ANALECTA FRANCISCANA. - A collection of documents, edited according to the norms of the most recent criticism, concerning St. Francis and the Order founded by him. Begun in 1884 by the Franciscans of the College of St. Bonaventure at Quaracchi, it now comprises a series of ten volumes, published at intervals.

Here is the important list: I. Chronica minora (1885); II. Chronica fratris Nicolai Glasberger 1206-1517 (1887); III. Chronica XXIV generalium Ordinis Minorum 1209-1374 (1897); IV and V. De conformitate vitae b. Francisci ad vitam Domini Iesu 1385-90 (1906, 1912), a vast historical-moral compilation by Bartolomeo da Pisa; VI. Necrologia provinciarum et conventum Ord. Fratr. Min. (1917); VII. Processus canonizationis s. Ludovici Andegyanensis O. P. M. episcopi Tolosani (1297: not yet complete); VIII. Necrologium conventum Brugensium Fratrum Minorum, etc., 1247-1807 (1946); IX. Acta Franciscana e Tabulariis Bononiensibus deprompta, 1 (1927); these are the acts drawn from ecclesiastical archives; those drawn from civil archives are still lacking; X. Legenda s. Francisci Assis. saec. XIII e XIV conscriptae ad codicum fidem recensitae, 1 (1926-31).

@incollection{ec1_analecta_franciscana, author = {Testore, Celestino}, title = {Analecta Franciscana}, booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica}, volume = {I}, pages = {1133--1134}, note = {Cited by column}, publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico}, address = {Città del Vaticano}, year = {1948}, url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/analecta-franciscana} }

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