Notitiae Variae
Si nihil hic dicitur de domicilio cuiusdam qui aliquid nuntiat vel de aliquo quaerit, vide Repertorium Peritorum.
Capitulum Generale OP 1992 mandavit ut Instituto Historico ordinis nova vita inspiretur et ut nova historia scientifica ordinis sub eius aegide compiletur. Simon Tugwell OP nuper a magistro ordinis director Instituti nominatus est.
The Irish Dominican sisters of the Cabra Congregation have undertaken a thorough investigation of the history of the various houses and entities which have come to belong to the Congregation, including Galway which was previously a 2nd Order monastery. Sisters who can be contacted are: Sr M.Francis Capillas OP, Dominican Convent, Muckross Park, Donnybrook, Dublin 4; Sr M.Rose O'Neill OP, Dominican Convent, Taylor's Hill, Galway; Sr Cécile Diamond, Dominican Convent, Fortwilliam Park, Belfast BT15 4AQ.
Les papiers du regretté Prof. Jarl Gallén sont passés aux mains du Prof. Erik Gunnes, Dept. of History, University of Oslo, Box 1008 Blindern, 0314 Oslo 3, Norvège.
Dr Frank Graziano (Dept of Languages & Foreign Studies, The American University, Washington DC 20016, USA) is planning a study of 'St Rose of Lima: The Politics and Poetics of Sanctity', starting from a series of related questions: Why should the Spanish crown encourage papal authorities to expedite her canonization process to become in 1671 the first saint of the New World and later patron of the Americas? What were the politico-religious factors motivating the decision and implementing its urgency, and why were other more plausible possibilities (e.g. Archbp. Toribio de Mogrovejo of Peru) passed over to elect a self-mortifying mystics - earlier a potential candidate for the Inquisition - to these symbolically laden positions? What social and religious functions did sanctification of Rosa de Lima's violent christianity fulfil during the New World's induction into christendom and how do these gain expression in the 17th-cent. literature? Historical methodology is complemented with anthropological theories of symbolic action and literary strategies of interpretation.
Lydia Meidl parat dissertationem, Theologie des Gebets bei Thomas von Aquin (1993) [ut nuntiavit Prof. Horst OP].
Both Dr Iestyn Daniel and The Revd John Ryan OMI (St Mary's College, Colwyn Bay, Clwyd, North Wales) are interested in a Welsh text, Ymborth yr Enaid ['Food of the Soul'], which they both believe to be Dominican. A translation into English is included in Robert Williams & Hartwell Jones, Selections from the Hengwrt MSS (London 1876-92) II pp.730-746.
Sr Margaret Smith OP mentions that there is a manuscript life of Mother Martha M.Magdalen Butler OP (1798-1856) at Siena Convent, Drogheda.
Dr Fleith reports that, sadly, she and her colleagues have been unable to raise funds for their projected edition of the Legenda Aurea, so their plans are for the moment in abeyance.
Zbigniew Pajda OP (Commissio Leonina, Via Vecchia di Marino 28, 00046 Grottaferrata, Italia) is working on the Quaestiones Disputatae of Hugo de Sneyth (Kaeppeli #1995).
Wilfred Theisen OSB (St John's Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota, USA) is working on an article on the religious reception of alchemy in the 13th and 14th cent. in Europe among Dominicans, Franciscans and Benedictines.
Priscilla West (Dept of Art History, Univ. of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403) is doing a dissertation on Dominican patronage of the arts, mainly in Southern France.
Prof. Júlia Benavent Benavent scrive che c'è una 'biografia del R.P.F.Girolamo Savonarola et prima della patria et parenti suoi' nel cod. 862 della Biblioteca Universitaria di Valencia. Lei ha fatto un'edizione di tre lettere inedite di Savonarola che si trovano in questo codice (vide RP).
Thomas Prügl notes that three sermons preached on St Thomas in connection with the Council of Basel are known: by Juán de Torquemada (of which Herr Prügl is publishing an edition), by Ludovicus Pontanus (Mansi 29.544-557) and one that is anonymous (by John of Ragusa? - see A.Krchnák, De Vita et Operibus Io. de Ragusio p.94). He can now add two more: anon. OP c.1460 (member of the university of Siena), Oratio in festo s.Thomae de Aquino (Firenze, Bibl. Laurentiana, Plut. 89 sup. 27 ff.34r-36v); anon. (Heinrich Kalteisen?), Sermo latinus de beato Thoma doctore sancto dicto ad universitatem Coloniensem per me fratrem ... (Koblenz, Landeshauptarchiv 701/245 ff.317r-322v). Another 15th cent. sermon on St Thomas is now edited: Pierre de la Hazardière OP, Oratio in festo beati Thomae, in Evenico Beltran, ed., Humanistes français du milieu du XVe siècle: Textes inédits de Pierre de la Hazardière, Jean Serra, Guillaume Fichet (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance 235, Droz, Genève 1989).
P.Fuente draws attention to 'Madrid, Bibl. Nacional cod. 553 ff.453r-456v (s.XIII?), lecturas de la biblia, rito OP'.
Sr Colette Moron OP signale que les archives de Prouille (très difficiles d'accès!) n'ont pas encore livré tous leurs secrets. Elle y a découvert par exemple une bulle de 1258 sur le culte des reliques de S.Pierre Martyr.
Brepols nuntiat editionem suam Stephani de Borbone, curante J.Berlioz, quae tres tomos in serie "Corpus Christianorum" complectetur, prodire incepturam esse c.1994.
Fishacre project: under the general editorship of Prof. Long (vide RP Long) a team is editing the Sentences commentary of Richard Fishacre to be published by the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Le P.Levesque (Lyon) signale la parution d'un ouvrage du regretté P.Henri-Charles Chéry qu'il a édité: Saints et Bienheureux de la Famille Dominicaine (ouvrage de vulgarisation), en vente chez lui (FF 100).
Pater Frank reports on a seminar in Mainz: 'Mikrofilmanfertigung von handschriftl. Material (Urkunden usw.) zu den Dominikanerklöstern Magdeburg, Erfurt, Eisenach, Jena, Leipzig aus Spätmittelalter und Reformationszeit aus: Landeshauptarchiv Sachen-Anhalt in Magdeburg sowie Aussenstelle Wernigerode. Die genannten Quellen werden bearbeitet im Zussamenhang einer Promotionsarbeit über die deutschen Dominikaner und die Reformation (Kirchengeschichtliche Seminar II des Fachbereichs Katholische Theologie an der Universität Mainz).'
Dr Dickson reports that the History Department at Edinburgh University has a new honours option, 'Franciscans and Dominicans, c.1200-c.1500' (a one-term seminar given by Dr Dickson).
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