Of Jordanus' _Epistles_ there is only one MS., viz. Paris, National Library, 5006 Lat., fol. 182, r. and v.; of the _Mirabilia_ also one MS. only, viz. London, British Museum, _Additional MSS._, 19,513, fols. 3, r.-12 r. The text of the _Epistles_ is in Quétif and Echard, _Scriptores ordinis praedicatorum_, i. 549-550 (Epistle I.); and in Wadding, _Annales minorum_, vi. 359-361 (Epistle II.); the text of the _Mirabilia_ in the Paris Geog. Soc.'s _Recueil de voyages_, iv. 1-68 (1839). The Papal letters referring to Jordanus are in Raynaldus, _Annales ecclesiastici_, 1330, §§ lv. and lvii. (April 8; Feb. 14). See also Sir H. Yule's _Jordanus_, a version of the _Mirabilia_ with a commentary (Hakluyt Soc., 1863) and the same editor's _Cathay_, giving a version of the _Epistles_, with a commentary, &c. (Hak. Soc., 1866) pp. 184-185, 192-196, 225-230; F. Kunstmann, "Die Mission in Meliapor und Tana" and "Die Mission in Columbo" in the _Historisch-politische Blätter_ of Phillips and Görres, xxxvii. 25-38, 135-152 (Munich, 1856), &c.; C. R. Beazley, _Dawn of Modern Geography_, iii. 215-235. (C. R. B.) JORIS, DAVID, the common name of JAN JORISZ or JORISZOON (c. 1501-1556), Anabaptist heresiarch who called himself later JAN VAN BRUGGE; was born in 1501 or 1502, probably in Flanders, at Ghent or Bruges. His father, Georgius Joris de Koman, otherwise Joris van Amersfoordt, probably a native of Bruges, was a shopkeeper and amateur actor at Delft; from the circumstance that he played the part of King David, his son received the name of David, but probably not in baptism. His mother was Marytje, daughter of Jan de Gorter, of a good family in Delft. As a child he was clever and delicate. He seems then or later to have acquired some tincture of learning. His first known occupation was that of a glass-painter; in 1522 he painted windows for the church at Enkhuizen, North Holland (the birthplace of Paul Potter). In pursuit of his art he travelled, and is said to have reached England; ill-health drove him homewards in 1524, in which year he married Dirckgen Willems at Delft. In the same year the Lutheran reformation took hold of him, and he began to issue appeals in prose and verse against the Mass and against the pope as antichrist. On Ascension Day 1528 he committed an outrage on the sacrament carried in procession; he was placed in the pillory, had his tongue bored, and was banished from Delft for three years. He turned to the Anabaptists, was rebaptized in 1533, and for some years led a wandering life. He came into relations with John à Lasco, and with Menno Simons. Much influenced by Melchior Hofman, he had no sympathy with the fanatic violence of the Münster faction. At the Buckholdt conference in August 1536 he played a mediating part. His mother, in 1537, suffered martyrdom as an Anabaptist. Soon after he took up a rôle of his own, having visions and a gift of prophecy. He adapted in his own interest