Writers of the Order of Friars Minor

OF THE ORDER OF FRIARS MINOR

AN ANONYMOUS AUTHOR from FRESNEDA collected and edited:
The Constitutions and Decrees of the Church of Córdoba. Published in Antwerp, 1577.

AN ANONYMOUS AUTHOR from GALVAN, a Spaniard, wrote:
Lenten Sermons.
Sermons on the Saints. Published in Seville, 1615.

AN ANONYMOUS AUTHOR, designated only by the two letters D. P., a member of the Regular Observance, published:
The Delegation of Religious, or an examination and account of the legitimate power held by privileged Religious to hear the confessions of laypeople Latin: "saecularium" at any time and place; including the declarations of the Sacred Congregation of the Council regarding the Constitution of Gregory XV, and many Bulls and Decrees concerning Masses on feast days and Sundays, visitations, the collection of alms, and burials. Published in Paris, in octavo in 8.; a book size where the sheet is folded into eight leaves, at the house of Guillaume Sassier in the year 1648.

AN ANONYMOUS SPANIARD from the province of St. James, published:
The Enchiridion, or Manual of the Friars Minor, most conveniently containing the Regular Institutes of the same Friars, as well as of other persons serving under the governance of the Prelates of the said Order. Printed in Seville by Juan Varela in the year 1535, in quarto in 4.; a book size where the sheet is folded into four leaves. It had appeared previously without a location or year of printing.

A SECOND ANONYMOUS SPANIARD, from the monastery of Toledo, corrected, brought into a better form, and published:
The Breviary of the Order of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. The Conceptionists are a contemplative religious order of nuns founded in Spain. Published in Alcalá de Henares Latin: "Compluti", 1551.

A THIRD ANONYMOUS SPANIARD published a book titled:
The Way of Spiritual Perfection of the Soul. Published in Seville, 1532.

A FOURTH ANONYMOUS SPANIARD, from the province of Pietas, composed:
The Manual for Confessors, which Martin Azpilcueta of Navarre A famous Spanish canonist and theologian, often called "Doctor Navarrus." diligently revised, approved, and saw to its publication; dedicated to Joanna, Infanta or Princess of Portugal. It appeared in Toledo at the house of Juan Ferrer in 1554; in the same year at Medina del Campo Latin: "Methymnae Campi", and in Antwerp in 1555.

A FIFTH ANONYMOUS SPANIARD, from the province of the Conception, published:
A Manual of all essential matters to which the Friars Minor are bound by the force of their Rule. Published in Coimbra Latin: "Conymbricae", 1571, in octavo.

A SIXTH ANONYMOUS SPANIARD published:
A Formulary of common and various provisions which may commonly pertain to our Religious Order of St. Francis, without author, place, or year.

A SEVENTH ANONYMOUS SPANIARD published:
A New Compilation of many privileges granted to the Friars Minor and other Mendicants. Published in Barcelona in the year 1523, in quarto.

AN EIGHTH ANONYMOUS SPANIARD published:
The Mirror of the Friars Minor, by a certain Reverend Father of the province of St. James while he was Provincial; in quarto, without place or year.

A NINTH ANONYMOUS SPANIARD published:
A Supplement, or new compilation, of many Apostolic privileges, especially spiritual ones, granted to the Friars Minor and other Mendicants; in quarto, without place or year.

A TENTH ANONYMOUS SPANIARD published:
A Compendium of the privileges of the Friars Minor and other Mendicants, with many additions, especially from the privileges of non-Mendicants: a second edition

published by a certain Friar Minor of the province of St. James in Salamanca in the year 1532, in quarto.

AN ELEVENTH ANONYMOUS SPANIARD published:
The Collectorium of the Regular Friars and Nuns living under the governance of the Prelates of the Order of Minors, published by the same in Salamanca, 1532.

A TWELFTH ANONYMOUS SPANIARD published:
Determinations of certain doubts pertaining to the authority of the Prelates of the Order of Friars Minor, in quarto, without place or year.

A THIRTEENTH ANONYMOUS SPANIARD published:
The Monuments of the Order of Minors, compiled in three tracts by the command of the Reverend Father Friar Francisco de Ledesma, Guardian of the monastery of St. Francis in Salamanca, and printed there in the year 1506, in quarto.

A FOURTEENTH ANONYMOUS SPANIARD published:
General Constitutions for all Nuns subject to the governance of the Minors, published by the order of Juan de Merinero, Minister General, in Madrid, 1642.

AN ANONYMOUS ITALIAN, a truly spiritual man and one of mystical doctrine, wrote two pious tracts in the vernacular Italian; the first he titled:
The Rule of Charity; the second
The Search for Truth. I possess both in manuscript. The time in which the author lived is unknown to me. The speech is unpolished and tastes of an ancient and coarse way of speaking from the fourteenth century.

A SECOND ANONYMOUS ITALIAN wrote:
A Tract on the Dead, divided into five parts. In the first part, he deals with the causes of death; in the second, with the conditions of death; in the third, with the conditions of the dead; in the fourth, with their state after death; in the fifth, with their resurrection. It begins: The present work is divided into five parts. I have the manuscript in my possession.

A THIRD ANONYMOUS ITALIAN wrote in the vernacular:
The Life, Deeds, and Innumerable Miracles of Blessed Gerard Valentine of Piedmont; of whom we treat more extensively in volume 3 of our Annals under the year 1343. I have the manuscript in my possession.

A FOURTH ANONYMOUS ITALIAN learnedly and devoutly composed an entire book:
On the Passion of the Lord, joined and arranged in their proper place, whatever the four Evangelists wrote from the triumphal entry into the city of Jerusalem, when the people went out to meet him with olive branches, until the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles, with the exposition of Nicholas of Lyra added throughout. Nicholas of Lyra (c. 1270–1349) was a Franciscan whose literal commentary on the Bible was highly influential. The work is distinguished by 57 harmoniously distributed chapters. The author finished it in the year 1471, on the 27th of August. I possess a beautiful and clean parchment manuscript copy, at the end of which these words are found: A tract on the Passion according to Nicholas of Lyra, for the use of Friar Bernardino of Montefalco, which the venerable Father Friar Battista of Montefalco, then Vicar of the province of St. Francis, granted to him in the second year of his vicariate.

A FIFTH ANONYMOUS ITALIAN, a man well-versed in the Holy Scriptures, especially of the New Testament, wrote in Italian:
On all the apparitions of Christ the Lord which are recorded in the Holy Scripture, with the addition of the very best teachings from the books of various Holy Fathers and Doctors, which lead to leading a Christian life. I have the manuscript in my possession.

AN ANONYMOUS AUTHOR from LASARTE, of the Regular Observance in the province of Castile, a most eloquent preacher, wrote:
Three volumes of varied erudition, which are held as manuscripts in the library of the monastery of Saint Mary of Saliceto.