Appendix
Paschal Robinson historical translation and scholarly apparatus, 1905–1906 edition
Francis of Assisi and Paschal Robinson
Source notes
[568] Liber de Laudibus in Anal. Franc., t. III, p. 686.
[569] The text of this Rule (which was the one in force for Franciscan Tertiaries until the promulgation of the Apostolic Constitution Misericors Dei Filius, by Leo XIII, May 30, 1883) may be found in Seraph. Legisl., pp. 77-94. For the new Rule substituted by Leo XIII, see Acta ad Tertium Franciscalem Ordinem spectantia (Quaracchi, 901), pp. 72-87.
[570] See Anal. Boll., t. xviii, p. 294.
[571] Regula Antiqua Fratrum et Sororum de Poenitentia. See Opuscules, t. I, p. 17. Boehmer also gives the text in his Analekten.
[572] “La règle donnée en 1221 . . . dans son état primitif.” See his Les Règles et le gouvernement de l’ordo de poenitentia au XIIIe Siècle in Opuscules, t. I, p. 175.
[573] The Bull Detestanda humani generis of Gregory IX.
[574] Opuscules de S. François, p. 28.
[575] There is an English translation of it. See Third Orders, etc., by Adderley and Marson (Mowbray, 1902).
[576] Rosetti translated part of this poem in his Dante and his Circle, attributing it to St. Francis.
[577] See Misc. Franc., 1888, pp. 96 and 190, for two interesting texts of this poem.
[578] Opera omnia, t. IV, sermo 16 and 4 (see Acta S.S., t. II, Oct., p. 1003).
[579] Jacopone, lib. VI, chap. XVI, and lib. VII, chap. VI.
[580] Les Poètes Franciscains, p. 90.
[581] See Wadding, Opusc., p. 508 ff.
[582] See his Les Origines de l’ordo de Poenitentia; see also the Révue Thomiste, pp. 295-314.
[583] Quellen, etc., XXII, 362
[584] “Codiculus quidam vestustus MS. Italico idiomati exaratus mihi à Fano Piceni urbe, ad Metaurum amnem extructa, transmissus.” See Wadding, Opusc., p. 285.
[585] The text of the prayer “in time of sickness” is given by Bonav. Leg. Maj., XIV, 2.
[586] Latin text published in 1900 by Fr. Ed. d’Alençon, and English translation by Montgomery Carmichael (The Lady Poverty) in 1901.
[587] See Chron. XXIV Generalium in Anal. Franc., t. III, p. 283.
[588] It is none the less a pearl of Franciscan literature. See the beautiful rendering of it which forms the appendix to Mr. Carmichael’s translation of the Sacrum Commercium.
[589] At Vicenza (Bertol. lib. cod. G. I. 10. 24, fol. 89 r), also the Capistran MS. XXI, fol. 180 r.
[590] See Bonav. Opera omnia, t. VIII, p. 491.
[591] Supplementum, p. 244.
[592] Liber Dictorum cujus initium Quid faciet homo et finis Oratio semper est praemittenda.
[593] “Dicta S. Francisci, cum regula extant,” he says.
[594] It is entitled: “Praedicatio quaedam quam fecit B. Franciscus Fratribus suis circa finem mortis sui corporis.” It abounds in quotations from SS. Basil, Chrysostom, Augustine, Isidore, Gregory, and Bernard.
[595] See Catal. codicum latinorum, t. II, P. II, p. 27, n. 214.
[596] See Dicta B. Ægidii (Quaracchi, 1905), pp. 1-51.
[597] As to the “Perfectiones S. Francisci, quas dedit fratri Junipero,’’ found at Paris (nat. lib., cod. 18327, fol. 158 r), see Monumenta, tr. II, fol. 281 r.