pseudo-Bonaventure

{{short description|Collective name for the authors of a number of medieval devotional works}}

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Pseudo-Bonaventure ({{langx|la|Pseudo-Bonaventura}}) 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 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".[https://books.google.com/books?id=5LyCLsJNdV4C&dq=%22Pseudo+Bonaventura%22&pg=PA128 Medieval texts and their first appearance in print, E. P. Goldschmidt, p. 128] 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 Meditations on the Life of Christ, remains usually described only as a work of Pseudo-Bonaventure.

Other works

"Biblia pauperum" ("Poor Man's Bible" – a title only given in the 20th century), a short 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.
Speculum Beatæ Mariæ Virginis by Conrad of Saxony
Speculum Disciplinæ, Epistola ad Quendam Novitium and Centiloquium, all probably by Bonanventura's secretary, Bernard of Besse
Legend of Saint Clare
Theologia Mystica, probably by Hugh of Balma.
Philomena, a poem now attributed to John Peckham, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1279 to 1292.

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{{CathEncy|wstitle=St. Bonaventure}} (Penultimate paragraph.)

pseudo-Bonaventure

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