[30] Assisi MS., 338, f^o 28a-31a, with the rubric: _De lictera et ammonitione beatissimi patris nostri Francisci quam misit fratribus ad capitulum quando erat infirmus._ This letter was wrongly divided into three by Rodolfo di Tossignano (f^o 237), who was followed by Wadding (Epistolae x., xi., xii.). The text is found without this senseless division in the manuscript cited and in _Firmamentum_, f^o 21; _Spec._, Morin, iii., 217a; Ubertini, _Arbor vit. cruc._, v., 7. [31] This initial (given only by the Assisi MS.) has not failed to excite surprise. It appears that there ought to have been simply an N ... This letter then would have been replaced by the copyist, who would have used the initial of the minister general in charge at the time of his writing. If this hypothesis has any weight it will aid to fix the exact date of the manuscript. (Alberto of Pisa minister from 1239-1240; Aimon of Faversham, 1240-1244.) [32] This epistle also was unskilfully divided into two distinct letters by Rodolfo di Tossignano, f^o 174a, who was followed by Wadding. See Assisi MS., 338, 23a-28a; _Conform._, 137a, 1 ff. [33] The letter to the clergy only repeats the thoughts already expressed upon the worship of the holy sacrament. We remember Francis sweeping out the churches and imploring the priests to keep them clean; this epistle has the same object: it is found in the Assisi MS., 338, f^o 31b-32b, with the rubric: _De reverentia Corporis Domini et de munditia altaris ad omnes clericos_. Incipit: _Attendamus omnes_. Explicit: _fecerint exemplari_. This, therefore, is the letter given by Wadding xiii., but without address or salutation. [34] We need not despair of finding them. The archives of the monasteries of Clarisses are usually rudimentary enough, but they are preserved with pious care. [35] _Spec._, 117b; _Conform._, 185a 1; 135b, 1. Cf. _Test. B. Clarae_, A. SS., Aug., ii., p. 747. [36] This story is given in the _Spec._, 128b, as from eye-witnesses. Cf. _Conform._, 184b, 1; 203a, 1. [37] 1 Cel., 106. These recommendations as to Portiuncula were amplified by the Zelanti, when, under the generalship of Crescentius (Bull _Is qui ecclesiam_, March 6, 1245), the Basilica of Assisi was substituted for Santa Maria degli Angeli as _mater et caput_ of the Order. Vide _Spec._, 32b, 69b-71a; _Conform._, 144a, 2; 218a, 1; 3 Soc., 56; 2 Cel., 1, 12 and 13; Bon., 24, 25; see the Appendix, the Study of the Indulgence of August 2. [38] 2 Cel., 108. As will be seen (below, p. 367) the remainder of Celano's narrative seems to require to be taken with some reserve. Cf. _Spec._, 115b; _Conform._, 225a, 2; Bon., 211. [39] _Non sum cuculus_, in Italian _cuculo_.