The great source for Franciscan history is Wadding's _Annales_; it has been many times continued, and now extends in 25 vols. fol. to the year 1622. The story is also told by Helyot, _Hist. des ordres religieux_ (1714), vol. vii. Abridgments, with references to recent literature, will be found in Max Heimbucher, _Orden und Kongregationen_ (1896), i. Sec.Sec. 37-51; in Wetzer und Welte, _Kirchenlexicon_ (2nd ed.), articles "Armut (III.)," "Franciscaner orden" (this article contains the best account of the inner history and the polity of the order up to 1886); in Herzog, _Realencyklopaedie_ (3rd ed.), articles "Franz von Assisi" (fullest references to literature up to 1899), "Fraticellen." Of modern critical studies on Franciscan origins, K. Mueller's _Anfaenge des Minoritenordens und der Bussbruderschaften_ (1885), and various articles by F. Ehrle in _Archiv fuer Litteratur- und Kirchengeschichte des Mittelalters_ and _Zeitschrift fuer Katholische Theologie_, deserve special mention. Eccleston's charming chronicle of "The Coming of the Friars Minor into England" has been translated into English by the Capuchin Fr. Cuthbert, who has prefixed an Introductory Essay giving by far the best account in English of "the Spirit and Genius of the Franciscan Friars" (_The Friars and how they came to England_, 1903). Fuller information on the English Franciscans will be found in A. G. Little's _Grey Friars in Oxford_ (Oxford Hist. Soc., 1892). (E. C. B.) FRANCK. The name of Franck has been given indiscriminately but improperly to painters of the school of Antwerp who belong to the families of Francken (q.v.) and Vrancx (q.v.). One artist truly entitled to be called Franck is Gabriel, who entered the gild of Antwerp in 1605, became its president in 1636 and died in 1639. But his works cannot now be traced.