Monumenta Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum Historica

MONUMENTA ORDINIS FRATRUM PRAEDICATORUM HISTORICA. - A series of critical editions of sources for the history of the Dominican Order, begun during the generalate of Fr. Andreas Frühwirth.

The collection opens with the Vitae fratrum of Gerard of Frachet, published by Fr. Benedetto M. Reichert (Louvain-Rome 1896). The same scholar edited the Acta capitulorum generalium from 1220 to 1844 (vols. III, IV, VII-XIV: Rome-Stuttgart 1898-1904), the Litterae encyclicae magistrorum generalium (vol. V, Rome-Stuttgart-Vienna 1900), and the Cronica Ordinis of Friar Galvagni de la Flamma, of which only fasc. 1 has appeared (vol. II, Rome-Stuttgart 1897). Of vol. VI too, only 2 fascicles have been published, with documents relating to the life and work of St. Raymond of Peñafort (ibid. 1898-1901). Since 1933 other volumes have appeared in the same collection, edited by the Dominican Historical Institute of S. Sabina in Rome, founded by Fr. Gillet: a series of Monumenta historica s. patris nostri Dominici (vol. XV, Paris 1933; vol. XVI, Rome 1935), the Registrum litterarum of Thomas Cajetan de Vio, that of Raymond of Capua and of other masters and procurators general, the Acta capitulorum provincialium provinciae Romae from 1243 to 1344, the Cataloghi of L. Pignon, of Stams and Uppsala, the De quatuor of Stephen Salagnac and Bernard Gui, and the Epistolae b. Iordani de Saxonia. The latter (Rome 1951) form vol. XXIII. The editions were edited by Frs. M. H. Laurent, H. Ch. Scheeben, A. Walz, A. de Meyer, Th. Käppeli, G. Meersseman, D. Planzer.

Angelo Walz