:''Marcos da Silva leads here. For other people named Marcos da Silva, see Marcos da Silva (disambiguation)'' Mark of Lisbon (died 1622), properly Marcos da Silva, was a Portuguese

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, and the Bishop of Porto. While visiting the main convents of the Franciscan Order in

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, Mark collected a number of original documents about the order's history at the instance of the minister general, Fr. André Álvarez. Earlier, in 1532, the

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, Father Paul Pisotti, had instructed all the provincials of the order to collect all documents they could find pertaining to the fifteenth century, to continue the ''Conformities'' of Bartholomew of Pisa. When these documents were gathered together, it was given to Mark, who compiled them together with information he himself had gathered, as well as that from the ''Chronicle'' of Marianus of Florence, into his

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work ''Chronicle of the Friars Minor''. This was published in Lisbon from 1557 to 1568. The work is made up almost entirely of biographies of illustrious men of the order, which makes the title somewhat misleading. It is of great historical value, especially since the original sources to which the author had access, have entirely disappeared. Mark of Lisbon is confused with Franciscan friar and lexicographer Marcos de Lisboa who actually authored the first major vocabulary in the Bikol language in the

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, the '' Vocabulario de la lengua Bicol'' and which according to Malcolm Mintz was rendered in manuscript form around 1610 Early Franciscan Mission.Blair and Robertson. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898. Vol. 35, pp. 313-314; vol. 17, pp. 210-211.Retrieved 10-28-22 However, though it was compiled from 1602 to 1611, the dictionary would only be posthumously published in 1754, and '' Arte de la lengua Bicol'' (1647) from Andres de San Agustin preceded it in print.

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