{{short description|Collective name for the authors of a number of medieval devotional works}} {{More footnotes needed|date=May 2024}} [[File:Bonaventura - Meditationes vitae Christi, circa 1478 - 3864620 ib00915500 Scan00004.tif|thumb|''Meditationes vitae Christi'' (Giovanni de' Cauli?), {{circa|1478}}]] '''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".<ref>[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]</ref> 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== *''Ars concionandi'', a treatise of the ''ars praedicandi'' type<ref>{{cite book |first=Siegfried |last=Wenzel |title=Medieval 'Artes Praedicandi': A Synthesis of Scholastic Sermon Structure |year=2015 |publisher=University of Toronto Press| pages=8–9}}</ref> *''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.
==References== {{reflist}} *{{CathEncy|wstitle=St. Bonaventure}} (Penultimate paragraph.)
==Further reading== {{Wikisourcelang|la|Scriptor:Bonaventura}} ;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), S. 46–62 *Sarah McNamer: ''Further evidence for the date of the Pseudo-Bonaventuran Meditationes vitæ Christi''. In: Franciscan Studies, Bd. 10, Jg. 28 (1990), S. 235–261 *Livario Oliger: ''Le meditationes vitae Christi del pseudo-Bonaventura.'' In: Studi Franciscani 18 (1921), S. 143–183; 19 (1922), S. 18–47 *Giorgio Petrocchi: ''Sulla composizione e data delle Meditationes Vitae Christi''. In: Convivium, N.S. 5 (1952), S. 757–778
;Bonaventura *Balduin Distelbrink: ''Bonaventurae scripta: authentica, dubia vel spuria critice recensita''. Istituto storico Cappuccini, Rom 1975 (= Subsidia scientifica Franciscalia, 5) *{{BBKL|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070629091313/http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/j/Johannes_cau.shtml |autor=Klaus-Bernward Springer|artikel=Johannes (de) Cauligus|band=3|spalten=303-304}}
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