Writings of Francis & Clare - Couverture souple

The Foreword THE minor works of St Francis of A ssisiwere translated into English for the first time, I think, in 1890, in London, by a Religious of the Franciscan Order. This translation was made from the text given by the celebrated Wadding, whose Latin edition was published at Antwerp in the year 1623. Since that epoch two books which are very important for oar matter have recently appeared, edited respectively by L. Lemmens Opusctda Sanfti Patris Francisci A ssisiensis sec. codices MSS. emendata et denuo edita a PP. Collegii S. BonaventurcB. Quaracchi, 1904) and by Dr H. Boehmer A nalekten zur Geschichte des Franciscus von Assist: S. Francisci Opuscula. Tubingen und Leipzig, 1904); and it is especially the work of Lemmens to which Father Paschal Robinson was indebted in the preparation of the very fine translation published in the United States of America T he Writings of St Francis of Assist .P hiladelphia, 1906). It is fitting that England also should possess a version of its own; and this is furnished in the present work, as the basis of which Lady de la Warr has done me the honour to use my critical French edition (P aris: Poussielgue, 1905). Ed
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