Later compilation
Complete Writings (collected editions)
Opuscula sancti patris Francisci Assisiensis
They gather in one volume the rules, the Testament, the admonitions, the letters, the praises and prayers and the Canticle, separate from the legends. Esser's edition fixed the canon of some thirty authentic writings; collected translations usually add the biographical sources.
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Authorship note
Collected editions of the authentic writings: that of the Quaracchi Franciscans (1904), Kajetan Esser's critical edition (1976; editio minor 1978) and Carlo Paolazzi's (Grottaferrata, 2009), now the standard reference.
Editions and translations
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English
Francis of Assisi: Early Documents, vol. 1: The Saint
New City Press, 1999
Translation: Regis J. Armstrong, J. A. Wayne Hellmann, William J. Short
ISBN 1565481100
Reimpresión 2002: ISBN 9781565481107.
Francis and Clare: The Complete Works
Paulist Press, 1982
Translation: Regis J. Armstrong, Ignatius C. Brady
ISBN 0809124467
Español
Francis of Assisi
San Francisco de Asís: Escritos, biografías, documentos de la época
The Conscious LibrarySan Francisco de Asís: Escritos, biografías, documentos de la época
Editorial Católica (BAC 399), 1978
Translation: José Antonio Guerra (ed.)
ISBN 8422008742
Francis of Assisi
San Francisco de Asís: Escritos, biografías, documentos de la época
The Conscious LibrarySan Francisco de Asís: Escritos, biografías, documentos de la época
Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos, 2006
Translation: José Antonio Guerra (ed.)
ISBN 9788479146276
Reedición.
Deutsch
Francis of Assisi
Die Schriften des heiligen Franziskus von Assisi
The Conscious LibraryDie Schriften des heiligen Franziskus von Assisi
Dietrich-Coelde-Verlag, 1980
Translation: Lothar Hardick y Engelbert Grau
ISBN 9783871631283
ISBN-10 387163128X (registrado en Open Library); el ISBN-13 se ha derivado de él.
Das Erbe eines Armen. Franziskus-Schriften
Topos Plus, 2003
Translation: Leonhard Lehmann
ISBN 9783786784647
Franziskus-Quellen: Die Schriften des heiligen Franziskus, Lebensbeschreibungen, Chroniken und Zeugnisse
Butzon & Bercker, 2009
Translation: Dieter Berg y Leonhard Lehmann (eds.)
ISBN 9783766621115
Edición de conjunto alemana. Contiene este escrito.
Italiano
Francis of Assisi
Fonti francescane (editio minor)
The Conscious LibraryFonti francescane (editio minor)
Editrici Francescane, 1987
ISBN 8870266605
Escritos y biografías de Francisco y Clara en italiano. Contiene este escrito.
Français
Écrits
Éditions du Cerf, 2003
Translation: Théophile Desbonnets et al.
ISBN 2204072354
Sources Chrétiennes 285, reedición; 1.ª ed. 1981 (ISBN 2204017981).
Other works by Francis of Assisi
- Canticle of the Creatures (Canticle of Brother Sun) · 1225
- Admonitions · 1220
- Testament · 1226
- Earlier Rule (Regula non bullata, 1221) · 1221
- Later Rule (Regula bullata, 1223) · 1223
- Rule for Hermitages · 1218
- Earlier Exhortation to the Brothers and Sisters of Penance (First Letter to the Faithful) · 1215
- Later Admonition and Exhortation to the Brothers and Sisters of Penance (Second Letter to the Faithful) · 1220
- Exhortation to the Clergy (Letter to the Clergy) · 1220
- Letters to the Custodians (first and second) · 1220
- Letter to the Rulers of the Peoples · 1220
- Letter to the Entire Order · 1225
- Letter to a Minister · 1221
- Letter to Brother Anthony of Padua · 1223
- Letter to Brother Leo · 1220
- The Praises of God and the Blessing for Brother Leo (Chartula) · 1224
- The Praises to Be Said at All the Hours · 1220
- Exhortation to the Praise of God · 1220
- The Office of the Passion · 1220
- The Prayer before the Crucifix · 1206
- A Salutation of the Blessed Virgin Mary · 1220
- A Salutation of the Virtues · 1220
- A Prayer Inspired by the Our Father · 1215
- Form of Life and Last Will for Saint Clare · 1212
- The Canticle of Exhortation to the Poor Ladies ('Audite, poverelle') · 1225
- The Testament Written in Siena · 1226
- Fragments of Another Rule · 1222
- True and Perfect Joy · 1220
- Blessing for Brother Bernard · 1226
- The Prayer 'Absorbeat' · 1305
- Letter to Lady Jacoba · 1226
- Peace Prayer ('Lord, make me an instrument of your peace') · 1912
- The Little Flowers of Saint Francis · 1380
- Thomas of Celano, The Life of Saint Francis (First Life) · 1229
- Thomas of Celano, The Shorter Life of Saint Francis (Vita brevior) · 1235
- Thomas of Celano, The Remembrance of the Desire of a Soul (Second Life) · 1247
- Thomas of Celano, The Treatise on the Miracles · 1252
- Julian of Speyer, The Life of Saint Francis · 1234
- The Anonymous of Perugia (The Beginning of the Order) · 1241
- The Legend of the Three Companions · 1246
- The Assisi Compilation · 1246
- Bonaventure, The Major Legend of Saint Francis · 1263
- The Mirror of Perfection · 1318
Sources
- Esser, Kajetan, O.F.M. Die Opuscula des hl. Franziskus von Assisi. Neue textkritische Edition. Grottaferrata: Collegium S. Bonaventurae ad Claras Aquas, 1976 (Spicilegium Bonaventurianum 13); editio minor: Opuscula sancti patris Francisci Assisiensis, 1978 (Bibliotheca Franciscana Ascetica Medii Aevi 12).
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