ANALECTA FRANCISCANA. - A collection of documents, edited according to the standards of the most recent criticism, concerning s. Francesco and the Order founded by him. Begun in 1884 by the Franciscans of the College of S. Bonaventura at Quaracchi, it now comprises a series of ten volumes, published at irregular 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, ecc., 1247-1807 (1946); IX. Acta Franciscana e Tabulariis Bononiensibus deprompta, 1 (1927); these are the records 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).