244 ff., and especially the Vatican MS., 2548, folio 71.
[17] A chronicle of St.Francis's time makes this same comparison: Burchard, Abbot of Urspurg ([Cross] 1226) [_Burchardi et Cuonradi chronicon.Monum.Germ.hist.

Script._, t.

23], has left us an account of the approbation of Francis by the Pope, all the more precious for being that of a contemporary.

_Loc.
cit._, p.

376.
[18] _De nugis Curialium_, Dist.