[CAPESTRANO, Johannes de, et al.]

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This manuscript comprises copies of some of the most important regulations relating to Franciscan Tertiaries. Its Umbrian origin is proved by the names of the four notaries, copied by a secretary, who had authenticated the original documents. Three, from Gubbio, were imperial notaries, i.e., of the Curia Vescovile. The collection opens with the final part of a key text in the definition of their legal status: Defensorium tertii Ordinis beati Francisci by the reformer John of Capestrano (1386-1456), a Franciscan Minor, doctor in utroque and major contributor in debates on the legal status of Franciscan Orders in the early C15. Written c.1440, Defensorium comprises consilia by eminent jurists, defending the clerical status of regular Tertiaries. Although they did not take orders strictu sensu, and lived outside religious institutions, these nevertheless wore the habit and followed the Franciscan rule. As such, in case, of legal complications, they would be tried according to ecclesiastical, not civil, law. This manuscript features the last few paragraphs of Capestrano s consilium, followed by those of Cato de Saccis, Luchinus de Curte, Bartholomeus de Barateriis, Lucae de Vernaciis and Franciscus de Folengus and Augustinus de Manzariis de Castro. The remainder of the manuscript includes whole documents or excerpts relating to the Tertiaries, sometimes copied without interruption, dating from the C13 to the C15. For instance, the Bulla Supra Montem (1289), by which Nicholas IV a

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