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The '''Pseudo-Bonaventura''', or '''Pseudo-Bonaventure''' is the name given to the authors of a number of medieval devotional works which were believed at the time to be the work of [[Saint Bonaventure]]: "It would almost seem as if 'Bonaventura' came to be regarded as a convenient label for a certain type of text, rather than an assertion of authorship".<ref>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5LyCLsJNdV4C&pg=PA128&lpg=PA128&dq=%22Pseudo+Bonaventura%22&source=web&ots=wHhVCfrqCd&sig=Up0u3oZvfPLZwILNKQ0nF_sJRtA&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result Medieval texts and their first appearance in print, E. P. Goldschmidt, p. 128]</ref> Since it is clear a number of actual authors are involved, the term "Pseudo-Bonaventuran" is often used. Many works now have other attributions of authorship which are generally accepted, but the most famous, the ''Meditationes de Vita Christi'', remains usually described only as a work of the Pseudo-Bonaventura. |
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==''Meditationes de Vita Christi''== |
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The most popular and important of these works, was the ''Meditationes de Vita Christi'' ("Meditations on the Life of Christ"), which appears to date from around 1300; like Bonaventura, the author was probably a [[Franciscan]], and the work is adressed to a [[Poor Clare]]. Over two hundred [[manuscript]] copies survive, including seventeen illuminated ones,<ref>[http://www.jstor.org/pss/1201210 JSTOR, 1st page]</ref> and the popularity of the work increased further with early printed editions. A Venetian edition of 1497 is the only known Italian [[blockbook]].<ref>[https://metropolitanmuseum.org/toah/hd/wifb/ho_33.17.htm Metropolitan Museum]</ref> Candidates for the identity of the author of the ''Meditationes'' have included [[Ludolph of Saxony]] and [[Henry Balme]] (Hugh of Balma), but no attribution has been widely accepted. |
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The work's detailed evocations of moments from the Gospels influenced art, and it has been shown to be the source of aspects of the [[iconography]] of the [[fresco]] cycle of the ''[[Life of Christ]]'' in the [[Scrovegni Chapel]] by [[Giotto]]. |
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==Other works== |
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*''Stimulus Amoris'', of which the ''Instructio sacerdotis ad se preparandum ad celebrandum missam'' ("Instructions for priests preparing to celebrate [[Mass]]") is part. |
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*[[Biblia pauperum]] ("Poor Man's Bible" - a title only given in the 20th century) a short [[typology (theology)|typological]] version of the Bible, also extremely popular, and often illustrated. There were different versions of this, the original perhaps by the [[Dominican]] [[Nicholas of Hanapis]]. |
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*''Speculum Beatæ Mariæ Virginis'' by [[Conrad of Saxony]] |
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*''Speculum Disciplinæ'', ''Epistola ad Quendam Novitium'' and ''Centiloquium'', all probably by Bonanventura's secretary, [[Bernard of Besse]] |
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*''Legend of Saint Clare'' |
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*''Theologia Mystica'', probably by Henry Balme. |
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*''Philomena'', a poem now attributed to [[John Peckham]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] from 1279-1292. |
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==References== |
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*[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02648c.htm Catholic Encyclopedia] on Saint Bonaventure (penultimate paragraph). |
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==Further reading== |
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*Lawrence F. Hundersmarck: ''The Use of Imagination, Emotion, and the Will in a Medieval Classic: The Meditaciones Vite Christi''. In: Logos 6,2 (2003), S. 46-62 |
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*Sarah McNamer: ''Further evidence for the date of the Pseudo-Bonaventuran Meditationes vitæ Christi''. In: Franciscan Studies, Bd. 10, Jg. 28 (1990), S. 235-261 |
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[[Category:Theologians]] |
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[[Category:Medieval writers]] |
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