This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... question are a distinct asset--Prof. Little's Initia 17- and Prof. Alessandri's catalogue of the Assisian Library 17-'--and for the rest it is perhaps too early as yet to pass judgment upon the achievements of the Society. For it should be remembered that the work of Franciscan study and research has only ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... question are a distinct asset--Prof. Little's Initia 17- and Prof. Alessandri's catalogue of the Assisian Library 17-'--and for the rest it is perhaps too early as yet to pass judgment upon the achievements of the Society. For it should be remembered that the work of Franciscan study and research has only just begun. Much indeed has been already done, but the result is to some extent sub judice so to say: much more yet remains to be accomplished. There are missing MSS. still to be recovered; there are Legends already in our possession still to be edited--a conspicuous example being that of St. Clare.180 It is not easy, therefore, to give a categorical answer to the question often asked: what results have been so far attained in consequence of the momentous movement of Franciscan study and research.181 Besides, so much depends upon the point of view. But it seems safe to say that on the whole nothing has been brought to light that need alter our views materially on the chief facts of early Franciscan history; that nothing has been added to the life of St. Francis different from what has been known all along to the patient scholars whose lives were largely spent in the study of crabbed medieval MSS. and well nigh forgotten volumes of Franciscan lore before that study became the vogue. The strenuous research work of the last decade has resulted then not so much in the discovery of new documents as in the reproduction and translation of the early MSS. authorities and of original studies on these Sources. We can now boast on the one hand of definitive editions--presuming no unlooked-for developments upset them--of the Works of St. Francis, of the Legends by Celano, St. Bonaventure, Julian of Speyer, the Anonymous Perugian, John of Ceperano, ...
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