> Date sent: Mon, 9 Jun 97 06:37 MET DST
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> From: [log in to unmask] (Otfried Lieberknecht)
> Subject: Re: St. Bonaventure query
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> Dear Clinton,
>
> Your description sounds like the source in question might rather be one of
> the falsely attributed writings. You could try the _Meditationes vitae
> Christi_ (a text which I myself don't know) referred to by Powell as having
> been attributed to Bonaventura and which seem to be the same _Meditationes_
> which more often are cited as having been attributed to Bernard of
> Clairvaux. Some references which I have taken from second hand:
>
> POWELL Lawrence
> Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesus Christ. A translation
> of the Latin work entitled Meditationes vitae Christi,
> attributed to Cardinal Bonaventura. Made before the year
> 1410 by Nicolas Love, edited by Lawrence Powell. London:
> Frowde, 1908
> VACCARI Alberto
> Le 'Meditazioni della vita di Cristo' in volgare. In: id.,
> Scritti di erudizione e di filologia, I: Filologia biblica
> e patristica, Roma: Storia e Letteratura, 1952, p.341-378
> BAIER Walter
> Untersuchungen zu den Passionsbetrachtungen in der 'Vita
> Christi' des Ludolf von Sachsen. Ein quellenkritischer Bei-
> trag zu Leben und Werk Ludolfs und zur Geschichte der Pas-
> sionstheologie. Salzburg: Institut f=FCr Englische Sprache und
> Literatur, 1977 (=3D Analecta Cartusiana, 44), vol. II
>
> Sorry to be so vague!
>
> Yours,
>
> Otfried
>
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The writer of this tractatus was probably Giovanni de Caulibus de
Sancto Geminiano, a Franciscan brother active in the late 13th and
early 14th centuries. See: Olivario Oliger, Le meditationes vitae
Christi del pseudo-Bonaventura. Studi Franciscani 7 (1921), and ibid.
8 (1922).
Otherwise I agree with Otfried, it could be the source of your
preacher.
Cheers,
Jussi Hanska
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