---- Rectory, Hereford, July 14. THE VINE OF ST. FRANCIS. (Vol. iii., p. 502.) I feel much obliged for the information afforded by your Dutch correspondent. When I sent you my Query on the subject more than a year ago, I wrote principally from memory; but as I have now the work in question lying beside me as I write, and as it seems to be rarer and less known than I had imagined, you will perhaps find place for a more minute description of it. _The Vine of St. Francis_ is a folio volume, containing 418 numbered leaves, a "Prologhe" of one leaf (next to the title-page), and a "Tafel v[=a] dit boeck" at the end, of five leaves and a half unnumbered. The title-page contains a full-length picture of the saint, with a nimbus round his head, the knotted cord round his waist, and his palms extended, displaying the sacred stigmata. Above the picture is the title in red and black. I have written in Italics the words printed in red: "_Den_ wÿngaert v[=a] _Sinte_ Franciscus _vol_ schoonre _historien_ legenden ende _duechdelÿcke_ leer[=e]nghen allen _menschen_ seer profÿtelÿch." And under the picture "Cum _gratia_ et _privilegio_." On the back of the title-page is printed as follows:-- "Dit is die generael tafel v[=a] dese wÿngaert dwelcke ghdeylt is in drie boecken. ¶ Dat eerste boeck inhout Sinte Franciscus grote legende Sinte Franciscus oude legende Den aflaet van portiunkel Sinte Franciscus souter. ¶ Dat ander boeck inhoude De leg[=e]de v[=a] de .v. marte mind-brod's De leg[=e]de v[=a] de seu[=e] mar. ooc mind'b. Sinte bonauentura legende Sinte lodewÿc biscop legende Sinte anthonis v[=a] paduen legende Sinte bernardÿns legende Sinte clara legende Sinte puo priesters legende Sinte lodewÿc coninex legende Sinte elzearius graue legende Sinte elizabets legende. ¶ Dat derde boec inhout Een tractaet v[=a] S. Franciscus oorden Sinte Franciscus geselle leuen Die geleerde e[=n] edele v[=a] S. Fr[=a]ciscus oorden Dat getal der broeder[=e] e[=n] prouintien De aflaet v[=a] rom[=e] mitt[=e] aflaet des oord[=e]s De kal[=e]dier mitt[=e] feest[=e] des aflaets." Under these tables of contents occur two stanzas, the first containing five lines, the second containing seven lines. They commence:-- "¶ O salige wÿngaert seer diep gheplant Groyende in duechden van vruchten playsant," &c. The preface to the _Grote Legende_ informs us that it is Saint Bonaventura's life of Saint Francis, and mentions why it is called the _Great Legend_. This life ends at folio 47. The preface to the _Oude Legende_, which next follows, states that it is "gathered from the writings of his companions and the chronicles of the order of the Brothers Minor;" and the "Prologhe" (which succeeds the preface) mentions--