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INTRODUCTION
EDITIONS
The "Sacrum Commercium"
is an Allegory,
simple in form and charming
in conception, telling how St
Francis wooed and won that
most difficult of all Brides, my
Lady Poverty. It was written
some time in the thirteenth
century (most probably in the
year 1227) by an unknown
Franciscan, and has been
