Mark of Lisbon

{{Short description|Portuguese Franciscan, historian and Bishop of Porto}} {{more footnotes needed|date=April 2014}}

'''Mark of Lisbon''', in Portuguese '''Marcos de Lisboa''', in Latin '''Marcus Ulyssiponensis''', (1511-1591),<ref>Bibliothèque nationale de France, [https://data.bnf.fr/fr/see_all_activities/13322285/page1 online].</ref> was a Portuguese Franciscan, historian, and the Bishop of Porto.

While visiting the main convents of the Franciscan Order in Spain, Italy, and France, Mark collected a number of original documents about the order's history at the instance of the minister general, André Álvarez. Earlier, in 1532, the minister general, Paul Pisotti, had instructed all the provincials of the order to collect all documents they could find pertaining to the fifteenth century, to continue the ''Conformities'' of Bartholomew of Pisa. When these documents were gathered together, it was given to Mark, who compiled them together with information he himself had gathered, as well as that from the ''Chronicle'' of Marianus of Florence, into his Portuguese language work ''Chronicle of the Friars Minor''. This was published in Lisbon from 1557 to 1568.

The work is made up almost entirely of biographies of illustrious men of the order, which makes the title somewhat misleading. It is of great historical value, especially since the original sources to which the author had access, have entirely disappeared.

Mark of Lisbon is confused with Franciscan friar and lexicographer Marcos de Lisboa who actually authored the first major vocabulary in the Bikol language in the Philippines, the ''Vocabulario de la lengua Bicol'' and which according to Malcolm Mintz was rendered in manuscript form around 1610.<ref>Early Franciscan Mission.Blair and Robertson. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898. Vol. 35, pp. 313-314; vol. 17, pp. 210-211.Retrieved 10-28-22</ref> However, though it was compiled from 1602 to 1611, the dictionary would only be posthumously published in 1754, and ''Arte de la lengua Bicol'' (1647) from Andres de San Agustin preceded it in print.<ref>{{Cite thesis|last=Lobel|date=2013|title=Philippine and North Bornean Languages: Issues in Description, Subgrouping, and Reconstruction|page= |url=http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/graduate/Dissertations/JasonLobelFinal.pdf|access-date=30 September 2019|pages=37–38}}</ref>

== Bibliography == * Carvalho, José Adriano Moreira de Freitas [Publ.] : ''Frei Marcos de Lisboa : cronista franciscano e bispo do Porto'', Porto, Faculdade de Letras do Porto, 2002.<ref>[http://opac.regesta-imperii.de/lang_en/anzeige.php?sammelwerk=Frei+Marcos+de+Lisboa%2C+cronista+franciscano+e+bispo+do+Porto&pk=1467582 Notice on REGESTA IMPERII]</ref> The contribution of Bernard Dompnier, "Les enjeux de l’édition française des Chroniques de frère Marc de Lisbonne" can be read [https://ler.letras.up.pt/uploads/ficheiros/5466.pdf online].

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