MONUMENTA ORDINIS FRATRUM PRAEDICATORUM HISTORICA

MONUMENTA ORDINIS FRATRUM PRAEDICATORUM HISTORICA

A series of critical editions of sources for the history of the Order known as the Dominicans, begun during the generalship of Fr. Andrea Frühwirth.

The collection opens with the *Vitae fratrum* of Gerard of Frachet, published by Fr. Benedetto M. Reichert (Louvain-Rome 1866). The same scholar edited the *Acta capitulorum generalium* from 1220 to 1844 (vols. III, IV, VII-XIV; Rome-Stuttgart 1898-1904), the *Litterae encyclicae* of the Masters General (vol. V, Rome-Stuttgart-Vienna 1900), and the *Chronica Ordinis* of Fra Galvagni de la Flamma, of which only fascicle I appeared (vol. II, Rome-Stuttgart 1897). Only two fascicles of vol. VI were published, containing documents relating to the life and work of St. Raymond of Peñafort (ibid. 1898-1901).

From 1933 onward, other volumes have appeared in the same series, edited by the Dominican Historical Institute of St. 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 Tommaso de Vio (Cajetan), that of Raymond of Capua and of other Masters and General Procurators, the *Acta capitulorum provincialium* of the Roman Province from 1243 to 1344, the catalogues of L. Pignon, of Stams and Uppsala, the *De quatuor* of Stephen of Salagnac and Bernard Gui, and the *Epistulae* of Bl. Jordan of Saxony. The last-named (Rome 1951) form vol. XXIII. The editions were prepared by Frs. M. H. Laurent, H. Ch. Scheeben, A. Walz, A. de Meyer, Th. Käppeli, G. Meersseman, and D. Planzer.

BIBL.: A. Papillon, *De sodalitio historico Ordinis Praedicatorum*, in *Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum*, 1 (1931), pp. 12-13; A. Walz, *Compendium historiae Ordinis Praedicatorum*, 2nd ed., Rome 1948, pp. XXI, 527, 626. Angelo Walz