as it
found in the documents with the version of it given in 2 Cel.,
3, 8.

[30] Assisi MS., 338, f^o 28a-31a, with the rubric: _De lictera
et ammonitione beatissimi patris nostri Francisci quam misit
fratribus ad capitulum quando erat infirmus._ This letter was
wrongly divided into three by Rodolfo di Tossignano (f^o 237),
who was followed by Wadding (Epistolae x., xi., xii.). The text
is found without this senseless division in the manuscript cited
and in _Firmamentum_, f^o 21; _Spec._, Morin, iii., 217a;
Ubertini, _Arbor vit. cruc._, v., 7.

[31] This initial (given only by the Assisi MS.) has not failed
to excite surprise. It appears that there ought to have been
simply an N ... This letter then would have been replaced by the
copyist, who would have used the initial of the minister general
in charge at the time of his writing. If this hypothesis has any
weight it will aid to fix the exact date of the manuscript.
(Alberto of Pisa minister from 1239-1240; Aimon of Faversham,
1240-1244.)

[32] This epistle also was unskilfully divided into two distinct
letters by Rodolfo di Tossignano, f^o 174a, who was followed by
Wadding. See Assisi MS., 338, 23a-28a; _Conform._, 137a, 1 ff.

[33] The letter to the clergy only repeats the thoughts already
expressed upon the worship of the holy sacrament. We remember
Francis sweeping out the churches and imploring the priests to
keep them clean; this epistle has the same object: it is found
in the Assisi MS., 338, f^o 31b-32b, with the rubric: _De
reverentia Corporis Domini et de munditia altaris ad omnes
clericos_. Incipit: _Attendamus omnes_. Explicit: _fecerint
exemplari_. This, therefore, is the letter given by Wadding
xiii., but without address or salutation.

[34] We need not despair of finding them. The archives of the
monasteries of Clarisses are usually rudimentary enough, but
they are preserved with pious care.

[35] _Spec._, 117b; _Conform._, 185a 1; 135b, 1. Cf. _Test. B.
Clarae_, A. SS., Aug., ii., p. 747.

[36] This story is given in the _Spec._, 128b, as from
eye-witnesses. Cf. _Conform._, 184b, 1; 203a, 1.

[37] 1 Cel., 106. These recommendations as to Portiuncula were
amplified by the Zelanti, when, under the generalship of