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No. 7. February 13, 1221.--New bull for the same priest.
No. 8. December 16, 1221.--_Significatum est n.o.bis._ Honorius III.
recommends to the Bishop of Rimini to protect the Brothers of Penitence (Third Order).
No. 9. March 22, 1222.[5]--_Devotionis vestrae._ Concession to the Franciscans, under certain conditions, to celebrate the offices in times of interdict.
No. 10. March 29, 1222.--_Ex parte Universitatis._ Mission given to the Dominicans, Franciscans, and Brothers of the Troops of San Iago in Lisbon.
Nos. 11, 12, and 13.--September 19, 1222.--_Sacrosancta Romana._ Privileges for the monasteries (Clarisses) of Lucca, Sienna, and Perugia.
No. 14. November 29, 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.--_c.u.m 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 inst.i.tute. 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'Ist.i.tuto storico italiano.--Fonti per la storia d'Italia_, Roma, 1890, 1 vol., 4to, xxviii. and 250 pp. This edition follows the ma.n.u.script 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: _Doc.u.menti ad ill.u.s.trazione 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. Pontific.u.m const.i.tutiones 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, comparatively, very well done, and appears to have escaped the researches of the Franciscan bibliographers: _Singularissimum eximiumque opus universis mortalibus sacratissimi ordinis seraphici patris nostri Francisci a Domino Jesu mirabili modo approbati necnon a quampluribus nostri Redemptoris sanctissimis vicariis romanis pontificabus multipharie declarati not.i.tiam habere cupientibus profecto per necessarium. Speculum Minorum ... per Martinum Morin ... Rouen_, 1509. It is 8vo, with numbered folios, printed with remarkable care. It contains besides the bulls the princ.i.p.al dissertations upon the Rule, elaborated in the thirteenth century, and a _Memoriale ordinis_ (first part, f^o 60-82), a kind of catalogue of the ministers-general, which would have prevented many of the errors of the historians, if it had been known.
[4] The Bollandists themselves have entirely overlooked those sources of information, thinking, upon the authority of a single badly interpreted pa.s.sage, that the Order had not obtained a single bull before the solemn approval of Honorius III., November 29, 1223.
[5] And not March 29, as Sbaralea has it. The original, which I have had under my eyes in the archives of a.s.sisi, bears in fact: _Datum Anagnie XI. Kal. aprilis pontificatus nostri anno s.e.xto_.
[6] The Abbe Horoy has indeed published in five volumes what he ent.i.tles the _Opera omnia_ of Honorius III., but he omits, without a word of explanation, a great number of letters, certain of which are brought forward in the well-known collection of Potthast. The Abbe Pietro Pressuti has undertaken to publish a compendium of all the bulls of this pope according to the original Registers of the Vatican. _I regesti del Pontifice Onorio III._ Roma, t. i., 1884. Volume i. only has as yet appeared.
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CHRONICLERS OF THE ORDER