conscripta, in libro qui habetur in armario fratrum
de Assisio et in rotulis ejus, quos apud me habeo, manu ejusdem
fratris Leonis conscriptis. Archiv._, iii., p. 168. Cf. p. 178.
[39] 3 Soc., Prol. _Non contenti narrare solum miracula ...
conversationis insignia et pii beneplaciti voluntatem_.
[40] _Leggenda di S. Francesco, tipografia Morici et Badaloni_,
Recanati, 1856, 1 vol., 8vo.
[41] See Father Stanislaus's preface.
[42] 3 Soc., 68-73.
[43] The book lacks little of representing St. Francis as taking
up the work of Jesus, interrupted (by the fault of the secular
clergy) since the time of the apostles. The _viri evangelici_
consider the members of the clergy _filios extraneos._ 3 Soc.,
48 and 51. Cf. 3 Soc., 48. _Inveni virum ... per quem, credo
Dominus velit in toto mundo fedem sanctae Ecclesiae reformare_.
Cf. 2 Cel., 3, 141. _Videbatur revera fratri et omnium
comitatium turbae quod Christi et b. Francisci una persona
foret_.
[44] A. SS. p. 552.
[45] _Venetiis, expensis domini Jordani de Dinslaken per Simonem
de Luere_, 30 januarii, 1504. _Impressum Metis per Jasparem
Hochffeder_, Anno Domini 1509. These two editions are identical,
small 12mos, of 240 folios badly numbered. Edited under the same
title by Spoelberch, Antwerp, 1620, 2 tomes in one volume, 8vo,
208 and 192 pages, with a mass of alterations. The most
important manuscript resembles that of the Vatican 4354. There
are two at the Mazarin Library, 904 and 1350, dated 1459 and
1460, one at Berlin (MS. theol. lat., 4to, no. 196 saec. 14).
Vide Ehrle, _Zeitschrift_. t. vii. (1883), p. 392f; _Analecta
fr._, t. i., p. xi.; _Miscellanea_, 1888, pp. 119. 164. Cf. A.
SS., pp. 550-552.
The chapters are numbered in the first 72 folios only, but these
numbers teem with errors; fo. 38b. caput lix., 40b, lix., 41b,
lxi. ibid., lxii., 42a, lx., 43a, lxi. Besides at fos. 46b and
47b there are two chapters lxvi. There are two lxxi., two
lxxii., two lxxiii., etc.
[46] For example, the history of the brigands of Monte-Casale,
fos. 46b, and 58b. The remarks of Brother Elias to Francis, who
is continually singing, 136b and 137a. The visit of Giacomina di
Settesoli, 133a and 138a. The autograph benediction given to
Bro
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