Franciscan friar, active in the first part of 14th century. His name appears sometimes as Benedictus de Deo because of a confusion in the abbreviation. He lived in the Franciscan convents in Cervera and Lleida and his works can be adscribed to Scotism. His sermons did not receive much attention until recently, but are quite important to understand Franciscan spirituality in Late Middle Ages.
Works:
- Breviloquium historiale [lost].
- Tractatus totius spherae. Bruselas, Bibliothèque Royale «Albert Ier», ms. 3595, ff. 216ra-225vb.
- Collationes dominicales. Tarragona, Biblioteca Pública del Estado (BPE), ms. 163, f. 1-49v.
- Summa praedicabilium. Tarragona, BPE, ms. 163, f. 50r.; Valencia, Archivo Biblioteca catedralicio, ms. 171 (olim 141); Marsella, Bibliothèque municipale L’Alcazar, ms. 397, f. 1r.-141v
Bibliography:
- Catalán, Oriol, «Los sermones de Bernat de Déu, O.F.M. en el contexto de la predicación antijudía medieval», Archivo Ibero-americano 75 (2017). Forthcoming.
- Longpré, Ephrem, «Fr. Bernard de Deo, O.F.M. (1318), et l’Immaculée Conception», Archivum Fransiscanum Historicum 26 (1933), 247-249.
- Negoi, Lidia, Dominicans, manuscripts and preaching in Medieval Aragon (s. XIV): A social history of communication, PhD Thesis. Bergen: University of Bergen, 2015, 136-46.
- Saldes, Ambrós de, OFM Cap. «Notes i documents franciscans», Estudis franciscans 37 (1926), 426-31.