r Generalem sit compilata prout
ipse habuit ab ore illorum qui cum B. Francisco quasi semper
fuerunt et cuncta certitudinaliter sciverint et probata ibi sint
posita diligenter._" This precious text has been found and
published by Father Rinaldi in his preface to the text of
Celano: _Seraphici viri Francisci vitae duae_, p. xi. Wadding
seems to have known of it, at least indirectly, for he says:
"_Utramque Historiam, longiorem et breviorem, obtulit
(Bonaventura) triennio post in comitiis Pisanis patribus
Ordinis, quas reverentur cum gratiarum actione_, SUPRESSIS ALIIS
QUIBUSQUE LEGENDIS, ADMISERUNT." Ad ann., 1260, no. 18. Cf.
Ehrle, _Zeitschrift fuer kath. Theol._, t. vii. (1883), p.
386.--"_Communicaverat sanctus Franciscus plurima sociis suis et
fratribus antiquis, que oblivioni tradita sunt, tum quia que
scripta erant in legenda prima, nova edita a fratre. Bonaventura
deleta et destructa sunt_, IPSOJUBENTE _tum quia_ ..." _Chronica
tribul._, _Archiv._, t. ii., p. 256.

[80] Bon., 188-204.

[81] Bon., 218.

[82] Bernardo (Bon., 28), Egidio (Bon., 29), and Silvestro
(Bon., 30).

[83] Bon., 49.

[84] Bon., 112.

[85] Bon., 111.

[86] Vide Bon., 115; 99, etc. M. Thode has enumerated the
stories relating especially to Bonaventura: (_Franz von Assisi_,
p. 535).

[87] Manuscript I, iv., 33, of the library of the University of
Turin. It is a 4to upon parchment of the close of the fourteenth
century, 124 ff. It comprises first the biography of St. Francis
by St. Bonaventura and a legend of St. Clara, afterwards at f^o
95 the _De laudibus_. The text will soon be published in the
_Analecta franciscana_ of the Franciscans of Quaracchi, near
Florence.

[88] In reading it we quickly discover that he was specially
well acquainted with the convents of the Province of Aquitania,
and noted with care everything that concerned them.

[89] Wadding, ann. 1230, no. 7. Many passages prove at least
that he accompanied Bonaventura in his travels: "_Hoc enim_ (the
special aid of Brother Egidio) _in iis quae ad bonum animae
pertinent devotus Generalis et Cardinalis predictus ... nos
docuit_." F^o 96a. _Jamdudum ego per Theutoniae partes et
Flandriae cum Ministro transiens Generali._ Ibid.,