9, 1223.--_Solet annuere._ Solemn approbation of the
Rule, which is inserted in the bull.
No. 15. December 18, 1223.--_Fratrum Minorum._ Concerns apostates from
the Order.
No. 16. December 1, 1224.--_Cum illorum._ Authorization given to the
Brothers of Penitence to take part in the offices in times of interdict,
etc.
No. 17. December 3, 1224.--_Quia populares tumultus._ Concession of the
portable altar.
No. 18. August 28, 1225.--_In hiis._ Honorius explains to the Bishop of
Paris and the Archbishop of Rheims the true meaning of the privileges
accorded to the Brothers Minor.
No. 19. October 7, 1225.--_Vineae Domini._ This bull contains divers
authorizations in favor of the Brothers who are going to evangelize
Morocco.
This list includes only those of Sbaralea's bulls which may directly or
indirectly throw some light upon the life of St. Francis and his
institute. Sbaralea's nomenclature is surely incomplete and should be
revised when the Registers of Honorius III. shall have been published in
full.[6]
FOOTNOTES:
[1] It was published by Sbaralea, Bull., t. iv., p. 156, note h.
This act was drawn up July 9, 1274, at a time when the son of
Orlando as well as the Brothers Minor desired to authenticate
the donation, which until then had been verbal.
[2] See _Registri dei Cardinali Ugolino d'Ostia e Ottaviano
degli Ubaldini pubblicati a cura di Guido Levi dall'Istituto
storico italiano.--Fonti per la storia d'Italia_, Roma, 1890, 1
vol., 4to, xxviii. and 250 pp. This edition follows the
manuscript of the National Library, Paris: Ancien fonds Colbert
lat., 5152A. We must draw attention to a very beautiful work due
also to Mr. G. Levi: _Documenti ad illustrazione del Registro
del Card. Ugolino_, in the _Archivio della societa Romana di
storia patria_, t. xii. (1889), pp. 241-326.
[3] _Bullarium franciscanum seu Rom. Pontificum constitutiones
epistolae diplomata ordinibus Minorum, Clarissarum et
Poenitentium concessa, edidit Joh. Hyac. Sbaralea ord. min.
conv._, 4 vols., fol., Rome, t. i. (1759), t. ii. (1761), t.
iii. (1763), t iv., (1768)--_Supplementum ab Annibale de Latera
ord. min. obs. Romae_, 1780.--Sbaralea had a comparatively easy
task, because of the number of collections made before his. I
shall mention only one of those which I have before me. It is,
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