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WRITINGS OF ST. FRANCIS.
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Library at Florence and of the Municipal Library at Assisi,[1] have been used. Those at St. Isidore's, Rome, and Ognissanti, Florence, have also been consulted, besides the editions of the Admonitions found in the Monumenta Ordinis Minorum (Salamanca, 1511, tract. 11, fol. 276 r), the Firmamenta Trium Ordinum[2] (Paris, 1512, P. I, fol. 19 r), and the Liber Conformitatum of Bartholomew of Pisa (Milan, 1510, fruct. XII, P. 11). But for the titles and paragraphing, which differ more or less in different codices, the Laurentian codex has been followed.[3]

So much by way of preface to the

ADMONITIONS.

1. Of the Lord's Body.The Lord Jesus said to His disciples: "I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No man cometh to the Father, but by Me. If you had known Me you would, without doubt, have known My Father also: and from henceforth you shall
  1. Mgr. Faloci has edited the first of the Admonitions from this codex in his Miscellanea Francescana, t. vi, p. 96.
  2. In this edition, which Wadding has followed (fol. 21 v.), nos. 20, 21, and 23 are repeated.
  3. In places where variants are noted at the foot of the page the following abbreviations will be used:
    L. Laurentian Codex.
    As. Assisian Codex.
    O. Ognissanti Codex.
    An. Codex at St. Antony's College.
    Is. Codex at St. Isidore's College.
    Mon. Version of the Monumenta.
    Firm. Version of the Firmamenta.
    Pis. Version given by Bartholomew of Pisa in his Conformities.