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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III.?OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS (a) Among the records of the Order itself the most important are the General and Provincial Constitutions and the acts of the General and Provincial Chapters. The earliest General Constitutions were issued in the Chapter of 1239; these have not been found, but are contained in a revised and supplemented form in those of 1260. For the next hundred years there is a fairly complete series, but as they are not collected together it will be useful to give references. General Constitutions, 1260 (Narbonne), printed in A.L.K.G., vi., 87-138. General Constitutions, 1292 (Paris), alterations noted ibid. General Constitutions, 1316 (Assisi), printed in A.F.H., iv., 269-302, 508-526. General Constitutions, 1325 (Lyons), printed in A.F.H., iv., 526-536. General Constitutions, 1331 (Perpignan), printed in A.F.H., n., 269-292, 412-430, 575-599. Papal Constitutions, 1336 (Benedict XII.), Bull. Franc., vi., 25-42. General Constitutions, 1340 (Assisi), A.F.H vi., 251-266. General Constitutions, 1346 (Venice), A.F.H., v., 698-708. General Constitutions, 1354 (Assisi), Bull. Franc., vi., 639-655. Papal Constitutions, 1430 (Martin V.), Wadding, Ann. Min., x. The Observant General Constitutions of 1451 (Barcelona) are printed in Monumenta Ord. Minorum, 1506, and in Monumenta Franciscana (R.S.), ii., 81. Some acts of General Chapters between 1260 and 1310 are collected in A.L.K.G., vi., 33-71, E.H.R., xiii., 703-708, A.F.H., iii., 491-504, iv., 62-73, v., 708-709, vii., 676-682. Provincial Constitutions and statutes of Provincial Chapters are rare; the following have been edited in A.F.H.: France, thirteenth century? vii., 447-453 (re-edited from E.H.R., xvii., 512- 518); 1337?vii., 481-501; Aquitaine, thirteenth century?vii., 466-481...
