This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... II. NOTES 1. See Speculum Perfectionis, Ed. Sabatier (Paris, 1898), X--108, p. 214. 2. Only the day before her death did St. Clare succeed in obtaining the Papal Bull in which the Poverty Francis had sought and taught was sanctioned in all its pristine purity. 3. See her Rule--Ch. I in Appendix. 4. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... II. NOTES 1. See Speculum Perfectionis, Ed. Sabatier (Paris, 1898), X--108, p. 214. 2. Only the day before her death did St. Clare succeed in obtaining the Papal Bull in which the Poverty Francis had sought and taught was sanctioned in all its pristine purity. 3. See her Rule--Ch. I in Appendix. 4. See Legenda Major S. Francisci (Ed. Quaracchi, 1898), P- 37 5. "There is no translation of the Life of St. Clare," writes Prof. A. G. Little, "nor of the Rule of her Order." Franciscan Literature for English Readers, London, 1904. (6. See "The Personality of Clare of Assisi," by the late Sir Home Gordon, Bart., in the Oxford and Cambridge Review (London, Constable), No. 5, 1908, Michaelmas I Term, pp. 23 //. 7. It can no longer be concealed that the pretty story told in the Fioretti as to how St. Clare and St . Francis ate together at the Porziuncola, is--like many others of that ilk-- wholly devoid of historic foundation. It is surely a pity to have to acknowledge this fact, but the demands of truth are imperative. 8. "Scripsit nobis formam vivendi . . . et plura scripta nobis tradidit." Testamentum B. Clarae, Seraph. Legislat. Textus Originates (Quaracchi, 1897), p. 276. 9. These lines owe their preservation to the fact that St. Gare inserted them in the definitive Rule of her Order, confirmed the day before she died. (See p. no.) 127 10. See Spec. Perfections (Ed. Sabatier), p. 180 and p. 2IS Ii. More than a half-century ago Professor Vincenzo Locatelli made a fruitless search for these documents. See his Vita di S. Chiara (Assisi, 1854), p. 131. 12. Under this title the authorities of the Order appear to have comprised a collection of the primitive biographies of St. Francis, as opposed to the "New Legend" composed by St. Bonaventure in...
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All Editions of The Life of Saint Clare: Ascribed to Fr. Thomas of Celano of the Order of Friars Minor (A.D. 1255-1261) Tr. and Edited from the Earliest Mss
