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2 Cel., 3, 79.--182b, 2, cf. 2 Cel., 2, 1.--241b, 1, cf. 2 Cel., 3, 141.--181a, 2, cf. 1 Cel., 27. It is needless to say that these lists of quotations do not pretend to be complete.

[48] F^o 36b, 2. _Ut enim habetur in leg._ 3 Soc., cf. 3 Soc., 10.--46b, 1, cf. 3 Soc., 25-28.--38b 2, cf. 3 Soc. 3.--111a, 2, cf. 3 Soc., 25.--134a, 2, cf. 3 Soc., 4.--142b, 2, cf. 3 Soc., 57 and 58.--167b, 2, cf. 3 Soc., 3 and 8.--168a, 1, cf. 3 Soc., 10.--170b, 1, cf. 3 Soc., 39, 4.--175b, 2, cf. 3 Soc., 59.--180b, 2, cf. 3 Soc., 4.--181a, 1, cf. 3 Soc., 5, 7, 24, 33, and 67.--181a. 2, cf. 3 Soc., 36.--229b, 2, cf. 3 Soc., 14. etc.

The reading of 3 Soc. which Bartolommeo had before his eyes was pretty much the same we have to day, for he says, 181a, 2.

referring to 3 Soc., 67: ”_Ut habetur quasi in fine leg_. 3 _Soc._”

[49] F^o 111a, 1, _Sic habetur in leg. ant._, corresponds literally with 1 Cel., 83.--144a, 2. _Franciscus in leg. ant.

cap. v. de zelo ad religionem_, to 1 Cel. 106.

[50] F^o 111b, 1. _De predicantibus loqueus sic dicebat in ant.

leg._ Cf. 2 Cel., 3, 99 and 106. 140b, 1. Cf. 2 Cel., 3, 84.--144b, 1, cf. 2 Cel., 3, 45--144a, 1, cf. 2 Cel., 3, 95 and 15.--225b, 2, cf. 2 Cel., 3, 116.

[51] F^o 31a, 1. Vide 2 Cel., 3, 83.--143a, 2. Vide 2 Cel., 3, 65 and 116.--144a, 1. Vide 2 Cel., 3, 94.--170b. 1. Vide 2 Cel., 3, 11.

[52] F^o 14a, 2.--32a. 1.--101a, 2.--169b, 1.--144b, 2.--142a, 2.--143b, 2.--168b, 1.--144b, 1.

[53] Chapters 18 (chapter of the mats) and 25 (lepers cured) of the _Fioretti_ are found in Latin in the Conf. as borrowed from the Leg. Ant. Vide 174b, 1, and 207a. 1.

Finally, according to f^o 168b, 2, it is also from the Leg. Ant.

that the description of the coat, such as we find at the end of the _Chronique des Tribulations_, was borrowed. See _Archiv._, t. ii., p. 153.

[54] F^o 182a, 2; cf. 51b, 1; 144a, 1.

[55] He died December 12, 1306, at Bastia, near a.s.sisi. See upon him _Chron. Tribul. Archiv._, ii.; 311 and 312; _Conform._, 60, 119, and 153.

[56] Although the history of the Indulgence of Portiuncula was of all subjects the one most largely treated in the Conformities, 151b, 2--157a, 2, not once does Bartolommeo of Pisa refer to it in the _Legenda Antiqua_. It seems, then, that this collection also was silent as to this celebrated pardon.

[57] Published with extreme care by the Franciscan Fathers of the Observance in t. ii. of the _a.n.a.lecta Franciscana, ad Clarae Aquas_ (Quaracchi, near Florence), 1888, 1 vol., crown 8vo, of x.x.xvi.-612 pp. This edition, as much from the critical point of view of the text, its correctness, its various readings and notes, as from the material point of view, is perfect and makes the more desirable a publication of the chronicles of the xxiv.

generals and of Salimbeni by the same editors. The beginning up to the year 1262 has been published already by Dr. Karl Evers under the t.i.tle _a.n.a.lecta ad Fratrum Minorum historiam_, Leipsic, 1882, 4to of 89 pp.

[58] I have been able only to procure the Italian edition published by Horatio Diola under the t.i.tle _Croniche degli Ordini inst.i.tuti dal P. S. Francesco_, 3 vols., 8vo, Venice, 1606.

V

CHRONICLES OUTSIDE OF THE ORDER

I. JACQUES DE VITRY

The following doc.u.ments, which we can only briefly indicate, are of inestimable value; they emanate from men particularly well situated to give us the impression which the Umbrian prophet produced on his generation.

Jacques de Vitry[1] has left extended writings on St. Francis. Like a prudent man who has already seen many religious madmen, he is at first reserved; but soon this sentiment disappears, and we find in him only a humble and active admiration for the _Apostolic Man_.

He speaks of him in a letter which he wrote immediately after the taking of Damietta (November, 1219), to his friends in Lorraine, to describe it to them.[2] A few lines suffice to describe St. Francis and point out his irresistible influence. There is not a single pa.s.sage in the Franciscan biographers which gives a more living idea of the apostolate of the Poverello.

He returns to him more at length in his _Historia Occidentalis_, devoting to him the thirty-second chapter of this curious work.[3]

These pages, vibrating with enthusiasm, were written during Francis's lifetime,[4] at the time when the most enlightened members of the Church, who had believed themselves to be living in the evening of the world, _in vespere mundi tendentis ad occasum_, suddenly saw in the direction of Umbria the light of a new day.

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