Meditations on the Life of Christ

Once it was realised that the work was not by him, the ascription was changed to pseudo-Bonaventure, and was judged to be of unknown Franciscan authorship.

[3] An argument has been made that the Latin work was written around 1300 by Jacobus de Sancto Geminiano, who is also identifiable as the leader of a revolt of Tuscan spirituals, one of the Fraticelli, in 1312.

[6][7] The work's popularity in the Middle Ages is evidenced by the survival of over two hundred manuscript copies, including seventeen illuminated ones.

[9] The work's detailed evocations of moments from the life of Christ and his mother may have influenced early Trecento art.

It has also been credited with inspiring the great increase in depictions of the Veil of Veronica from the late 14th century.