The First Life of St. Francis (Vita prima)
Thomas of Celano’s First Life of St. Francis (1228-1229), written by order of Gregory IX for the canonization: a prologue, three books (his life; his last years and death; the canonization and miracles) and an epilogue, in the Latin text with paragraph and verse numbers. Titles of the parts and chapters are the source’s. The English is A. G. Ferrers Howell's (1908).
Contents
Source: Prologue, three opuscula (30 + 10 + 1 chapters), the Miracula and the epilogue, with the source’s paragraph numbers in bold and verse numbers as superscripts. The English of A. G. Ferrers Howell (1908) is OCR only and is not imported. · Archive.org OCR cleaned by script, not proofread: running heads dropped, Howell's few footnotes kept, his section numbers as inert bold. The drop capital of each chapter's first word, garbled in every scan, is restored by a table read off the scans and checked against the Latin. Howell's Part III runs on without chapters; it is cut at the Latin's sections 127 and 151.