collecting useful notes.
Mark of Lisbon has preserved for us a notice of his life. Vide
_Croniche dei fratri Minori_, t. iii., p. 6 ff. of the Diola
edition. He died December 10, 1401. For further details see
Wadding, ann. 1399, vii., viii., and above all Sbaralea,
_Supplementum_, p. 109. He is the author of an exposition of the
Rule little known which can be found in the Speculum Morin,
Rouen, 1509, f^o 66b-83a, of part three.

[41] This opinion is expressed in a guarded manner. For example,
f^o 207a, 1, Bartolommeo relates the miracle of the Chapter of
the Mats, first following St. Bonaventura, then adding: "_Et
quia non aliter tangit dicta pars (legendae majoris) hoc insigne
miraculum: antiqua legenda hoc refertur in hunc modum_." Cf.
225a, 2m. "_Et quia fr. Bonaventura succincte multa tangit et in
brevi: pro evidentia prefatorum notandum est ... ut dicit
antiqua legenda._"

[42] However, it is necessary to note that not only are there
considerable differences between the editions published, but
also that the first (that of Milan, 1510) has been completed and
revised by its editor. The judgments passed upon Raymond
Ganfridi, 104a, 1, and Boniface VIII., 103b, 1, show traces of
later corrections. (Cf. 125a, 1. At f^o 72a, 2m, is indicated
the date of the death of St. Bernardin, which was in 1444, etc.)
Besides, we are surprised to find beside the pages where the
sources are indicated with clearness others where stories follow
one another coming one knows not from whence.

[43] F^o 70a, 1: "_Cujus nomen non reperi._" 1a, 2: "_Multaque
non ex industria sed quia ea noscere non valui omittendo._"

[44] F^o 78a, 1: _Informationes quas non scribo quia imperfectas
reperi._ Cf. 229b, 2: "_De aliis multis apparitionibus non
reperi scripturam, quare hic non pono._"

[45] F^o 69a, 1: "_Hec ut audivi posui quia ejus legendam non
vidi._" Cf. 68b, 2m: _Fr. Henricus generalis minister mihi
magistro Bartholomeo dixit ipse oretenus._

[46] The citations from Bonaventura are decidedly more frequent.
We should not be surprised, since this story is the official
biography of St. Francis; the chapter from which Bartolommeo
takes his quotations is almost always indicated, and, naturally,
follows the ol