The Major Legend of St. Francis
The official life of St. Francis, written by the Minister General St. Bonaventure for the Chapter of Narbonne (1260) and adopted in 1266 as the only legend of the Order: fifteen chapters on his life, with ten chapters of miracles after his death. The Latin is the text of the Fonti francescane, with its scriptural cross-references. The English of the prologue and the fifteen chapters is E. Gurney Salter's (1904). The English of the prologue and the fifteen chapters is E. Gurney Salter's (1904). The English of the prologue and the fifteen chapters is E. Gurney Salter's (1904). The English of the prologue and the fifteen chapters is E. Gurney Salter's (1904).
Contents
Source: Lines of numbered sentence units are joined into the sections of the edition; the modern "cfr." scriptural cross-references of the transcription stay in parentheses; stray grave and acute accents of the web transcription are removed. · Archive.org OCR read from the word-coordinate file and cleaned by script, not proofread; running heads and page numbers dropped, Salter's paragraph numbers kept. The Everyman volume prints the prologue and the fifteen chapters only: the Miracula after death are Latin only.