Ramón Llull

Blessed Ramón Llull
*Doctor Illuminatus*
Blessed Ramón Llull; Doctor Illuminatus
	; Lux mea est ipse dominus.; (Wellcome V0003713, CC-BY-4.0)
Born	1232-1236; Mallorca, Kingdom of Majorca
Died	1315-1316;
Burial	Basilica de Sant Francesc, Palma de Mallorca
Beatified	1847 by Pope Pius IX
Feast	30 June

Ramón Llull ^[i] (b. 1232-1236 - d. 1315-1316) was a Majorcan philosopher, poet, mathematician, and lay theologian, reputedly a member of the Third Order of Saint Francis (Franciscan tertiary), who was beatified by the Roman Catholic Church and assigned the title of Doctor Illuminatus.

Selected Bibliography

(in Latin) Introductorium Magne Artis Generalis Reuerendissimi Doctoris Illuminati Magistri Raymundi Lully ad Omnes Scientias Utilissimum, 1581, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100239703

Latin

refer Latin Bibliography of Ramón Llull

English translations

Lull, Ramón; Peers, E. Allison (1923), The Book of the Lover and the Beloved, trans. from the Catalan of Ramón Lull, with an Introductory Essay by E. Allison Peers, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York and Toronto: Macmillan Co., https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112067968773
Lull, Ramón; Peers, E. Allison (1925), The Art of Contemplation, trans. from the Catalan of Ramón Lull, with an Introductory Essay by E. Allison Peers, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001932093
Lull, Ramón; Peers, E. Allison (1926), Blanquerna: A Thirteenth Century Romance, trans. from the Catalan of Ramón Lull, London: Jarrolds, https://archive.org/details/Blanquerna

Reading

Peers, E. Allison (1929), Ramon Lull: A Biography, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, https://www.amazon.com/Ramon-Lull-biography-Allison-PEERS/dp/B004NX419Q/?tag=apopheniacs-20
Peers, E. Allison (1946), Fool of Love: The Life of Ramon Lull, London: S.C.M. Press, https://www.amazon.com/Fool-love-life-Ramon-Lull/dp/B0006AR5XO/?tag=apopheniacs-20
Yates, Frances A. (1982), Lull and Bruno, London: Routledge Kegan & Paul, https://www.amazon.com/Lull-Bruno-Collected-Essays-1/dp/0710009526/?tag=apopheniacs-20

Notes

↑ Ramón Llull is how his name is spelled in Catalan and has become the most prominent spelling in recent decades; he was also known in Latin, variously, as Raimundus, Raymundus, or Raimundo, his surname being given as Lullus, Lullius, and Lulio; and was prominently Anglicised as Raymond Lully or simply Raymond Lull.

[1] Ramón Llull is how his name is spelled in Catalan and has become the most prominent spelling in recent decades; he was also known in Latin, variously, as Raimundus, Raymundus, or Raimundo, his surname being given as Lullus, Lullius, and Lulio; and was prominently Anglicised as Raymond Lully or simply Raymond Lull.

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