William of Sandwich, Chronicle of
WILLIAM OF SANDWICH, CHRONICLE OF
Account of the spread of the carmelites in the 13th century through the East and to Europe. Although presented as an eyewitness record, it was actually composed along with other unauthentic works c. 1380. The editor and probable author of the collection was the Carmelite Philip Ribot.
Bibliography: Sources. Ribot Collection. Ghent Manuscript (Karmelietenklooster, Boxmeer, Netherlands); Codex Avila (Collegio Sant'Alberto, Rome); Trier, Stadbibliothek, Manuscript 155; Munich Staatsbibliothek, Manuscript. Latin 471. Texts of Sandwich. g. wessels, Analecta Ordinis Carmelitarum Calceatorum 3 (Rome 1914–16) 302–315. Translations. j. cattelona, Sword 3 (1939) 365–368, 479–487. François de Sainte Marie, ed., Les Plus vieux textes du Carmel (2d ed. Paris 1961) 183–214, see p. 184 for other manuscripts, eds., and literature. Studies. r. hendriks, "La Succession héréditaire," Élie le prophète, 2 v. in Études Carmélitaines 35 (1956) 2:69–70. a. staring, "Notes on a List of Carmelite Houses in Medieval France," Carmelus 11 (1964) 153.
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