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P contra obloquentes mendicitati de perfectione evangelica’ (, Bibl. Bibl. ii. 1872; see also, Chart. Univ. Paris. i. 415). It was written by Peckham against the threefold work of William of St. Amour (‘De Pharisæo et Publicano;’ ‘De periculis novissimorum temporum;’ ‘Collectiones Scripturæ Sacræ’), which appeared about 1256. The tenth chapter of this work is substantially identical with 14. ‘Declaratio regule ordinis Fratrum minorum domini Johannis de Pechamo,’ which is printed in the ‘Firmamentum trium ordinum beatissimi … Francisci,’ Venice, 1513. This exposition of the Rule was written before 1279; it is contained in MS. Laurentiana ex Bibl. S. Crucis Plut. xv. Dext. Cod. xii. f. 116b. 15. ‘Canticum pauperis … de introitu ad religionem;’ inc. ‘Confitebor tibi.’ Cotton MS. Vesp. D. xiii. ff. 144–55b, in Brit. Mus., Trinity Coll. Dublin MS. C. 4, 22, MSS. Laurentianæ ex Bibl. S. Crucis Plut. xxxi. Sin. Cod. iii. and Plut. xv. Dext. Cod. xii. p. 108. 16. ‘Tractatus contra Fratrem Rogerium (Kilwardby) obloquentem contra suum ordinem’ (edited for Brit. Soc. of Franciscan Studies). MSS. Laurentianæ ex Bibl. S. Crucis Plut. xv. Dext. Cod. xii. p. 146, and Plut. xxxvi. Dext. Cod. xii. p. 25. Tanner styles this ‘Contra priorem Cisterciensium.’ 17. ‘Formula confessionum;’ inc. ‘Sicut dicit b. Joannes.’ MS. Laurentiana ex Bibl. S. Crucis Plut. iv. Sin. Cod. xi. 18. ‘Super libros Ethicorum Aristotelis.’ MS. Laurentiana ex Bibl. S. Crucis Plut. xii. Sin. Cod. xi. 19. ‘Vita S. Antonii Patavensis.’ Nicholas Glasberger (Annal. Franc. ii. 91; cf., Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte, xi. 211) states that Peckham wrote a life of St. Anthony of Padua, ‘mero stilo,’ at the bidding of Jerome of Ascoli; Peckham's life has been identified in a manuscript in the library of the Capuchins at Lucerne, and forms the basis of the ‘Vie de S. Antoine de Padoue,’ Paris, 1894, by Père L. de Chersnée. Sbaralea wrongly identified it with one by Bernard de Besse. A life of St. Anthony was published at Paris in 1890 by J. R. P. Hilaire, under the names of St. Bonaventure and Peckham, ‘Saint Antoine de Padoue, sa legende primitive.’


 * 20. ‘Philomela:’ inc. ‘Philomela prævia temporis amœni.’ This graceful religious poem has been wrongly ascribed to St. Bonaventure, among whose works it is printed; Mayence edition, 1609, vi. 424–7, Venice edition, vi. 445, also Paris, 1503, with Bonaventure's ‘Centiloquium,’ and Quaracchi, 1898, viii. 669–74, with notes. A German translation appeared at Munich, 1612, ‘Nachtigall dess Heiligen Bonaventura,’ and a Spanish translation in the works of Ludovicus Granatensis, viii. 438, Madrid, 1788; Lydgate's ‘Nightingale’ is an English imitation (Early English Text Soc. 1902). There are numerous MSS.—e.g. Cott. Cleop. A. xii., Harleian 3766, Royal 8 G. vi. in the British Museum, and Laud. 402 in the Bodleian Library, besides seven others noticed by Mr. C. T. Martin. This poem has also been attributed to John Hoveden [q. v.], but is more probably by Peckham. 21. ‘Defensio Fratrum Mendicantium;’ inc. ‘O Christi Vicarie, Monarcha terrarum.’ Ascribed to Peckham in a modern hand in MS. Dd. xiv. 20, ff. 294b–297, in Cambr. Univ. Libr., and in a fourteenth-century hand in Digby MS. 166, f. 68, in the Bodleian Library. 22. ‘Meditacio de Sacramento Altaris et ejus utilitatibus;’ inc. ‘Ave, vivens hostia, veritas et vita.’ Arundel MS. 374, f. 76b, Royal MS. 2 A. ii. f. 88b, and Harleian MS. 913, f. 57b (imperfect), all in the British Museum. 23. ‘Versus de Sacramento Altaris;’ inc. ‘Hostia viva, vale, fidei fons gloria matris,’ Rawlinson MS. C. 558, f. 157 (Bodleian). These two poems are printed in ‘Registrum,’ ed. Martin, iii. pref. cxiv–cxviii. 24. ‘A Poem on Confession.’ MS. Ee. vi. 6 ff. 42–53 b, in Cambr. Univ. Libr. This is mutilated at the beginning. 25. ‘Psalterium Beate Marie de Psalmis sacris sumptum;’ inc. ‘Mente concipio laudes conscribere.’ MSS. Dd. xv. 21 ff. 1–15, Ff. vi. 14, ff. 8–22, Mm. v. 36, in the Cambr. Univ. Libr., and Sidney-Sussex D. 2, 14. 26. ‘A Poem on Age;’ inc. ‘Dum juvenis crevi, ludens nunquam requievi.’ MS. Ee. vi. 6, ff. 40–41b, where it is stated to be ‘most probably by John Peckham.’

Pits and Tanner ascribe a number of other works to Peckham; some are clearly confusions with one or another of the foregoing, others may be parts of his constitutions. In addition to the works given by these writers, Sbaralea gives: (1) ‘Expositio in Ecclesiastem;’ inc. ‘Hoc nomen Ecclesiastes,’ of which there was a manuscript at Assisi; and (2) ‘Postilla in Ezechielem’ manuscript at Clairvaux (, Bibl. Sacra, p. 896). There are manuscripts of many of Peckham's works at Assisi. Peckham's name appears in the manuscripts and printed copies of his works, under a variety of forms—e.g. Peccanus, Pisanus.

Peckham is erroneously credited with the following works: 1. ‘Speculum disciplinæ,’ ascribed to Peckham by Sbaralea, but really by Bernard de Besse. 2. ‘Speculum Ecclesiæ,’ ascribed to Peckham in a modern hand in MS. C. C. C. Oxon. 155, but it really belongs to Hugh of St. Cher, the Dominican. 3. ‘De Oculo Morali.’ Printed at Augsburg about