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The Capuchin Constitutions of 1536. a New Translation in English The Capuchin Constitutions of 1536. A New Translation in English Translation by Paul Hanbridge Collegio San Lorenzo da Brindisi Rome, 2007 Revised 2009 Capuchin Constitutions 1536 Contents Abbreviations ii Introduction iv Bibliography xxiv Capuchin Constitutions of 1536 1 Endnotes 61 Capuchin Constitutions 1536 ii Abbreviations AF (n) Analecta Franciscana (n=vol. year) AFH Archivum Franciscanum Historicum AIA Archivo ibero-americano AIA 2 – segunda época Albacina Le Prime Costituzioni dei Frati Minori Cappuccini di San Francesco , (Rome, Curia Generalizia,1913) AM(n) Annales Minorum , Lucas Waddingus (n=vol. number) AOC Analecta Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum BC(n) Bullarium Ordinis FF. Minorum S.F. Francisci Capuccinorum, seu, Collectio bullarum, brevium, decretorum, rescriptorum, oracularum etc. quae a Sede Apostolica pro Ordine Capucino emanarunt , elucubrata a P.F. Petro Damiani a Munster, Oeniponte, Typis Wagnerianiis, (n= volume number) BF(n) Bullarium Franciscanum Romanorum Pontificium constitutiones, epistolas, ac diplomata (n= volume number) BOV ZACHARIA BOVERIUS SALUTI , Annalium seu Sacrarum Historiarum Ordinis Minorum S. Francisci qui Capucini nuncupantur , Lugdini, Claudio Landry, tomus 1° 1632, tomus 2° 1639 CC(n) Capuchin Constitutions (n=year) CCA NT Constitutiones Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum saeculorum decursu promulgatae , Vol. I: Constitutiones Antiquae (1529-1643), Editio anastatica, Romae, Curia Generalis OFM Cap. 1980 CCR EC Constitutiones Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum saeculorum decursu promulgatae , Vol. II: Constitutiones Recentiores (1909-1925), Editio anastatica, Accedunt Constitutiones an. 1896, Bibliographia et Indices, Romae, Curia Generalis OFM Cap, 1986 CF Collectanea Franciscana CFD I Cappuccini. Fonti documentarie e narrative del primo secolo (1525-1619) , edited by VINCENZO CRIUSCUOLO , Curia Generale dei Cappuccini, Rome, 1994 CHL MICHAEL ANGELUS A NEAPOLI , Chronologia Historico-Legalis Seraphici Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Sancti Patris Francisci. Tomus Primus: Capitulorum omnium, & Congregationum Generalium a primo eiusdem Ordinis esordio usque ad annum MDCXXXIII , Neapoli, ex typographia Camilli Cavalli, Anno Jubilaei, MDCL . Capuchin Constitutions 1536 iii CIC1 Corpus Iuris Canonici editio Lipsiensis secunda post Aemilii Ludouici Richteri¸ pars prima, Decretum Magisteri Gratiani , ex officina Bernhardi Tauchnitz, Lipsiae, MDCCCLXXIX CIC2 Corpus Iuris Canonici editio Lipsiensis secunda post Aemilii Ludouici Richteri¸ pars seconda, Decretalium Collectiones , ex officina Bernhardi Tauchnitz, Lipsiae, MDCCCLXXXI . Clareno ANGELO CLARENO , A Chronicle or History of the Seven Tribulations of the Order of Brothers Minor , translated from the Latin by David Burr and E. Randolf Daniel, Franciscan Institute Publications, Saint Bonaventure, N.Y. 2005 Clementina Clementinarum libri in CIC2. (coll. 1133-1200) Compilatio “Compilatio Assisiensis” dagli Scritti di fra Leone e Compagno su S. Francesco d’Assisi. Dal Ms. 1046 di Perugina. Synoptic edition with Latin text and Italian translation in parallel, noting variants, edited by Marino Bigaroni, Pubblicazioni della Biblioteca Francescana Chiesa Nuova – Assisi n.2, Porziuncola, 1992 Conform . De Conformitate vitae beati Francisci ad vitam Domini Iesu autore Fr. Bartholomaeo de Pisa in Analecta Franciscana sive Cronica aliaque varia Documenta ad historiam fratrum Minorum edita a Patribus Collegii S. Bonaventurae, tomi IV, V, Ad Claras Aquas (Quaracchi) prope Florentium, ex Typographia Collegii S. Bonaventurae, 1906, 1912 De Perf. “De Perfectione vitae ad Sorores” in Doctoris Seraphici S. Bonaventurae S.R.E. Episcopi Cardinalis Opera Omnia, edited by Aloysius Lauer, Quaracchi, 1898, vol. VIII, pp. 107-127 De Sex “De Sex Alis Seraphim” in Doctoris Seraphici S. Bonaventurae S.R.E. Episcopi Cardinalis Opera Omnia , edited by Aloysius Lauer, Quaracchi, 1898, vol. VIII, pp. 131-157 DecAssisi “Decrees Issued by the Chapter of Assisi (1269)” in DOMINIC MONTI (introduction and translation), St. Bonaventure’s Writings Concerning The Franciscan Order , The Franciscan Institute, St. Bonaventure Univ., New York, 1994, 239-244 DecrLyon “Decrees Issued by the Chapter of Lyons (1274)” in DOMINIC MONTI (introduction and translation), St. Bonaventure’s Writings Concerning The Franciscan Order , The Franciscan Institute, St. Bonaventure Univ., New York, 1994, 255-260 Dialogo(1527) GIOVANNI DA FANO , Dialogo de la salute tra el frate stimulato et el frate rationabile circa la regula de li Frati Minori et sue dechiaratione per stimulati , edited by Bernardino da Lapedona, extract from L’Italia Francescana 7(1932), Isola del Liri, 1933 Capuchin Constitutions 1536 iv Dialogo(1536) GIOVANNI DA FANO , Dialogo de la salute tra il frate Stimolato e il frate Razionabile circa la Regola delli frati minori e sue dichiarazioni, con molte necessarie addizioni, di nuovo ricomposto e ristampato , edited by Bernardino da Lapedona, extract from L’Italia Francescana 10(1935), Isola del Liri, 1935; also found in IFC I: 587-719 EEEFFF FIDEL ELIZONDO , “Las constituciones capuchinas de 1536” in Estudios Franciscanos, 83(1982)143-252 Estudios Estudios Franciscanos ExpRegBon “Expositio super Regulam Fratrum Minorum” in Doctoris Seraphici S. Bonaventurae S.R.E. Episcopi Cardinalis Opera Omnia , edited by Aloysius Lauer, Quaracchi, 1898, vol. VIII, pp. 391 - 437 Farineriana MICHAEL BIHL (ed.), “Statuta generalia ordinis edita in capitulo generali an. 1354 Assisii celebrato communiter farineriana appellata” in AFH 35(1942) 35-112, 177-253 FF Fontes Franciscani edited by ENRICO MENESTÒ , STEFANO BRUFANI et al., Edizioni Porziuncola, Assisi, 1995 IFC n COSTANZO CARGNONI (ed)., I Frati Cappuccini documenti et testimonianze del primo secolo, Edizioni Frate Indovino, Perugia, 1988 -1993, n= vol. I, II, IIIi, IIIii, IV, V: followed by page number(s) unless otherwise indicated. LC(1951) Lexicon Capuccinum (1951) Lib.Chron . ANGELO CLARENO , Liber Chronicarum sive tribulationum ordinis minorum di Frate Angelo Clareno , edited by Giovanni Boccali, with introduction by Felice Accrocca and synoptic Italian translation by Marino Bigaroni, Pubblicazioni della Biblioteca Francescana Chiesa Nuova, Assisi – 8, Edizioni Porziuncola, 1999. LM EM EDUARDUS ALENCONIENSIS , “Primigeniae legislationis ordinis fratrum minorum capuccinorum” in Liber Memorialis, Roma, Curia Generalis OFM Cap, 1928 MHOMC(n) Monumenta Historica Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum, (n = vol.) Narbonae MICHAEL BIHL (ed.), “Statuta generalia ordinis edita in capitulis generalibus celebratis Narbonae an. 1260, Assisii an. 1279 atque Parisiis an. 1292” in AFH 34(1941) 13-94, 284-358 PPPCCC FRANCO CATALANO , COSTANZO CARGNONI , AND GIUSEPPE SANTARELLI (eds)., Le prime costituzionidei frati minori Cappuccini, Roma – S. Eufemia 1536 , Roma, L’Italia Francescana, 1982. Capuchin Constitutions 1536 v PL (n) Patrologia Latina (volume number) SF1 REGIS ARMSTRONG (ed.), Francis of Assisi: Early Documents , vol.1: The Saint , New City Press, New York, 1999 SF2 REGIS ARMSTRONG (ed.), Francis of Assisi: Early Documents , vol.2: The Founder , New City Press, New York, 2000 SF3 REGIS ARMSTRONG (ed.), Francis of Assisi: Early Documents , vol.3: The Prophet , New City Press, New York, 2001 SpecPerf . Speculum Perfectionis in FF, 1849-2053 SSSTTT MARK STIER , “First Capuchin Constitutions – 1536” in Round Table of Franciscan Research 7(1942)3, 245+. VitaPov Vita del povero et umile servo de Dio Francesco dal ms. Capponiano - Vaticano 207 , edited by MARINO BIGARONI , introduction by Alfonso Marini, Pubblicazioni della Biblioteca Francescana Chiesa Nuova, Assisi n.4, Edizioni Porziuncola, 1985 Capuchin Constitutions 1536 vi Capuchin Constitutions of 1536 My main intention here is to offer an English translation of the Capuchin Constitutions of 1536. The reader will not find here a theological nor a historical commentary, as useful as those would be. Others more competent have already undertaken such tasks. 1 As part of this introduction, I wish to suggest a complementary approach to reading CC1536 and the history of the first two decades of the Capuchin Reform. Usually and legitimately, the emergence of this new fraternity of friars is described within ‘Franciscan history,’ that is, against the background of the history of the Franciscan Order and its various attempts at reform. By suggesting a complementary approach, I would not intend to substitute or supplant this kind of Franciscan history. Instead the first years of the Capuchin reform may also be interpreted within the broader context of reform in Italy, which had a dramatic character and momentum at the time these Constitutions were composed in 1536. The friars’ reform developed within that climate. An understanding of that setting can shed further light upon the character of the new Franciscan community, a character naturally expressed in the explicit articulation of its own identity in these Constitutions. To what extent do the Constitutions reflect the nature of that Italian reform, and by corollary, to what extent does that reform reflect the character of the Capuchin reform? The Constitutions of 1536 are not only a Capuchin document, but also a document of pre-Trent Italian reform. 2 Date and authorship According to the first official written accounts of the beginnings of the Capuchin fraternity, these Constitutions were composed by a small group of friars appointed after the re-convened Capuchin General Chapter held in the friary of St. Euphemia, Rome, in 1536. 3 The commission composed
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