THE PRINTER TO THE READER.

As soon as work began on the printing of the Supplement to the Writers of the Three Orders of Saint FrancisThe "Three Orders" refer to the Friars Minor, the Poor Clares, and the Third Order (laypeople), all founded by or following the rule of St. Francis of Assisi. composed by the distinguished Father Giovanni Giacinto Sbaraglia original: "Jo: Hyacintho Sbaralea" (1687–1764), a Franciscan scholar who spent decades correcting and expanding upon Wadding’s work. of the Minor Conventuals, it occurred to me that it would be welcomed by scholars if the book by Luke WaddingLuke Wadding (1588–1657) was an Irish Franciscan friar and historian whose work "Scriptores Ordinis Minorum" remains a foundational bibliography of Franciscan authors., which is being supplemented, were also reprinted and combined with it, using different typefaces to distinguish between the two. However, to those who oversee the edition with their labor and resources, it seemed otherwise. They thought it right to spare those who already own Wadding's book from an unnecessary and heavy expense, and to accommodate the preferences of those who dislike adding multiple editions of the same work to their library collections. But reflecting within myself that Sbaraglia's work is rendered partly useless to those who do not have Wadding's book at hand—which is rare, at least in Italy, and not easily found for sale—I judged it beneficial to print it separately. I present it to you now, learned Reader, corrected as much as possible from typographical errors which had crept into previous versions. In fact, it was necessary to insert a few words to restore the integrity of the meaning; I have marked these with an asterisk () so that I might not incur the reputation of a forger. I have also moved to their proper places those items which Wadding had placed in an Appendix because they were discovered late. I have, however, omitted the Indices, because more extensive and corrected ones are included in the Supplement, for the sake of which this edition was made. I ask that you receive with gratitude these first efforts of my typographical art, directed toward the benefit of literature.*