1298) there sums up with accuracy but without order the essential features of the first legends and in particular the Second Life by Celano.[16]
As for the inscription of Santa Maria del Vescovado at Assisi it is too unformed to be anything but a simple object of curiosity.[17]
I have given up preparing a complete bibliography of works concerning St. Francis, that task having been very well done by the Abbé Ulysse Chevalier in his Répertoire des sources historiques du moyen age, Bio-Bibliographie, cols. 765-767 and 2588-2590, Paris, 1 vol., 4to, 1876-1888. To it I refer my readers.
FOOTNOTES
[1.] He was born at Vitry sur Seine, became Curé of Argenteuil, near Paris; Canon of Oignies, in the diocese of Namur, preached the crusade against the Albigenses, and accompanied the Crusaders to Palestine; having been made Bishop of Acre, he was present in 1219 at the siege and at the capture of Damietta and returned to Europe in 1225; created Cardinal-bishop of Frascati in 1229, he died in 1244, leaving a number of writings. For his life, see the preface of his Historiæ, edition of Douai, 1597.
[2.] This letter may be found in (Bongars) Gesta Dei per Francio, pp. 1146-1149.
[3.] Jacobi de Vitriaco Libri duo quorum prior Orientalis, alter Occidentalis Historiæ nomine inscribitur studio Fr. Moschi Duaci ex officina Balthazaris Belleri, 1597, 16mo, 480 pp. Chapter xxxii. fills pages 349-353, and is entitled De ordine et prædicatione fratrum Minorum. See above, [p. 229].
[4.] This appears from the passage: Videmus primus ordinis fundatorem magestrum cui tanquam summo Priori suo omnes alii obediunt. Loc. cit., p. 352.