ther Leo, 87a; 188a.
[47] At fo. 20b we read: _Tertium capitulam de charitate et
compassione et condescensione ad proximum. Capitulum_ xxvi. Cf.
26a, 83a, 117b, 119a, 122a, 128b, 133b, 136b, where there are
similar indications.
[48] Fo. 5b: _Incipit Speculum vitae b. Francesci et sociorum
ejus_. Fo. 7b; _Incipit Speculum perfectionis_.
[49] We should search for it in vain in the other pieces of the
Speculum, and it reappears in the fragments of Brother Leo cited
by Ubertini di Casali and Angelo Clareno.
[50] Fo. 8b, 11a, 12a, 15a, 18b, 21b, 23b, 26a, 29a, 33b, 43b,
41a, 48b, 118a, 129a, 130a, 134a, 135a, 136a.
[51] Does not Thomas de Celano say in the prologue of the Second
Life: "_Oramus ergo, benignissime pater, ut laboris hujus non
contemnenda munuscula ... vestra benedictione consecrare
velitis, corrigendo errata et superflua resecantes_."
[52] The legend of 3 Soc. was preserved in the Convent of
Assisi: "_Omnia ... fuerunt conscripta ... per Leonem, ... in
libro qui habetur in armario fratrum de Assisio_." Ubertini,
_Archiv._, iii., p. 168. Later, Brother Leo seems to have gone
more into detail as to certain facts; he confided these new
manuscripts to the Clarisses: "_In rotulis ejus quos apud me
habeo, manu ejusdem fratres Leonis conscriptis_," ibid. Cf. p.
178. "_Quod sequitur a sancto fratre Conrado predicto et viva
voce audivit a sancto fratre Leone qui presens erat et regulam
scripsit. Et hoc ipsum in quibusdam rotulis manu sua conscriptis
quos commendavit in monasterio S. Clarae custodiendos.... In
illis multa scripsit ... quae industria fr. Bonaventura omisit et
noluit in legenda publice scribere, maxime quia aliqua erant ibi
in quibus ex tunc deviatio regulae publice monstrabatur et
nolebat fratres ante tempus in famare._" _Arbor._, lib. v., cap
5. Cf. _Antiquitates_, p. 146. Cf. _Speculum_, 50b. "_Infra
scripta verba, frater Leo socius et Confessor B. Francisci,
Conrado de Offida, dicebat se habuisse ex ore Beati Patris
nostri Francisci, quae idem Frater Conradus retulit, apud Sanctum
Damianum prope Assisium._" Conrad di Offidia copied, then, both
the book of Brother Leo and his _rotuli_; he added to it certain
oral information (_Arbor, vit. cruc._, lib. v., cap. 3), an
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