Pseudo Bonaventure
As Pseudo-Bonaventura is known in research medieval authors whose writings inaccurate or based on dubious basis Bonaventure of Bagnoregio were attributed and were at least temporarily received as authentic writings of this author. In a metonymic translation , such writings are also referred to as pseudo-Bonaventure.
The best-known and most influential writing of this type are the Meditationes de vita Christi (critical ed. By M. Jordan Stallings-Taney, CCCM 153, 1999) , written around 1300 or more recently between 1346 and 1360 (McNamer), dedicated to a Clarisse . which have come down to us in three different Latin versions and are mostly attributed to the Franciscan Johannes de Caulibus in San Gimignano by research today . The longest version deals with the life of Christ from his birth to the miracle of Pentecost and includes a comprehensive treatise on the merits of active and contemplative life. In the second longest this tract and the events between the baptism of Christ and the Passion are missing. A third, also known as Mediationes de passione Christi , only begins with the act of the Lord's Supper. There are more than a hundred manuscripts and various translations into the vernacular of these Latin versions.
A collection of spurious or dubious writings by Bonaventura was printed in the appendix to volume VI of his Opera omnia (Quaracchi 1893). A critical repertory of genuine, dubious and inauthentic works was presented by Balduin Distelbrink in 1975, which today forms the starting point for clarifying questions of attribution.
literature
- Bonaventure
- Balduin Distelbrink: Bonaventurae scripta: authentica, dubia vel spuria critice recensita . Istituto storico Cappuccini, Rome 1975 (= Subsidia scientifica Franciscalia, 5)
- Klaus-Bernward Springer: Johannes (de) Cauligus. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 3, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-035-2 , Sp. 303-304.
- Meditationes de vita Christi
- Lawrence F. Hundersmarck: The Use of Imagination, Emotion, and the Will in a Medieval Classic: The Meditaciones Vite Christi . In: Logos 6,2 (2003), pp. 46-62
- Sarah McNamer: Further evidence for the date of the Pseudo-Bonaventuran Meditationes vitæ Christi . In: Franciscan Studies, Vol. 10, Vol. 28 (1990), pp. 235-261
- Livario Oliger: Le meditationes vitae Christi del pseudo-Bonaventure. In: Studi Franciscani 18 (1921), pp. 143-183; 19 (1922), pp. 18-47
- Giorgio Petrocchi: Sulla composizione e data delle Meditationes Vitae Christi . In: Convivium, NS 5 (1952), pp. 757-778
Web links
- Joannes de Caulibus , in: Maarten van der Heijden / Bert Roest, Franciscan Authors: 13th-18th century: a catalog in progress
- Yale University Library, beincke MS 27 (olim Z109.073), 15th century : digitized version of the manuscript containing a Speculum humane salvationis and, on sheets 91r-104v, a short version of the Meditationes de passione domini .