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Luke Wadding
(1588-1657)

Encyclopedia articles:  Gregory Cleary (CE), B. Millett (NCE), Norman Moore (DNB)  [Abbreviation key]

 

Main Works Edited & Written by Wadding

Annales Minorum. Lyon, 1625-1654. (8 v.)
[Contents: 1. From the birth of St. Francis to the year 1250 (1625, 2nd ed. 1647).—2. 1250-1300 (1628).—3. 1300-1350 (1635).—4. 1350-1400 (1637).—5. 1400-1450 (1642).—6. 1450-1475 (1647).—7. 1475-1500 (1648).—8. 1500-1540 (Rome, 1654 ; Lyon, 1657).

Epitome Annalium Ordinis Minorum / Francis Harold. Rome: N. A. Tinassii, 1662 (2 v.)

Index Universalis Annalium Ordinis Minorum P. Lucae Waddingi. Rome, 1935.

Reprinted with continuations: Rome, 1731-1886 (25 v.) [covering up to 1622]

Reprinted with continuations: Quaracchi, 1931-64 (32 v.) [covering up to 1680]

French translation: Annales de Freres Mineurs / tr. Silvestre Castel. Toulouse: Colomiez

& Posuel, 1680 (2 v.)]

Concordantiae Morales Sacrorum Bibliorum S. Antonii Padua. Rome : A. Ciacconum, 1624 (2 v.)

De Hebraicae Linguae, Origine, Prestantia, et Utilitate ad Sacrarum Literarum Interpretes / Mario a Calasio. Rome: Stephanum Paulinum, 1621. (4 v.)

[Reprinted: London: J. Hodges, 1747-1749. (4 v.)]

Opera Omnia / John Duns Scotus. Lyon: L. Durand, 1639. (12 v. in 13)

[Reprinted: Paris: L. Vives, 1891-1895. (26 v.) ; Hildesheim: Olms, 1968-9 (12 v. in 16) ; ; Westmead, UK: Gregg, 1969 (26 v.)]

Opuscula / St. Francis of Assisi. Antwerp: Plantin, 1623. (3 v.).

[Reprinted: Alexandria: I. Scoti, 1629 ; Naples: L. Scorigium, 1635 ; Lyon: L. Durand, 1637 (2 v.); Mainz: J. Mayer, 1710 (3 v.) ; Cologne: J. M. Heberle, 1849]

Scriptores Ordinis Minorum. Rome: F. A. Tani, 1650.

[Reprinted: Rome: L. Contedini, 1806 ; Rome: A. Nardecchia, 1906 ; Frankfurt: Minerva, 1967 ; Bologna: Forni, 1978.

Continued and corrected by: Supplementum et Castigatio ad Scriptores … a Waddingo /

Giovanni G. Sbaraglia. Rome, 1806 ; Reprinted: Rome: A. Nardecchia, 1908-36 (3 v.)]

Studies & Texts

Gregory Cleary. Father Luke Wadding and St. Isidore’s College Rome: Biographical and Historical Notes and Documents. Rome, 1925.
[Contents: Memoir of Father Luke Wadding. Companions and disciples of Wadding. Story of the founding of St. Isidore’s. Documents]

Father Luke Wadding Commemorative Volume / ed. The Franciscan Fathers of Dun Mhuire, Killiney. Dublin: Clonmore & Reynolds, 1957.

Francis Harold. Vita Fratris Lucae Waddingi. 3rd edition. Quaracchi, 1931.

[Written in the late 1600’s]

Brendan Jennings (ed.). Wadding Papers 1614-38. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1953.

[A collection of correspondence and contemporary documents (384 items) mainly in Latin but with some in English, Spanish & Italian.]

Brendan Jennings (ed.). "Some Correspondence of Father Luke Wadding, O.F.M." Collectanea Hibernica 2 (1959) 66-94.

Canice Mooney. "The Writings of Father Luke Wadding, O.F.M." Franciscan Studies 18 (1958) 225-239.

Joseph A. O’Shea. The Life of Father Luke Wadding. Dublin: M. H. Gill & Son, 1885.

Compiled by Paul J. Spaeth


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