d that we do not find in this
document a single allusion to the Indulgences of Portiuncula.

[25] The manuscripts and editions are well-nigh innumerable. M.
Luigi Manzoni has studied them with a carefulness that makes it
much to be desired that he continue this difficult work. _Studi
sui Fioretti_: Miscelenea, 1888, pp. 116-119, 150-152, 162-168;
1889, 9-15, 78-84, 132-135. When shall we find some one who can
and will undertake to make a scientific edition of them? Those
which have appeared during our time in the various cities of
Italy are insignificant from a critical point of view. See
Mazzoni Guido, _Capitoli inediti dei Fioretti di S. Francesco_,
in the _Propugnatore_, Bologna, 1888, vol. xxi., pp. 396-411.

[26] Vide A. SS., p. 865: "_Floretum non legi, nec curandum
putavi._" Cf. 553f: "_Floretum ad manum non habeo._"

[27] Bartolommeo di Pisa compiled it in 1385; then certain
manuscripts of the Fioretti are earlier. Besides, in the stories
that the Conformities borrow from the Fioretti, we perceive
Bartolommeo's work of abbreviation.

[28] I am speaking here only of the fifty-three chapters which
form the true collection of the Fioretti.

[29] The province of the March of Ancona counted seven
custodias: 1, Ascoli; 2, Camerino; 3, Ancona; 4, Jesi; 5, Fermo;
6, Fano; 7, Felestro. The Fioretti mention at least six of the
monasteries of the custodia of Fermo: Moliano, 51, 53;
Fallerone, 32, 51; Bruforte and Soffiano, 46, 47; Massa, 51;
Penna, 45; Fermo, 41, 49, 51.

[30] At each page we are reminded of those groves which were
originally the indispensable appendage of the Franciscan
monasteries: _La selva ch' era allora allato a S. M. degli
Angeli_, 3, 10, 15, 16, etc. _La selva d' un luogo deserto del
val di Spoleto_ (Carceri?), 4; _selva di Forano_, 42. _di
Massa_, 51, etc.

[31] The _Speculum_, 46b, 58b, 158a, gives us three states. Cf.
_Fior._, 26 and 21; _Conform._, 119b, 2.

[32] This desire was so natural that the manuscript of the
Angelica Library includes many additional chapters, concerning
the gift of Portiuncula, the indulgence of August 2d, the birth
of St. Francis, etc. (Vide Amoni, Fioretti, Roma, 1889, pp. 266,
378-386.) It would be an interesting study to seek the origin