This volume contains St. Bonaventure's Legenda maior of St.
Francis, the Vita beati Antonii and two documents regarding the
Portiuncula indulgence. The manuscript was written by Elisabeth von
Amberg (ff. 1-127) and Katherina von Purchausen (ff. 129-176) in
the year 1337. It is decorated with an initial portraying St.
Francis as a knight (f. 4r) and a vignette showing the bestowal of
the Stigmata (f. 77v). The appearance of the name of St. Clara in
the text suggests that the codex was written in a cloister of the
Poor Clares, perhaps the Paradise. It came into the posession of
the Capuchin cloister in Frauenfeld at the beginning of the 17th
century and has been held in the provincial archive of the
Capuchins in Lucerne since 1848.
