_Flemish Work on the Order of St. Franciscus_ (Vol. i., p. 385.).--Your
correspondent JARLTZBERG may find a copy of the _Wyngaert_ in the
library of the _Maatschappij van Letterkunde_ (Lit. Soc.) in Leyden, and
may read an account of the work in vol. ii. pp. 151, 152. of the
_Society's Transactions_. The copy in my possession is entitled _Den
Wyngaert van Sinte Franciscus vol_ [not _van_] _schoone historien,
legenden en deuchdelycke leeringhen allen menschen seer profytelyck_.
Like most of the works issued from the press of Eckert van Hombach, it
is well printed on good paper; the leaves (not the _pages_) are numbered
up to 418, and besides there are six leaves without pagination for the
index, as well as three for the prologue, in which we learn why the work
was called _Wyngaert_. All the copies I have met with bear the date
1518, though in Hultman's _Catalogue_, p. 20. No. 92., we find 1578,
probably an error of the printer. In J. Koning's _Catalogue_, 1833, p.
17. No. 59., we are referred to Bauer, _Bibl. libr. rar._, vol. iv. p.
301.; and to the _Catalogue raisonné_ de Crevenna, vol. v. p. 85., where
we read:
"Ce volume contient les vies des Saints de l'ordre de St.
Franciscus, précédées de celle de son instituteur, _et n'est point
une traduction_ du Livre des Conformités (_Liber Conformitatum_),
quoiqu'il est probable qu'on ait pris beaucoup de ce livre."