148va (an. 1448).>> A lengthy listing of the other MSS (36 in all) is given by Espito. Op. Cit., 364-366. The majority of these manuscripts was ascribed to more famous authors, such as Robert Grosseteste and John of Wales.

edition

F. Malachie Hibernici, ordinis minorum , doctoris theologie, strenui quondam divini verbi illustratoris necnon vitiorum obiurgatoris acerrimi Libellus, septem peccatorum mortalium venena eorumque remedia describens: qui dicitur Venenum Malachiae (Paris: In Officina Henrici Stephani, 1518)

Conciones>>?

literature

Wadding, Script., 168; Wadding, Annales Minorum VI, 198-199 (ad. an. 1310); Sbaralea, Suppl. (ed. 1921) II, 201; J. Bale, Index Britanniae Scriptorum, ed. R.L. Poole (Oxford, 1902), 286; Zawart, 309; M. Esposito, `Friar Malachy of Ireland’, The English Historical Review, 33 (1918), 359-366; E.B. Fitzmaurice & A.G. Little, Materials for the History of the Franciscan Province of Ireland (Manchester, 1920), 46, 56-58; R.J. Hayes, Manuscript Sources for the History of Irish Civilisation III (Dublin, 1965), 289-290; F. Cotter, The Friars Minor in England>>>

Malachias Tschamser (d. 1742)

OFMConv. In Thann, in the province of Strasbourg. Historian. Wrote an interesting order history, also filled with popular lore.

editions

Anales oder Jahres-Geschichten der Baarfüseren oder Minderen Brüdern S. Franc. Ord. insgemein Conventualen genannt, zu Thann (Colmar, 1864); Annales des Franciscaines de Thann au XVIIIe siècle ou Grande chronique (1701-1742) du frère Malachias Tschamser (Thann: Société d’Histoire ‘Les Amis de Thann’, 2001). [cf. AFH 95 (2002), 223f]

literature

Cl. Schmitt, `L'Italia Francescana vista dal cronista conventuale di Thann in Alsazia Malachias Tschamser (d. 1742)', Studi Francescani, 94 (3-4) (1997), 479-498; Clément Schmitt, ‘La cronique du conventuel Malachias Tschamser (d.1742): Son apport historique sur les Capucins’, in: Negotium fidei. Miscellanea di studi offerti a Mariano D’Alatri in occasione del suo 80°compleanno, ed. Pietro Maranesi, Bibliotheca seraphico-capuccina, 67 (Rome-Bravetta, 2002), 365-371.

Manfredus Vercellensis (Manfredo da Vercelli)

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literature

Daniele Solvi, ‘Il dialogo mancato. Il trattato di Manfredi da Vercelli contro i “fratres de opinione”’, Franciscana 2 (2000), 229-257; Daniele Solvi, ‘Dialogare ‘contro’ I Fraticelli. Manfredi da Vercelli e Giacomo della Marca’, Picenum Seraphicum 20 (2002), 49-74.

Manfredus de Tortona (Terdonensis; Dertonensis/ thirteenth century)

Franciscan friar, theologian and canonist. Pupil of Alexander of Hales and John of La Rochelle. Lector in Bologna. Took part in the Synod of Ravenna (March 1268). Author of the Polylogium de Expositione Vocabulorum Sacrae Scripturae, of biblical commentaries and of several penitential works.

manuscripts

Ferrara?

Comm. on Mt: Bologna, Conv.??

Summa de Casibus in Foro Poenitentiali ?:>>

Summa de modo Procedendi Contra Apostatos?:>>

Polylogium>>>

Summa/Summula/Tractatus de Restitutione Male Ablatorum: Toledo 22-31 ff.307v-312v

literature

Stegmüller, RB, III, 5447-5447,1; F.M. Henquinet, `Le canoniste fr. Manfroid de Tortona, O.F.M., disciple d’Alexandre de Hales et Jean de la Rochelle’, AFH, 33 (1940), 221.

Manuel Biedma (fl. late seventeenth cent.)

Franciscan friar from the Twelve Apostles province in Mexico. Was sent on missions into Peru (1663 and after). Worked there as a missionary among various Indian tribes. Also engaged in geographical and ethnographical explorations, founding several churches and missionary outposts in the process (such as Santa Bonaventura de Savini (1682). In the 1680s, he was asked by his superiors from Lima to lead a missionary and scientific mission into the Tambo and Ucalayi regions. Back in Lima, he composed an autobiographical and historical account of his journeys and missionary activities. On his return to the Tambo region, he was attacked by the Piros indians and died in July 1687.

editions

El Peru, ed. A. Raimondi (Lima, 1876).

literature

Joseph Skinner, The Present State of Peru (London, 1805), 444-449; J. Amich, Compendio histórico de los trabajos, fatigas, sudores y muertes que los ministros evangelicos de la serafica religion han padecido por la conversion de las almas de los gentiles en las montañas de los Andes, pertenecientes a las provincias del Perú (Paris, 1854); M. da Civezza, Storia universale delle missioni francescane (Florence, 1895) VII, 2nd part, 255; H. Holzapfel, Manuale Historiae Ordinis Fratrum Minorum (Freiburg i. Br., 1909), 460-461; B. Izaguirre, Historia de las misiones franciscanas y narracion de los progresos de la geografia en el oriente del Perú (Lima, 1922) I, 138-292; L. Lemmens, Geschichte der Franziskanermissionen (Munster, 1929), 292-293; A. Van den Wyngaert, ‘Biedma’, DHGE VIII, 1426-1427; B.H. Slicher van Bath, De bezinning op het verleden in Latijns Amerika 1493-1820. Auteurs, verhalen en lezers (Groningen, 1998), passim.

Manuel Carvajal (fl. c. 1700)

OFM. Member of the Andalucia province.

literature

AIA 21(1924), 207; AIA 25 (1926), 241; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de ArchivoIbero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 99 (no. 204).

Manuel da Ilha(fl. c. 1630)

Franciscan historian, active in Latin America

literature

B.H. Slicher van Bath, De bezinning op het verleden in Latijns Amerika 1493-1820. Auteurs, verhalen en lezers (Groningen, 1998), passim

Manuel de Anduaga (fl. later 17^th cent.)

OFMDisc. Member of the San Diego province (Mexico).

literature

José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica, 11 Vols. (Madrid, 1960-1976), V, nos. 267,2750-2754; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas,Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 84

Manuel de Arceniega (d. 1796?)

OFMDisc. Friar of the San José province.Ascetical author.

literature

AIA19 (1923), 315; AIA 21 (1924), 322-323; AIA 29 (1928), 235-236; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 88 (no. 118).

Manuel de Argüello (fl. c. 1700)

OFM. Preacher in the Santo Evangelio province in Mexico.

literature

AIA15 (1955), 229-230; José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica, 11 Vols. (Madrid, 1960-1976) V, nos. 468, 473, 4277-4308; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 88 (no. 123).

Manuel de Harco Portillo (Manuel de Harce y Portillo, fl. c. 1770)

OFM. Preacher and canonist in the Burgos province.

literature

AIA38 (1935), 365-367; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 127 (no. 400).

Manuel de Jean (1676-1739)

OFMCap. Spanish friar. Took the habit at Alcala de Henares on 4 June 1697. Wrote a range of confessional, historical, and meditational works that had considerable success.

literature 

DSpirX, 233-234.

Manuel de Monzabal (fl. c. 1680)

OFM. Friar from the Concepción province.

literature

AIA 26 (1926), 189-190; AIA 17 (1957), 547-548.

Manuel de Sobreviela (fl. late 18th cent.)

Franciscan author, active in Latin America

literature

B.H. Slicher van Bath, De bezinning op het verleden in Latijns Amerika 1493-1820. Auteurs, verhalen en lezers (Groningen, 1998), passim.

Manuel de Najera (fl. later 18^th cent.)

OFM. Mexican friar.

literature

AIA25 (1926), 211; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 153 (no. 604).

Manuel de Sancto Ludovico (Manuel de S. Luis/Manoel de S. Luís, d. 1742)

OFMObs. Portuguese friar

literature

Manuel Cândido Pimentel, ‘Frei Manoel de S. Luís, escritor e orador açoriano dos sécolos XVII-XVIII (1669-1736)’, Rev. Portug. Filos. 52 (1996), 667-690.

Manuel de Sancto Martino (Manuel de San Martín, fl. c. 1670)

OFMDisc. Preacher of the San José province.

literature

AIA22 (1962), 364-365; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 144 (no. 539).

Manuel Espino (fl. later 18^th cent.)

OFM. Member of the Andalucia province.

literature

AIA21 (1924), 81-82; AIA 15 (1955), 278; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 110 (no. 286 & no.290).

Manuel González (fl. c. 1708)

OFM. Preacher in the Santiago province.

literature

AIA 12(1919), 432-434; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 122 (no. 370).

Manuel Guardiola y Rueda (fl. c. 1760)

OMDisc. Preacher in the S. Pascual Bailón custory (Murcia).

literature

AIA 27 (1927), 137-138; AIA 20 (1960), 132; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 124 (no. 383).

Manuel Joseph de Villegas (fl. early 17th cent.)

Franciscan author, active in Latin America…

literature

B.H. Slicher van Bath, De bezinning op het verleden in Latijns Amerika 1493-1820. Auteurs, verhalen en lezers (Groningen, 1998), passim

Manuel Maria de Sanlucar (Manuel Maria de Sanlúcar  de Barrameda,1781-1851)

OFMCap. Missionary

literature

Carlos García Cortés, ‘Fray Manuel M^a de Sanlúcar de Barrameda (1781-1851) misionero capuchino autor espiritual y obispo auxiliar de Compostela (Hacia un catálogo completo de sus escritos)’, Archivo Ibero-Americano 60 (2000), 307-336 & Compostellanum 45 (2000), 783-812.

Manuel Navarrete (d. 1802)

OFM Mexican friar and poet. Working in the San Pedro y San Pablo province.

literature

AIA 15 (1955), 365; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 153 (no. 608).

Manuel Negrete (fl. ca. 1800)

OFM. Provincial in the Andalucia province.

literature

AIA21 (1924), 79-80; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 154 (no. 619).

Manuel Trujillo (Manuel María Trujillo y Jurado, fl. late 18^th cent.)

OFM. Friar from the Granada province. Bishop of Albarracín between 1792 and 1800.

literature

AIA 21 (1924), 342-344; AIA 12 (1952), 451-457; AIA 15 (1955), 464; Manuel de Castro,Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 186 (no. 841).

Manuel Pérez de Quiroga (fl. early eighteenth cent.)

OFM Obs. Spanish friar and Scotist theologian. Lector at the Valladolid convent and author of several Scotist theologcal works in which he confronts Dominican viewpoints, as well as (in his opinion) dissenting Scotist opinions, like those presented by Bartholomaeus Mastrius et.al..

editions

Disputationes theologicae in primum librum sententiarum ad mentem doctoris subtilis Ioannis Duns Scoti, 3 Vols. (Segovia-Valladolid, 1704 - 1708).

Disputationes theologicae in secundum librum sententiarum ad mentem doctoris subtilis Ioannis Duns Scoti (Valladolid, 1715).

Disputationes theologicae in tertium librum sententiarum ad mentem doctoris subtilis Ioannis Duns Scoti, 3 Vols. (Valladolid 1709 - 1714).

Quaestiones theologicae selectae ad mentem doctoris subtilis Ioannis Duns Scoti(Valladolid, 1716).

Bellum de sanguine Christi (Valladolid, 1721).

Domestica bella philosophica (Valladolid, 1721).

Varia argumenta theologica (Valladolid, 1721).

Vera axiomatum explicatio (Valladolid, 1723).

Manuel Rodríguez (1546-1613, Salamanca)

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editions

Exposición de la Bula de la santa cruzada (Salamanca, 1599)

Summa de casos de conciencia (Salamanca, 1594)

Quaestiones Regulares et Canonicae, 2 Vols (Salamanca, 1598-1600)

Nova Collectio et Compilatio Privilegiorum Apostolicorum Regularium Mendicantium et non Mendicantium (Salamanca, 1605)

literature

P. Borges, `Rodriguez, Manuel’, Diccionario de Historia de la Iglesia de España(Madrid, 1973), 2103.

Marcel Ribadeneira (fl. early 17^th cent.)

OFM. Member of the Santiago province. Missionary in Japan and historian.

literature

Manuel de Castro, ‘Fr. Marcelo de Ribadeneira, OFM, vida y escritos’, AIA 38 (1978), 181-240; Manuel de Castro,Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 169 (no. 717).

Marcellianus Dalhover (ca. 1655-1707)

OFMRef.

literature

Manfred Knedik, ‘Dalhover (Dalhofer), Marcellian, ref.’, Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon XX, 355-357.

Marcellianus von Auer (Marzellianus von Auer, fl. first half 18^th cent.)

OFMCap.

literature

Johannes Vogt vom Kreuz, Gründliche Glaubenslehre von P. Marzellianus von Auer OFMCap. Aus Waging (Waging am See, 1998). Cf. Bote Tirol. Kap. 82 (1999), 35.

Marcellinus Brugensis (Marcel van Brugge/Marcellien de Bruges/Juan Pardo, c. 1580-29november 1637)

OFMCap. Born at Bruges (Belgium) in a Spanish family. Novice master and Dutch/Flemish spiritual author. Especially known for his work Dit is een geestelijc pepelken and for his translations of mysticalworks of John of the Cross.

literature

Franciscaansch Leven 14 (1931), 205-212; Franciscaansch Leven 16 (1933), 17-24, 239-247; DSpir V, 1382-1385; P. Hildebrand, De kapucijnen in de Nederlanden en het prinsbisdom Luik,10 Vols. (Antwerp, 1945-1956), passim; K. Porteman, Verslagen en Mededelingen van de Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde (Amsterdam, 1973), 103-186; Ephemerides Carmeliticae 26 (1975), 252-254; DSpir X, 295-296.

Marchesinus de Regio Lepidi (Marchesio da Reggio/Johannes Marchesinus, fl. later 13^thcent)

Italian friar from Reggio. Joined the order in the Bologna province and was predominantly active in the Ferrara custody. Probably received a lectorate training at the Bologna Studium Generalein the early 1270s. According to archival documents lector at Imola in 1275, thereafter possibly lector in Faventia (1280) and designated lector in Bologna (See AF IX, Quaracchi, 1927, 58,n. 158 & 584 (n. 1154)). Later sources sometimes call him ‘Giovanni Marchesini’, but medieval sources do not include the given name ‘Giovanni’ (first traceable use of ‘Giovanni’ is in Fulvio Azzari, Compendio dell'historie della città di Reggio, Reggio Emilia: Bartoli, 1623), hence it is possibly apocryphical. Marchesino is the author of a series of De Temporesermons as well as a cycle of sermons for the feast days of Franciscan saints. He also wrote treatises on the punishments of hell and on vices, a Centiloquium (once attributed to Bonaventure), and the (in)famous biblical dictionary known as the Mammotreptus/ Mamotractus/ Mammotrepton, whic halso is known as the Opusculum de accentibus verborum, de orthographia, de interpretibus Sacrae Scripturae, de modo eam exponendi, et de dignitate ejusdem (For an explanation of the name Mammotreptus (the nourishment, nourisher) see the article of Teetaert mentioned below, which traces the name back to passages in Augustine’s Enarrationes in PsalmosXXX or to a passage in Papias Grammaticus. Cf. also Du Cange, Glossarium ad Scriptores Mediae et Infimae LatinitatisIV, 362). The Mammotreptus, written between 1279 and 1297, was meant to be an adequate introduction to the Bible, exegetical methods and the use of biblical materials for preaching. It was geared to the needs of young friars going through the (sub)provincial Franciscan school network after their noviciate training. It probably is very representative for the character and level of teaching in custodial schools. In that sense, the Mammotrectus probably is one of the most important Franciscan school texts for sub-provincial education. The Mammotreptus consists of three parts, the first of which contains information on matters concerning biblical ortography and pronuncation (from Genesis to the Apocalypse). Part two gives word explanations related to liturgical matters and feasts of saints. It also contains an explicatio regulae. The third part contains information on Hebrew months, feasts and the vestments of the Jewish clergy. The Mammotreptus was hugely popular in the later medieval period. Yet another work once ascribed to Marchesino and also disseminated as a work of Bonaventure, namely a Confessionale, probably should be ascribed to a certain friar Gosselinus, about whom nothing else is known.

manuscripts

Mammotreptus: many manuscripts, a.o. MSS Florence, Bibl. Naz. A.6.1792; Florence, Bibl. Laurenz. S. Croce Sin.7; Naples, Bibl. Naz. V.C.32; VII.A.30; XII.F.11 ff. 154v-200d; Prague, National Museum, XII C 7 [Prologus in Mammetractum]; Prague, National Museum XIII C 14 [Mammotractus et Lucianus]; Prague, National Museum XIII C 16 ff. 169-225; Prague, National Museum XIII D 11 ff. 304-411; Prague, National Museum, MS XVI D 7 [3683] ff. 2-111 [Mamotraktbiblik. Like MS XIII C 14 together with the Lucianus of Henricus de Ratisbona. See on these Prague MSS Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum musei nationalis pragensis, pars prior: Codices bohemicos complectens, ed. F.M. Bartós (Prague, 1926) & Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum musei nationalis pragensis, pars secunda: codices praeter bohemicos, orientales, palaeoslavicos complectens, ed. F.M. Bartós (Prague, 1927)]; Klosterneuburg, Stiftsbibliothek 192; BAV Vat.Lat. >> [cf. A. pelzer, Codices Vatic. Latini II.a.: Codices 679-1134 (Rome, 1931), 619-620]; Assisi, Bibl. Comm. cod. 488; Madrid, Nac., 148 (thirteenth cent., with tabulae on ff. 96a-110v) [Castro, Madrid, no. 17] (see Stegmüller); Nürnberg, Stadtbibl. Theol. Cent. I.28 (an. 1431); Florence, Med. Laurenz. Calci 27 ff. 1ra-254vb; Vienna, Österr. Landesbibl. 3946 (an. 1425); Besançon, Bibl. Mun. 22 (1458); Hamburg, S. Petrus Kirche MS Jacobi 16 ff. 206r-313r (15th cent.) &MS Jacobi 17 ff. 1r-106v (14th cent.). [Work consists of three main parts. The first provides explanations for difficult biblical words and passages; the second contains a series of digressions on orthography, the accents of Latin words, the seven feasts of the Old Law, the clothing of priests, principles of exegesis and translation, divination, the names of God according to the Hebrews, the qualities and properties of Scripture, and a short treatise on the four main eucumenical councils; the third part deals in more details with liturgical books and related materials (de responsoriis et antiphonis, de hymnis, de legendis sanctorum, de sermonibus et homiliis de communi sanctorum et domenicalibus). The whole work closes with an exposition of the Franciscan rule].

Centiloquium. For manuscripts, see Bonaventura, Opera Omnia (Quaracchi,1891), V, prolegomena, xlviii-xlix, liii). This work is alo printed in older Opera Omnia collections of Bonaventure, such as the edition of Jehan petit (Paris 1510) and Van Os (Zwolle, 1480).

Sermones fr. Marchesini super omnia festa nostri kalendarii, id est ordinis fr. Minorum: MS Todi, S. Fortunatus, 129.

Sermones Mammotrecti super dominicas a 1a adventus ad 24am post pentecostem (inc. "Veniet desideratus... karissimi hodie incipimus illud sacrum tempus"): MS Bamberg Staatsbibliothek MS misc. theol. 156 [Cf.F. Leitschuh, Katalogus der Handschriften der königlichen Bibliothek zu Hamberg (Hamberg, 1895-1906), I, 739.]

Tractatus de Poenis Peccatorum diversimode Nuncupatis: Assisi Bibl. Comunale 488ff. 3-43 [inc.: Pena debita peccatori nunc censetur nomine perditionis ettermine…’expl: ‘Non parcas tue verecundie et confusioni, ut Deus parcat tue malitie et transgressioni. Amen. Explicit utile opus de poenis peccatorum editum a fr. Marchesino, lectore ordinis minorum.’]

Opus de Vitiis: MS Assisi, Bibl. Commun. 488. ff. 59-130. [inc.: ‘Incipit opus de vitiis a fr. Marchesino compositum (…) De superbia est loquendum quantum ad causam defectivam. Oritur enim superbia ex stoliditate intellectus.’]

Spurious: Confessionale (inc.:"In dei tabernaculo”): a.o. MSS Munich, Bayer. Staatsbibliothek, lat 6023 (attributed to fr. Gosselinus); St. Gallen, 789 (mentions in the explicit: ‘Explicit libellus de simplici informatione simplicium sacerdotum in confessionibus audiendis; nomine Go^elinus, conscriptus et completus a fr. Ulrico de Ahusen, sacerdote ordinis S. Johannis sacrosanctae domus hospitalis jerosalimitanae anno dominicae incarnationis, 1000° 300° 15°, indictione 13…’); Klosterneuburg Stiftsbibliothek St. Augustin 323; Stuttgart, Würtemb. Landesbibl. HBI 164 ff. 128ra-139vb. For more information, see Bonaventura, Opera Omnia (Quaracchi, 1891), VIII, prolegomena cxi & x, p. 23).

editions

Mammotreptus (Munster, 1470 ed. Helias Hélie de Lauffen). Many editions followed in the late 15^thand 16^th centuries. See for instance Mammotrectus/Dictionarium Vocabulorum (Mayence, 1470/ Metz, 1509/Paris, 1510 & 1521 etc.) Cf. Hain, Repertorium n. 10551-10574. Many of these old editions contain only parts, and more often than not do not correspond closely with the materials found in the earliest manuscripts. A new critical edition is very necessary.

Centiloquium, edited in Bonaventura, Opera Omnia (Venice, 1596). Printed as well in several other old editions of Bonaventure’s Opera Omnia. See on this the info in Bonaventura, Opera Omnia (Quaracchi, 1891), V, prolegomena, xlviii-xlix, liii).

Confessionale, edited in Bonaventura,Opera Omnia (Venice, 1564). Also printed in other Opera Omniaeditions (such as (Strasbourg, 1495/Venice, 1504/ Rome, 1596 and the Peltier edition). For info see Bonaventura, Opera Omnia (Quaracchi, 1891), VIII, prolegomena cxi & x, p. 23.

Opera, ed.Jacobus Pontius de Leuco (Venetië,1596).

literature

Wadding, Scriptores, 247-248 (ed. 1806 p. 166)); Sbaralea, Suppl.,II, 204-205; C. Oudin, Comment. De Scriptoribus Ecclestiasticis, III (Leipzig, 1722), 2562-2563; H. Hürter, Nomenclator Litterarius Theologiae, II, 3^rd ed. (Oeniponte, 1903-1913), 414-415; S. Berger, La Bible au XVIe siècle (Paris, 1879), 15-28; Idem, De Glossariis et Compendiis Exegeticis Quibusdam Medii Aevi (Paris, 1879); L. Oliger, in: Antonianum, 7 (1932), 438-439, 499; A. Kleinhans, in: Antonianum, 7 (1932), 438-439; A. Teetaert, ‘Reggio (Marchesinus de)’, Dictionnaire de Théologie Catholique, XIII-2 (Paris, 1937), 2102-2104. L. Messedaglia, `Varietà e curiosità folenghiane. Serie prima. VI.I `Mamotreti 'mostri infernali', in: Atti dell' Accademia Pontaniana, n.s., 2 (1948-49), 160-163; Frans van Liere, Medieval Perspectives 18 (2003); Martin Germann,‘Mittelalterliche Hilfsmittel zum Bibelstudium: wie benutzte man eine karolingische Glossenhandschrift und den ‘Mammotrectus’?, Beromünster, 1470)’, Librarium 47 (2004), 134-148.

With thanks to: Dr. Frans van Liere, Department of History, Calvin College, 1845 Knollcrest Circle SE

Marcus [fra Marco] (

Minderbroeder uit Venetië, auteur van een Chronicon, een stadskroniek over de geschiedenis van Venetië en omstreken.

edities:

>>Elisa Paladin??

literatuur:

Elisa Paladin, 'Osservazioni sulla inedita cronaca veneziana di Marco.' Atti dell' Istituto veneto. 128 (1970) 429-461; F. Fossier, `La ville dans l’historiographie franciscaine de la fin du xiiie et du début du xive siècle’, MEFRM, 89 (1977), 641-655.

MarcusAntonius Capelli

OFMConv. Born at Este (Italy). Entered the Conventuals in the Milan province. Became master of theology, and taught at Udine and Padua. When pope Paul V placed the Venetian republic under interdict in 1606, Marco took up the defense of Venice in a series of publications. Later, pressured by the ecclesiastical authorities, and possibly disappointed by some of the policies of Venice, Marco retracted and sought reconciliation with the pope. Marco’s submission was accepted. He received the position of qualificator of the Santo Officio, and the curia lobbied with the Conventuals to bestow on Marco the title of provincial of the Oriental province. Thereafter, Marcobecame a very vocal spokesman for papal authority.

manuscripts/editions 

Trattato dell’interdetto (…) nel quale si dimostra che egli non è legitimamente pubblicato (Venice, 1606). Marco wrote this work in collaboration with several other theologians. A Latin version of this work appeared in Frankfurt a.M (Germany) in 1607.

Parere delle controversie tra il sommo Pontefice Paolo V e la serenissima republica di Venetia (Venice, 1606).

Risposta al discorso del P. Teol. Lelio piacentino sopra le ragioni de’signori Veneziani intorno all’interdetto di Paolo V (Venice, 1606).

Lettera del P. Antonio Possevino gesuita al P. maestro M.-A. Capello min. conventuale, con la risposta di detto padre (Venice, 1606). This work was also included in the Collectio Scripturarum Super Controversia inter Paulum V et Venetos II, 239.

Le mentite filoteane, ovvero Invettiva di Giovanni Filoteo d’Asti contra le serenissima republica di Venezia, confutata da Fulgentio Tomaselli filosofo albanese chiamato alias il Capeletto, a favore della istessa serenissima republica (Padua, 1607).

De Absoluta omnium Rerum Sacrarum Immunitate a Potestate Principum Laicorum ex Lege Naturae, Moysis et Christi ad Paulum V: MS BAV Barber. 426. In this work, Marco retracted his former positions. The same Vatican manuscript apparently contains other works by Marco.

Adversus Praetensum Primatum Ecclesiasticum Regis Angliae(Bologna, 1610/Cologne, 1611).

Disputationes Duae: Prior de Summo Pontificatu B. Petri, Posterior de Successione Episcopi Romani in Eumdem Pontificatum, Adversus Anonymos Duos, Alterum Cui Titulus, Papatus Romanus, Alterum de Suburbicariis Regionibus et Ecclesiis, seu de Praefectura et Episcopi Urbis Romae Dioecesi, Coniectura(Cologne, 1620).

De Appellationibus Ecclesiae Africanae ad Romanam Sedem (Paris, 1622). A revised version by the author appeared in the  Bibliotheca Maxima Pontificia (Rome, 1698/3^rd ed. Rome, 1722) XVI. This work was also published, together with a Protestant refutation, in Christoforus Pfaffius, Introductio in Historiam Literariam III, 40-174.

Ragionamento funebre per l’esequie di Lucrezia Tomaselli, duchessa di Paliano(Rome, 1623).

Regole di S. Agostino, S. Benedetto e S. Chiara dichiarate co’ decreti del concilio di Trento (Bologne, 1623).

De Coena Christi Suprema, deque Praecipuis Eius Vitae Capitalibus Dissertatio Adversus Aegyptium Authorem Anni Primitivi (Paris, 1625).

literature

Wadding, Annales Ordinis Minorum (ed. Quaracchi, 1934) XXIV, 219-220, XXV, 264, 423-424, 479, XXVI, 484; Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1906), 25 (under Antonius Capelli); Sbaralea,Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1921) II, 205-206; DThCat II, 1683-1684; DHGE XI, 852-853.

Marcus de Alcala (Marco de Alcalá, fl. c. 1730)

OFMDisc. Provincial order historian in the San José province.

literature

AIA21 (1924), 307-312; AIA 32 (1929), 363; AIA 22 (1962), 239-243.

Marcus de Aviano (Carlo Domenico Cristofori, 1631-1699)

OFMCap. Italian friar. Entered the Capuchin order on 21 November 1648. Almoner in the Christian armies that fought the Turcs.. Important spiritual author>>>

vitae

Cosmo da Castelfranco, Vita di Marco’d’Aviano, frate cappuccino, e Appunti di Viaggi, ed. & trans. Mary Cusin Frattin & Paolo Miotto’ saggi introduttivi Giacinto Cecchetto & Paolo Miotto (Castelfranco Veneto: Parochia del Duomo, 2005) [review in CF 75 (2005), 760-766 & Il Santo 45/3 (2005), 786-787.].

literature

M. Héyret, P. Markus von Aviano O.M.Cap., Apostolischer Missionär und päpstlicher Legat beim christlichen Heere. Zur Erinnerung an die dritte Jahrhundert-Feier seiner Geburt (Munich, 1931); M. Héyret, ‘Die gedruckten Schriften des Marcus von Aviano und deren Verbreitung’, Collectanea Franciscana 10 (1940), 29-65, 219-238, 494-509; A. Coreth, ‘Unbekannte Briefe P. Marco d’Avianos am P. Gabriel Pontifeser aus Klausen’, Mitteilungen des Oesterreichischen Staatsarchiv 9 (1956), 23-47; Positio Super Virtutibus (Rome, 1966);DSpir X, 264-265; Servus Gieben, ‘Die‘letzte Predigt’ des P. Markus von Aviano. Augsburg, 18 November 1680’, Collectanea Franciscana 49 (1979),>>>>; Marco d'Aviano e il suo tempo. Un cappuccino del seicento, gli Ottomani e l'Impero, ed. Ruggero Simonata (Pordenone, 1994); Vindobonen. seu Venetiarum, beatificationis et canonizationis venerabilis Servi Dei Marci ab Aviano (in saec: Caroli Dominici Cristofori) sacerdotis professi Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum (1631-1699). Positio super miraculo, Congregatio de Causis Sanctorum P.N. 435 (Rome, 1997); Peter Nissen, ‘Gebed, berouw en volksvermaak. Het optreden van pater Marcus van Aviano in Roermond in 1681’, Spiegel van Roermond (1997), 19-35; Marco d’Aviano, Gorizia e Gradisca. Dai primi studi all’evangelizzazione dell’Éuropa. Raccolti di studi e documenti dopo il Convegno storico-spirituale del 14 ottobre(Gorizia, 1998) [Cf. review in CF68 (1998), 719-721.]; Marco d’Aviano, Prediger und Diplomat. Katalog der 238. Wechsel­ausstellung der Wiener Stadt- und Landesbibliothek im Wiener Rathaus Juni-Dezember 2000, ed. Johanna Pisa, Isabella Wasner-Peter & Walter Obermaier (Wien, Rathaus, Stadtbibliothek, 2000); Francesco Basaldella, L’abito fa o non fa il monaco? Due figure del Seicento veneto. Marco d’Aviano e Mariano da Venezia. Con cenni storici su Aviano e del suo castello, Quaderno di cultura giudecchina, 14 (Venezia, 2000); Vincenzo Criscuolo, ‘Markus von Aviano, Christophorus und Retter Europas (1631-1699)’,in: Faszinierende Gestalten, 11-34; Hildebrand van Hooglede, ‘Marcus van Aviano te Mechelen (1681)’, in: Idem, Miscellanea II, 1014-1028; Hildebrand van Hooglede, ‘Marcus van Aviano te Antwerpen (1681)’, in: Idem, Miscellanea II, 1030-1044; Venanzio Renier, ‘Vicepostulazione/2: p. Marco d’Aviano’, Atti Prov. Veneta Fr. Min. Cap. 78 (2000), 182-194; Pietro Zarrella, ‘Padre Marco d’Aviano missionario e operatore di pace’, Campania Serafica 33:6 (2001), 8-10; Padre Marco d’Aviano e il suo tempo. Il Seicento e la spiritualità di Marco d’Aviano. Atti del corso di aggiornamento insegnanti, Pordenone, 26-27 novembre 1999 (Pordenone: Comitato P. Marco d’Aviano, 2002); Arturo Basso, Beato Marco d’Aviano. Dare un’anima all’Europa. Profilo biografico riveduto e corretto da Venanzio Renier (Padua, 2003); Die Bedeutung des P. Markus von Aviano für Europa, ed. Jan Mikrut (Vienna, 2003); Bernard Dompnier, ‘Strategia pastorale e spiritualità alla fine del XVII secolo. La predicazione di Marco d’Aviano tra invito alla penitenza e diffusione di devozioni’, in: Un castellano in Europa. Padre Cosmo da Castelfranco, cappuccino (1647-1715) compagno e biografo del Beato Marco d’Aviano. Atti del Convegno di studi (Castelfranco Veneto: Parroccchia del Duomo, 2005), 81-110; Venanzio Renier, Beato Marco d’Aviano [d. 1699]. Il suo contributo all’opera del Beato Innocenzo XI in difesa della cristianità in Europa, ed. Guliana V. Fantuz (Venezia-Mestre: Prov. Veneta dei Fratu Cappuccini-Comitato P. Marco d’Aviano, 2005); Cosmo da Castelfranco, Vita di Marco d’Aviano, frate cappuccino, e Appunti di Viaggi, ed. Mary Cusin Frattin & Paolo Miotto (Castelfranco Veneto (TV): Parocchia del Duomo, 2005). See CF 75 (2005), 760-766; Il Santo 45 (2005), 786f; Cesare Mozzarelli, ‘La corte, il Consiglio e la Grazia. Riflessioni sulla politica seicentesca in margine al caso di padre Marco’d’Aviano’, in: Tra terra e cielo. Studi su religione, identità e società moderna (Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 2005); Sebastiano Esposito, ‘Un gesuito napoletano del ‘600 chiede l’intervento di Marco d’Aviano in difesa dell’Immacolata Concezione’, Immaculata Mediatrix 5 (2005), 383-392.

Marcus de Bocanegra (Marcus Jaramillo de Bocanegra, fl. early 18^th cent.)

OFM. Preacher in the San Francisco de Michoacán province.

literature

AIA15 (1955), 491; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 131 (no. 443).

Marcus de Bononia (Marco da Bologna, fl. 15^th cent.), beatus

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literature

Celestino Piana, Il beato Marco da Bologna e il suo convento di S. Paolo in Monte nel quattrocento (Bologna, 1973 [also appeared in Atti e Memorie della Deputazione di storia patria per le provincie di Romagna II, n.s. 22 (1971). 

Marcus de Broduno (1590-1660)

Friar in the S. Bernardine province. Entered the order in 1608. Provincial minister between 1644 and 1648. Confessor of the Clares of Béziers, for whom he wrote several spiritual works. Some of these works apparently are still available in the Béziers convent. Other spiritual works are found in Avignon, Bibliothèque du Musée Calvet. Marcus is also known as a polemicist and chronicler. Parts of his chronicle (containing info on the Recollect reformation) survived in the historical works of Césaire Cambin.

manuscripts

meditations/sermons: Avignon, Musée Calvet 350

Devotion au très saint mystère de la filiation (…):Avignon, Musée Calvet 1850

Vie exemplaire du dévot et vertueux frère Yves de la Roque: Avignon, Musée Calvet 2140

>> other devotional works in the Béziers convent>>>

literature

P. Péano, `Les Chroniques et les débuts de la réforme des Récollets dans la Province de Provence', AFH, 65 (1972), 157-224; Catalogue général des Manuscrits des Bibliothèques publiques de France, Départements, XXVII (Paris, 1894), 271 & XXVIII (Paris, 1895),162 & 304.

Marcus de Lissabon (Marco de Lisboa/Marco de Betania, ca. 1511-1591)

OFMRec and bishop of Porto after 1581. Born in Lisbon as the son of Salvador Luis da Silva (mother’s name unknown). Received initial schooling in Latin at Lisbon and entered the Franciscan order at the age of 16, taking his profession at the St. Christina friary (Tentugal, near Coïmbra). Shortly thereafter, he was given the position of order historian, which resulted in the three-volume Chronista general da ordem dos frades menores do seraphico Padre San Francisco. Marcus was on good terms with King Sebastião and accompanied him to Africa in 1574. When the bishop of Miranda Antonio Pinheiro displeased the King with one of his sermons and offered to step down, the King wanted Marco for this episcopal see. This fell through when Antonio Pinheiro decided to stay on. Not long thereafter, the King offered Marco the episcopal see of Porto (vacant since the death of Simão de Sá Pereira (1581)). Marco received his appointment on November 1st 1581 and was consecrated on 21 January 1582 in the church of Saint Francis in Lisbon. Once he was properly installed in the diocese in Spring 1582, he re-organised the parish structure and embarked on a significant building program. In order to implement the disciplinary decrees of the Council of Trent, he organised a diocesan synod in February 1585. Marco died on September 3, 1591, and was buried in the Nostra Senhora da Saude chapel, built by him in the Porto Cathedral.

editions

Primeira parte das Chronicas da ordem dos frades menores do seraphico Padre San Francisco (Lisbon, 1556); Segunda parte das Chronicas a ordem dos frades menores do seraphico Padre San Francisco (Lisbon, 1562); Tercera parte de las Chronicas da ordem dos frades menores (Salamanca, 1570 (In a Castilian version)). Crónicas da Ordem dos Frades Menores. Primeira parte – Segunda parte – Terceira parte, Ed. Anastatica Lisbon 1614/1615/1615, Ed. Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Fontes et Monumenta, I-III (Porto: Universidade do Porto MMI, 2001). For a German version of this whole work, see: Cronicken der eingesetzten Orden deß heiligen Vatters Francisci (…), III Vols. (München, 1620). An Italian version appeared as: Cronache degli Ordini Instituiti dal P. S. Francesco, III Vols. (Venice, 1581/Naples, 1680); [cf. Collectanea Franciscana 72 (2002), 409-411; Frate Francesco 69 (2003), 635-640]

Translation: Exercicio a uma devota meditacão da vida e paixão de Nosso Senhor Jesus Christo (Vizeo, 1571).

Translations:Tratado do seraphico doutor S. Boaventura chamado a perfeição da Vida; Tratado do mesmo santo, em forma breve para ensino de noviços na religião; Um breve A B C spiritual do mesmo santo (Lisbon, 1572).

Livro insigne das horas e perfeicae sãos vidas dos gloriosos santos do Velho e Novo Testamento (Lisbon, 1579).

Constituições synodaes do bispado do Porto (Coimbra, 1585). These constitutions reflected the decisions of his reform synod held in 1585.

Vida de santa Coleta>>

literature

Rodrigo da Cunha, (Porto, 1623); Wadding, Scriptores, 212f; Fortunato de Almeida, Historia da Igreja em Portugal (Coïmbra, 1917) III, 2ndpart>>>; Andrés Ivars, ‘Una versión castellana de la vida de santa Coleta, por el P. Marcos de Lisboa’, AIA 20 (1923), 124-133 & AIA 21 (1924), 385-390; A. Pimenta, ‘Bethania (Marcos de)’, DHGE VIII (1935), 1245-1246; M. de Olivieria, in: LThK, 7 (1962), 13-14; DSpir X, 272-274; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed.Cisneros, 1982), 139 (no. 497); Quandos frades faziam história. De Marcos de Lisboa a Simao de Vasconcellos, ed. José Adriano de Freitas Carvalho, Via Spiritus. Anexos, 5 (Porto CIUHE, 2001); Frei Marcos de Lisboa: cronista franciscano ebispo do Porto. Actas do Colóquio patrocinado por la Facultade de Letras do Porto, Série ‘Linguas e Literaturas’, 12 (Porto: Centro Interuniversitario de Historia da Espiritualidade – Istituto de Cultura Portuguesa, 2002) [With interesting essays by José Adriano de Freitas Carvalho, Giuseppe Bestini, Zulmira C. Santos, Agustí Boadas Llavat, Bernard Dompnier, Pedro Vilas Boas Tavares, Felice Accrocca, Jacobo Sanz Hermida, Roberto Rusconi and Fausto S. Martins. See o.a. review in Frate Francesco 69 (2003), 635-640]; Gioacchino d’Andrea, ‘L’edizione 1680 delle Croniche dell'Ordine dei Frati Minori di Fra Marco da Lisbona’, AFH96 (2003), 431-446; José Adriano de Freitas Carvalho, ‘La representación de la Observancia en las crónicas de fray Marcos de Lisboa. Una fidelidad y un sueño’, in: El Franciscanismo en La península Ibérica. Balance y perspectivas. I Congreso Internacional, Madrid, 22-27  de septiembre de 2003, ed. María del Mar Graña Cid (Barcelona: C.B.G. Editora, 2005), 389-402; José Adriano de Freitas Carvalho, ‘Les ‘Chroniques’ de Marc de Lisbonne ou la ré-écriture d’une fidélité’, in: Ecrire son histoire. Les communautés régulières face à leur passé. Actes du 5e Colloque International du C.E.R.C.O.R.,C.E.R.C.O.R. Travaux et Recherches, 18 (Saint-Etienne: Publ. de l’Université Jean-Monnet de Saint-Etienne, 2005), 611-623; Montserrat Casas i Nadal, ‘Models feminins franciscans a les ‘Crónicas de los Frayles Menores’ de fra Marcos de Lisboa’, Acta Historica et Archaeologica Mediaevalia 26 (2005), 1141-1154.

Marcus de Montefeltre (fl. ca. 1270)

Secretary of Bonaventure, compiled sermons on Bonaventure into collections, such as that found in MS Milan, Ambros. A.11.sup 22

Marcus de Montegallo (1425-1496) beatus

OFMObs. Born in Fonditore di S. Maria in Gallo (Mons Sacra Maria in Lapide, Ascoli Piceno, 1425). Studied (also under the direction of the humanist Enoch of Ascoli) at the universities of Perugia and Bologna, where he became doctor of law and medicin. Active as medical doctor in Ascoli from 1448 onwards. At the urging of his father he married in 1451 with Chiara de’Tibaldeschi. The year thereafter, when Marco’s father had died, Chiara entered the poor Clares in Ascoli, whereas Marcus joined the local OFMObs. Marcus had his noviciate in the Eremita convent of Valdissaso, near Fabriano. In 1454-55 he became guardian of the convent of S. Maria de San Severino. Also active as preacher (under the direction of Giacomo della Marca?) and peace maker in Ascoli, Camerino, Fabriano, and elsewhere. He became involved in the struggle against usury and became one of the most fervent propagators of the so-called Montes Pietatis. He established them in Fabriano (1470), Fano (1471), Arcevia (1483), Vicenza (1486) and helped with the reorganisation of the Mons Pietatis in Fermo (1478). He apparently had some sympathy for the spiritual cause, and at times took some responsibility for the religious guidance of the famous Poor Clare Camille Battista Varani (cf. AFH 8 (1915),265). Died in the harnas on 19 March 1496, while preaching during Lent in Vicenza. Buried in Vicenza in the Franciscan church San Biagio Vecchio. His grave site received a cult and a canonisation process followed suit (official confirmation of his cult finally was given on 20 September 1839 by Pope Gregory XVI). Shortly after his death several hymns were composed for his liturgical commemoration. These hymns (Hymnus rythmicus in eius laudem) have been edited at several juntures. See for instance B. Cimarelli, Delle croniche dell’Ordine de’Frati minori, istituto dal S.P.S. Francesco, parte quarta, volume secondo (Venice, 1621), 821-824; Wadding, Annales Minorum (Ad Claras Aquas 1933), Vol. XVI, 340; AASS Martii III (Paris-Rome, 1865), coll. 73-74; Miscellanea Francescana 338 (1938), 490. Marco published the gist of his homiletic, penitentiary and catechetical instructions in his Tabula de la salute humanaand his Libro dei commandamenti di Dio. He apparently did not publish separate sermon collections [unlike Bernardine of Siena, who kept his religious teachings in the sermon format]

manuscripts and editions

Tabula de la salute humana, corporale, temporale, spirituale et eterna (Venice: Nicolò Balaguer, 1486 & Florence: Antonio Miscomini, 1494). There exist several other old editions of later date. A modern (partial) reprint is found in L.J. Rosenwald, The 19th Book Tesoro de Povero (Washington D.C, 1961). [The Tabula consists of 15 chapters on the articles of faith, the works of charity (esp. focusing on the Montes Pietatis), councils for the wellbeing of the soul, descriptions of eternal life etc. The work also included a list of necessary books for those who want to live a truly Christian life. For a more detailed discussion, see V. Meneghin, Bernardino da Feltre ed i Monti di Pietà (Vicenza, 1974), 175-181; Pietro Rossi, La Tavola della salute del beato Marco da Montegallo e cenni storici di Montegallo (Fermo, 1976) & Elide Mercatili Indelicato,‘Marco da Montegallo: Aspetti e problemi della vita e delle opere’, in: Marcoda Montegallo (1425-1496). Il tempo, la vita, le opere, 164-178]

Libro delli commandamenti di Dio, del Testamento Vecchio et Nuovo et anche de Sacri Canoni. This work is found after the Tabula de la salute humana in the 1486 Venetian edition and in the 1494 Florentine edition. Apparently, the Libro delli commandamenti has also received a separate Florentine edition (Antonio Miscomini, 1494). According to its colophon, it is a miscellaneous work, consisting of a so-called fascicoletto, an Exempio notabile, and three opuscoli. The fascicoletto consists of a list of necessary books, ‘figure’ of the eternal life and related issues, all of which can also can be found in the Tabula de la salute humana. The Exempio is an elaborated exemplum, presenting ‘el figliuolo d’uno cittadono’, and is meant to ask attention for the necessity to know and observe the commands of God. The three opuscoli are a Libro delli comandamenti di Dio del Testamento vecchio [a modified re-issue of his Libro intitulato], a Tractato delli comandamenti et consigli evangelici o vero del Testamento nuovo[a prohemio, a Tabula di tutta l’opera, and 10 chapters on the evangelical counsels. See Elide Mercatili Indelicato, Op.Cit., 182ff], and a Tractato de sacri canoni ordinationi et regole o vero comandamenti della sancta madre ecclesia christiana catholica romana[a prohemio and three chapters, reflecting on the ecclesiological authority structure of the church, the sacrements and the major commandments, and rules]

Libro intitulato de la divina lege de esso omnipotente Dio, MS Florence Ricc. 341 ff. 165v-181r. This is a manuscript copy of the printed edition, which also is entitled: Libro intitulato de la divina lege de esso omnipotente Dio (Venice: Nicolò Balaguer, 1487 & Siena, 1494). See also AFH, 2 (1909), 127; AFH, 40 (1957), 231. It is a catechetical work, based on Marco's sermons held in Venice in December 1486. It was printed to be read in schools, parishes etc. The 1487 edition consists of seven chapters [I: De tutti li divini comandamenti del testamento vecchio la diversità o vero diversificatione; II: De li diece comandamenti morali la ordinatione; III: De quelli medesimi la dimostratione; IV: De li dieci comandamenti morali la rationale assignatione; V: De li observatori di essi la certa premiatione, overo retributione; VI: De li transgressori, et non observatori di quelli la infallibile et acerba punitione; VII: De la transgressione de essi la multiplice auctentica et approbata modificatione, cioè in quanti modi principali se po fare contra de essi diece comandamenti di Dio.]

La corona de la gloriosa Vergene Madre Maria (Venice, ante 1494) A devotional work on the life, suffering and crowning in heaven of the Virgin, with intermittent prayers (Pater Noster, Ave Maria etc.)

His sermons did not survive separately. See also G. Gantalamessa, p. 16

Statutes of various Montes Pietatis: E. Menghetti, `I primitivi capitoli del Monte di Pietà di Fano’, Archivi, 2<sup>e</sup> série, 23 (1956), 323-342; A. Anselmi, `Il Monte di Pietà di Arcevia’, Miscell. Francesc., 5 (1890), 165-179.

Note:Throughout Marco’s various works (and particularly in La tabula and La corona)can be found vernacular and Latin versions of important prayers, laude, and formula (such as: Ave Colonna, Ave Maria, Ave Templo, Concede nos famulos tuos, Credo in (unum) Deum, Deus pater omnipotens, Deus venie largitor, Dignare me laudare, Dio ti salvi Maria, Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto, O altissima gloriosa regina, O alto et ineffabile, Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, O signore Yesu Christo adoro te, Padrenostro, Requiem eternam dona ei Domine, Sancta Maria domina mea, Vergine benedicta). Cf. E. Mercatili Indelicato, Op. Cit., 205-229 [detailed analysis of the various texts, their lineage and the relative importance of Marco’s versions]. The works of Marco are not alone in this, an indication that the Franciscans (maybe unlike the OP) might not have had a strong tradition of independent prayer books, but habitually included prayer collections in their catechetical and devotional works .

literature

Martyrologium Franciscanum (Vicenza, 1939), 102 (19 march); AASS, March III (Antwerp, 1668), 71-74; Sbaralea, Suppl., II, 209-210; G. Gantalamessa, Notizie storiche per servire alla biografia di fr. Marco da Montegallo, medico, teologo, edoratore (Ascoli, 1843); C. Mariotti, Il B. Marco da Montegallo (Quaracchi,1896); Il beato Marco da Montegallo (Ascoli Piceno, 1903); AFH, 8 (1915), 265; G. Fabiano, Gli Ebrei ed il monte di Pietà in Ascoli (Ascoli 1942) [anti-semitic?>check!]; Studi Francescani, 19 (1947), 172-173; Studia Picena, 23 (1955), 149-155; Bibliotheca Sanctorum VIII (Rome, 1967), 739-740; Pietro Rossi, La Tavola della salute del beato Marco da Montegallo e cenni storici di Montegallo (Fermo, 1976); Elide Mercatili, ‘L’attività sociale di Marco da Montegallo’, Picenum Seraphicum 13 (1976), 353-414; Cl. Schmitt, `Marc de Montegallo’, Dict. de Spir., X (Paris, 1980), 283-4; Francesco Lomastro Tognato, Legge di Dio e Monti di Pietà. Marco da Montegallo, 1425-1496(Vicenza, 1996); Marco da Montegallo (1425-1496). Il tempo, la vita, le opere. Atti del convegno di Studio Ascoli Piceno 12 ottobre 1996 e Montegallo 23 agosto 1997, ed. Silvano Bracci (Padua, 1999); Philine Helas, ‘Fürsorge und Seelsorge – Die Predigt von Fra Marco da Montegallo für den ‘Monte di Pietà’ und seine Marienbruderschaft in einem Stich von Francesco Rosselli (ca. 1485)’, in: Inklusion/Exklusion. Studien zu Fremdheit und Armut von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, ed. Andreas Gestrich & Lutz Raphael (Frankfurt a.Main: Peter Lang, 2004), 423-449 (on the depiction of Marco’s preaching by Rosselli and the comments by Marco on the woodprint made thereof, dealing with the visualisation of preaching, the monte di pietà, the Gregory mass, the Mary confraternity and the prayer cycle in La corona de la gloriosa Vergene Madre Maria).

Marcus de Niza (Marcos de Niza)

Franciscan missionary in Mexico…

editions/literature

Adolph F. Bandelier, The Discovery of New Mexico by the Franciscan Monk Friar Marcos de Niza in 1539, trans. Madeleine T. Rodack (1982).

Marcus de Orvieto (fl. late thirteenth century)

Italian friar. Compiler of the Tractatus Septiformis de Moralitatibus Rerum,also known as the Liber Moralitatibusor the Ampliatio Bartholomaei Anglici. This work, written between ca. 1281-1291 amounts to a moralization for preaching purposes of (seven books of) Bartholomaeus Anglicus’s De Proprietatibus Rerum. The seven chapters of Marcus' work deal with (1) De Corporibus Celestibus; (2) De Elementis; (3) De Avibus; (4) De Piscibus; (5) De Animalibus; (6) De Arboribus, Plantis et Herbis; (7) De Lapidibus Preciosis et Mineralibus. Marcus of Orvieto's moralization of De Proprietatibus Rerum is one of the first in a series of comparable (either or not abbreviated) moralizations of De Proprietatibus Rerum for preaching purposes. In this context we can also point at the Liber de Exemplis et Similitudinibus Rerum of Johannes de Sancto Geminiano (OP, ca. 1320), the anonymus Multifarium (one MS in Wolfenbüttel HAB, Gud.Lat. 200 (ca. 1326)), the Reductorium Morale of Petrus Berchorius (OFM & OSB, ca. 1340), and comparable works by Henricus de Schüttenhofen, Ulricus de Lilienfeld, Berengarius de Landorra, and Jacobus de Lausanne (OP).

manuscripts

Tractatus Septiformis de Moralitatibus Rerum (Liber Moralitatibus sive Ampliatio): In all ca. 16 mss. Aarau, Kantonsbibliothek Muri F 14 ff. 1ra-187va (XV saec.); Assisi, Bibl. del Sacro Conv. 243 ff. 1ra-151vb (14th saec.); Barcelona, Bibl. Catalunya 5 ff. 1v-143v; Bologna, Bibl. Univ. 1099; Burgo de Osma, Bibl. Santa Iglesia Catedral 123 ff. 1r-293r; Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibl. Clm 8809 (14th cent.); Oxford, New College 157 (14th cent.); Padua, Antoniana 388 Scaff. XVIIIff. 1r-22v (14th cent.); Paris, BN Lat. 3332 ff. 1r-246r (14th cent.); Paris, BN Nouv. Acq. Lat. 1403; Rome, Bibl. Angelica 750 (Q.5.26; XIII Saec.); Rome Vat.Lat., 5935 (13th cent.); Rome Vat.Lat. Chigi E.VII.230 ff. 1r-387r (15th. Cent.); Rome Vat. Ottob. Lat. 636; Tarragona, Bibl. Munic. de Santes Creus 118; Tortosa, Bibl. Catedral 157; Wolfenbüttel, Landesbibliothek 3292, 130; Florence, BN Conv. Soppr. B.1.1537; Cologne, Historisches Archiv der Stadt W 375 [This list as well as the incipit-explicit information is based on information kindly provided by dr. G. Etzkorn]

Inc: Quoniam, sicut scribitur Sapientia XIIIa: vani sunt omnes homines in quibus non subest scientia Dei; et de his quae videntur bona non potuerunt intelligere eum qui est, oportet volentem uti salubriter creaturis aciem intelligentiae supernaturaliter figere in ipsorum mysteriis et ipsa mysteria applicare moribus sacris.

Expl: …nobis in fine operis praestare dignetur Dominus noster Christus amantissimus qui est superbenedictus Dei Filius, imperator universalis aeternus, qui cum Patre et Spirito Sancto vicit et regnat per infinita saecula saeculorum. Amen.

Editions

Liber de Moralitatibus, ed. Girard J. Etzkorn (St. Bonaventure: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2006).  For some articles on the Pelican and the Lion, see Meyer (2000), 304-317.

literature

J. Ruyschaert, `la bibliothèque des franciscains observants de Tuscanella’, Revue d’Histoire des Textes, 15 (1967-68), 256; J. Friedman, `Peacocks and Preachers: Analytic Technique in Marcus of Orvieto’s Liber de Moralitatibus, Vat. Lat. 5935’, in: Birds and Beasts of the Middle Ages. The Bestiary and its Legacy, ed. W.B. Clark & M.T. McMunn (Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1989), 179-196. See also the forthcoming work of dr. Baudouin van den Abeele, whom I would like to thank for providing me with some of the information presented above.

Marcus de Summa Ripa (de Sommario, d. ca. 1419)

Master of theology and lector. As lector he wrote a series of Sermones Quadragesimales>>

manuscripts

Sermones Quadragesimale: New York, Conv. S. Francisci W 31 Street, Unnumbered ff. 117-224 (224-228: index)

literature

Zawart, 292

Marcus de Viterbo (d. 1369)

Minister general of the order before he became cardinal in 1366>>>

manuscripts

Sermones de T.: >>>? See Fabricius, V, 25; Zawart, 287; G. Mollat, ‘Deux frères mineurs, Marc de Viterbe et Guillaume de’Guasconi au service de la papauté’, AFH 48 (1955), 52-72.

Marcus Kloz (d.1763)

Austrian friar. Professor of theology and provincial minister of Austria. Canonist.

editions

Jus Canonicum Universum Theoretico-Practicum, 5 Vols. (Vienna, 1742).

literature

Hurter, Nomenclator V, 1610; R. Aubert, ‘Kloz’, DHGE XXIX, 314.

Marcus Ordoñez (Marcos Ordóñez, fl. c. 1760)

OFM. Scotist theologian from the Concepción province.

literature

AIA 2 (1942), 455-462; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 156 (no. 633).

Marcus Trevisanus (Marco da Treviso, fl. 15th cent.)

Italian friar, possibly from Padua, acolite and auditor of the Camera Apostolica and possibly provincial minister of the Romania province (Greece)

manuscripts

Privilegia Fratrum Minorum: Naples, Naz., VI.F.15 ff. 23a-28d; VII.G.50 ff.107r-112r; Ferrara [cf. Little in AF V (Ad Claras Aquas, 1912), LIV

editions

Privilegia et Indulgentie Fratrum Minorum Ordinis Sancti Francisci Tracta ex Registro Apostolico per Marcum tunc Acolitum et Auditorem Apostolicae Curiae(Milan, 1490).

Marcus Ulmensis (fl. ca. 1400)

Author of a Dictionarium in Sacram Scripturam (an alphabetical dictionary for preaching purposes. The work actually refers to these activities in the Introduction)

manuscripts

>> Fabricius, V, 25f; Zawart, 362

literature

Wadding, Script., (1906), 167; Sbaralea, II, 212; Stegmüller, RB, III, 5453.>

Marcus Vigerius de Savona (Emmanuele Vigerio, 1446-18 July 1516)

OMConv. Grandnephew of Francis de la Rovere. Emmanuele joined the Conventuals in 1462 or 1464 and received the name Marcus. He taught theology at Padua at the university and in the internal Franciscan school. When Francis de la Rovere became Pope (Sixtus IV), Marcus went to Rome, to teach at the Papal University (1474). In October 1476 he was appointed bishop and prefect of Sinigallia (a position he held until his resignation in 1513). Became master of the sacred palace in 1484 and governor of the Sant’Angelo castle in November 1503. Was appointed cardinal in 1505 by Pope Julius II and defended the Pope at the fifth Lateran council against the acccusations raised at the schismatic council of Pisa. Promoted the calender reform.

editions

Homiliae>>?

Decachordum Christianum (Fano: G. Soncino, 1507/Paris, 1517/Hagenau, 1517/Douai, 1607) [dealing with the virtues of the Holy Family]

Controversia de Excellentia Instrumentorum Dominicae Passionis (Rome: M. Silber, 1512/ Paris, 1517/Hagenau, 1517/Douai, 1607)

Litterae

literature

Sbaralea Supplementum II, 211-212; Zawart, 339; LThK X² 785; Enciclopedia Cattolica XII, 1411-1412; New Catholic Encyclopaedia XIV, 663;

Mare de Alvernia (d. ca. 1430)

Bacc. In Logic in 1399. Lector at Cortona in 1429

manuscripts

Quadragesimale Prati Peractum [1385]: Florence Ricc. 3192 ff. 56-121 [check!]

literature

Zawart, 323

Maria de Antigua (Maria de la Antigua, 1566-1617)

Poor Clare. Spanish nun from Sevilla. Visionary and author. Her many writings were published as the Desengaño de religiosos y almas que tratan de virtud (Sevilla, 1678 & 1690/Barcelona, 1697 & 1720)

literature

DSpirX, 483. 

Maria de Jesu (Maria de Gésu/Maria d’Agreda)

Spanish Franciscan nun. Important spiritual author. Especially known for her Mistica Ciudad de Dios.

literature

DSpirX, 508-513; La Madre Ágreda. Una mujer del siglo XXI, Monografias Universitarias (Soria, 1999); Antonio Castillo Gómez, ‘La pluma de Dios. María de Ágreda y la escritura autorizada’, Via Spiritus 6 (1999), 103-119; Gaspar Calvo Moralejo, ‘Congresso sobre la Madre María de Jesús de Ágreda (Ágreda, 2-5 agosto 1999)’, Marianum 61 (1999), 349-354; Gaspar Calvo Moralejo, ‘La Iglesia de la Trinidad y de Maria en la Vble. M. Ágreda’, Estudios Trinitarios 33 (1999), 385-409.

Maria de Oisterwijk (d. 1547)

Franciscan female tertiary. Kept close relations with Petrus Canisius, Nicholas Eschius and the Colone Carthusians. Maria’s best known work is her Der rechte wech zo der evangelischer volkomenheit, which was edited for publication by G. Kalckbrenner in 1532. It is a mystical work, relating in a series of exercises the way towards union with the Divine, focusing on Christ as the spiritual spouse.

editions

Der rechte wech zo der evangelischer volkomenheit, ed. by G. Kalckbrenner (Cologne, 1532).

literature

Willibrord Lampen, ‘Maria van Oisterwijk,tertiares van S. Franciscus’, Franciscana: Bijdragen voor de geschiedenis der Franciscanen in Nederland 26 (1957), 219-238.

Maria Domitilla Galluzzi (Severetta Galluzzi, 1595 - ca. 1650?)

Capuchin nun from Pavia. Born at Acqui on 25 May 1595. Of noble descent, Maria Domitilla entered the Capuchins in the Santa Franca convent in Pavia. During her life, she had numerous mystical experiences, several of which she wrote down at the request of her confessor. In this context she also embarked on several of her larger works, such as her spiritual commentary on the rule of Clare of Assisi, her Passione, her Quarant’hore di meditatione mentale (written for the instruction of novices), the Ponti di perfettione and an autobiographical Vita. Apparently, none of these works were published during her lifetime. A running theme in her works is the total union with the Divine through the negation of the will and the annihilation of the self. Important instruments in this process are rigorous asceticism and mental obedience to the Divine will at all times

manuscripts

Vita[autobiography]: in all six manuscripts. For a listing and description of these see E. Ann Matter (1993). See also under the manuscripts of the Passione mentioned below.

Passione [book of visions]: Pavia, Biblioteca Universitaria Aldini 306; Pavia, Biblioteca Universitaria Aldini 145; Milan, Biblioteca Trivulziana 268& 490; Acqui Terme, private collection of Dr. Massimo Archetti-Maestri; Milan, Ambrosiana D 77, sussidio (together with the Vita); Milan, Ambrosiana G97, sussidio (together with the Vita); Milan, Ambrosiana H 47, sussidio (together with the Vita); Milan, Ambrosiana 141, sussidio (together with the Vita); Milan, Amrbosiana H 91, sussidio (together with the Vita). For more information, see the studies of E. Ann Matter (1993 & 1994).

Quarant’ore [a forty-hour passion devotion exercise, commemorating the passion of Christ, written in her capacity as novice master]: It survived in one manuscript. Cf. E. Ann Matter (1993).

Ponti di perfettione (1652).

Vero lume del modo d’osservare l’anticaregola di Santa Chiara/Lune sopra l’osservanza della prima Regola di Santa Chiara data gli dal P. S. Francesco e confirmata da Papa Innocenzo IV: Pavia, Biblioteca Universitaria, Aldini 306; Pavia, Biblioteca Civica MS I, II; Milan, Biblioteca Trivulziana 491. In this work, Maria Domitilla expressed the wish to: ‘…possedere Dio nostro infinito oggetto e vivere come morto ad agn’altra cosa fuori di lui che a tal fine ne ha chiamato a tal vita evangelica’

literature 

G. Romano, ‘Suor M. Domitilla d’Acqui, cappuccina in Pavia’, Bollettino storico pavese 1 (1893), 9-40, 119-150, 197-222; Maria Grazi Bianchi, ‘Una ‘illuminata’ del secolo xvii: Suor MariaDomitilla Galluzzi, Cappucina a Pavia’, Bollettino della Società Pavese di Storia Patria n.s. 20-21 (1968-1969),3-69; M. Maarcocchi, ‘Galluzzi’, DHGE XIX, 902; E. Ann Matter, ‘Interior Maps of an Eternal External: The Spiritual Rhetoric of Maria Domitilla Galluzzi d’Acqui’, in: Maps of Flesh and Light: Aspects of the Religious Experience of Medieval Women Mystics, ed. Ulrike Wiethaus (Syracuse, 1993), 60-73; E. Ann Matter, ‘The Commentary on the Rule of Clare of Assisi by Maria Domitilla Galluzzi’, in: Creative Women in Medieval and Early Modern Italy. A Religious and Artistic Renaissance, ed. E. Ann Matter & John Coakley (Philadelphia, 1994), 201-211.

Maria Magdalena Martinengo (1687-1737)

OFMCap. Capuchin nun from Brescia. Important autobiographical and spiritual author.

literature

DSpir X, 575-576.

Marianus de Florentia (Mariano da Firenze, d. 1523)

OFMObs. Early sixteenth century Franciscan historian and compiler of educational treatises. His large Fasciculus Chronicarum Ordinis Minorum Divisus in 5 Libros, written in the first quarter of the sixteenth century, has not fully survived. Wadding apparently still had the full textautograph at his disposal, yet later only abbreviations remained, which were edited by T. Domenichelli.

manuscripts

Tractatus de Origine, Nobilitate et de Excellentia Tuscie [written between 1516-17]: Archivio Prov. O.F.M., Firenze, no. 334 I F 16 [cf. D. Cresi, `Elenchi di illustri Frati minori in un'opera inedita di Mariano da Firenze', AFH, 57 (1964), 191-199. Contains a partial edition of the chapters V, VII, X, XI]

Trattato del Terz’Ordine: MS Florence Bib. Naz. Palatino 147 ff. 1r-196v [probably an autograph ms]

editions

Fasciculus Chronicarum Ordinis Minorum>> lost.

Compendium Chronicarum Ordinis FF. Minorum, ed. Domenichelli, in: AFH, 1 (1908), 98-107; 2 (1909), 92-107, 305-318, 457-472, 626-641; 3 (1910), 294-309, 700-715; 4 (1911), 122-137, 318-339, 559-587/also separately as a book (Ad Claras Aquas, 1911).

Libro delle degnità et excellentie del ordine della seraphica madre delle povere donne sancta Chiara da Asisi, ed. Giovanni Boccali, Studi Francescani, 83 (Florence-S. Maria degli Angeli, 1986).

Gloriosus Franciscus Redivivus sive Chronica Observantiae Strictionis (…) (Ingolstadt, 1625).

Itinerarium Urbis Romae, ed. E. Bulletti (Rome, 1931) [cf. Weiss, The Renaissance Discovery of Classical Antiquity (1969), 86]

Defensorio della Verità, cf. D. Cresi, ‘L’opusculo ‘Defensorio della verità’ di Mariano da Firenze’, Studi Francescani61 (1964), 168-212.

Il Trattato del Terz’Ordine o vero ‘Libro come Santo Francesco istituì et ordinò el Tertio Ordine de Frati et Sore di Penitentia et della dignità et perfectione o vero Sanctità Sua’ di Mariano da Firenze, ed. M.D. Papi, Analecta TOR 18 (1985), 257-588. Cf. A. vanden Wijngaert, ‘De Tertio Ordine S. Francisci iuxta Marianum Florentium’, AFH13 (1920), 3-77 & 14 (1921), 3-35.

literature

Anastasius Van den Wyngaert, ‘De Tertio Ordine S. Francisci iuxta Marianum Florentinum’, AFH 13 (1920), 3-77; Anastasius Van den Wyngaert, ‘De Sanctis et Beatis Tertii Ordinis iuxta codicem Fr. Mariani Florentini’, AFH 14 (1921), 3-35; Ciro Cannarozzi, `Il pensiero di Fra Mariano da Firenze’, Studi Francescani 26 (1929), 4-23, 121-179, 295-326; Idem, Dialogo del Sacro Monte della Verna di fra Mariano da Firenze (Pistoia, 1930); Idem, `Ricerche sulla vita di fra Mariano da Firenze’, Studi Francescani (1930), 31-71; Idem, `Una fonte primari degli Annales del Wadding’, Studi Francescani(1930), 251-285; S. da Campagnola, Le origini francescana come problema storiografico (Perugia), 94-95; Martino Bertagna, `Per un nuovo incontro con fra Mariano da Firenze’, Studi Francescani, 79 (1982), 473-479; Chiara Mercuri, Santità e propaganda. Il terz’ordine francescano nell’agiografia osservante,Bibliotheca Seraphico-Capuccina, 59 (Rome, 1999), esp. chapters 2 & 3; Ottaviano Giovanetti, ‘Uno storiografo a S. Salvatore al Monte di Firenze’, Studi Francescani 98 (2001), 331-347; M. Papi, ‘Mariano da Firenze e la ‘superiorità’ della sua Toscana’, in: Una ‘Gerusalemme’ toscana sul sfondo di due Giubilei: 1500-1525. Atti del Convegno di studi (San Vivaldo, 4-6 ottobre 2000), ed. Sergio Gensini, La Gerusalemme in Occidente, 1, SISMEL (Florence: Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2004),69-81; C. Mercuri, ‘L’Itinerarium Urbis  Romae di Marianoda Firenze: un vademecum per il pellegrino degli inizi del Cinquecento’, in: Una ‘Gerusalemme’ toscana sul sfondo di due Giubilei: 1500-1525. Atti del Convegno di studi (San Vivaldo, 4-6 ottobre 2000), ed. Sergio Gensini, La Gerusalemme in Occidente, 1, SISMEL (Florence: Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2004),>>; Arnaldo Sancriccia, ‘La ‘Genealogia delle Provincie de’Beati e Santi della Religione di s. Francesco’. Un’Opera a stampa attribuita a Fra’ Mariano da Firenze nel 'Summarium super non remotione cultus’ di s. Liberato da Loro’, Picenum Seraphicum 24 (2005), 147-189.

With thanks to dr. Leslie Knox

Marinus de Venetia (Marino da Venezia, d. 1564)

OFMConv. Inquisitor in Venice between 1544 and 1550.

literature

Anne Jacobson Schutte, ‘Un inquisitore allavoro: Fra Marino da Venezia e l’Inquisizione Veneziana’, in: I Francescaniin Europa tra Riforma e Controriforma, Atti del XIII Convegno Internazionale, Assisi, 17-18-19 ottobre 1985 (Assisi-Perugia: Società Internazionale di Studi Francescani-Università degli Studi di Perugia-Centro di Studi Francescani, 1987),165-196.

Marianus López y Pimentel (18th cent>?)

Proyecto de un colegio de misiones: Madrid, Nac. 3652 [Castro, Madrid, no. 200]

Marianus Senensis (Mariano da Siena, fl. c. 1460)

OFMObs. Franciscan preacher and papal ambassador (in the 1450’s and 1460’s). Died in 1476 at la Capriola. Known for his lengthy and interesting Lenten sermon cycle, as well as for his donation of a breviary to the library of the Sienese San Francesco convent. He should not be identified with Mariano di Graziano, who for a short while resided in Siena in 1484 [cf. Moorman, Medieval Franciscan Houses]

manuscripts

Sermones: Siena Biblioteca Comunale cod. G.IX.26.

literature

K.W. Humphreys, The Library of the Franciscans of Siena in the Late Fifteenth Century (Amsterdam, 1978), 47 & note 47; Bernadette Paton, Preaching Friars and the Civic Ethos: Siena, 1380-1480 (London, 1992), 42ff.

Marinus de Castignano (fl. 15th cent.)

Author of several logical writings.

manuscripts

BAV, Lat. 3037; Jena GB d 1

Marius Bignoni (Mario de’Bignoni, 1601-1660)

OFMCap. Friar from the Venetian province. Born at Venice on 23 ecember 1601, where he studied at the local seminary. Entered the order at the age of 18. Studied philosophy ad theology, specialising in Thomism, the doctrines of which he taught once he was admitted into the lectorate. Due to his failing health, he had to stop teaching quite early in life, and was forced to keep his bed for long periods of time. During these bouts of illness, he wrote at least three homiletic works (Domenicale; Quadragesimale; Santuario). Although all of these were placed on the index of forbidden books in 1672, 1673 and 1674, and still figured in the Indice dei libri proibitipublished at the order of Pius XI in 1929, they received a Latin translation by Bruno Neusser OFMObs, publishing them together as the Encyclopaedia, seu Scientia Universalis Concionatorum (Cologne, 1663/1676).

editions

Quadragesimale/Serafici splendori da gli opachi delle più celebri academie relucenti tra l’ombre di vaghi geroglifici compartiti in concetti tratti dalle divine lettere, contrapuntati dalle professioni humane per li giorni ordinarii di Quaresima. Opera scritturale, erudita, curiosa, sacra, morale e utile (Venice, 1649/1651/1654/1660).

Santuario/Elogii sacri nelle solemnità principali de nostro Signore, delle beata vergine Maria et altri santi, celebrati dalla santa Chiesa (Venice, 1652/1655). This work was dedicated to the Capuchin minister general Fortunato di Cadoro.

Domenicale/Prediche sopra le ventiquattro domeniche doppo la Pentacoste(Venice, 1661). This work was dedicated to the provincial minister of Venice Serafino da Brescia.

Conciones in reliquis anni dominicis et inadventu. This work is mentioned by Bernardo di Bologna. Yet it has not yet been found.

literature

Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1906), 167; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1921), II, 218; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum(Venice, 1747), 181-182; A. Zawart, ‘The History of Franciscan Preaching and of Franciscan preachers (1209-1927). A bio-bibliographical study’, The Franciscan Educational Conference/Franciscan Studies 9 (1927), 462; A. Teetaert, ‘Bignoni’, DHGE VIII, 1460.

Marius de Calasio (Mario da Calascio, 1550-1620)

OFM. Observant grammarian and biblical lexicographer from Calascio. He died in Rome.

literature

Massimo Pazzini, ‘Padre Mario da Calascio grammatico e lessicografo (Calascio 1550 – Rome 1620)’, Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Liber annus 55 (2005), 217-238.

Marius Fabiani a Mercato Sarraceno (Marius Fabiani a Foro Sarsinio/Mario Fabiani da Mercato Saraceno, fl. c. 1540)

OFMCap. Transferred to the Capuchin order from the Augustinians. Became minister general. Also active as spiritual author and historian.

editions

Relationes de Origine Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum, ed. Melchior a Probladura, Monumenta Historica Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum, 1 (Assisi, 1937).

Poemetti, ed. Melchior da Pobladura & Sisto da Pisa, L’Italia francescana 12 (1937), 315-325,409-414 & 13 (1938), 27-32, 418-423. Cf. also: N. Mancini, ‘Un poemetto mariano di p. Mario Fabiani?’, L’Italia francescana 9 (1934), 195-208, 309.; Stanislao da Campagnola, ‘Un cinquecento francescano che contesta ‘novelle, poesie, historie e li prurienti canti’’, in: San Francesco e il Francescanesimo nella letteratura italiana dal rinascimento al romanticismo. Atti del Convegno Nazionale (Assisi, 18-20 maggio 1989), ed. Silvio Pasquazi (Rome, 1990), 78ff. His religious poetry does not really fit in with the Capuchin scorn of poetic embellishment. Most impressive is his sonnet on Mary Magdalen, which starts: ‘Una donna vidi io, anzi una stella/più lucente che ’lsole, in trecce d’oro,/a piè del legno a noi largo tesoro/mostrarsi a un più bel sol fervente ancella (…)’, and ends: ‘O Maddalena ogn’hor ben grata a Dio,/deh! Fa s’o t’ami ch’io ti veggia in cielo/e teco goda il Signor tuo e mio!’ [cited from the text found in Stanislao da Campagnola, ‘Un cinquecento francescano che contesta ‘novelle, poesie, historie e li prurienti canti’’, in:San Francesco e il Francescanesimo nella letteratura italiana dal rinascimento al romanticismo. Atti del Convegno Nazionale (Assisi, 18-20 maggio 1989), ed. Silvio Pasquazi (Rome, 1990), 80.]

literature

Melchior da Pobladura, ‘De vita et scriptis p. Marii Fabiani a Foro Sarsinio’, Collectanea Franciscana 6 (1936), 580-589; M. D’Alatri, ‘la riforma cappuccina vista da due cronisti del Cinquecento’, Collectanea Franciscana 48 (1978), 399-411.

Marquardus Herwart (fl. later seventeenth cent.)

OFMRif. Bavarian friar and Scotist philosopher. From noble Bavarian descent, he joined the Riformati in the Bavarian province. Spent the last period of his life in Rome, as penitentiary of the Lateran Basilica. He also was a counsellor of Maria Casimira Ludovica, the widow of the King of Poland John III (whose daughter became the second wife of the Bavarian Prince Elect Maximilian Emmanuel. Marquardus died in Rome in 1700.

editions

Physica Decus N. Subt. Scoti, ex VIII Libris Auscultationis Physicae Aristotelis (Amberg, 1693).

literature

Karl Werner, Geschichte der katholischen Theologie VI, 63 ; Th. A. Rixner, Geschichte der philosophie bei den Katholiken in Altbayern, bayerisch Schwaben und bayerisch Franken ( München, 1835), 152f.; V. Greiderer, Germania Franciscana (Augsburg-Freiburg in Breisgau, 1777), 81; A.D. Biographie XIII, 175-176’; R. Aubert, ‘Hoerwart’, DHGE XXIV, 756.

Marquard of Lindau (Marquardus Funke, d. 1392)

German friar. Probably born at Lindau (Lake of Konstanz). Probably active as reading master at the Studium Generale of Strasbourg (1372/1373) and possibly also lector in Würzburg (according to Malachias Tschamser, Annales (Colmar, 1864), p. 445f.). In 1377 custos of the custody of Konstanz. Was offered the magisterium by the Avignon Pope Clement VII in 1379 (BF VII, n. 589), but it seems that Marquard kept his allegance to the Roman pontiff and declined the honour. Later, when Marquard was custos of the Bodensee custody (between 1382 and 1383), he did not succumb to pressures of the Franciscan provincial Liephard von Regensburg, who had Clementine sympathies (AFH 55(1962), 97, 101). On the 1389 provincial chapter of Strasbourg, Marquard was elected provincial of the province Germania Superior (Cf. Glassberger, Chronica, AF II, 218; Cf. also Revue d’histoire franciscaine 7 (1930), 294). He kept that position until his death in 1392, and hence presided over the provincial chapters of Neurenberg (1390), Esslingen (1391), and Basel (1392). According to a papal bull of Boniface IX (16 August 1391), he also founded two convents (namely Viktorsberg, in the Churdiocese?, and the Valduna convent of poor Clares. Cf. BF VII, n. 72). According to Tschamser, Marquard died in Konstanz on 15 August 1392, where he was buried before the major altar of the Franciscan church. Marquard wrote both scholastic treatises in Latin and more mystical and educational works in the German vernacular (not seldom with reciprocal translations). The Latin works probably should be connected with his lectorship in Strasbourg. Less certainty exists about the direct context of the vernacular works, though several of these works also betray connections with authors/preachers of the Strasbourg area. His most famous work is Die zehe Gebot, a dialogue for the instruction of the lay, who had to prepare themselves for the sacrament of penance [According to Zawart, Marquard produced an unique compilation of catechetical sermons for children. In addition, Zawart remarks that the convent school of Lindau apparently also taught children of the town>Zawart, 315] Clément Schmitt, DSpir X, 647, states that Marquard was among the first to diffuse the ideas/concepts of Ruusbroeck (Modern Devotion) into the German lands, and that his work also betrays many influences from Bonaventure, Scotus, Francis of Meyronnes, Nicholas of Lyra, Henry of Herp and Conrad Böhmlin. Schmitt characterizes Marquard’s overall work as follows: ‘En fait, on retrouve dans son oeuvre l’essentiel de la doctrine chrétienne concernant les vérités de la foi, le mystère de la Rédemption, l’Eucharistie, la messe, les vertus théologales, les fins dernières, les dix commandements, etc. Elle constitue comme une ébauche d’un catéchisme populaire.’

manuscripts and editions

An initial list of Marquard’s work was made by the Franciscan friar Hermann Sack (d. 1444). This list (MS Munich Cgm 2928f. 45v) has been edited by O. Bonmann, in Franziskanische Studien 21 (1934), 328-332. Later chroniclers and bibliographers have used this list for their own inventories. Yet Wadding and Sbaralea have totally ignored Marquard. Maybe because he wrote so many of his works in German. For a completely updated survey of all his Latin and vernacular works (including exhaustive listings of manuscripts and editions), see esp. Nigel F. Palmer, Marquard von Lindau, Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon, VI (Berlin-New York, 1987), 81-126 (with corrections in Vol. XI, 978). For the moment, only the titles of his most important works are listed here (sometimes with some information about editions and manuscripts). Many of his works can be found in mss of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, and in those of the Stadtbibliothek Nürnberg, frequently together with works from Otto von Passau

In III & IV Sent.: Vienna, Österr. Nationalbibl. 4592 (an. 1432)

Die zehe Gebot, ed. J.W. van Maren (Amsterdam, 1980) [=facs. of the 1516 edition of version C1 with the prologue of version A1]; Das Buch der zehn gebote (Amsterdam, 1984) [=facs of the 1483 Venice edition of version C3] [There exist ca. 100 mss of this work. A.o. Vienna Österr. Nationalbibl. 2827 ff. 1ra-49vb Many of these mss also contain De Exitu Filiorum Israel] Also o.a. Munich Bayerische Staatsbibliothek clm 9003; clm 9737; clm 15325; clm 15567; clm 18657; clm 19835; cgm 234; cgm 321; cgm 364 ff. 1-131; cgm 388, cgm 365; cgm 461; cgm 462; cgm 621; cgm 622; cgm 791. For information on the versions that these and many other manuscripts contain, as well as for information on older (partial) editions, see Palmer, ‘Marquard von Lindau’, 86-89. The main source for Marquard’s Decalogue explication is the De Decem Preceptis by the Augustinian Hermit Henry of Friemar.

Auszug der Kinder Israel [often found together with Die zehe Gebot]:>> Oldest known manuscript is MS Zürich Zentralbibl. Cod. C 95 ff. 146r-196r. The Auszug is a mystical elucidation of the history of the Israelites, more or less along the lines of the Benjamin Minor of Richard of St. Victor, pointing the way (via stages of retreat from the world) to the visio beatifica. See esp. Palmer, ‘Marquard von Lindau’, 91-93. [Text later reworked by Geiler von Kaysersberg?]

Hiob-Traktat, ed. E. Greifenstein, Der Hiob-Traktat des Marquards von Lindau (Munich, 1979); See esp.: N.F. Palmer, `Der Hiob-Traktat des M. v. L. in lat. Überlieferung’, PBB, 104 (1982), 48-83. Thus far, 31 manuscripts have been identified. The oldest probably is MS St. Gallen Stiftsbibliothek cod. 595pp. 539-576. There also are several Latin translations, such as that by the Franciscan friar Dietrich Struven of Hildesheim (MS Wroclaw (Breslau) UB cod. IF 243 ff. 182r-192v) [Palmer, ‘Der Hiob-Tractat’ contains an edition of another Latin translation, found in MS Basel UB cod. A XI 52, ff. 42r-47v and three other mss]. The full Job treatise consists of three main parts: i.) an explanation of Job 1-3; ii.) a threefold sermon on Job’s suffering; iii.) a sermon on God’s testing of Job, God’s mercy and the restoration of Job to his former condition. The running theme of the whole treatise is the meaning of suffering and endurance/patience. Some manuscripts only give the last two parts. Some manuscripts also give a short advent meditation in connection with the Hiob-Traktat

De Nabuchodonosor, ed. R. Horwege, Diss. Indiana University, 1971 [There is no edition of the Latin version] There are at least twelve manuscripts of the vernacular version still surviving. See on these Horwege’s dissertation, as well as Palmer, ‘Marquard von Lindau’, 95. One manuscript survives of the Latin version: Trier StB, cod. 783/828 8° ff. 256r-288r. See also: Franzjosef Pensel, ‘Ein neues Fragment von Marquards von Lindau ‘De Nabuchodonosor’’,Handschriftenfunde zur Literatur des Mittelalters 121. Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur124 (1995), 457-462. Nabuchodnosor gives an allegorical explication of Deuteronomy 1-3, in which the king is presented as the schöwende mensch, and Daniel and the three youngsters as virtues of the soul. Marquard might have been inspired by De Eruditione Hominis Interioris of Richard of St. Victor.

De Daniele: apparently lost. Might have been like the Nebuchodnosorand the Hiob-Traktat.

De Anima Christi: Partial editions to be found in R. Lievens, ‘De mystieke inhoud van het handschrift Dr. P.S. Everts [=Maastricht,Gemeentearchief 479]’, Leuvense Bijdragen51 (1962), 22f [part VII] & J. Hartinger, Der Traktat De paupertate von Marquard von Lindau, Diss. (Würzburg), 1965), 180-229 [parts I-V, VIII]. The German version has survived in at least 10 full manuscript copies and three partial ones. See for a full listing Palmer, ‘Marquard von Lindau’, 96. The (probably older) Latin version has in any case partially survived in MS Munich cgm 66 ff. 269v-272v. De Anima Christi originally was a sermon in three parts on the poverty, the patience, and the suffering of Christ. In some of the later manuscripts, the treatise was enlarged with other, related themes, sometimes enlarging the treatise into a work of seven or eight parts. Conrad Beumlin has used (a Latin version of) De Anima in his sermon Vom Leiden Christi, in his Passion sermon Inspice et fac secundum exemplar, and in his Gúldin Buch.

De Fide,ed. K. Ruh, Franzisk. Schrifttum, II (1985), 290-322. The work has survived in seven manuscripts and two early printings, which are listed by Ruh. The work consists of four parts: three short pieces on the properties of faith (true, noble, and clear), and a longer piece containing an explication of the Symbolum Apostolorum. Each article of faith also mentions the heresies connected with it, in accordance with Aquinas’ De articulis fidei et Ecclesiae sacramentis. Palmer suggests that Marquard’s explication nevertheless is rather independent. Palmer, ‘Marquard von Lindau’, 98.

De Corpore Christi: Survived in eight manuscripts, among which MS Dillingen, Studienbibl. Cod. XV 125 ff. 15v-39r and MS Nürnberg StB cod. Cent.VI, 60 ff. 79r-106v contain this whole sermon (in four parts) on the Eucharistsacrament, starting from the theme Nolite solliciti esse (Matthew 6, 31). The sermon deals with the six excellent properties of the sacrament, the six miracles of the sacrament, the six human weaknesses to which God answers through the sacrament with six signs of love, and the six fruits of the sacrament. The very scholastic sermon, which Palmer therefore regards as an early work, ends with a quaestio. Cf. Palmer, ‘Marquard von Lindau’, 99.

Meßerklärung/Eucharistie-Traktat, See: Der Eucharistie-Traktat Marquards von Lindau, ed. A.J. Hofmann, Hermaea 7 (1960). A.o also Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Cgm 364 (fragment f Irv). No less than 67 manuscripts contain the full German text, whereas four contain a Latin fashion and an additional two a mixture. In addition, there are a range of manuscripts that contain excerpts. For an overview, see Palmer, ‘Marquard von Lindau’, 99-100. Palmer Ibidem, 100-102 remarks that this Eucharist treatise is one of the most successful late medieval Eucharist explications in Southern Germany. It has survived in several versions. With regard to the reception history, Palmer points out the many excerpts in German prayer books owned by female religious and lay women

De Horto Paradisi: MS München clm 8987 ff. 289v-293r. Cf. D. Schmidtke,Studien zur dingallegorischen Erbauungsliteratur des Spätmittelalters, Hermaea 43 (1982), 235-237.

Maitagspredigt: Survived in five manuscripts, namely Berlin, mgq 107ff. 229r-235v; Berlin mgq 1133 ff. 125v-131r; Göttingen SB & UB ms. theol. 285 ff. 88v-91r; München cgm 292 f. 51v-53v; Salzburg St. Peter Cod. b.V. 32 ff. 143r-146v. Itis a German sermon with as theme Non turbetur cor vestrum [Joh. 14, 27].

Regel Aller Prälaten: MS Nürnberg StB. Cod. Cent. VI, 46d, ff. 198v-205v.It is a letter directed to Conrad of Braunsberg (prior of the German Johanniter order), in which the necessary virtues of a mighty prelate are listed.

Deutsche Predigten: For a list of manuscripts containing full series (of up to 41 sermons for feast and saint days throughout the liturgical year) and fragments or single sermons, see Palmer, ‘Marquard von Lindau’, 104-105. The sermon cycle probably was compose in German in 1389. Two full series of these Deutsche Predigten can be found in MS Berlin mgf 79 ff. 1r-109v and in MS Berlin mgf 1041 ff. 1r-222v. The sermons follow the sermo moderna structure. Palmer, Ibidem, 106 remarks that, within the series, the greatest thematical group is formed by the sermons on the life and the person of Christ (on his name, his seven words at the cross, his suffering, and his five wounds, all fully in the Franciscan conformitas Christi tradition). See in general also: Ph. Strauch, Die deutsche Predigten des Marquart von Lindau, PBB 54 (1930) and the work of Blumrich listed below.

De Reparatione Hominis, ed. H.-J. May (1977) [there is no edition of the German version. See for mss a.o. Sélestat Bibl. Munic. 80 (an. 1459-60] In all there are ca. 24 known Latin manuscripts of the work, as well as three manuscripts of the German fassion, the oldest manuscript of which dates from 1402. See Palmer, ‘Marquard von Lindau’, 107-108. Work generally regarded to be Marquard’s main work. Produced in or shortly after 1374. It is a full-blown theological work in which man’s original state before the fall, the subsequent fall, and the road to the new life in the time of grace etc. are elaborated with recourse to the theological tradition (Augustine, Anselm, Hugh of St. Victor, Bonaventure, Eckhart, Nichols of Lyra). Structure and content of the work do suggest that it was composed first of all for preachers. Yet the work offers aside from the allegorcial and typological interpretations also an eschatological framework and a full-scale theology of history. Work was in any case used by Conrad Boemlin and in Ulrich Horn's works on the passion.

De Arca Noe: Survives in eight manuscripts, among which MS München clm 8392 ff. 76v-128r. See for an overview Palmer, ‘Marqurd von Lindau’, 109. It is a lengthy commentary on Noah [Genesis 5, 31-9, 29], and builds on De Arca Noe Morali and De Arca Noe Mystica of Hugh of St. Victor. In eight groups of three articles (running from I to XXIV), Marquard describes eight times the threefold meanings of the biblical text (always with as headings De Archa materiali, ecclesie and mentali). The Ark therewith is build into the church and the human soul.

De Quadruplici Homine: Seven manuscripts that contain three different versions. For an overview, see Palmer, ‘Marquard von Lindau’, 110. In general the work deals with the six condicionesand the six opera of the homines naturales, graciosi and divini.

De Nobilitate Creaturarum & de Nobilitate Anime rationalis: At least 14 manuscripts. See Palmer, ‘Marquard von Lindau’, 111. It amounts to a praise of the creatural world and a narrative of mystical union with the Divine in neoplatonic fashion, in accordance with the Franciscan tradition. [Cf.Itinerarium mentis and related works.]

De Paupertate, see: Der Traktat De Paupertate von Marquard von Lindau, ed. J. Hartinger, Diss. Würzburg, 1965. Two manuscripts. See Palmer, ‘Marquard von Lindau’, 111. It is a eulogy on poverty. Cf. G. Steer, ‘Der Armutsgedanke der deutschen Mystiker bei Marquard von Lindau’, Franziskanische Studien 60 (1978), 289-300.

De Perfectione Humanitatis Christi: An edition of a version incorporated in De Reparatione Hominis is found in: Marquard von Lindau, De Reparatione Hominis, ed. H.-J. May (1977), 154-161. De Perfectione has survived in twelve manuscripts. See Palmer, ‘Marquard von Lindau’, 112. Most manuscripts contain a version consisting of two sermons (De perfectione corporis Christi & De nobilitatibus anime Christi). MS Freiburg i. Ue., Franziskanerkloster cod. 83 ff. 236r-243v contains two additional sermons (De perfectione vite Christi; Tractatus bonus de merito Christi). MS München clm 9022 ff. 83r-91v contains on top of these four also a somewhat unrelated piece on the three preconditions of human perfection.

De Augmento Caritatis: MS Würzburg Franziskanerkloster cod. I 111 ff.119r-123r. For more information, see Palmer, ‘Marquard von Lindau’, 113-114.

De Virtutibus: Eight manuscripts. See Palmer, ‘Marquard von Lindau’, 114. Work contrasts pagan with theological virtues.

De Paradiso Spirituali: MS Würzburg Franziskanerkloster cod. I 86 ff.10v-13v. A latin sermon, divided in three parts, on the new paradise of spiritual life, with recourse to Pseudo-Dionysius.

De Penis Inferni: Seventeen manuscripts. A.o. Karlsruhe, St. Petrus im Schwarzwald 40 ff. 137r-139r (an. 1426). Is directed against false philosophical views on reincarnation and spiritual interpretations of the pains of Hell. For more information, see Palmer, ‘Marquard von Lindau’, 115.

De Quinque Sensibus: Ten manuscripts. See Palmer, ‘Marquard von Lindau’,115-116. The work deals in seven parts with the properties of the human body and the human soul, and with the use of the five senses in heaven. Recourse to Anselm of Canterbury, Peter Lombard and Richard of Mediavilla.

De Throno Salomonis: MS Münich clm 8987 ff. 192r-199v. uses the six steps of Salomon’s throne to depict the ascent of the soul towards God by means ofthe virtues (virginitas, disciplina, sciencia, obediencia, exultacio, humilitas). Palmer, ‘Marquard von Lindau’, 116-117 remarks that this work differs from several other works from South-German mendicant stock that bear the same or comparable titles.

In Joannem 1, 1-14: Latin fashion in two manuscripts: Konstanz, Heinrich-Suso-Gymnasium cod. 36 ff. 8r-42v; Manchester, John Rylands Library cod. Lat. 70 ff. 141r-184v. German fashion in five manuscripts. See Palmer, ‘Marquard von Lindau’, 117-118. Chapter 25 of the German fasion is edited in Ruh, Franziskanisches SchrifttumII, 199-210.

De Virginitate et Proprietate Floris: MS Freiburg i.Ue., Franziskanerkloster cod. 95 ff.100r-101v & ff. 153r-154v. Amounts to a short sermon on virginity.

De Premio Patrie: Three manuscripts. See Palmer, ‘Marquard von Lindau’, 119. A collection of sermons and quaestiones on the condition of the beati in Heaven (their visio beatifica, corporal and soulish qualities of their condition etc.), meant for preachers.

De Horto Spirituali: Four manuscripts. Palmer, ‘Marquard von Lindau’,119-120. Seven sermons on the theme Veniat dilectus. Contains many garden allegories and ‘explains’ various kinds of flowers.

De Primis Motibus: MS Wroclaw (Breslau) UB cod. I F 243 ff. 180v-182r. Short treatise on the causes of human feelings and free will. Also contains apolemics against the begards. See Palmer, ‘Marquard von Lindau’, 120.

>>also a range of German and Latin dubia (see Palmer, ‘Marquard von Lindau’, 120-124)

literature

A. Mayer, ‘Zur handschriftlichen Überlieferung der Dekalogerklärung M.v.L.’, in: Festschrift zum 100jährigen Jubiläum des humanistischen Gymnasiums Freising (Freising, 1928), 66-86; O. Bonmann, `Marquard von Lindau und sein literarischer Nachlaß’, Franz. Stud., 21 (1934), 315-343; A. Ampe, ‘Marquard von Lindau en de Nederlanden’, Ons Geestelijk Erf 34 (1960), 374-402 [esp. on Marquard’s use of Ruusbroeck]; Fr.W. Wentzlaff-Eggebert, Deutsche Mystik zwischen Mittelalter und Neuzeit (Berlin, 1969), 359-363; Clément Schmitt, ‘Deux inédits de Marquard de Lindau sur la pauvreté’, Festschrift L. Spätling (Rome, 1977), 453-480; DSpir X, 645-648; Manfred Gerwing, `Marquard v. Lindau', LMA, VI, 322; Nigel F. Palmer, `Latein, Volkssprache, Mischsprache. Zum Sprachproblem bei Marquard von Lindau, mit einem Handschriftenverzeichniss der Dekalogerklärung und des Auszugs’, in: Spätmittelalterliche Geistl. Literatur in der Nationalsprache, I,Analecta Cartusiana 106/1 (1983), 70-110; Idem, `Marquard von Lindau’, Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon, VI (Berlin-New York, 1987), 81-126 (with some manuscript corrections in Vol. XI, 978); Rüdiger Blumrich, Marquard von Lindau. Deutsche Predigten-Untersuchungen und Edition, Texte und Textgeschichte, 34 (Tübingen, 1994); R.Blumrich, `Die deutschen Predigten Marquards von Lindau. Ein franziskaner Beitrag zur `Theologia Mystica’’, in: M.J.F.M. Hoenen & A. de Libera (eds.),Albertus Magnus und der Albertismus (Leyden-New York, 1995), 155-172; Johannes G. Mayer, ‘Zwei Traktate zu den gebrannten Wässern in einer Handschrift der Dekalogerklärung Marquards von Lindau’, Würzburger medizinhistorische Mitteilungen 115 (1996), 287-289; Freimut Löser, ‘Rezeption als Revision. Marquard von Lindau und Meister Eckhart’, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Deutschen Sprachen und Literaturen119 (1997), 425-458; Nikolaus Largier, ‘Das Glück des Menschen. Diskussionen über beatitudo und Vernunft in volkssprachlichen Texten des 14. Jahrhunderts’,in: Nach der Verurteilung von 1277: Philosophie und Theologie an der Universität von Paris im letzten Viertel des 13. Jahrhunderts. Studien und Texte/After the Condemnation of 1277: Philosophy and Theology at the University of Paris in the Last Quarter of the Thirteenth Century. Studies and Texts, ed. Jan A. Aertsen, Kent Emery & Andreas Speer, Miscellanea Mediaevalia, 28 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2001), 827-855 [analyses texts by Eckhart, Tauler, Berthold von Moosburg, Marquard von Lindau and the anonymous sermon collection Paradisus Animae Intelligentis]; Berndt Hamm, ‘Wollen und Nicht-Können als Thema der spätmittelalterlichen Bußseelsorge’, in: Spätmittelalterliche Frömmigkeit zwischen Ideal und Praxis, ed. Berndt Hamm & Thomas Lentes, Spätmittelalter und Reformation, Neue Reihe, 15 (Tübingen, 2001), 111-146 (with reference for instance to the Franciscans Marquard von Lindau and friar Sigmund).

Martialis de Brive (d. 1650)

OFMCap

literature

DSpir X,673-675

Martialis d’Étampes (1575-1635)

OFMCap

literature

DSpirX, 675-677

Martinus Aleman (Martino Aleman, d. 1727)

OFMDesc. Spanish friar from the St. John the Baptist province. Travelled to the Philippines in 1696. In the same year, he moved on to China, establishing himself as provincial commissioner in Huy-Hien. After thirty years of pastoral work, he was called back to Mexico (1726) by the general commissioner of the Franciscan mission, maybe because of issues pertaining to the Chinese rites. He departed for London, where he fell ill. There he died (early 1727) in the Portuguese ambassadorial compounds. Author of several letters and an apologetic missionary history.

manuscripts

Epistulae. They can apparently be found in the Biblioteca Febroniana of Pistoia

Historia de toto lo obrado en China por el señor patriarcha Tournon, y su defensa, año de 1709. Unppublished?

Lapis Caliminaris. This work, supposedly written in Chinese characters, is mentioned by Juan de San Antonio.

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana (Madrid, 1732) II, 333; Marcellino da Civezza, Saggio di bibliografia sanfrancescana (Prato, 1879), 12; Antoine de Sérent, ‘Aleman’, DHGE II (1914), 88-89.

Martinus Alvevicus (Martin of Alnwick, d. 1336)

Engelse minderbroeder, theoloog. Hij is, behalve voor zijn commentaar op de Sententiën, bekend vanwege een Chronicon rerum Anglicarum.

manuscripts

In I-IV Sent.: see Doucet, Stegmüler (RS>!), Lechner, Pelster

Questiones Supplementariae in I Sent.: Vat.Lat. 4871 (14th cent.) ff. 14ra-22ra [Etzkorn, IVF, 172]

edities:

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literatuur:

Wadding, Scriptores. 168; Sbaralea, Supplementum. II. 221; Doucet, AFH, 29 (1936), 402ff; idem, AFH, 47 (1954), 144; J. Lechner, `Beiträge zum Schrifttum des Martinus Anglicus’, Franz. Studien,19 (1932), 1-12; F. Pelster, Scholastik,27 (1952), 345f, 359-367; Matthias Laarman, `Martin v. Alnwick', LMA, VI, 345f.

Martinus Bordetus (Martín Bordet, fl. ca. 1480)

OFMObs. Active in Majorca.

literature

Livarius Oliger, ‘De confessionali Martini Bordet, OFM, maiorcensis, auctoris ignoti saeculi XV’, Antonianum 19 (1926), 245-249.

Martinus Bracarensis>>?

>>Formula Honestae Vitae: Bologna, Coll. Hispan. S. Clemente 51 ff. 49ra-50vb; PL, 72, co. 21-28; Seneca, Opera (Basel, 1557), 743-747; as a work of Anselmus of Canterbury, in: F. Liverani, Spicilegium Liberianum (Florence, 1863), 564-569>>check!!

Martinus de Aguirre (18th cent.)

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manuscripts/editions/literature

Tratado contra los Jesuitas [1771]: Madrid, Nac. 1893; Madrid, Bibl. Coll. Imper.>> [autograph; see Castro, Madrid, no. 104]

Lorenzo Pérez, `Cartas y relaciones del Japón’, AIA, 14 (1920), 171-175.

Javièr Ibarra y Berge, Bol. Real. Soc. Vascongada Amigos del Pais, 9 (1953), 389-410; AIA, 4 (1915), 248; 6 (1916), 297

Martinus de Castañega (fl. early 16th cent.)

Preacher in the Burgos province (1529)

literature

Juan Ruiz de Larrínaga, ‘Fr. Martín de Castañeda y su obra sobre las supersticiones’, AIA 12 (1952), 97-108; Rodríguez, ‘Autores espirituales’,RHCEE III, 457; José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica, 11 Vols. (Madrid, 1960-1976) VII, nos. 6195-6198; Manuel de Castro,Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 100 (no. 211).

Martinus de Castello (Martín del Castillo, fl. mid 17^th cent.)

OFM. Friar active in the Santo Evangelio province (Mexico).

literature

AIA 15 (1955), 252-254; José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica, 11 Vols. (Madrid, 1960-1976) VII, nos. 6689-6699; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 101 (no. 220).

Martinus de Cochem (1634-1712)

OFMCap. Missionary in the Rhine valley Important catechetical author

literature

Johannes Chrysostomos Schulte, ‘Martin von Cochem – ein Förderer des eucharistischen Kultes’, Franziskanische Studien 1 (1914), 36-52; DSpir X, 680-682; LThKVI (third edition), 1423f; Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart V⁴, 858; Leonhard Lehmann, ‘Martin von Cochem (1634-1712). Was ist das Gebet?’, in: Franziskanische Stimmen. Zeugnisse aus acht Jahrhunderten, ed. Paul Zahner, (Munich-St. Anna: Coelde, Butzon & Bercker, 2002), 119-125; Ruth Gstach, ‘Himmlisches Paradies und ewige Hölle. Tod- und Jehnseitsvorstellungen im 17. Jahrhundert. Laurentius von Schnüffs und Martin von Cochem’, in: Verum, pulchrum et bonum. Miscellanea di studi offerti a Servus Gieben inoccasione del suo 80^o compleanno, ed. Yoannes Teklemariam (Rome: Ed. Collegio San Lorenzo da Brindisi, Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini, 2006), 515-557.

Martinus de Corona (Martin de la Coruña/Jesús, fl. mid 16th cent.)

Franciscan historian, active in Latin America

literature

B.H. Slicher van Bath, De bezinning op het verleden in Latijns Amerika 1493-1820. Auteurs, verhalen en lezers (Groningen, 1998), passim

Martinus de Cueva (Martín de la Cueva, fl. first half 16^th cent.)

OFM. Active in the Andalucia province.

literature

AIA 4(1915), 212-216; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 106 (no. 252).

Martinus de Cunis (fl. early 15th cent.)

Public lector of theology in Bologna, in 1405.

editions

Sermones de Tempore (Strasbourg, 1480?) his work or the work of an OP?

literature

Wadding, Script., 169; Sbaralea, Suppl., II, 226; B. Pergamo, AFH, 27 (1934), 26

Martinus de Fano (thirteenth cent.)>>?

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manuscripts

Quaestiones de Iure Emphiteutico: Bologna, Coll. Hisp. S. Clemente 66 ff. 21ra-28ra

Formularium super Contractibus et Libellis de Factis (…): Vat. Palat. Lat., 571ff. 26-66

Martinus de Hojacastro (Martín, fl. mid 16th cent.)

Franciscan historian, active in Latin America

literature

B.H. Slicher van Bath, De bezinning op het verleden in Latijns Amerika 1493-1820. Auteurs, verhalen en lezers (Groningen, 1998), passim

Martinus de Huydrobo de Montalván (Martín de Huydrobo, fl. c. 1730)

Franciscan author, active in Latin America..

literature

B.H. Slicher van Bath, De bezinning op het verleden in Latijns Amerika 1493-1820. Auteurs, verhalen en lezers (Groningen, 1998), passim

Martinus de Jesu (Martín de Jesús/Martín de La Coruña, d. 1568)

OFM. Friar from the Santiago province. Missionary in Mexico.

literature

A. López, ‘Fr. Martín de La Coruña’, El Eco Franciscano 34 (1917), 304-306; A. López, ‘Los primeros franciscanos en Méjico. Fr. Martín de La Coruña’, AIA 14 (1920), 105-111; A. López, ‘Cuestionario histórico-americano. La ‘Relación de las ceremonias y ritos de la provincia de Mechoacán’. Ha se publicado integramente y se sabe quién fue su autor?’, AIA 13 (1920), 262-271; Manuel de Castro,Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 145 (no. 546).

Martinus de La Peña (Martín de La Peña, fl. mid 16^th cent.)

OFM. Liturgical specialist in the Santiago province.

literature

AIA40 (1980), 172-173; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 136 (no. 481).

Martinus de Lilio (Martín de Lilio, fl. mid 16^th cent.)

OFM. Mystic from the Castilia province.

literature

Rodriguez, ‘Autores espirituales’, Repertorio de historia de las ciencias eclesiásticas en España, 7 Vols. (Salamanca: Universidad Pontificia, 1967-1979) III, 511 (no. 174); Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 138 (no. 495).

Martinus de Lucerna (Martin Borner, 1680-1731)

OFMCap

literature

Christian Schweizer, ‘Borner, Martin’, Dizzionario Storico della Svizzera II, 536b.

Martinus de Sancto Josepho (Martín de San José, fl. first half 17^th cent.)

OFMDisc. Member of the San Pablo province.

literature

AIA 21 (1924), 157-158; AIA 27 (1927), 58-62; AIA 22 (1962), 262-263; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 145 (no. 549).

Martinus de Turnhout (van der Keele; d. 1540)

OFMObs. Belgian friar, born at Turnhout. Died on March 13, 1540. Pupil of Dirc Coelde. Professor at the Franciscan Louvain convent, and as such a teacher of Franciscus Titelmans. Known for his theological works, his sermons and his biblical commentaries

manuscripts/editions

Comm in I-IV Sent.

Commentarius in Isaiam

Sermones super Itinerarium Mentis ad Deum Bonaventurae

Sermones de Decem Praeceptis

Sermones de Sancto Paulo

Sermones de Sanctis et Festivis

Arithmetica Divina

literature

Wadding, Script, 169; Sbaralea, II, 226; W. Schmitz, Het aandeel der minderbroeders, 96

Martinus de Valentia (Martín de Valencia (1474-1534)

OFMObs.

literature

Richard Nebel, ‘Valencia Martín de, obs’, in: Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 4th Ed. VIII, 873.

Martinus Doycius (Martín Doyca, fl. c. 1600)

OFM. Member of the Aragon province.

literature

José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica, 11 Vols. (Madrid, 1960-1976) IX, nos. 4035-4037; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 108 (no. 272).

Martinus Guitteriez (Martinus Guitteria, d. 1449)

Martinus Lombardus (fl. ca. 1230)

Franciscan preacher

manuscripts

Sermones de s: Paris BN Nouv. Acq. 338 f. 74r

Martinus Meurisse (Martin Meurisse, 1584- Metz, 1664)

OFM. French friar from Roye (Picardy). Studied theology at Paris and published an extensive Scotist philosophical oeuvre. Became active in Metz, where he eventually became auxiliary bishop. Active combattant against the hugenots in his diocese and beyond, and author of philosophical, theological and historiographical works.

manuscripts

De Gratia: MS Paris BN Lat. 18149

editions

Rerum metaphysicorum libri tres ad mentem Doctoris Subtilis (Paris, 1623).

literature

F. Cuisinier, ‘Martin Meurisse, fut-il historien scrupuleux? A propos d’un esemplaire de l’ ‘Histoire des evesques del’Eglise de Metz”, Cahiers Elie Fleur15 (Metz, 1997), 27-45.

Martinus Panger (Marinus Panger, fl. eighteenth cent.)

OFMConv. Scotist theologian

editions

Theologiae scholasticae morali-polemicae liber IV sententiarum iuxta verum sensum, et mentem doctoris subtilis Joannis Duns Scoti (Augsburg, 1732).

Martinus Perez de Guevara (Martín Pérez de Guevara, fl. mid 17^th cent.)

OFM. Franciscan friar from the Burgos province. Theologian.

literature

AIA 25 (1926), 179-180; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 164 (no. 676).

Martinus Rosellus (Martín Rosillo, d. 1731)

OFM. Member of the Cartagena province.

literature

AIA 36 (1933), 95-100; Manuel deCastro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 173 (no. 748).

Martinus Ruiz (Martín Ruiz, fl. ca. 1600)

OFM. Friar from the Castilia province.

literature

AIA 26 (1926), 188-189; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 173 (no. 753).

Masseus Poenen (Masseo Poenen van Grave, 1551-1622)

OFMCap

literature

Hildebrand van Hooglede, ‘De eerste Hollandsche Kapucijnen: Br. Masseo Poenen of Poecen van Grave (1551/52-1622) en P. Cherubinus Rijn van Amersfoort (1570-1623)’, in: Idem, Miscellanea II, 1045-1051.

Matthaeus Botius (Mateo Botija, fl. early 17^th cent.)

OFM. Active in the Cartagena province.

literature

AIA36 (1933), 133-135; AIA 20 (1960), 131; José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica, 11 Vols. (Madrid, 1960-1976) VI, nos. 5203-5207; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 95 (no. 179)

Matthaeus Ciaccheri (mid 14th cent.)

Italian friar. He wrote in Italian verse a short Chronicon oppidi S. Geminiani.

editions

Cronachetta di S. Gemignano composta da Fr. Matteo Ciaccheri Fiorentino l'anno mccclv illustrata da E. Sarteschi. (Scelta di curiosità letterarie inedite o rare dal secolo xiii al xvii. Dispensa lx) Bologna, 1865.

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum II, 229

Matthaeus Dardalla (Mateo Dardalla, fl. early 18^th cent.)

OFM. Member of the Cartagena province.

literature

AIA 36 (1933), 119-120; AIA 20 (1960), 134; José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica, 11 Vols. (Madrid, 1960-1976) IX, nos. 2288-2289; Manuel de Castro,Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 106 (no. 256).

Matthaeus de Agnone (1563-1616)

OFMCap. Spiritual author and preacher, as well as religious cult figure

editions

`Fasciculus myrrae hinc inde collectur' per Fratrem Matthaeum Anglonensem Predicatorem Cappuccinum. Gli scritti del servo di Dio P. Matteo da Agnone cappuccino 1563-1616, ed. C. de Meo, 3 Vols. (Foggia, 1996).

literature

Gli scritti del Servo di Dio Padre Matteo da Agnone, sacerdote professo dell’Ordine Fr. Min. Capp. (San Severo: Convento dei Cappuccini, 1996); Cipriano de Meo da Serracapriola, Il Rosario. Lode alla Madonna con il Servo di Dio: Padre Matteo da Agnone cappuccino (1563-1616) (Foggia: Centografico Francescano, 1997); Atti della “Settimana di studi sulla spiritualità del Servo di Dio Padre Matteo da Agnone”, Cattedrale di San Severo (FG), 26-31 ottobre 1998, ed. Cipriano de Meo (Foggia, Centrografico Francescano, 2000).  [with articles by Costanzo Cargnoni, Benigno Papa, Antonio Pitta, Luigi Gambaro]; Luigi Gambero, La dottrina mariana del Servo di Dio P. Matteo da Agnone, cappuccino (1563-1616). Studi e ricerche, ed. Cipriano Di Meo (Foggio: Centrografico Francescano, 2002); Luigi Cianilli, Sette stelle di prima grandezza nel Convento dei Cappuccini di Serracapriola (Foggia: Ed. Padre Pio da Pietrelcina, 2005).

Matthaeus de Agrigento (Matth. De Cicilia/Matteo d’Agrigento, d. 1450)

OFMObs

manuscripts

Sermones: Naples, Naz., I.C.23 ff. 370a-383c; V.H.57 ff. 267a-271b; V.H.270 f 219r; VIII.F.43 ff. A-52b; XIII.C.60 ff. 123a-146d; XIV.C.35 ff. 21r-387r; Nocera Umbra Bibl. Seminarile Cod. II/3

editions and literature

Agostino Amore, ‘La predicazione del B. Matteo d’Agrigento a Barcellona e Valenz’ AFH 49 (1956), 255-335; Agostino Amore, ‘Nuovi documenti sull’attività del B. Matteo d’Agrigento nella Spagna ed in Sicilia’, AFH 52 (1959), 12-42; B. Matthaei Agrigentini, Sermoni Varii, ed. A. Amore, Studi e Testi Francescani, 15 (Rome, 1960); Mario Sensi, `Il quaresimale del B. Matteo da Agrigento minore osservante', Boll. Stor. Città Foligno 19 (1995), 7-74; Filippo Rotolo, Il beato Matteo d’Agrigento e la provincia francescana di Sicilia nella prima metà del secolo XV (Palermo: Biblioteca Francescana di Palermo-Officina di Studi Medievali, 1996); Roberto Zavalloni, ‘Matteo d’Agrigento’, in: Mistici Francescani. Secolo XV, 751-761; Giuseppe Allegro, ‘Note cristologiche nei sermoni del Beato Matteo di Agrigento’, in: Francescanesimo e civiltà siciliana nel Quattrocento, 163-168; Paolo Evangelisti, ‘Fede, mercato, comunità nei sermoni di un protagonista della costruzione dell’identità politica della corona catalano-aragonese’, Collectanea Franciscana 73 (2003), 617-664; Luigi La Rosa, ‘…E grideranno le piettre’, Itinerarium 13:31 (2005), 157-168, 197-210; Paolo Evangelisti, I Francescani e la costruzione di uno Stato. Linguaggi politici, valori identitari, progetti di governo in area catalano-aragonese, Fonte e ricerche, 20 (Padua: Editrici Francescane, 2006) [a.o. with reference to Fidenzio da Padova, Ramon Llul, Francesc Eiximenis, Joan Eixemeno and Matteo d’Agrigento].

Matthaeus de Aquasparta (ca. 1240-1302)

Italan friar. Born near Todi in Umbria (in a family that had at least delivered one cardinal). Friar since 1254. After his initial studies, he went to Paris, where he followed a lectorate program under Bonaventure. Entered the degree program as Baccalaureus Sententiarum in 1271/2 Magister theologiae in 1276, and Magister regens at Paris 1278/9. Lector at the studium of Bologna and at the papal curia (1281, there successor of John Pecham). Remained lector at the papal curia until his appointment as general minister (1287-1289). Thereafter cardinal (1288), bishop of Porto and St. Rufino (1291), and papal legate (played a role in the disputes between guelfs and ghibellines in Italy, and in the conflict between Boniface VIII and king Philip of France). Dies in Rome, on 29 October 1302, and buried in the Aracoeli convent. As minister general, he reformed the statutes of the Paris studium, he ended the imprisonment of several spiritual franciscans (o.a. John of Parma and Peter John Olivi), he condemned Nicholas de Ghistelle, who had written against Exiit qui Seminat, and he actively supported further missions to Asia. Many of his theological and philosophical works have survived, among which stand out an interesting Sentences commentary and a range of Quaestiones, an important Introitus generalis ad sacram scripturam, further biblical commentaries (among which an interesting commentary on the Apocalypse, surviving in MS Assisi, Communale 51ff. 121-202 and MS Assisi, Communale 57 ff. 69-87), and several lengthy sermon collections that shed light on his categistic and spiritual insights (see on this also DSpir X, 800-802. In all, Matthew of Aquasparta left behind more than 200 Sunday and feast day sermons (including sermons on the Virgin, on St. Anthony, St. Francis, and St. Claire of Assisi), as well as three sermons De Potestate Papae).

Some manuscripts

Concordantiae super Quattuor Libros Sententiarum: Colmar, Bibl. du Consistoire 304 ff. 204-68 (an. 1428); Stuttgart, Würtemb. Landesbibliothek HB III 1 (an. 1465) [This ms also contains the Sentences of Peter Lombard]

Comm. in I-IV Sent.: Todi, Bib. Comunale 122 (book I); Assisi, Bib. Comunale 132 (book II and parts of book IV). For more information, see Doucet.

Breviloquium de Sancta Trinitate: Todi, Bib. Com. 122 ff. 166-170

Commendatio Novi Magistri: Assisi, Bibl. Com. 460 ff. 213v-215r

Principium Biblicum: Assisi, Vibl. Com. 461 ff. 38->>

Principium in Pentateuchum: Assisi, Bibl. Com. 461 ff. 144v-148r

Expositio Libri Ecclesiasticae: Assisi, Bibl. Com. 460 ff. 29-35 (autograph)

Postillae in Librum Psalmorum: Assisi, Bibl. Com. 67 ff. 1-269 (autograph)

Postillae in Job: Assisi, Bib. Com. 35 ff. 1-285

Postillae in Apocalypsim: Assisi, Bib. Comunale 51 ff. 121-202; Assisi, Bib.Communale 57 ff. 69-87

Sermones: Assisi, 460, 461 & 682; Bordeaux 30; Erfurt Amplon D. 12; Oxford Bodl. Ashmole 757; Oxford Merton Coll. 237; Paris BN Lat 10698 &16482; Turin BN D. VI. 1; Vat. Reg. Lat. 16; Worcester Cath. F. 5. For more information, see Schneyer, Repertorium der lateinischen Sermones IV (Münster, 1972), 149-167.

Proposita (…) coram Bonifacio VIII Papa, Adstantibus Franciae Ambasciatoribus: Uppsala, UB C. 692 (early 16th cent.) ff. 383-388

editions

In I-IV Sent, parts edited in the edition of the Questiones Disputatae de Incarnatione mentioned below. Some other parts edited by E. Longpré, in: Idem, `Thomas de York et Mattieu d’Aquasparta. Textes inédits sur le problème de la création’, Ad’HDLMA, 1 (1926-1927), 269-308 and In I sent. Dist. 2, a 2,q. 1 by A. Daniels, in Idem, Quellenbeiträge und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der Gottesbeweise im xiii Jahr,Beitr. Gesch. Philos. Mittelalters, 8, 1-2 (Münster, 1909), 52-63; In I Sent. Prol. Q. 7 edited by L. Amorós, Ad’HDLMA,9 (1934), 284-285; In II Sent. Dist. 19, q. 1, ed. S. Vanni Rovighi, in:L’Immortalità dell’anima nei maestri francescani del secolo xiii, Pubblicazioni dell’Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 23 (Milan, 1936), 255-272

Tractatus de Excellentia Sacrae Scripturaeedited in the Quaestiones Disputatae de Fide et Cognitione

Generalis Introitus ad S. Scripturam, edited in the Questiones Disputatae de Fide et Cognitione

Introitus ad S. Theologiam, edited in the Quaestiones Disputatae de Fide et Cognitione

Tractatus de Aeterna Spiritus Processione,edited in the Quaestiones Disputatae de Fide et Cognitione, pp.429-453.

Quaestiones Disputatae de Illuminatione, in: De Humanae Cognitionis Ratione Anecdota Quaedam Seraphici Doctoris Sancti Bonaventurae et Nonnullorum Ipsius Disciplinorum (Quaracchi, 1883),87-177

Quaestiones Disputatae de Fide et Cognitione, 2 Vols. Bibliotheca Franciscana Scholastica Medii Aevi, I (Quaracchi, 1957) [contains also an edition of the Tractatus de Excellentia Sacrae Scripturae/Generalis Introitus ad S. Scripturam, [in Vol.I, 3-21]; the Introitus ad S. Theologiam;Tractatus de Aeterna Spiritus Processione

Quaestiones Disputatae de Incarnatione et Lapsu Aliaque Selectae de Christo et Eucharista (Quaracchi, 1914/1957(2nd)) [this edition also contains the Questiones de Christo et Eucharistia & Utrum Christus Passus Fuerit Secundum Utramque Partem Animae & several questions of In II Sent.]

Quaestiones Disputatae de Gratia, Bibl.Franc. Scholast. Medii. Aevi, ed. V.Doucet (Quaracchi, 1955 [1935?])

Quaestiones Disputatae de Productione Rerum et de Providentia, ed. G. Gál, Bibliotheca Franciscana Scholastica Medii Aevi, 17 (Quaracchi, 1956)

Quaestiones Disputatae de Anima Separata, de Anima Beata, de Ieiunio et de Legibus,ed. C. Piana, G. Gál, A. Emmen, Bibliotheca Franciscana Scholastica Medii Aevi, 18 (Quaracchi, 1959)

Quaestiones Disputatae de Aeternitate Mundi, ed. E. Longpré, Ad’HDLMA, 1 (1926), 293-308

Questiones Disputatae de Anima XIII, ed. A.J. Gondras, Études de philosophie médiévale, 50 (Paris, 1961); Quaestio XIII q. 6 ed. R. Zavalloni, in: Richard de Mediavilla et la controverse sur la pluralité des formes. Textes inédits etétudes critiques. Philosophes médiévaux, 2 (Louvain, 1951), 199-210; Quaestio XIII, ed. S. Vanni Rovighi, L’Immortalità dell’anima nei maestri francescani del secolo xiii, Pubblicazioni dell’ Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 23 (Milan, 1936), 272-284

Quaestiones de Anima VI (MS Assisi, Bibl. Com.), ed. A.J. Gondras, Ad’HDLMA, 24 (1975), 203-352 [32 (1957), 203-352?>check!]

Quodlibet I &V, ed. F. Simoncioli, in: Il problema della libertà umana in Giovanni Olivi e Pietro di Trabibus, Vita e pensiero (Milan, 1956), 233-245

De BMV Immaculata Conceptione QuodlibetXIII-XIV, ed. A. Samaritani, Marian Library Studies, 5 (1973), 729-835

Quaestiones VI de Legibus, trans. L. Mauro, in Idem, Matteo d’Aquasparta. Il cosmo e la legge. Biblioteca medievale, 3 (Firenze, 1990)

Introitus generalis ad sacram scripturam. [1271-72 or 1276-77], in: Bibliotheca Franciscana Scholastica. I (1903) 22-36[autograph: MS Assisi, 134 ff.3-4]

Sermones de B.M. Virgine, ed. C. Piana, Bibliotheca Franciscana Ascetica Medii Aevi, 9 (Quaracchi, 1962)

Sermo de Studio Sacrae Scripturae, in: Quaestiones Disputate de Fide et de Cognitione, Bibl. Franc. Schol. MediiAevi, 1 (Quaracchi, 1903/1957), 22-36

Sermones de S. Antonio, de S. Clara, ed. G. Gál, Bibliotheca Franciscana Ascetica Medii Aevi, 10 (Quaracchi, 1962) [contains also an appendix with the Sermo de Potestate Papae]

Sermo de S. Francisco, ed. F. Cloarec, AFH, 9 (1916), 227-236 Sermo de Promotione ad Aliquam Dignitatem, ed. L.-J. Bataillon, `Le cardinalat vu par un futur cardinal: un sermon de Matthieu d’Aquasparta’, AFH, 87 (1994), 129-134

Sermones, ed. L.-J. Bataillon, `Sermoni e orazioni d’ambiente universitario nel sec. XIII’, in: Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale (in press?)> academic introitus & principia.

Littera ad Episcopum Florentiae (letter of 2 February 1298 in defense of penitents), ed. in. Dossier de l’ordre de la Pénitence au XIIIe siècle, ed. G.G. Meersseman (Fribourg, 1961), 255>>

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum. II. 227-228; Zawart, 290; Stegmüller, RB. III. no. 5498-5518; G. Mazzatinti (red.), Inventari dei Manuscritti delle biblioteche d'Italia.IV. Forli, 1894 [Biblioteca del convento di S. Francesco] 31; A.-J. Gondras,'Matthieu d'Aquasparta.' Dict. de Spir..X. Parijs, 1980. 799-802; A. Hunting, `Mattaeus v. Aquasparta', LMA, VI, 3975; M. Grabmann, Die philosophische und theologische Erkenntnislehre des Kardinal Matthaeus von Aquasparta. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Verhältnisses zwischen Augustinismus und Aristotelismus im mittelalterlichen Denken (Vienna, 1906); V. Doucet, ‘L’enseignement parisien d’Aquasparta’, AFH 28 (1935), 568-570; E. Bettoni, `Rapporti dottrinali fra Matteo d’Aquasparta e Giovanni Duns Scoto’, Studi Francescani, 40 (1943), 1113-130; F. Prezioso, ‘L’attività del soggeto pensante (…)’, Antonianum,15 (1950), 259-326; J. Auer, Die Entwicklung der Gnadenlehre in der Hochscholastik mit besonderer berücksichtigung des Kardinals Matthaeus von Aquasparta, 2 Vols. (Freiburg im Breisgau, 1942-1951); F. Prezioso, Antonianum, 25 (1950), 259-326; A.C. Pegis, `Matthew of Aquasparta and the Cognition of Non-Being, in: Scholastica Ratione Historico-critica Instauranda (Rome,1951), 461-480; E. Bettoni, Studi Francescani, 15 (1953), 113-130; Doucet, AFH 47 (1954), 144; A. Emmen, ‘Die Glückseligkeitslehre des Matthäus von Aquasparta’, Wissenschaft und Weisheit, 22 (1959), 43-59, 101-118, 174-189; F. Simoncioli, ‘Rilievi sui sermoni inediti di Matteo di Aquasparta dedicati a S. Francesco, a S. Antonio, a. S. Chiara’, Studi Francescani, 56 (1959), 37-50 & 148-172; H.M. Beha, ‘Matthew of Aquasparta’s Theory of Cognition’, Franciscan Studies, 20 (1960), 161-204 & 21 1961), 1-79, 383-465; E. Bettoni, ‘L’origine dell’anima sensitiva secondo Matteo d’Aquasparta’, Pier Lombardo, 5/3-4 (1961), 8-53 & 6(1962), 27-70; F. Simoncioli, ‘La mariologia del Card. Matteo d’Aquasparta’, Divus Thomas 65 (1962), 321-352; Z. Hayes, `Matteo d’Acquasparta e il suo posto nella Scolastica post-tomistica’, in: Filosofia e Cultura in Umbria tra Medioevo e Rinascimento (Gubbio, 1966), 231-248; G. Bonafede, ‘La gnoseologia di Matteo d’ Aquasparta’, in: Filosofia e Cultura in Umbria tra Medioevo e Rinascimento (Gubbio, 1966), 249-269; P. Weber, `La liberté dans la théologie de Matthieu d’Aquasparta’, RThAM, 34 (1967), 238-254; Idem, La morale fondamentale d’après Matthieu d’Aquasparta, 2 Vols. (Louvain, 1967); E. Bettoni, ‘Matteo d’Aquasparta e il suo posto nellascolastica post-tomistica’, in: Filosofia e cultura in Umbria tra medioevo e rinascimento, Atti del IV Convegno di Studi Umbri (Perugia, 1967), 231-248; E. Brocchieri, La legge naturale nel pensiero di Matteo d’Aquasparta (Rovigo, 1967); P. Mazzarella, La dottrina dell’anima e della conoscenza in Matteo d’Aquasparta, Collana di Studi Filosofici, 17 (Padua, 1969); G. Bonafede, Matteo d’Aquasparta (Trapani, 1968²); Schneyer, IV, 1149-167; P. Mazzarella, Franciscan Studies, 34 (1974), 34-73; C. Bérubé, ‘Henri de Gan et Matthieu d’Aquasparta (…)’, Naturaleza y Gracia 21 (1974), 131-172; G. Bonafede, ‘Matthew of Aquasparta’s ‘De Productione Rerum’ and its relation to St. Thomas and St. Bonaventure’, Franciscan Studies 34 (1974), 34-73; O. van Asseldonk, ‘Omaggio alle Sorelle Clarisse: Due discorsi di Matteo d’Acquasparta’, Vita Minorum 51 (1980); P. Marrone, ‘Matthew of Aquasparta, Henry of Ghent and Augustinian Epistemology after Bonaventure’, Franz. Stud., 65 (1983), 252-290; P. Mazzarella, Vichiana, 13 (1984), 107-125; F.-X. Putallaz, La connaissance de soi au xiiie siècle. De Matthieu d’Aquasparta à Thierry de Freiberg, Études de philosphie médiévale, 67 (Paris, 1991); Matteo d'Aquasparta. Francescano, filosofo, politico, Atti del XXIX Convegno Storico Internazionale, Todi, 11-14 ottobre 1992 (Spoleto, 1993); J.L. Bataillon, RSPhTh, 78 (1994), 584-586; Ch. Trottmann, Coll. Franc. 64 (1994), 121-180; Mélanges d’École Française de Rome, Moyen Âge 108 (1996), 615-643; L. Sileo & F. Zanatta, `I maestri di teologia della seconda metà del Duecento’, in: Storia della teologia nel Medioevo, t. III: La teologia delle scuole, ed. G. d’Onofrio (Casale Monferrato, 1996), 27-35, 86-103; F.-X. Putallaz, Figures franciscaines. De Bonaventure à Duns Scot (Paris, 1997), 51-58, 109-110; F.-X. Putallaz, ‘Matteo d’Aquasparta’, Diz. Enc. Med.II, 1161-1162; Nicole Bériou, L’Avènement des maîtres de la parole. La prédication à Paris au XIIIe siècle, Collection des Études Augustiniennes. Série Moyen Âge et Temps Modernes, 31, 2 Vols (Turnhout: Brepols, 1998), passim & II, 761-2; Bogdan Bruszek, ‘Pierwotny stan czlowieka wedlug Mateusza z Aquasparta’ [the state of original justice according the Matthew of Aquasparta], Studia Franciszkánskie 11 (2001), 73-135; Ian P. Wei, ‘Intellectuals and money: Parisian disputations about annuities in the thirteenth century’, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 83:3 (2001), 71-94; Russell L. Friedman, ‘Trinitarian Theology and Philosophical Issues, II: Trinitarian texts from the Franciscan trinitarian tradition, ca.1265-1285’, Cahiers de l’Institut du Moyen Age grec et latin 73 (2002), 21-40.>>; Louis Jacques Bataillon, ‘Un sermon de Matthieu d’Aquasparta pour la fête de Saint Matthieu’, in: Revirescunt chartae. Codices documenta textus. Miscellanea in honorem P. Caesaris Cenci OFM, ed. Alvaro Caciotti & Pacifico Sella (Rome: Edizioni Antonianum, 2002), 959-992; Francesca Grauso, I libri di Matteo d’Acquasparta, Diss. (Rome: Università degli Studi ‘La Sapienza – Scuola Speciale per archivisti e bibliotecari, 2002); Cyril Gorman, Augustine and High Medieval Theologies of Perseverance. The ‘Perseverance’ teachings of Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Matthew of Aquasparta and Gregory of Rimini, Diss. (Paris-Notre Dame, IN, 2005).

Matthaeus de Bascio (Matteo da Bascio, ca. 1495-1552)

OFMCap [?]. Spiritual author and renowned itinerant preacher. Known for his sermons and for his polemical poem Severa riprensione, which was a strong attack on secular culture and, in accordance with the early Capuchin reformideals.

edition

La severa riprensione di fra Matheo, il quale per tutto il mundo andava esclamanda et rispondendo ogni sorta dipersone, gridando a l’inferno, a l’inferno. Opera nuova et non men catolicha et devota che piacevole et elegante, ed. Melchior da Pobladura, Archivio italiano per la storia della pietà 3 (1961), 304-309.

literature

G. Abate, ‘Fra’ Matteo da Bascio e gli inizi dell’Ordine cappuccino’, Collectanea franciscana 30 (1960), 31-77; Melchior da Pobladura, ‘La ‘Severa riprensione’ di fra Matteo da Bascio (1495?-1552)’, Archivio italiano per la storia della pietà 3 (1961), 281-309 (includes a diplomatic edition of the poem); Stanislao da Campagnola,‘L’esperienza dei primi decenni di vita cappuccina in alcuni studi recenti’, Laurentianum 4 (1963), 499-505; Mariano D’Alatri, ‘Matteo (Serafini), da Bascio’, Dizionario degli Istituti di Perfezione 5 (1978), 1069-1071; C. Urbanelli, ‘Matteo da Bascio e l’Ordine dei Frati Minori Cappuccini’, in: I cappuccini nel Montefeltro (S. Leo, 1982), 12-62; Costanzo Cargnoni, ‘La figurae l’opera del beato Matteo da Bascio (fine sec. XV-1552)’, Studi montefeltrani 23 (2002), 67-90.

Matthaeus de Bouzigues (Mathieu de Bouzigues, fl. c. 1300)

Franciscan spiritual. Author of a Confessio Fidei

editions

Confessio Fidei, ed. F.-M. Delorme, in: Études Franciscaines 49 (1937), 224-239.

Matthaeus de Burgos (Mateo de Burgos, 1548-after 1611)

OFM. Spanish friar from Valladolid. Joined the Franciscans in his home town on 5 October 1564. Subsequently lector and guardian there. Thereafter visitator of the Franciscan Concepcion province, commissioner and visitator of the Valencia province, as well as provincial minister and general commissioner of the Spanish Franciscans. In 1599 he became confessor of Queen Marguerita of Austria, the wife of King Philip III. With support of the Spanish King, Mateo became bishop of Pamplona (16601-1606). He also was appointed vice-roy of Navarra. In 1606, he was appointed to the episcopal see of Sigüenza (1606-1611), where he embarked on a significant building program. In 1609, he oversaw a diocesan synod, the constitutions of which he published. On top of these constitutions, Mateo wrote several other works.

manuscripts/editions

Lecciones sobre los ángeles y la creación: MS Paris BN 18.147

Discursos evangélicos (Madrid, 1599).

Constituciones sinodales de la diócesis Seguntina (Sigüenza-Madrid, 1609).

literature

Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1806), 172; Gams, Series Episcoporum, 63, 75; T. Minguella, Historia de la diócesis de Sigüenza y de sus obispos, II(Madrid, 1912), 190ff & III (Madrid, 1913), 1-10, 13, 53; AIA 3 (1913), 145-146 & 4 (1916), 380-381; S. Ruiz,‘Burgos’, DHGE X, 1356-1357.

Matthaeus de Heredia (Mateo de Heredia, fl. later 17^th cent.)

OFM. Mexican friar of the Santo Evangelio province

literature

AIA28 (1968), 454-455; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 126 (no. 401).

Matthaeus/Mateo de la Natividad (fl. ca. 1640)

OFMDisc. Member of the San Pablo province.

manuscripts

Defensa Dominicana: MS Madrid, Bibl. Nac. 4037 [Castro, Madrid, no. 222]

See for these and other works also AIA 37 (1934), 557

literature

AIA 28(1927), 98-99, 110; AIA 37 (1934), 557-558; AIA 15 (1955), 362-365; AIA 35 (1975), 112; Manuel de Castro,Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 146 (no. 558).

Matthaeus de Oviedo (Mateo de Oviedo, d. 1610)

OFMObs. Spanish Friar. Archbishop of Dublin (1600).

literature

J. Ignacio Tellechea Idígoras, ‘Fray Mateo de Oviedo, arzobispo de Dublín (1600)’, Archivo Ibero-Americano 62/nos. 241-242 (2002), 327-344.

Matthaeus de Sancto Francisco (Matías de San Francisco, fl. c. 1640)

OFMDisc. Member of the San Diego province (Andalucia).

literature

AIA14 (1920), 323-343; AIA 18 (1922), 223-224; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 146 (no. 559).

Matthaeus de Sosa (Mateo de Sosa, fl. seventeenth cent.)

OFMObs. Portuguese friar and Scotist theologian

editions

Articulatio et illustratio libri primi Sententiarum Doctoris Subtilissimi I.D. Scoti, 2 Vols. (Salamanca, 1629).

Matthaeus Giéguez (Matiás Diéguez, fl. first half 18^th cent.)

OFM. Franciscan missionary in the Santiago province.

literature

AIA 21(1924), 80-81; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 107 (no. 265).

Matthaeus Osiecki (Mateusz Osiecki, d. 1741)

OFMRef. Polish friar and order architect.

literature

Adam J. Blachut, ‘Brat Mateusz Osiecki, architekt Wielkopolskiej Prowincji Reformatów w I pol. XVIII wieku’, Studia Franciszkanskie 12 (2002), 249-276.

Matthaeus de Velasco (Matías de Velasco, fl. early eighteenth cent.)

OFM. Spanish friar. Active at Alcalá.

manuscripts

Expositio in VIII libros Physicorum Aristotelis iuxta mentem Subtilissimi Doctoris nostri Ioannis Duns Scoti ( 1712): Madrid Bib. Nac. 13655.

literature

Castro, Madrid, 549.

Matthaeus Sylvagius (Matteo Silvaggi, fl. first half sixteenth cent.)

OFMObs. Italian friar. Born in Catania. Entered the Franciscan order in the Sicilian province. Taught theology in the Catania convent and maybe also at the local university. In 1536, he is found in the Santa Maria degli Angeli convent of Palermo. By 1542, he lived in the San Francesco della Vigna convent of Venice. It is possible that in the 1530s or 1540s he also taught in the Franciscan custodial school network, and was connected to the University of Padua: he apparently edited his commentary on the Physics of Aristotle on request of Paduan students, and dedicated the work to them. Matteo was a fairly productive author of spiritual, exegetical, and historical works, and also engaged in the production of philosophical works. Aside from his Modo divivere secondo la divina volontà, most of his writings were published in or shortly before 1542 in Venice.

editions

Modo di vivere secondo la divina volontà/Disciplina Salutis (Palermo, 1536)[Italian guide for those who want to live a truly Christian life]

De Nuptiis Animae cum Christo eius Sponso (Venice, 1542) [A treatise in four books and eleven chapters on the spiritual life. The titles of the main chapters (after the initial chapter) are: 2) De conviviis spiritualibus; 3) De persuasionibus falsis Sathanae; 4) De casu animae in peccatum; 5) De lamentationibus Hieremiae; 6) De fletu animae et sua conversione; 7) De gratia et remediis peccatorum; 8) De regimine post conversionem; 9) De preparatione ad mortem; 10) De electione Dei et hominum et praedestinatione sanctorum; 11) Dialogus inter rempublicam et philosophum. Chapter seven (De gratia et remediis peccatorum sometimes is signalled as a separate work. See on this work also Collectanea Franciscana 38 (1968), 357.]

Labyrinthi Duo de Mundano et Divino Amore cum suis exordiis, differentiis et fructibus, cumque suis semitis rite ordinatis usque ad centrales, ut vocant, terminos, vel inferni, vel felicitatis aeternae (Venice, 1542).

Apotheca Divini Amoris/De Apotheca Viridarii Labyrinthi quae est Sanctissima Crux, ubi venditur Amor Dei (Venice, 1542).

Liber de Tribus Peregrinis/Colloquia trium Peregrinorum (Venice, 1542) [A big work, dealing with theological, exegetical and historical issues. It talks about the divine perfections, the religious philosophy of saints, the origin and nature of the various languages, the various parts of the world (in the Mappa Mundi tradition?; the whole thing is somewhat reminiscent of the historical works of Paulinus Minorita) and their history, the various peoples of the world, the greatness of Rome and Jerusalem, and the meaning of several biblical texts. Two of its parts are sometimes referred to as separate works, namely the Chronicon Rerum Sicilarum usque ad Adventum Caroli V Imperatorem in Siciliam (pp. 46v-79v, dealing with the history of Sicily and related issues from 624 to 1537), and the Expositio XIV Versuum Priorum Capitis I Evangelii S. Ioannis (pp. 142v-147v)]

Tractatus de Navigio Mundi>>> referred to in the Liber de Tribus Peregrinis but as yet not found.

Lectura sive Expositio Brevis super Octo Libros Physicorum Aristotelis (Venice, 1542) [Lucid commentary, predominantly following philosophical positions of Scotus and Francis of Meyronnes]

literature

A. Mongitore, Bibliotheca Sicula (Palermo, 1714) II, 60-61; Sbaralea, Supplementum II, 232-233; G.M. Mira, Bibliografia Siciliana (Palermo, 1881) II, 367-368; D. Scaramuzzi, Il pensiero di Giovanni Duns Scoto nel Mezzogiorno d’Italia (Rome, 1927), 123-125; DThCat XIV/2, 2064-2065; DSpir XIV, 860-861.

Matthias Alonso (Matías Alonaso, fl. first half 18^th cent.)

OFM. Order historian in the Concepción province.

literature

AIA 8 (1948), 18-20; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografia de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 82.

Matthias Baldi(second half 17th cent.)

OFMCap. Venetian friar. Preacher and mariologist.

editions

Exercizio di lodi divotissime in formi disalutazioni, ovvero colloqui da offrirsi alla gran Madre di Dio, ed al glorioso patriarca S. Giuseppe, aggiunt’ivi trenta esercizi dell’amor di Dio (Venice, 1664).

Giardino fiorito di Maria, 2 Vols. (Venice, 1678).

literature

Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca scriptorum ordinis minorum sancti Francisci capuccinorum (Venice, 1747), 185; A. Teetaert, ‘Baldi’, DHGE VI, 336

Matthias Bellintani de Salò (Mattia Bellintani da Salò, 1534 - 1611)

OFMCap. Of noble descent (from San Pietro di Liano). Entered the Capuchin order on October 4, 1551. After his noviciate and professional training, he became active as a preacher and as theology and language teacher. Two times provincial of the Milan province (1574-5 &1580-3). After the separation of the Brescia province from that of Milan, Mattia transferred to the Brescia province. In 1575, he was elected general definitor and was appointed general commissioner for the French regions. Actively involved in the establishment of new Capuchin foundations in France (a.o. Chambéry, Lyon and Paris). Became involved in the training of novices. He returned to Italy in 1578. In 1599, Mattia fulfilled the role of general commissioner for Switzerland, and in 1602 for Bohemia. After his return to the Brescia province in 1605, he was almost immediately elected provincial, a function he kept until his death on July 20, 1611. His historical works, which remained unedited until the twentieth century, were a source of information for the Annals of Zaccaria Boverio.

manuscripts/editions

Textus theologici, 2 Vols.:>>>

Tractatus de Immaculata Conceptione Dei Genetricis Mariae:>>>

Casus de Usura et Tractatus:>>>

Tractatus Varii et Casus:>>>

De Actionibus Christi Secundam Suam Humanitatem:>>>

Theologia Seraphica:>>>

Casus Varii Pertinentes ad Bullas et ad Fratres Minores:>>>

De Occasione Peccandi et Aliae Quaestiones/Quaestiones Variae:>>>

Quaestiones in I. Sententiarum D. Bonaventurae:>>>

Lectiones in Magistrum Sententiarum:>>>

Dogmatum Fragmenta ex Sententii D. Augustini:>>>

Dogma Ecclesiae ex Sacris Conciliis Compilata:>>

Fragmenta in Canones:>>>

Trattati, Questioni e Prediche della Messa:>>>

Delle Indulgenze:>>>

Tractatus de Correctione Fraterna:>>>

Tractatus de Imaginibus:>>>

Miscellanea in S. Scripturam:>>>

Lectiones Viginti in Tobiam:>>>

Expositio in Librum Apocalypsis B. Joannis Apostoli:>>> According to a letter by the Franciscan procurator general (4 September 1627), this book was not allowed to be published.

In Sermones Seraphici Doctoris S. Bonaventurae, et in Evangelia de Tempore a Paschate ad Adventum Scripturales Introductiones, Quibus Adjecti Sunt Sermones Ipsi Eiusdem Seraphici Doctoris ab Eodem et Auctore Correcti (Venice,1588).

Insigniores Quaedam Sententiae, Quae Praesertim Concionibus Valeant Deservire ex Divo Augustino, ex Divo Gregorgio, ex Divo Cypriano et ex Divo Hieronymo Excerptae, 4 Vols:>>>

Quadragesimale Ambrosianum Duplex. In Hoc Opere per Singolos Quadragesimae Dies Habetur Bina Concio cum Morali Juxta Evangelia, Quae in Ecclesia Mediolanensi Leguntur, 2 Vols. (Lyon, 1624 & 1625). This work later was printed as: Conciones Exquisitissimae in Singulos Dies Totius Quadragesimae et Adventus Accommodatae (Cologne, 1628 & 1681).

Orazione funebre nella morte d’Alessandro Luzzago, nobile Bresciano (Brescia, 1602).

Delli dolori di Christo Signore nostro, prediche otto (Bergamo, 1598).

Quattro prediche delle risurrettione, della manifestatione di Christo risuscitato, dell’annonciatione e della tentatione di Christo (Brescia, 1598). This work, together with the Delli dolori di Christo, also appeared as: Delli dolori di Christo, Signore nostro, prediche otti, con altre quattro d’altre materie, tutte predicate nel duomo di Milano l’anno 1597 (Brescia, 1598).

Conciones et Sermones Quadruplices pro Tempore Adventus, 2 Vols.:>>>MS Bresia, Biblioteca dei Capuccini?

Conciones Quadragesimales Secundum Ritum et Ordinem Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae, 5Vols.:>>>MS Brescia, Biblioteca dei Capuccini?

Sermones sive Conciones de Passione et Morte D.N. Jesu Christi:>>>MS Brescia, Biblioteca dei Capuccini?

Conciones sive Sermones pro Solemnitate Quadraginta Horarum:>>MSBrescia, Biblioteca dai Capuccini?

Discorso delle vera beatitudine sopra le parole dell’apocalisse: Beati mortui, qui in Domino moriuntur: MS Saló, Biblioteca dei Capuccini >>

Prediche alla Madonna: >>>MS Saló, Biblioteca dei Capuccini?

Sermones et Conciones pro Omnibus Festis B. Mariae Virginis:>>>MS Brescia, Biblioteca dei Capuccini?

Due corsi di prediche per il sacro avvento: MS Albino (near bergamo), Biblioteca Capuccina>>

Corso di Prediche Quaresimali: MS Albino (near Bergamo), Biblioteca Capuccina>>

Pratica dell’orazione mentale (Brescia, 1573/Venice, 1574 & 1580). Mattia subsequently revised this work. This revision also appeared several times. It saw several translations and had quite an impact on the Capuchin spiritual landscape. A modern edition appeared as: Prattica dell’orazione mentale, ed. Humilis da Genoa, Bibliotheca Seraphico-Cappuccina, sectio ascetico-mystica 1-2 (Assisi, 1932-3).

Prattica per l’orazione mentale della beatissima vergine Maria:>>>

Trattato della santa orazione delle Quarant’ore (Venice, 1586/Brescia,1583/Rome, 1588/Pavia, 1530/Verona, 1585)

Meditazioni, ovvero corona della vita epassione di Gesù Christo (Bologna,1570 & 1610/Milan, 1614).

Esaggerationi morali, nelle quali con concelti morali, teologici e scritturali si mostra la bruttezza dei vitii per modo di riprensione e la bellezza delle virtù per modo di ezortatione (Saló, 1622).

Preparazione alla sacrosanta Messa per celebrarla ed ascoltarla con divoto sentimento (Saló, 1615). This work also was published together with the afore-mentioned Meditazioni as: Meditazioni sulla passione di N.S. Gesù Cristo (Bologna, 1610/Saló, 1626).

Confortatio per quelli che dalla giustizia sono condannati a morti (Brescia, 1614/Saló, 1661/Bologna, 1661/Brescia, 1723).

Epistolae:>>>

Teatro del Paradiso, ovvero meditazioni della celeste gloria, per le quali viene proposto un modo facle di contemplare con utilità dell’anima la vera beatitudine(Saló, 1620).

Della vera origine i papa Adriano VI (1586): Brescia, Biblioteca Queriniana>>

Historia Capuccina, ed. Melchior de Pobladura, Monumenta Historica Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum 5-6, 2 Vols. (Rome, 1946-1950).

Vita della beata Angela Merici da Desenzano, fondatrice delle orsoline e terziaria francescana:>>>

Vita di S. felice da Cantalice laico cappuccino (Venice, 1730); AASS maiiIV, 210-233.

La Ven. Servo di Dio Maria Lorenzo Longo [before 1600], ed. E. d’Alençon (Naples, 1896).

literature 

Wadding, Scriptores (ed. Rome, 1906), 171; Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1921), 234-235; Bernardo di Bologna, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum(Venice, 1747), 185-187; U. d’Alençon, ‘La spiritualité franciscaine’, Études franciscaines 39 (1927), 452-453; A.Teetaert, ‘Bellintani’, DHGE VII, 913-917; C. Bérubé, L’amour de Dieu selon Jean Duns Scot, Porète, Eckhart, Benoît de Canfiel et les Capucins, Bibl. Seraphico-Cappuccina 53 (Rome, 1997); Roberto Cuvato, ‘Elementi teologico-spirituali nelle opere di Mattia Bellintani da Salò (1534-1611)’, Laurentianum38 (1997), 3-72 & 267-276;Roberto Cuvato, Mattia Bellintani da Salò (1534-1611), un cappuccino tra il pulpito e la strada, Dimensioni spirituali14 (Rome, 1999) [cf. Collectanea Franciscana 70 (2000), 257-259]; Beni culturali cappuccini. Palazzo Kramer, Milano, I Bellintani, 3 fratelli cappuccini nella Milano del ’600, Mostra (Milano, Convento Cappuccini, 2000).

Matthias Boccioloni (1631-1695)

OFMCap. Italian friar from Valduggia (Vercelli, Piedmonte). Entered the Capuchin order in the Milan province at the age of 17. After his noviciate at Orta San Giulio, he studied philosophy and theology. Became a lector, specialising in Bonaventurean doctrines. On request of his superiors, he reworked his teaching courses into two Tractatus, which apparently have remain unedited.

manuscripts

Tractatus Philosophiae ad Mentem S. Bonaventurae

Tractatus Theologiae iuxta Mentem Doctoris Seraphici D. Bonaventurae

literature  

V. Bonari, I conventi e i Cappuccini dell’antico ducato di Milano, II: I cappuccini della provincia milanese dalla fondazione (1535) fino a noi, 1: Biografie dei piu distinti nei sec. XVI e XVII. Memorie storiche raccolte da manoscritti (Cremona, 1898), 179; A. Teetaert, ‘Boccioloni’, DHGE IX, 310-311.

Matthias Cats (Felicius/Matthias van Brouwershaven, d. 1576)

Oncle of the Dutch poet Jacob Cats. Matthias joined the order against the wish of his family. Career as lector, guardian and provincial. Died as provincial in 1576.

editions

Catholica Praeceptorum Decalogi Elucidatio (Antwerp, 1573)

Institutionis Christianae Catholica Elucidatio (Antwerp, 1575).

literature 

Nieuw Nederlandsche Biographie III, 213; Dietsche Warande 3 (1857), 194; Holzapfel, Handbuch, 483; Dirks, 99; De katholiek  101 (1892), 121; Schoutens, Martyrologium, March 6; W. Schmitz, Het aandeel derminderbroeders, 102

Matthias Croonenborch (1622-1684)

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literature

B. de Troeyer, Franciscana, 41 (1986), 134-144, 147-175

Matthias de Pinedo (Matías de Pinedo, fl. later 17^th cent.)

OFM. Preacher in the Cantabria province.

literature

AIA 17 (1922), 423; Manuel de Castro,Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 165 (no. 684.

Matthias de Salò (>>>>)

OFMCap.

editions

Matthias a Salò, Historia Capuccina, Melchior da Pobladura, 2 Vols. (Romae 1946-1950).

La práctica de la oración mental>>

Matthias de Saspow (Maciej ze Saspowa, d. 1473)

Order theologian

literature

Zofia Wlodek, ‘Maciej ze Saspowa’, Powszechna Encyklopedia Filosofii VI, 665-666.

Matthias Doering (Doring/Döring, c. 1390 - d. 1469) Doctor Armatus

Friar from Kyritz/Prignitz (Custody of Brandenburg). Probably entered the order at an early age. Maybe initial studies and lectorate studies at the Magdeburg studium before he went for ca. five years to Oxord (around 1420), to become lector at the Erfurt convent studium in 1422, just when he matriculated in the Erfurt theology degree program. Became baccalaureus at Erfurt in 1423 and master of theology in 1424. Maybe regent master of theology at Erfurt in 1424 and subsequent years. Provincial of Saxony between 1227 and 1461. Continued to be active at academic celebrations (such as at the University of Rostock in 1434), and became deeply engaged in the Council of Basel (July 1432 and after). For the council, he travelled to the kings of Poland and Denmark, as well as to the Duke of Magdeburg and Saxony. He was involved enough with the council of Basel to bring his order province under the obedience of pope Felix V, and to have himself elected minister general of the order by the adherents of this anti-pope (1443). Finally resigned this position in 1449, when he realised that he supported a lost cause. Staunch defender of the so-called Wilsnacker Wonderblut against Heinrich Toke and the Archbishop of Magdeburg. Although he was in favour of order reform, he became a strong opponent of the strict Observance (as a threat to the unity of the Franciscan order) and defended the work of Nicholas of Lyra. Matthias was a productive Old Testament exegete himself. He also wrote scholastic works, historical works, writings on the order and on the rule of Francis (in relation to poverty issues and the problem of observant reform). His Chronica continues the Nova Chronica of Dietrich Engelhus (d. 1434), whose chronicle compilation was written for teaching purposes. Doering’s continuation deals with the years 1420-1464 and contains many diary-like entrances, predominantly on Germany, the Basel council, the Turc threat, the Hussites, natural marvels and miracles. In this chronicle (which at one point in time refers to Petrarca’s Vita solitaria),Matthias fulminates, at times in a rather bitter way, against the failing leaders of church and state.

manucripts

Lectura super I, III & IV Sent. [Scotist Sentences commentary, cf. Meier (1930),83-89: Munich, Staatsbibl. Clm. 8997 ff. 11r-100r, 170r-219v

Principium In II Sent & Principium de Metaphysica: MS Münster Studien- und Zentralbibliothek der Franziskaner Ms OFM 16 ff. 127rb-142vb [These principia probably go back to Matthias’ bachelorship (1422/23). This manuscript was rediscovered by Eva Schlotheuber in the 1990s. She was able to ascertain that the manuscript originally belonged to the medieval Franciscan library of Lüneburg. Cf. Eva Schlotheuber, ‘Bildung und Bücher. Ein Beitrag zur Wissenschaftidee der Franziskanerobservanten’, in: Könige, Landesherren und Bettelorden. Konflikt und Kooperation in West- und Mitteleuropa bis zur Frühen Neuzeit, ed. Dieter Berg, Saxonia Franciscana 10 (Werl,1998), 430, note 53.]

Academic Sermons: MS Münster Studien- und Zentralbibliothek der Franziskaner Ms OFM 16 ff. 143vaff [for instance a sermo super officium predicationis, in the Erfurt Church of St. Michael, ff. 143va-145va, a sermon against the Hussites on ff. 158vb-161ra; sermons to celebrate the confirmation of a new rector at Erfurt university, ff. 168rb-170vb, 170vb-173va; a sermo sequens per eundem patrem collectus est contra quendam protervum socium et recitatus die suo in scolis ordinis predicationis Erphordie anno domini 1426 on ff. 176rb-179ra; various sermons in the St. Severus church and the St. Severus school on ff. 181va-189va]

Lectures ‘pro licencia duorum baccalaureorum [on the occasions of the licences of the Augustinian Hermits Herman Zacharia and Heinrich Zolter]: MS Münster Studien- und Zentralbibliothek Ms OFM 16 ff. 173va-176ra

Lecture ‘pro licencia’ of Heinrich Toke: MS Münster Studien- und Zentralbibliothek der Franziskaner Ms OFM 16 ff.189va-192va [Matthias and Heinrich apparently were good friends during this period. Later they became embittered adversaries in the controversy on the ‘Wilsnacker Wunderblut’]

Dialectia>> [Lost?]

Lectura super Iesaiam [lost?]

Quaestiones Variae [two survived]: München, Clm Lat. 8950 ff. 224r-v [=Quaestio disputata in conclavi anno 1424; inc: Utrum corpus Christi existens in sacramento Eucharistiae vere et realiter ibidem existat modo quantitativo atque commensuraliter. Et videtur quod sic. See: Studi Francescani, 9 pp. 70-1. Manuscripts is written by Johannes Sack] & f. 227d [=Quaestio in vesperis Ioannis Gudermann per Matthiam Doering proposita fuit ista in crastino S. Martini (1440, Erfurt); inc.: Utrum praeter legem universalem hominibus inspiratam necesse fuit aliam legem institui caritate informatam.] [See Meier, Die Barfüsserschule, 48, n. 23]

>Sermones as Populum et ad Clerum>>?: Oxford, Balliol College 164 & 165 [Cf. A.G. Little, The Grey Friars in Oxford (Oxford, 1892), 256-7.]

Sermones et Collationes [mostly lost?]: MS Lüneburg Ratsbücherei Theol. Fol.64 [not there anymore according to Meier, Die Barfüsserschule, 48, n. 24] For extracts and content, see MS Hannover, Provinzialbibliothek XXIII, 848-862

Sermo in Die Coenae [ca. 1427]: See Meier, Stud. Franc. 9, pp. 65-93

Sermo de S. Francisco [Basel, 1432> council sermon]: Klosterneuburg, 516ff. 294v-301v

Sermo de Conversione S. Pauli [Basel, 1434>council sermon?]: Darmstadt, 368 ff. 92r-96r; Klosterneuburg, 516 ff. 357-366v; Trier, 310 ff. 34r-36r

Sermo in Dominica Iudica [Basel, 1434>council sermon?]: Darmstadt, 368 ff. 161r-165v; Klosterneuburg 516 ff. 290r-294v; Trier, 310 ff. 37r-39v.

Sermo de S. Nicolao [Basel, 1434>council sermon?]: Darmstadt 368, ff.10v-14r; Klosterneuburg, 516 ff. 285v-290r; Trier 310 ff. 31r-33r

Sermo in Epiphania Domini [Basel, 1436, council sermon]: Erlangen 535 ff. 199v-209r [Mansi, Sacrorum Conciliorum (…) Collectio, 30 (Venice, 1792), 1236-8

Sermo de Sepultura Domini: Eisleben Turmbibliothek 961 ff. 84v-86v [inc.: Matth. 211. Altera autem die quae est post Parasceve venerunt ad Pilatum]

Defensorium Postillae Nicolai de Lyra contra Paulum Burgensem (after 1429): a.o. Danzig, 1914 ff. 97a-152v; Melk Stiftsbibliothek 127 [olim 136/C. 14] (anno 1438); Munich clm 18177 [Cf. also Meier, Die Barfüsserschule, 49, n. 28 & Albert, Mattias Doering, 17-25]

Propositio circa Husitarum Articulum de Donatione Constantini [defended at the council of Basel, 1432]: Berlin, Lat. 637 ff. 136v-138r; Lüneburg, Ratsbücherei Ms. Hist. C 2° 34 ff. 1r-11r; Paris BN Lat. 1499 ff. 20v-23v [Cf. also Albert, Mattias Doering, 37-42 & Meier, Die Barfüsserschule,49, n. 30]

Liber perplexorum Ecclesiae: a conglomerate of conciliarist writings (by him and by others, including writings of his opponents), mentioned in his Chronica under the year 1442. This apparently did not survive. [maybe this included the Confutatio Primatus Papae (attributed to Gregor Heimburg), a piece in the vein of Marsilius of Padua’s Defensor Pacis, which in 1443 was sent to Magdeburg and the Duke of Brandenburg (MS Wölfenbüttel Herzog-August Bibliothek 783 Helmstedt ff. 25r-34r; Berlin Lat.fol. 305 ff. 147r-153r. See Meier, Die Barfüsserschule, 50 & Albert, Mattias Doering, 49.]

Writings against the Hussites [together with Johannes Bremer]: Koblenz, Staatsarchiv 220 ff. 424r-426r [Inc: Videte ne quis vos seducat inanibus verbis…; See also Meier, Die Barfüsserschule, 50, n. 37]

Quaestio de Sanguine Christi [on the Wilsnacker Wunderblut affair]: >> See Meier, Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte, 3 (1951), 53-69.

Factum:>> See Meier, Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte, 3 (1951), 57, n. 20

Conflatum super Martinianas:>> Cf. Albert (1892) 57; Doelle (1918) 4f.

De Paupertate:>> Cf. Piana, AFH 50 (1957), 48f.

Writings on the rule of Francis (1451):>> See Oliger, Franziskanische Studien, 9 (1921) 203-236 & the new study of Weigel.

Chronica: Leipzig, Universitätsbibl. 1310 (an. 1464) ff. 109r-124r [See also Albert, Mattias Doering,83-128]

Litterae: >> See Albert, Mattias Doering, 45-69, 78-9; Meier, Die Barfüsserschule, 49 & n. 34

Appellatio contra Magdeburgensem Archiepiscopum (1461): >> See Albert, Mattias Doering, 77 &Gerbhardt (1888), 287-291.

A more or less conclusive overview of Matthias’ writings can be found in the appendices of the 2005 book-length study on Matthias Döring by Petra Weigel

editions

Defensorium Nicolai de Lyra O.M. Contra Paulum Burgensem> several editions, (a.o. ed. Paulus a Mercatello, Cologne, Joh. Herbort pro Joh. de Cologne, 1481, Basel, 1498 and 1507. Often together with the Postilla Litteralis of Nicholas.)

Circa Regulam/ Informatio de Regula Fratrum Minorum: see L. Oliger, `Matthias Dorings Gutachten über die Franziskaner-regel (1451)und observantistische Gegenschrift’, Franzisk. Studien, 9 (1922), 203-236; Petra Weigel, Ordensreform und Konziliarismus: Der Franziskanerprovinzial Matthias Döring (1427-1461), Jenaer Beiträge zur Geschichte, Band 7 (Frankfurt a.M.-Berlin-Bern-Brussels-NewYork-Oxford-Vienna: Peter Lang, 2005), pp. 377-389.

Replicatio de Sanguine>>?:

Matthiae Doeringii Doct. Ord. Min. Continuatio Chronici Theodorici Engelhusii ab Anno MCCCCXX usque ad Annum MCCCCXCVVIII, ed. Johannes Burchard Mencken, Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum, Praecipue Saxonicarum, III Vols (Leipzig, 1730), 1-30 [Reprint: Codex Diplomaticus Brandenburgensis, ed. Adolf Friedrich Riedel, 4. Haupttl, 1. Bd (Berlin, 1862), 209-234.

See for more editions of letters, sermons, and smaller treatises, as well as references to manuscripts and existing editions the large appendix to the 2005 study of Petra Weigel.

literature

Glassberger, Chronica, in: AF II (1887), passim; Karl E.H. Krause, ‘Der Chronist Matthias Döring 1420-1464’, Forschungen zur deutschen Geschichte 19 (1879), 591; B. Gerbhardt, ‘Matthias Doering der Minorit’, Historische Zeitschrift 59 (1888), 248-294; ; Peter Paul Albert, Matthis Doering, ein deutscher Minorit des 15. Jahrhundert (Stuttgart, 1892); Concilium Basiliense ed. J. Haller, Band II (Basel, 1897), 164, 249, 519; F. Doelle, Die Observanzbewegung in der sachsischen Franziskanerprovinz, Reformationsgeschichtliche Studien und Texte 30/31 (1918); Livarius Oliger, ‘Matthias Dörings Gutachten über die Franziskanerregel [1451] und observantistische Gegenschrift’, Franziskanische Studien 9 (1922), 203-236; P. Ludger Meier, `Der Sentenzenkommentar des Matthias Doring’, Franziskanische Studien 17 (1930), 83-89, 19 (1932), 279-280 L. Meier, `De Schola Franciscana Erfordiensi saeculi XV’, Antonianum, 5 (1930), 59-70; L. Meier, Studi Francescani 9 (1937), 65-93; L. Meier, ‘Wilsnack (...)’, Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 3 (1951), 53-69; L. Meier, Die Barfüsserschule zu Erfurt, 20-21, 47-50; R. Kleineidam, Universitas Studii Erffordiensis Teil I: Spätmittelalter 1392-1460 (Leipzig, 1985), 99f, 131-133, 275f, 288f, 349; Katharina Colberg, ‘Döring, Matthias’, VL²II, 207-210 & XI, 379; Catto, `Wyclif and Wycliffism at Oxford, 1356-1430’, The History of the U. of Oxford, II, 177-178. Eva Schlotheuber [see her article mentioned in manuscript section above] is preparing a large study on Matthias’ academic writings; Petra Weigel, Ordensreform und Konziliarismus. Der Franziskanerprovinzial Matthias Döring (1427-1461), Jenaer Beiträge zur Geschichte, 7 (Pieterlen-Frankfurt a.M.-Bern: Peter Lang, Europäischer Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2005). Cf. review in CF 76,3-4 (2006), 658-660.

Matthias Keul (1656-1703)

OFM. German friar from the Rhine valley. Renowned preacher.

literature

DSpirVIII, 1718.

Matthias Ortiz de Pinedo (Matías Ortiz de Pinedo, fl. later 17^th cent.)

OFM. Preacher in the Cantabria province.

literature

AIA 15 (1955), 382; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 157 (no. 645).

Matthias Ruiz Blanco (Matías Ruiz Blanco, fl. late 17th cent.)

Franciscan author, active in Latin America

literature

B.H. Slicher van Bath, De bezinning op het verleden in Latijns Amerika 1493-1820. Auteurs, verhalen en lezers (Groningen, 1998), passim

Matthias Svezzia (geen minderbroeder, wel invloedrijk voor Bernardinus van Siena) (ca.1281-1350)

Auteur van een Expositio super Apocalypsim.

literature

D. Pacetti, 'L'&laquo; Expositio super Apocalypsim&raquo; di Mattia di Svezia (ca. 1281-1350) precipua fonte doctrinale di S. Bernardino da Siena.' Archivum Franciscanum Historicum. 56 (1961) 273-302

Matthias Valvekens (d. 1682)

OFMRec

literature

Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon XX, 1485.

Matthias Weynsen (Matthias Wentsen van Dordrecht, ca. 1480-1547)

Born in Dordrecht in a well-to-do patrician family. Entered the Observant order in the Cologne province and became active in the convent of Antwerp. Vicarius in Antwerp, and thereafter Guardian in Leyden and (from September 1517 onwards) in Antwerp. Provincial minister between 1521-24 and 1425-28 (after the death of Heinrich von Emmerich, provincial minister between 1524 and 1525). Between 1527-29, Matthias was responsible for the creation of the new province of Lower Germany (a split-off from the Cologne province). In this new province, Matthias became guardian of Bois-le-Duc. Subsequently, he became provincial minister of the new province between 1534-35, and between 1538-40. Held also several other functions in the order (commissioner for the German and Dutch provinces between 1526 and 1529; general commissioner for the twelve Ultramontan provinces (1529-1532 and 1535-1539); general definitor for the order as a whole between 1536 and 1538), and acted as a counsellor of emperor Charles V and Mary of Hungary (governess of The Netherlands for emperor Charles V). Matthias became active in the struggle against Protestantism, embarking on preaching tours in the Rhine valley (1520), and taking further action during his various provincialate charges. Sbaralea even suggests that ‘contra Lutheri haeresim pugilem fortissimum qui et Coloniam anefaria ista peste conservavit.’ Though apparently no proficient author himself, he was a stimulating force behind the production of several spiritual works in Lower German and Dutch. Hence he supported Jan van Alen’s translation of Raymond Jourdan’s Contemplationes Idiotae (1535), and he published in lower German the Fasciculus Myrrhe (1517) [not to be confused with a text bearing the same name, published in Antwerp, 1553], a work written by an anonymous friar of the Cologne province. The work was printed 24 times in the 16th century alone. It received a thorough revision in the 17th century edition of Franziskus Cauwe OFM (which in turn ran in four editions). In 1535, Matthias published De verweckinghe der godlijcker liefden, a translation in Low German of Jacob of Milan’s Stimulus Amoris. It is not known whether Matthis himself was the translator, or whether he merely facilitated the publication. Matthias did leave behind two sermons in Dutch, both of which probably were held before the Poor Clares of Amsterdam in 1521.

manuscripts

Een scoen sermon op die olyven boems liefden (…) Noch drie scoene punten van des voerseyden vaders sermoen [Sermo de Conditionibus Olivae (seu de Modo Quo Soror Clarissa Vitam Peragere Debet)]: Brussels Kon. Bibl, 11151-55, ff. 184r-196v [two sermons, probably held before the Poor Clares of Amsterdam in 1521. The text is written by a Poor Clare, and amounts to a transcription of Mattias’ own notes, or a reportation of the sermons as she heared them. The first sermon elaborates on the symbol ofthe olive, to list and expound on the true virtues of a Poor Clare: Whereas the hard wood of the olive tree symbolises the fundamental virtues of patience, spiritual strength, and faithfullness, the leaves symbolise different virtues of speech and piety, the odor of the olive symbolises the good reputation of the convent, and the oil symbolises the love for God and one’s fellow sisters. The second sermon elaborates on the three conditions that provide certitude about being a child of the eternal life: fidelity to one’s vocation, a good conscience, and a profound disdain for the world]

Litterae: Twelve letters written between 23 January 1523 and 19 November1535. Cf. B. De Troeyer, Bio-Bibliographia Franciscana Neerlandica, SaeculiXVI, 1 (Nieuwkoop, 1969), 39-40.

editions

De verweckinghe der godlijcker liefden (Antwerp, 1535). [Translation of the Stimulus Amoris]

Fasciculus Myrrhe: dat is een zonderlinge devote materie van die passie…(Delft, 1517 and many other editions/Amsterdam, 1677 & 1696 (Cauwe’s re-edition)) [The Fasciculusamounts to a devotional treatise in three books on the sufferings of Christ. After presenting Christ’s physical and mental sufferings, the text explains how one should contemplate them. Thereafter, the text proposes how each event of Christ’s passion, from the Last Supper to the Ascension can be approached through meditative and devotional exercises.]

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum II, 233-4; S. Dirks, Histoire littéraire des Frères Mineurs en Belgique (Antwerp, 1885), 34-37; P. Schlager, Beiträge zur Geschichte des Kölnischen Franziskaner-Ordensprovinz während des Reformationszeitalters (Regensburg, 1909), 18-19, 26-27, 29, 33, 36-41, 49-51, 225, 228, 230-231, 282-283; La France Franciscaine 17 (1934), 219-220; C. Sloots, ‘Pater Matthias Weynsen’, Bijdragen voor de Geschiedenis van de Provincie der Minderbroeders in de Nederlanden, 2 (1947), 348-365; Benjamin De Troeyer, ‘Weynsen’, Nationaal Biografisch Woordenboek I (Brussel, 1964), 967-968; Benjamin De Troeyer,‘Matthias Weynsen’, Franciscana 20(1965), 19-25; Benjamin De Troeyer, Bio-Bibliographia Franciscana Neerlandica, Saeculi XVI, 1 (Nieuwkoop, 1969), 31-40; 2 (Nieuwkoop, 1970), no. 127-50, 708-709; Heinz-Meinolf Stamm, ‘Weynsen’, Dict. Spir XVI (1994), 1404-1406.

Mauritius Centini (Maurizio Centini, d. 1640)

OFMConv. Theologian and bishop of Massa Lubrese (1626) and Mileto (1631)

literature

DThCat II,2136

Mauritius Gallus (first half 13th cent.)

Friar since 1239. Lector in 1247 and 1248.

manuscripts

Distinctiones: Troyes, 1703; Paris, BN, Lat. 3270;Alcobaza>>? [check!]

editions

Distinctiones (Venice: Bartolocci, 1603)

literature

Zawart, 358

Mauritius Hibernicus (Mauritius de Provins, Belvacensis, Pruvinensis/ d. after 1275)

Franciscan preacher and exegete; well-regarded for his learning and eloquence. According to Salimbene, Mauritius came from Provins, were he was active as lector ca. 1248. Clashed with Joachimist friars. In 1275 he was made procurator for the natio anglicana at the U. of Paris. Famous for his Distinctiones Bibliae, which he produced ca. 1250 (probably in the context of his lectorship?) It is an alfabetically organized preaching manual with many key-words elucidated acccording to the fourfold meaning of Scripture.

manuscripts

Distinctiones Sacrae Scripturae: Troyes 510 & 1703; Naples, Naz. V.H.119; VII.AA.31 (many other manuscripts. See Stegmüller)

Ars Praedicandi [same work? Check]: Bibl, Status Monachii Lat. 19608 ff. 258r-269v

editions

Dictionarium S. Scripturae (Venice, 1603) [partial edition]

literature

Hist. Lit. France, 21 (1847), 132-137; Sbaralea, Suppl., II, 240f; Schneyer, IV, 169; Stegmüller, RB, III, 5566-5567; J.B. Schneyer, Geschichte der katholischen Predigt (1969), 166, 181; Dieter Berg, `Mauritius Hibernicus’, LMA, VI, 413; A. Wilmart, `Note sur les plus anciens receuils de distinctiones bibliques’, in: Mémorial Lagrange (Paris, 1940), 335-346; J.B. Schneyer, Geschichte der katholischen Predigt (1969), 166, 181; Louis-Jacques Bataillon, ‘Intermédiaires entre les traités de morale pratique et les sermons: les distinctiones bibliques alphabétiques’, in: Les genres littéraires dans les sources théologiques et philosophiques médiévales. Actes du colloque internationale de Louvain-la-Neuve, 25-27 mai 1981 (Louvain-la-Neuve, 1982), 213-226 (reprinted in: J.-L. Bataillon, La prédication au xiiie siècle en France et Italie. Etudes et documents, Variorum Reprints (Ashgate, 1993) VI, 213-226; Nicole Bériou & David L. D’Avray, ‘The image of the ideal husband in thirteenth century France’, in: Modern Questions about Medieval Sermons: Essays on Marriage, Death, History and Sanctity, ed. Nicole Bériou & David L. D’Avray, Biblioteca di Medioevo Latino, 11 (Spoleto: Centro Italiano di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo, 1994), 31-69.

Mauritius Hibernicus (de Portu/Maurice O’Fihely, d. 1513)

Irish friar and theologian. Studied at Oxford. Active in Baltimore (Cork) and in Padua (from 1492 onwards). Later archbishop of Tuam (1506-13). Editor of the works of Scotus>>

editions

Expositio in Quaestiones Doctoris Subtilis super Porphyrium (Venice, 1512)

Sermones (Paris, 1578) [also other editions, see Zawart, 309]

>> 

literature

Joseph MacMahon, 'Irish Franciscan Scotists of the Seventeenth Century', Canterbury Studies in Franciscan History 2 (2009), 85-112.

Mauritius Poehm (d. 1803)

Franciscan composer, esp. of chamber music.

literature

Darja Frelih, ‘The Franciscans on the Territory of the Present-Day Slovenia and the Remains of their Music Endeavours’, in: Plaude turba paupercula. Franziskanischer Geist in Musik, Literatur und Kunst. Konferenzbericht Bratislava, 4.-6. Oktober 2004, ed. Ladislav Kacic (Bratislava: Jana Stanislava SAV, 2005), 343-350.

Mauritius Schrembgen (d. 1732)

OFMRec.>>>

literature

DSpir XIV, 444-445.

Maximilianus Badoud (d. 1767)

OFMCap. Swiss friar.

literature

Dictionnaire Historique de la Suisse I, 674a & Dizionario Storico della Svizzera I, 722b.

Maximilianus Kolbe

H.M. Manteau-Bonamy, La dottrina mariana di p. Kolbe, lo Spirito Santo e l’Immacolata,trans. Gustavo Parisciani (Rome, 1975); Camillo Semenzato, ‘La pala del beato Kolbe di Pietro Annigoni al Santo’, Il Santo 20 (1980), 139-140; J.-F. de Louvencourt, Saint Maximilien Kolbe: ami et docteur de la prière (Rome, 1998); Pawel Warchol, L’Antropologia di P. Massimiliano M. Kolbe. La visione cristologico-mariana dell’uomo negli scritti e nelle conferenze (Rome, 2000); Jean-François Ville Pelée, ‘L’idéal missionaire du Père Kolbe’, Le Christ au Monde 46 (2001), 222-229 ; Jean-François de Louvencourt, San Massimiliano Kolbe, amico e dottore della preghiera (Rome, 2002) [appeared also in Spanish: San Maximiliano Kolbe, amigo y doctor de la oración (Rome, 2002)]; Giacomo Martinelli, SanMassimiliano Kolbe. Profezia di un metodo di evangelizzazione alla luce della ‘Catechesi tradendae’, ‘Seraphicum’. Pontificia facultas theologica S. Bonaventurae, dissertationes ad Lauream, 97 (Rome, 2002); F. Uricchio, ‘Padre Kolbe e la Sacra Scrittura. Citazioni, richiami e allusioni bibliche nei suoi scritti’, Miscellanea Francescana 105:1-2 (2005), 135-247; Antonio M. Di Monda, L’‘avventura’di s. Massimiliano Kolbe e la crisi odierna dei consigli evangelici (Benevento: Convento S. francesco, 2005).

Maximus Bertani (Massimo Bertani, fl. first half 18th cent.)

OFMCap. Born at Valenza. Joined the order in the Milan province. General archivist of the Capuchins at Rome (1708), and given the task to continue the Annals of P. Oligiati and to complement the first two volumes of Boverio with another volume. He also wrote hagiographical and catechetical works.

editions

Ristretto della vita, miracoli e canonizzazione di S. Felice da Cantalice, cappuccino (Milan, 1712).

Lezionario catechistico (Milan, 1714/Milan, 1717/Venice, 1720/Milan, 1739& 1740/Venice, 1756/Venice, 1763 & 1769).

P. Olgiati, Annali dell’ordine dei frati minori cappuccini, Vol 3 (Milan, 1714). The third part of this volume is written by Massimo.

Vita di S. Massimo, vescovo di Pavia et protettore di Valenza (Milan, 1716). This work also includes the Compendiosa cronologia della citta di Valenza del Po (a.o. a history of the Capuchin convent of Valenza since its foundation in 1585).

>>The completion of Boverio’s annals apparently was never printed.

literature

V. Bonari, I cappuccini della provincia Milanese, II, 1: Biografie dei piu distinti nei secoli XVI e XVII (Cremona, 1898), 447-449; A. Teetaert, ‘Bertani’, DHGE VIII, 919-920.

Maximus Veronensis (Massimo da Verona, 1607-1679)

Painter

literature

Redento D’Alano, P. Massimo da Verona –Frate pittore (1607-1679) (Padua, 1976).

Melchior de Frizzolis de Parma (d. 1520)

OFMConv. Was appointed subdeacon in 1456 by the bishop of Poggibonsi and deacon on 18 December of the same year. Studied at Bologna all the way to the magisterium. Regent master at Parma in 1470 (in the studium of S. Francis al Prato). Commissioner of the monastery of S. Clare at Piacenza and in 1489 commissioner of the convent of Genua. In that period close contacts with Lodovico Maria Sforza. Provincial minister of Bologna in 1506 for two years, when he resigned. Died in 1520 (Parma).

manuscripts/editions

Dialogi de Anima [dedicated to Lodovico Maria Sforza]: Florence, Naz. Magl. XXXIV.50; Reggio Emilia Bibl. Munic. Mss vari B. 113. Work received several editions, o.a.: Melchiorre da Parma, Dialogi de anima (Milan: Leonardo Pachel, 1499). See Sbaralea, Piana, Affò, Pezzana. and Zarri.

literature

Sbaralea, Suppl. II, 246; Affò, Memorie, III, 175-177; Pezzana, Memorie, IV-2, 420-422; C. Piana, Ricerche su le università di Bologna e di Parma nel secolo XV, Spic. Bonav. I (Quaracchi, 1963), 327-8; G. Zarri,‘Purgatorio ‘particolare’ e ritorno dei morti tra Riforma e Controriforma: l’area italiana’, Quaderni Storici17 (1982), 466-497.

Melchior de Cetina (fl. c. 1610)

OMObs. Castilian friar. Was guardian of the San Diego convent at Alcalá in 1605. Also active as lector, preacher and definitor of the Castilian province.

editions

Discursos sobre la vida y milagros del glorioso padre S. Diego, de la Orden del seráfico padre S. Francisco (Madrid, 1609)

Exortación a la devoción de la Virgen Madre de Dios, quo todos los Christianos deven tener (Alcalá, 1618). New edition, in: Misticos Franciscanos Espanoles Tomo III, Biblioteca Autores Cristianos (Madrid, 1949), 721-817.

Melchior de Flavin (Melchior Flavius, d. 1580)

OFMObs. Born in Albi. Entered the order in Southern France. Went repeatedly on pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Commissioner for the German provinces. Papal penitentiary of pope Pius V; preacher of king Henry II of France. Was guardian of the Toulouse convent, where he spent a large part of his adult life. He had a great reputation as learned theologian, prophet, and thaumaturge. He was buried at the Sainte-Marie des Anges convent near Toulouse, near the body of Olivier Maillard. He is commemorated on 17 March. During his life, Melchior published a series of theological, devotional and spiritual works.

editions

Remonstrance de la vraye religion au roy tres-chrestien Charles IX (Paris, 1562)

De l’estat des ames après le trespas, comment elles vivent estans du corps séparées, et des purgatoires qu’elles souffrent en ce monde et en l’autre après icelle séparation (Toulouse, 1563/Toulouse, 1570/Paris, 1579/Paris, 1581/Paris, 1595/Arras, 1605/ Rouen, 1605/Doornik (Douai), 1606)/Rouen, 1614)

Epitome omnium Christi mysteriorum et summa totius sacrae Scripturae(Paris, 1566)

Discours sur la vraie religion (Paris, 1566)

Liber de regno Dei de quo Christus loquutus est per dies quadraginta (…) Complectitur liber hic epitome omnium mysteriorum Christi et summam totius sacrae Scripturae (Paris, 1566/Louvain, 1568/Paris, 1579) [expounds the antagonism between the realm of Christ and the realm of Satan. Reaching back to De Civitate Dei and recalling some the Exercices Spirituels of Ignace of Loyola, Melchior emphasises the spiritual or internal character of the realm of Christ, and links it to the regnum sanctum ecclesia sancta; that is the spiritual realm of all properly baptised Christians, where the latter can find spiritual peace]

Catholica cantici graduum per demegorias enarratio (Paris, 1568) [On the basis of a psalm commentary, the work presents fifteen spiritual stages, ranging from abnegatio mundi (stage one), via hope, desire, confiding in God, several forms of gratitude and reconnaissance, timor Dei, patience, supplicatio poenitentialis and humilitas, to sollicitudo aedificandi domum Dei, charitas fraterna, and charitas Dei.]

De la préparation à la mort, en trois traitez (Toulouse, 1570/Paris, 1581/Rouen, 1605) [The work consists of three treatises: (1) Du despris de la mort, laquelle tout fidèle doit désirer; (2) Des assaux et tentations qui viennent à l’heure de la mort, et manière d’y résister: comment nous devons estre armez à ce dernier combat; (3) De la manière de bien user de la Passionde nostre Seigneur au trespas de la mort. Death is presented as a doorway to Christ, a doorway for which one should prepare throughout one’s life. The vision is rather positive, giving assurances concerning the eternal life and the resurrection of the body.]

Libros de Orbis Terrae Concordia (Basel, 1570) [denunciation of the Koran]

Resolutiones Quaestionum F. Joannis Duns Scoti (…) in IV Libros Sententiarum (Paris, 1579/Venice, 1580/Venice, 1617)

literature

Francisco Gonzaga, De Origine Seraphicae Religionis (Rome, 1587) II, 725; Arthur du Moustier, Martyrologium Franciscanum (Paris, 1653), 121-122; Wadding, Annales Minorum XXI, 242-243 (ad annum 1579, n. 153); Sbaralea, Supplementum II, 245-246; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana (Madrid, 1732)II, 361; AFH 7 (1914), 291; Édouard d’Alençon, ‘Flavin’, DThCath. VI (1920), 20; Willibrord de Paris, ‘Flavin’, DSpir V, 408-410.

Melchior de Huelamo (Melchor de Huélamo, d. 1621)

OFM. Preacher in the Cartagena province.

literature

AIA15 (1955), 316-317; José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica, 11 Vols. (Madrid, 1960-1976) XI, nos. 5335-5346; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 128 (no. 421).

Melchor de los Angeles (17th cent.)

OFM>> Rélacion de la jórnada de don García de Sylva, embaxader: Madrid, Nac. 2348 [Castro, Madrid, n. 128]

Melchor de Yebra (d. 1586)

OFM. Friar from the Castilia province.

literature

Andrés Ivars, ‘Tiene el P. Melchor de Yebra, franciscano, algún titulo parapoder figurar entre los precursores del arte de enseñar a los sordomudos?’, AIA 13 (1920), 384-396; AIA 16 (1921), 381; Manuel de Castro,Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 192 (no. 880).

Merardus Wolff (Medardus, 1687-1745)

OFM. Friar from Ingolstadt. Fulfilled several functions in the Cologne province (diffinitor, visitator), lector of philosophy/theology and guardian at several convents (a.o. in Fulda). Died in Miltenberg

manuscripts

Tractatus in I-IV libros Sententiarum ad mentem Scoti (1714-1720): Ms. Kloster Sigmaringen-Gorheim>>?.

literature

Schäfer (1970), 199-201.

Michael Angelus (Miguel Angelus Buongiorno de Sambuca, 17th cent.)

OMObs. Spanish friar…

manuscripts

Propugnaculum Hororis Regum Catholicum: Madrid, Nac., 1333 ff. 125-127; 2666; 2670 [Castro, Madrid, no. 70, 157 & 158]

literature

J.M. Pou y Marti, `Sobre la grandeza de España a favor de los generales franciscanos’, AIA, 11 (1919), 5-20.

Michael Angelus a Neapoli (Michelangelo di Napoli, d. 1668)

OFM. Italian friar. Bishop.

editions

Chronologia Historico-Legalis Seraphici Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Sancti Patris Francisci, T. I: Capitulorum Omnium et Congregationum Generalium a Primo eiusdem Ordinis Exordio usque ad Annum 1633 (Naples, 1633?)

literature

AIA29 (1928), 154.

Michael Angelus (Diethelm von Schorno, 1631-1712)

OFMCap from Schwitzerland. Preacher. Studied in Luzern, Brescia and Bergamo. Fulfilled several functions in the Cappucin province of Schwitzerland. Councellor of the nuntius Odoardo Cibo.

editions

Tuba Verbi Dei Evangelica (…) Mariale (1711)

Waldischer Zweig-Garten (…) Sanctorale (1711)

Geistliche Wildfang (…) Dominicale (1712)

literature

DictSpir, X, 1202f; LThK,VII³, 239; Helvetia Sacra, V/2, 590; L. Signer, Die Predigtanlage bei P. Michael-Angelus von Schorno, OFMCap. (1631-1712). Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des barockschrifttums, Bibliotheca Seraphico-Capuccina 1 (Assisi, 1933); R.Pichl, CF, 50 (1980), 85ff;>>.

Michael Angelus Bosdari (Michelangelo Bosdari da Ragusa, 1653-1729)

OFMCap

literature

Ivica Petaniak, Michelangelo Bosdari da Ragusi, OFMCap., predicatore, diplomato, uomo di governo e guida spirituale (1653-1729), Diss. (Rome: Pontificia Universitas Gregoriana, 2002); Ivica Petanjak, ‘Michelangelo Bosdari da Ragusa OFMCap., predicatore, diplomato, uomo di governo e guida spirituale (1653-1729)’, Laurentianum 43 (2002), 509-519.

Michael Angelus Carmeli (Michelangelo Carmeli, 1704-1766)

Observant friar from Citadella. Entered the order in the Venetian province. Became professor at Padua. Wrote both on Scripture and on classical antiquities, and translated Greek tragedies and comedies into Italian.

editions

L’Ecuba d’Euripide (Padua, 1747).

Pro Euripide et novo eius italico interprete, dissertatio P. Carmeli(Padua, 1750).

Le Trojane di Euripide, Tragedia, Le Baccanti d’Euripide, Tragedia (Padua,1751).

Storia di varii costumi sacri e profani dagli antiche fino a noi pervenuti, divisa in due tomi, a cui in fines’aggiungono due dissertazioni appartenenti alla venuta del Messia (Padua, 1750/1761).

Il Pluto d’Aristofane, Comedia (Venice, s.a.)

L’Elena d’Euripide, Tragedia (Padua, 1752).

Spiegamento dell’Ecclesiaste sul testo ebreo, o sia la morale del umana vivere insegnata da Salomone (Venice, 1765).

Spiegamento della cantica sul testo ebreo (Venice, 1767).

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum (ed. Rome, 1936) III, 279; Sigismundo da Venezia, Biografia serafica (Venice, 1846), 697; G. Natali, Storia della letteratura italiana. Il settecento (Milan, 1929), 452, 488; Dictionnaire de la Bible II, 302-303; A. Van den Wyngaert, ‘Carmeli’, DHGE XI, 1104

Michaelangelus de Partinico (Michelangelo da Partinico, d. 1789)

OFMCap. Preacher.

Giovanni Spagnolo, ‘San Bernardo da Corleone [d. 1667] in un ‘Ragionamento’ di Michelangelo da Partinico predicatore cappuccino [d. 1789]’, Italia Francescana 80 (2005), 481-494.

Michael Avelanus (Miguel Avellán, fl. c. 1615)

OFM. Spanish friar and bishop. Member of the noble Huercalovera family (Murcia region). Took his profession in 1601 at the Zubia friary (house of the regular observance in the Carthagena province). Miguel studied theology and spent ca. fifteen years as a theology lector, before his appointment to the guardianship of Cordoba (ca. 1618). Subsequently, he was guardian of the Jaen friary. Around that time, he made the acquaintance of King Philip IV of Spain, who appointed him preacher at the royal court and secured for him a position as confessor of the Descalzas reales Poor Clares in Madrid, becoming also responsible for the spiritual wellfare of Mariana of Austria, daughter of the infant Fernando, son of King Philip III and archbishop of Toledo. In 1633, the archbishop made Miguel auxiliary bishop of Toledo and bishop of Madrid. Theological author with immaculist tendencies.

editions

Decimas y glossas en alabança de la Inmaculada Concepcion (Malaga et Séville, 1615).

Declamatio in solemniis urbis Granatensis pro epithalamio Immaculatae Conceptionis (…) (Malaga, 1616).

Oracion funebre en las exequias del marqués de Villareal (Madrid, 1628).

literature

Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca universa franciscana (Madrid, 1732) II, 368; C.R. Fort, España sagrada (Madrid, 1879) LI, 272; F. Escudero, Tipografia hispalense (Madrid, 1894), 334; J. Pou y Marti, Indice analitico de los doc. del siglo XVII del Archivo de la Embajada de España (Rome, 1917), 121; DHGE V (1931), 1006;AIA15 (1955), 231-232

Michael Beltranus (Miguel Beltrán, fl. ca. 1630)

OFM. Preacher in the Castilia province.

literature

AIA 35 (1932), 552-553; José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica, 11 Vols. (Madrid, 1960-1976) VI, nos. 3773-3774; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 92 (no. 157).

Michael Bonsi(Michele Bonsi, 1563-1623)

Italian friar from Rome. Entered the strict Observance. Penitentiary of the Lateran San Giovanni basilica. Appointed Bishop of Scala and Ravello (13 March 1617) by Pope Paul V. Was an active visitator of his diocese, editing the visitation reports for publication.

editions 

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literature 

E. Gamurrini, Istoria genealogica delle famiglie nobile Toscane (Florence, 1668) I, 489; L. Mansi, Ravello Sacra Monumentale (Ravello, 1887), 46; G. Cappelletti, Le Chiese d’Italia (Venice, 1866) XX, 614; P. Gauchat,Hierarchia Catholica IV, 292; L. Jadin, ‘Bonsi’, DHGE IX, 1106; DBI>>>>

Michael de Agia (Michuel de Agia/de Valencia, fl. ca. 1600)

OFM. Spanish friar from Valencia. Studied law and theology and worked first in Madrid and then became a missionary and lector in Guatemala. The date of his arrival in Guatemala is uncertain (some sources mention the year 1563, which seems to early, and others mention 1593, which seems later, especially because he was on order business back in Madrid between 1594 and 1600). Active in Peru in the early seventeenth century, where he apparently was lector in the S. Francisco de la Ciudad de los Reyes friary. Apparently died in Guatemala. Known for his knowledge of canon law

editions

De Exhibendis Auxiliis, sive de Invocatione Utriusque Brachii (Madrid, 1600).

Tratado y pareceres sobre la cedula real del servicio personal de los Indios (Lima, 1604) [attacked by Michuel de Aguayo, a friar of the Castilia province and a student at Alcalà] Full title of the work is: Tratado que contiene tres paraceres graves en derecho, que ha compuesto el Padre Fray Miguel Agia de la orden del señor S. Francisco, varon docto en las facultadeas de Theologia, Canones y Leyes, y Lector de Theologia en el muy insigne Convento de S. Francisco de la Ciudad de los Reyes en los Reynos de Piru. Sobre la verdadera inteligencia, declaracion, y justificacion de una Cedula de su Magestad, sufecha en Valladolid en veynte y quatro dias de Noviembre del año passado de seyscientos y uno, que trata del servicio Personal, y repartimientos de Indios, que se usan dar en los Reynos del Piro, Nueva España, Tierra Firme, y otras Provincias de las Indias, para el servicio de la Republica, y assientos de Minas, de Oro, Plata y Azogue (Lima, 1604).

literature

Francisco Vázquez, Crónica de la Provincia del Santissimo Nombre de Jesús de Guatemala, 2^nd Ed., 4 Vols. (Guatemala, 1937-1944) III, 68-69; J.T. Medina, La Imprenta en Lima, 4 Vols. (Santiago de Chile, 1904-1907) I, 88-91; J.T. Medina, Biblioteca Hispano-Americana, 7 Vols. (Santiago de Chile, 1898-1907) I, 594;La madrid, ‘Estudios’, 289; J. Antonio, Bibliotheca Hispana Nova (Madrid, 1783) II, 129, 165; Juan de San Antonio, Bibliotheca Universa Franciscana (Madrid, 1732) II, 363; A Bio-Bibliography of Franciscan Authors in Colonial Central America, ed. Eleanor B. Adams (Washington D.C.: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1953), 3-4; José Simón Díaz, Bibliografía de la literatura hispánica, 11 Vols. (Madrid, 1960-1976) IV, nos. 1746-1750; Antoine de Sérent, ‘Agia’, DHGE I,955;

Michael de Ascasubi (Miguel de Ascasubi, fl. late 18th cent.)

Franciscan historiographical author in Latin America..

literature

B.H. Slicher van Bath, De bezinning op het verleden in Latijns Amerika 1493-1820. Auteurs, verhalen en lezers (Groningen, 1998), passim

Michael de Carcanis de Mediolano (1427-1484)

OFMObs. Born in Milan from a noble family. Took the habit around 1442 in the Santa Croce de Como convent after substantial literary studies. Apparently received a thorough training in moral theology. In 1449, he took part in the general chapter of the Cismontan Observants. Was ordained priest, and travelled to Rome (1450), where he assisted in the canonisation procedures of Bernardine of Siena. >From 1453 onwards, Michael can be found in Milan and the neighbouring region, where he is active as Lenten preacher. In the next thirty years, Michael is active as preacher in the Italian peninsula, the quality of which caused Bernardino da Feltre to call him ‘alter sanctus apostolus Paulus et Christi Tuba’. Some of his Lenten preaching cycles have been charted in the sources (a.o. Milan, 1460; Perugia, 1462; Bologna, 1464; Florence, 1467; Siena , 1468; Padua, 1469; Milan, 1471; L’Aquila, 1472; Bologna, 1473; Crema, 1479; Lodi, 1484). Also active as founder of various Montes Pietatis (a.o. Perugia, 1462. Cf. BF New Series III, n. 133), and of several hospitals (a.o. Milan, 1456; Como 1468). In between his homiletic journeys, Michael fulfilled several functions for the Observants (a.o. visitator of the Austrian, Polish, and Bohemian provinces, provincial vicar of the Lombary province (1475, 1477, 1479-1482). Very pronounced anti-judaic preacher. Connected the Jews with usury, and played a large role in the persecution of Jews in the alleged case of ritual sacrefice of the child Simoncino. Michael’s extravagance eventually enticed Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza of Milan to expell him from Milan in 1471, and again in 1475 (even though Michael apparently remained the spiritual counsellor of the Duke’s wife and his other female relatives). Late in life, pope Pius II charged him with crusade preaching missions against the Turcs (1482-1484). Fel ill during a Lenten sermon on the last judgment (Todi). Brought to the S. Giovanni Baptista monastery, where he died after 20 March 1484.

manuscripts

Confessio Generalis/Trattato della Confessione:>>?

Apostillae supra Concilium de Usuris: MS Leyden Univ. Ablaing. 33

Quadragesimale de Poenitentia/Casus Conscientiae per Totam Quadragesimam in Diebus ferialibus et Primo in Die Cinerum: Naples, Naz. VI.D.60 ff. 1a-197d; VII.E.25 ff. 1r-165v; VIII.A.15 ff. 3r-81v; Pavia, Univ. Aldini 62 ff. 258-289 [treatment of 111 ‘cases’ in the form of sermons; dealing especially with female vanity, usury, vices of commerce and trade. Cf. P.M. Sevesi, ‘I ‘Sermones’ ed i ‘Casus conscientiae’ del B. Michele Carcano’, Studi Francescani 28 (1931), 331-332; Studi Francescani 28 (1931), 320-342; AFH 4 (1911), 479-482

Quadragesimale de Fide et de Articulis Fidei: Oxford, Bodl. Add. A. 282 (15th cent.); Milan, Ambrosiana L.65; Padua, Univ. 530; Mantua Bib. Comunale G.II.22 [160 sermons]

Sermonarium per Adventum et Quadragesima: Naples, Naz. 644 ff. XIV.E.27 ff. 1a-139ab

Sermones: Naples, Naz. V.H. 67 ff. 146-164; V.H.379 ff. 1-7 (=sermo 92 de peccato); VI.F.12 ff. 6r-9r; VII.D.22 [=Sermones de Inferno] (see Cenci, Napoli, I, 446ff); Padua, Sacro Conv. 393 (second half 15th cent.)

editions

Sermonarium Triplicatum, scilicet per Adventum et per Duas Quadragesimales de Peccatis Capitalibus (Venice: Franciscus de Hailbrum & Nicolaus de Frankfordia, 1476/Basel, 1479/Venice, 1487) [150 sermons]

Quadragesimale seu Sermonarium duplicatum scilicet per Adventum et Quadragesimam de Poenitentia et eius Partibus/Quadragesimale de Poenitentia(Venice, 1487/Venice, 1496) [92 sermons that amount to a systhematic treatment of penitence. Cf. Roberto Rusconi, ‘Michele Carcano da Milano e le caratteristiche della sua predicazione’, Picenum Seraphicum 10 (1973), 196-218]

Sermones Quadragesimales de Decem Preceptis (Venice: Joh. & Greg. De Gregoriis, 1492) [77 sermons. For other editions, see also Zawart]

Sermones de Virtutibus/Sermonarium de Commendatione Virtutum et Reprobatione Vitiorum (Milan: Uldericus Scinzenzeler, 1495) [72 sermons on the virtues and vices. Cf. AFH 63 (1970), 140-141]

Trattato della Confessione/Confessionale Generale (Venice, 1484/Milan, 1529)

Apostillae supra Concilium de Usuris Angeli de Castro, ed. P.C. Boeren, AFH 63 (1970), 174-180.

Sermones de Variis Argumentis et Liber de Fide Christiana (Basel, 1479)

Sermones de Quatuor Novissimis (Cologne, 1492)

Cinque Prediche di Bernardino da Feltre e Michele da Milano, ed. M. da Civezza (Prato, 1896)

Un sermone inedito del B. Michele Carcano su S. Bernardino da Siena, ed. P. Maria Sevesi, Collectanea Franciscana2 (1932), 377-398. See also Paolo Sevesi, ‘Un sermone inedito del B. Michele Carcano su S. Bernardino da Siena’, Studi Francescani, 3^rd ser. 3 (1931), 69-92.

Litterae, ed. P.M. Sevesi, AFH 33 (1940), 385-390 [letters to the duchess Bianca Maria Visconti and the bishop of Trente Johan Hinderbach, related to the anti-semitic inquiries after the death of Simoncino]

literature

Wadding, >>; Sbaralea, Supplementum II,253-254; Zawart, 293; P. Sevesi, `Il beato Michele Carcano da Milano O.F.M.’, AFH, 3 (1910), 448-63; 633-63; AFH, 4 (1911), 24-29; 456-481; AFH 16 (1923), 260-262; AFH 33 (1940) 366-408; AFH 34 (1941), 95-114; AFH 46 (1953), 251-278; [contains also partial editions and a lengthy analysis of Michael’s literary production); P. Valugani, Il Beato Michele Carcano da Milano (Milan, 1950); A. Ghinato, ‘Ebrei e predicatori francescani a Verona nel sec. xv’, AFH 50 (1957), 240-243; W.P. Eckert, ‘Aus den Akten des Trienter Judenprozesses’, Judentum im Mittelalter (Berlin, 1966), 233-266; A. Caretta, ‘Del B. Michele Carcano’, Archivio storico Lodigiano 2nd series 16 (1968), 175-181; C. Mesini, ‘L’opera del B. Michele Carcano nel concentramento ospedaliero Piacentino (1471-1472)’,in: Cinque secoli di storia ospedaliera (Plaisance, 1973), 209-223; R. Rusconi, `M. Carcano da Milano e le carateristiche della sua predicazione’, Picenum Seraphicum, 10 (1973), 196-218; T. Lombardi, I Francescani a Ferrara (Bologna, 1975) V, 119-120;A. Calufetti, ‘I vicari provinciali dei Frati Minori (…) di Milano (1418-1517)’, AFH 72 (1979); DSpirX, 1174-1176; Rosa Maria Dessi,`Entre prédication et réception. Les thèmes eschatologiques dans les `reportationes' des sermons de Michele Carcano de Milano', Mél. Archéol. Hist. Ec. Franç. Rome M.A. 102/2 (1990), 457-479.

Michael de Cessena (d. 1342)

Franciscan Theologian, active in Paris and Naples. Became minister general in 1316. Was severe against the more extremist spiritual Franciscans of the Provence, but embraced the absolute poverty of Christ doctrine on the general chapter of Perugia (1322), which thereafter became the official poverty doctrine of the order. This lead to conflicts with pope John XXII, who denounced the poverty of Christ in an official paapal bul. Michael of Cesena asked to appear in Avignon to defend himself (and the order), but he finally fled from Avignon (1228) with other friars (William of Ockham, Bonegratia of Bergamo et.al.), to find refuge at the court of the emperor Louis of Bavaria, who was in conflict with the pope over Italy. Michael was deposed as leader of the order by pope John XXII in 1328. He remained active at the court of Louis of Bavaria in Munich, and wrote several treatises against pope John and his views on poverty and papal power. Michael also pleaded for a general council.>>>>>

manuscripts

De paupertate & Appellationes: Vat.Lat., 4008, 4009, 4010, 4128 (see Etzkorn, IVF, 57ff> manuscripts contain several other documents concerning the poverty crisis. At present these are being edited by D. Flood. See also under Nicolaus Minorita)

Appelatio Monacensis: F. Accrocca, `Estratti dell’Appellatio Monacensis’, Archivum Historiae Pontificae, 32 (1994), 329-341.

>Sermones de S. & de T.:>>? [Fabricius, I., 319; Wadding, 174; Zawart, 288]

editions

comm on Psalm 50: Muratori, Rerum Italicarum Scriptores (Milan, 1734), 513-528.

Appellatio Pisana, ed. in Nicolaus Minorita, Chronica. Documentation on Pope John XXII, Michael of Cesena and the Poverty of Christ, ed. G. Gál & D. Flood (New York, 1997), 624-866.

literature

AFH8 (1915), 672-675; AFH 9 (1916), 134-183; AFH 10 (1917), 239; Stegmüller, RB, III, 5617-5620>> Lambert!>>; LMA, VI, 603f; A. Tabarroni, Paupartas Christi et Apostolorum. L'ideale francescano in discussione (Rome, 1990); Chr. Flüeler, ‘Eine unbekannte Streitschrift aus dem Kreis der Münchner Franziskaner gegen Papst Johannes XXII’, AFH 88 (1995), 497-514; U. Horst, Evangelische Armut und päpstliche Lehramt (1996); LThK, VII³, 233; Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart V⁴, 1205; Roberto Lambertini, ‘Das Geld und sein Gebrauch. ‘Pecunia’ im Streit zwischen Michael von Cesena und Papst Johannes XXII’, in: Geld im Mittelalter, ed. Klaus Grubmüller & Markus Stock (Darmstadt: WBG, 2005), 216-243 >>See also works by D. Burr, R. Manselli, and E. Pasztor>>

Michael de Dole (fl. 1620)

OFMCap

literature 

Hildebrand van Hooglede, ‘P.Michaël van Dôle’, in: Idem, Miscellanea II, 1052-1053.

Michael de Herrera (Miguel de Herrera, d. 1722?)

OFMDisc. Member of the San Diego province (Mexico).

literature

AIA28 (1968), 456-457; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed.Cisneros, 1982), 128 (no. 414).

Michael de Hungaria (d. 1480, Budapest)

OMObs>>>

editions

Optimus Praedicandi Modus et Extendi Diversas Materias per Colores Rhetoricales utiles et necessarias &Evagatorium (Cologne, 1499/Strasbourg, 1516) [according to Zawart no less than 16 other editions]

Bija Salutis (Hagenau, 1492 & 1498) [Sunday sermons &Sermones de S.]

literature

Zawart, 372; Iván Borsa, ‘Ki lehetett Michael de Hungaria?’, in: Jubileumi csokor Csapodi Csaba tiszteletére, ed. Marianne Rozsondai (Budapest: Argumentum, 2002), 59-64.

Michael de Kildare (early fourteenth century)

Franciscan friar of Kildare, Southern Ireland, religious author and poet. His texts are found in a collection now in the British Library. This manuscript, written in the 1320s (known as The Book of Wexford, The Book of Kildare, or The Book of Ross) by the friars of a friary in the South-Eastern part of Ireland, is mostly the product of a single hand. It contains texts ranging from religious reflections and Latin parody to devotional and satyrical poetry, a list of provinces (dated 1325), and sayings of Francis. Cotter remarks that the seize and the contents suggest its functionas a preacher's manual. (in all 31 Latin pieces, 3 French pieces, and 17 Middle English texts). The English poems as well as the so-called Poem of Friar Michael have been published. See also under Joannes Clynn.

editions

W. Heuser (ed.), Die Kildare-Gedichte: die ältesten mittelenglischen Denkmaler in Anglo-Irischer Überlieferung (Bonn, 1904; Reprint Darmstadt, 1964); The Poem of Friar Michael: Th. Kinsella (ed.), The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse (Oxford, 1986), 117-121.

literature

Cotter, The Friars Minor in Ireland; M. Benskin, `The Style and Authorship of the Kildare Poems...' in: In Other Words. Transcultural Studies in Philology, Translation and Lexicography, Presented to Hans Heinrich Meier, ed. J.L. MacKenzie & R. Todd (Dordrecht, 1989), 57-75.

Michael de Medina (Miguel de Medina, 1489-1578)

Spanish friar. Born at Belalcazar (Cordoba). Engaged in studies of the humanities in Cordoba. Entered the Franciscan order as a grownup in 1509 (took the habit in the Cordoba convent of Hornachuelos, in the Los Angeles custody) . Further studies of theology at Alcalá and Toledo. Well-versed in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Chaldaic. Taught Scriptural theology at Alcala. Played a role at the council of Trente (sent out by the University of Alcalá on request of Philip II), where he took an active part in discussions on marriage and clerical chastity, and where he received the commission to refute several protestant works. After his return, he became counsellor of the Inquisition of Toledo. Defended friar Juan Fero (Wild) against inquisitorial allegations. In 1569, he became guardian of the Toledo convent. Later, he was custos, in which quality he took part in the general chapter of Rome (1571).There he was elected general definitor. After his return from Rome, where he had pursued further anti-protestant writings, he was taken into custody by the Spanish inquisition (October 1573), which confiscated his books and found no less than 98 heretical propositions in his work. Only after his death (1 May 1578) did Miguel receive papal absolution.

Prolific author, both in Latin and in Castilian.

editions

Ejercicio de la verdadera y christiana humildad (Toledo, 1570). This work also contains a Tratado de la christiana y verdadera humildad, and a Carta en la cual se declara a quel dicho de Christo en el cap. XVIII de sant Matheo : si no os volviéredes en niños, no entrareys en el reyno de los cielos.Part of this Carta, which was addressed at Antonia Pacheco de San Francisco (Abbes of the La Conception monastery of Escalona), has been edited as Infancia espiritual, in: Misticos Franciscanos Españoles Tomo II, Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos (Madrid, 1948), 767-828.

Apologia J. Feri (Alcala, 1558) Work in defense of the In Sacrosanctum Jesu Christi Evangelium Secundum Johannem (Mainz, 1545).

Enarrationes Locorum ex Cap. 2 Deuteronomii (Alcala, 1560)

In Sacrosanctam Jesu Christi Secundum Joannem Evangelium Commentaria(Alcala, 1562/1567/1578/Venice, 1569)

Christiana Paraenesis sive De Recta in Deum Fide (Venice, 1564/1569)

De Sacrorum Hominum Continentia (Venice, 1569)

Disputationes de Indulgentiis adversus Nostri Temporis Haereticos (Venice, 1564) Defending Catholic indulgence ideology against Protestant detractions.

Explicationes in Quartum Symboli Apostolici Articulum (Venice, 1564)

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum II, 256-257; Vicente Beltrán de Heredia, ‘Catedráticos de sagrada escritura en la universidad de Alcalá durante el siglo XVI’, Ciencia tomista 19 (1919), 49-54; Pascual Saura Lahoz, ‘El P. Miguel de Medina y las ‘Centurias’ de Magdeburgo’, AIA 19 (1923), 75-90; Bonaventura Oromí, ‘Los franciscanos españoles en el concilio de Trento’, Verdad y Vida 15 (1946), 492-505; DSpir X, 904-905; Vicente Beltrán de Heredia, Domingo deSoto. Estudio biográfico documentado(Salamanca, 1960), 433-460; Rodríguez, ‘Autores espirituales’, Diccionario de historia eclesiástica de España(Madrid, 1972-1975) III, 524 (no. 198); José L. de Orella y Unzue, Respuestas católicas a las ‘Centurias’ de Magdeburgo, 1559-1588 (Madrid, 1976), 351-366; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982),  146-147 (no. 563); Isaac Vázquez Janeiro, ‘El teólogofray Miguel de Medina (d. 1578). En torno a su proceso inquisitorial’, 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), 491-508.

Michael de Monsalve (Miguel de Monsalve, fl. early 17th cent.)

Franciscan author, active in Latin America

literature

B.H. Slicher van Bath, De bezinning op het verleden in Latijns Amerika 1493-1820. Auteurs, verhalen en lezers (Groningen, 1998), passim

Michael de Neapoli (Miguel de Nápoles, c. 1580)

OFMCap. Exegete

editions

In Prophetas Majores>>

Michael de Oerderen>>

>>OFM?> Sermo de Unione Animaecum Deo [Dutch!]: Brussels, Koninkl.Bibl. 11151-11155 ff. 198v-205v

Michael de Platia [Michele da Piazza] (2nd half 14th cent.)

Italian friar, author of the Continuatio historiae Siculae Nicolai Specialis, dealing with the years between 1337 and 1361 (MS Biblioteca Palermitana Qq F.8). It is just a continuation of the chronicle by Nicolaus Specialis.

editions

Bibliotheca scriptorum aragonensium, Vol. I, ed.Rosarius Gregorio (Palermo, 1792)

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum. II. 258; S.T. Bozzo, 'Un errore di data e la Cronica di fra Michele da Piazza pubblicato dal Gregorio.' Archivo Storico Siciliano. Nuova Serie. I (1876) 259-275; S. Tramontana, Michele da Piazza e il potere baronale in Sicilia, Messina-Florence, 1963, pp. 42-60; G. Rossi, I manoscritti della biblioteca communale di Palermo, I, Palermo 1863, 243.

Michael de Salas (Miguel de Salas, fl. later 17^th cent.)

OFM. Preacher in the Aragon province.

literature

AIA 15 (1955), 427-428; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 176 (no. 763).

Michael de Villaverde (Miguel de Villaverde, fl. mid 17^th cent.)

OFM. Member of the Valencia province.

literature

AIA 21 (1924), 408-409; AIA 27 (1927), 133; AIA 20 (1960), 132; Manuel de Castro,Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 118 (no. 334).

Michael Gadea (Miguel Gadea, fl. c. 1800)

OFM. Member of the Valencia province.

literature

AIA 21 (1924), 408-409; AIA 27 (1927), 133; AIA 20 (1960), 132; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 118 (no. 334).

Michael Garcia (Miguel Garcia, fl. early 18^th cent.)

OFM. Castilian friar.

literature

AIA26 (1926), 192-193; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 119 (no. 344).

Michael Hieronymus Terrero (Miguel Jerónimo Terrero, d. 1750)

OFM. Friar from the Andalusia province.

literature

AIA 21 (1924), 92-94; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 183 (no. 819).

Michael Hillebrant (d. 1550)

OFMObs. Polish Bernardinian Franciscan. Born in a rich Silesian family in Swidnica. After his entrance in the order, he began his lectorate studies at the University of Frankfurt an der Oder. In 1523, he became guardian of the Nyssa friary. In that function, he opposed the decision of the Franciscan general chapter to divide the Silesian province and attach part of it to the Bohemian province. Hillebrant’s opposition lead to his temporary excommunication by the Bohemian provincial minister. Thereafter, Hillebrant went back to Swidnica and took up again his studies. In 1525, he reached the baccalaureate in theology. After some teaching and study assignments in Swidnica, he became guardian there, and also embarked on a preaching career, gaining a name for himself as a staunch defender of Catholicism against different Protestant factions. In 1541, Hillebrant left Swidnica for the Saint Bernardine of Siena friary in Cracow, where he continued his studies and preached to the German speaking population of the town. In this period, helped by the financial support of bishop Friedrich Nausei of Vienna, Hillebrant began to publish some of his polemical works. In 1545, called upon by the bishop of Wroclav (Breslau), Balthasar of Promnica, Hillebrant went back to Silesia to preach and write against Lutheran Protestantism (alongside of Antonín of Wroclaw and Eusebius of Mezirici, at a time when the Franciscan order in these areas was suffering itself from major defections to Lutheranism). In Wroclaw, he preached at the Cathedral, and after 1548, he also preached regularly at the collegial church of Glogów, where he died on 8 March 1550. Twelve of his works have been published during or shortly after hislifetime. Most of these are works with a polemical import (esp. directed against Alojzy Mojban, a Protestant reformer active in the Wroclaw region).

editions

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literature

J. Soffner, Der Minorit Fr. Michael Hillebrant aus Schweidnitz (Breslau, 1885); H. Wyczawski, ‘Hillebrant, Michael’, in: Slownik polskich pisarzy franciskanskich (Warchaw, 1981), 174-175; Slownik polskich teologów katolich (Warchaw, 1982) II, 49-50; H. Gapski, ‘Hillebrant’, DHGE XXIV, 543-544. For additional context, see also Petr. Hlavácek, ‘Bohemian Franciscans Between Orthodoxy and Nonconformity at the Turn of the Middle Ages’, Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice 5,1 (2004 for 2002), 167-189. Also available on-line (http://www.brrp.org/proceedings/brrp5a/hlavacek.pdf). Hillebrant is mentioned on p. 187.

Michael Landívar Caballero (fl. first half 18^th cent.)

OFM. Member of the Castilia province.

literature

AIA 8 (1917), 111; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 136 (no. 479).

Michael Menot (`Lingua Aurea’/Os aureum, ca. 1440- 1518, Chartres)

OMConv. Famous preacher, also because of his insertion of burleque elements. Probably born in Beauce. Studied theology at Orleans (lectorate course) and Paris (degree course). Made a pilgrimage to Saint-Maximin (Provence), and probably travelled to Italy as well. After his return, he became regent master of the Franciscan Studium Generale at the University of Paris. Subsequently guardian of the Chartres convent (1514), where he supervised building activities and died on 30 December 1518. Throughout his career, he was an important homiletic practitioner, as prestigious as his fellow Franciscan Olivier Maillard. Michel Menot preached in parish churches, but also at gatherings of students, clerics, and Franciscan friars. Three of his sermon collections were published after his death, namely a renowned Quadragesimale held at Tours (1508), and two Quadragesimale series held at Paris (1517 and 1518). Hugue Dedieu, ‘Menot (Michel)’, DSpir X, 1027 states: ‘Le texte latin de Menot est farci de mots, de locutions, de phrases en français; le philologue est intéressé par le vocabulaire, les exempla, les proverbes populaires et même certains paragraphes entièrement en français.’ Michel probably preached in French, and subsequently edited his sermons in Latin, so that they could function as exemplary sermons and reading texts for other homiletic practitioners. He made abundant use of legends, histories, moral stories, and popular literary works. He was most concerned with moral Christian reform (like other important preachers of the period), but also put much emphasis on basic penitential and doctrinal matters (taking his cues from a wide range of patristic literature (Augustine, John Chrysosthomos, Gregory the Great), theological authorities of the Via Antiqua (Bernard of Clairveaux, Bonaventure, Aquinas, Scotus), alongside of the Scriptures), with due attention to virtues and vices/sins, the importance of conversion and contriton (for instance in his famous sermons on Mary Magdalen), the functions of charity, the suffering of Christ, the last judgment, the devotion due to saints (such as Joseph). Hervé Martin (1986), 254-255 states: ‘Aux jeux de Michel Menot, la prédication est indispensable pour tracer aux fidèles la voie du salut et pour leur donner la force de résister à la tentation: ‘Si etiam predicatio tollatur, quid faciet populus simplex qui nesciet tunc quid faciendum pro salute anime sue, quid fugiendum? Non habebit notitiam neque de paradisio neque de inferno […]. Parva puella stans in camera tentatur a diabolo de peccato carnis. Sed nunc quo gladio, quo baculo poterit inimico resistere, nisi verbo Dei?’ [reference to Sermons choisis de Michel Menot, 266]. Ce besoin se fait surtout sentir dans les villes, où se commettent les péchés les plus énormes, ces villes où Dieu a naguères envoyé ses prophètes, Jonas à Ninive, Paul à Rome. Le prédicateur, selon le gardien du couvent de Chartres, ne doit pas chercher à flatter ni à distraire son public, mais il doit le fustiger sans relâche. Animositas in exhortando, Authoritas in corrigendo, Asperitas in reprehendendo sont les trois maximes aux quelles tout orateur doit se plier.’

editions

Perpulchra Epistolarum Quadragesimalium Expositio/Sermones Quadragesimales Parisiis(Paris 1519/1526 & 1530) [Contains two series of (respectively 45 and 44) sermons held during Lent 1517 and Lent 1518 at the Grand Couvent des Cordeliers. According to Zawart, there followed several later editions]

Sermones Quadragesimales Turonis Declamati (Paris, 1519 & 1525) [Collection of 55 Lenten sermons preached at Tours in 1508]

Sermons choisis de Michel Menot (1508-1518), ed. J. Nève (Paris, 1924) [Important new edition with introduction and annotation of many sermons taken from the cycles held at Tours and Paris. Cf. Revue d’histoire franciscaine 1 (1924), 521-527; Études franciscaines 37 (1925), 103-104]

Sermons de fr. Michel Menot sur la Madeleine, avec une notice et des notes, ed. J. Labouderie (Paris, 1832) [Selection of Menot’s Magdalena sermons derived from several sources]

literature

Ch. Labitte, ‘Prédicateurs grotesques du 16e siècle. Michel Menot’, Revue de Paris8 (1838), 120-141; A. Gasté, Michel Menot (Caen, 1897); Zawart, 305-306; É. Gilson, `Michel Menot et la technique du sermon médiéval' Revue d'histoire franciscaine, 2 (1925), 301-350; J.-T. Welter, L’exemplum dans la littérature religieuse (Paris, 1927), 413; F. de Sessavale, Histoire générale de l'ordre de S. François, II (Paris, 1937), 157-167; M. Piton, `L'idéal épiscopal selon les prédicateurs franciscains de la fin du 15^e siècle', Revue d’Histoire Ecclesiastiqque 61 (1966), 86-102, 394-400; Hervé Martin, ‘Les prédicateurs franciscains dans les provinces septentrionales de la France au XVe siècle’, in: I frati minori tra ‘400 e ‘500, Atti del XII Convegno Internazionale Assisi, 18-19-20 ottobre 1984 (Assisi, 1986), 254-255; Hugues Dedieu, DictSpir, X, 1027-1028; Martin, Métier du prédicateur (Paris, 1988), passim; LThK, VII (3rd ed.), 103.

Michael Molina (Miguel Molina, fl. mid 17^th cent.)

OFM. Member of the Granada province. Poet.

literature

AIA15 (1955), 349; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 149 (no. 582).

Michael Monachus (Michel le Moin, fl. first half 14^th cent.)

Franciscan inquisitor, active in the Languedoc and Italy.

manuscripts/editions

Sermo generalis (On the condemnation of the four Spirituals at Marseilles). This text is currently being edited by Sylvain Piron.

Michael O'Cleirigh, see also under Franciscus O' Mahony

Irish friar. See also under Joannes Clynn

editions

Annala Rioghachta Eireann: Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters from the Earliest Period to the Year 1616, ed. & transl. John O'Donovan, 7 vols (Dublin, 1851; Reprint Birmingham, Alabama, 1966)

literature

Cotter, The Friars Minor in Ireland;

Michael Ordoñez (Miguel Ordóñez, fl. early 18^th cent.)

OFM. Provincial minister of the Santiago province betwween 1710-1713.

literature

AIA12 (1919), 431; AIA 29 (1969), 399-410; Manuel de Castro,Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 156 (no. 634).

Michael Raenerii de Perusio (fl. 14th cent.)

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manuscripts

Sermones [ca. 1345]: Bibl. D.D. Mathaei Campori Marquis de Modena, 73

Michael Servius (Miguel Serviá. Fl. 16th cent.)

Friar from Mallorca. Master of theology and provincial of the Mallorcan province (1567). Confessor of Don Juan, whom he accompanied during the battle of Lepanto. Died at Palermo in 1574. Wrote a Relación

editions

Colección de documentos inéditos para la historia de España 11 (Madrid, 1847), 360f; Isaac Vázquez Janeiro, ‘Repertorio de franciscanos españoles graduados en teología durante la edad media. I’, Repertorio de Historia de las Ciencias Eclesiasticas en España 7 (Siglos III-XVI) (Salamanca, 1979), 439 (no. 174).

Michael Victoriano (Miguel Victoriano, fl. early 17^th cent.)

OFM. Scotist theologian from the Andalusia province.

literature

AIA 21 (1924), 332-333; Manuel de Castro, Bibliografía de las bibliografias franciscanas españolas e hispanoamericanas, Publicaciones de Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid: Ed. Cisneros, 1982), 190 (no. 867).

Modestus de Roviano (Modesto da Roviano, 1580-1654)

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literature

R. Cordovanni, Fra’ Modesto da Roviano. Vita ed opere di un eretico e santo mancato? (Roviano-Rome, 2001);Rinaldo Cordovani, ‘Modesto da Roviano (1580-1654), un uomo di straordinarie virtù’, Aequa 9 (April 2002), >>>>

Modestus Gavazzi (Modesto Gavazzi, d. 1657)

OFMConv. Italian friar from Ferrara. Nephew of the Conventual friar and bishop of Alifa of the same name. The younger nephew became a theologian of renown and fulfilled several high offices in the order (general procurator and consultant of the Sacrum Officium a.o. in the case against Jansenius). Eventually, he became bishop of Chieti (19 february 1657), only to die 15 years after his official appointment. Published several theological works.

editions

De macula peccati (Bologna, 1642).

De venerabili Eucharistiae sacramento et missae sacrificio, disputationes theologicae ad mentem Scoti (Rome, 1656).

Opuscula (Rome, 1656). This contains a work De Distinctione Spiritus Sancti a Filio si ab eo non procederet,an Epistola D. Anselmi de Processione Spiritus Sancti contra Graecos, and a treatise De Subsistentia.

De Incarnatione>>?

literature

Sbaralea, Supplementum II, 260; Eubel, Hierarchia IV, 332; DHGEXX, 136-137.

Monaldus (d. ca.1340)

>>>Defender of the immaculate conception

manuscripts

Homiliae et Sermones de BMV:>>? [AFH, 1908, 231f; Zawart, 290]

Monaldus Beneventanus (first half 14th cent.)

>>Dicta de Paupertate Christi: Vat.Lat. 3740 (14th cent.) [Etzkorn, IVF, 42]

Monaldus de Iustinopoli (da Capodistria/ d. ca. 1280)

Franciscan canonist. To give his fellow friars sufficient juridical-canonical knowledge for pastoral purposes, he wrote an alfabetically organized Summa de Iure Canonico (finished before 1274).>>

manuscripts

Summa de Iure Canonico (also known as the Summa de Iure Tractans/ Summa Monaldina): a.o. Luxemburg, Public Library, 103; Bologna, Coll. Hisp. S. Clemente 66 ff. 30ra-117vb & 120vb-125va [interesting convolute ms]; Vat.Palat. Lat. 691; Naples, Naz., VI.D.65; VII.F.3; VII.F.12 [see also Cenci, Napoli, II, 1090 (for more mss and more info)]; Troyes, 1713, ff. 174ra-398rb [this manuscript is rather interesting. It contains also the Liber Sententiarum of Peter Lombard (ff. 1ra-173ra). It seems that it provides in a studium context the major texts for theology and canon law.]; London Gray’s Inn 116 (13th. Cent.)

Sermones: Madrid, Nac. 184 (caec. XIV) [Castro, Madrid, n. 22]

literature

Roberto Grison, ‘Note in margine ad un testo penitenziale francescano: la Summa confessorumdi Monaldo da Capodistria’, Venezie Francescane, n.s., 6 (1989), 335-344; Sbaralea, III, 261-2; AFH, 1 (1908), 235; AIA, 7 (1917), 314 & 13 (1920), 278 [?check]>>>; G.R. Dolezalek, `Lexique de droit (…)’, 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 (Louvain-la-Neuve – Turnhout, 1996), 372

Monaldus Monaldeschi (d. 1322)

Bishop of Melfi>>>

manuscripts

Dicta de Paupertate: Vat.Lat., 3740 f. 78rb

Sermones Varii:>>?

Summa:>>? [conflation with M. de Iustinopoli?]

literature

Zawart, 290

Müller, Berard (18th century)

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editions

Chronica de Ortu et Progressu Almae Provinciae Argentinensis quae per Superiorem Germaniam Sacra est B. Elisabeth FF. Minorum Conventualium in Duas Partas Divisas et Scripta (1703).